📚 Chemistry

How atoms combine, react and rearrange — the science that turns one substance into another on purpose.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject chemistry in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry	Alan R. Katritzky	1963	226
	Chemistry	Theodore L. Brown	1977	170
	Chemistry, A Molecular Approach	Nivaldo J. Tro	1996	78
	Studies in Natural Products Chemistry	Atta-ur- Rahman	1995	68
	Progress in inorganic chemistry	Henry Taube	1983	49
	Introductory Chemistry	Steven S. Zumdahl	1990	42
	Progress in Inorganic Chemistry	Kenneth D. Karlin	2003	42
	Foundations of college chemistry	Morris Hein	1967	39
	Chemistry	James E. Brady	1981	38
	General chemistry	Linus Pauling	1947	35
	General Chemistry	James E. Brady	1975	35
	Introductory Chemistry	Nivaldo J. Tro	2002	33
	Introductory Chemistry	Charles H. Corwin	1997	32
	General chemistry	Ralph H. Petrucci	1972	31
	Fundamentals of analytical chemistry	Douglas Arvid Skoog	1963	29
	Physical chemistry	Robert A. Alberty	1955	26
	Chemistry & chemical reactivity	John C. Kotz	1987	24
	General chemistry	Darrell D. Ebbing	1984	23
	Organic chemistry	John E. McMurry	1984	21
	Physical chemistry	Peter W. Atkins	1978	20
	Introduction to Organic Laboratory Techniques	Donald L. Pavia	1976	19
	Fundamentals of general, organic, and biological chemistry	John R. Holum	1978	19
	The Chemicals of Life	Isaac Asimov	1954	18
	Chemistry for the health sciences	George I. Sackheim	1969	18
	General Chemistry	Raymond Chang	1986	18
	Introduction to chemistry for biology students	George I. Sackheim	1966	17
	Organic Chemistry Structure and Function	Peter Vollhardt	1987	15
	University chemistry	Bruce H. Mahan	1965	14
	Quantitative chemical analysis	Daniel C. Harris	1982	13
	Chemistry	Raymond Chang	1981	12

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 28 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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