📚 Amusements

Books with amusements on their catalogue record, first published between 1887 and 2020, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject amusements in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 6,202 works the catalogue holds under that subject. 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
	Homo Ludens	Johan Huizinga	1938	66
	Wings and the child	Edith Nesbit	1913	26
	The American Girl's Handy Book	Lina Beard	1887	18
	Entertainments for Home, Church and School	Frederica Seeger	1910	17
	Scrabble Fun	The National Scrabble Association	2001	17
	52 Things to Do While You Poo	Hugh Jassburn	2013	17
	Managing Visitor Attractions	Alan Fyall	2008	13
	American Boy's Handy Book	Daniel Carter Beard	1966	11
	The American boys handy book	Daniel Carter Beard	1915	10
	Wonderland	Steven Johnson	2014	9
	Totally Jacqueline Wilson	Jacqueline Wilson	2007	7
	Pure Invention	Matt Alt	2020	7
	Three hundred games & pastimes, or, What shall we do now?	E. V. Lucas	1903	5
	Bed and bored	Lawrence Lariar	1945	4
	Singing for your supper	Edith Hazard	1996	4
	Big Nate Fun Blaster	Lincoln Peirce	2012	4
	500 Ways to Help Your Church	Theresa Hunt Wolcott	1912	3
	Entertaining with contact mind reading	S. Edward Dexter	1952	3
	How to do nothing with nobody all alone by yourself	Robert Paul Smith	1958	3
	Victorian parlor games	Patrick Beaver	1974	3
	Tozer on Worship and Entertainment	A. W. Tozer	1997	3
	Scared Silly!	Marc Brown	2000	3
	Never Get Bored Book	James Maclaine	2018	3
	Things worth doing and how to do them	Lina Beard	1906	2
	Eighty play ideas for little children	Caroline Horowitz	1949	2
	How to do nothing with nobody all alone by yourself	Robert Paul Smith	1958	2
	Richard Scarry's Best Make-It Book Ever!	Richard Scarry	1977	2
	Holiday handicraft	Nina R. Jordan	1938	1
	The new games book	New Games Foundation.	1976	1
	Cool tricks	John Javna	1989	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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