📚 Compassion

Books with compassion on their catalogue record, first published between 1960 and 2018, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject compassion in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,327 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
	An Open Heart	His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso the XIV Dalai Lama	2001	11
	Touching the earth	Thích Nhất Hạnh	1994	10
	Radical acceptance	Tara Brach	2003	10
	The Wisdom of Forgiveness	His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso the XIV Dalai Lama	2004	10
	Thương yêu theo phương pháp bụt dạy	Thích Nhất Hạnh	1996	9
	Compassion-Focused Therapy	Paul Gilbert	2010	9
	The things you can see only when you slow down	Haemin Sunim	2017	8
	Compassion	Lauren Gail Berlant	2004	7
	Transform Your Life	Kelsang Gyatso	2001	6
	Comfortable with Uncertainty	Pema Chödrön	2002	6
	Awakening Compassion at Work	Monica C. Worline	2017	6
	The kindness cure	Tara Cousineau	2018	6
	The lost art of compassion	Lorne Ladner	2004	5
	Traditions of Compassion	Khen Lampert	2005	5
	Honor yourself	Patricia R. Spadaro	2009	4
	Mindful Compassion	Paul Gilbert	2013	4
	Standing at the edge	Joan Halifax	2018	4
	The Reckonings	Lacy M. Johnson	2018	4
	The four sublime states	Nyanaponika Thera	1960	3
	Lovingkindness	Sharon Salzberg	1995	3
	A heart as wide as the world	Sharon Salzberg	1997	3
	Simpler living compassionate life	Michael Schut	1999	3
	At Home in the Muddy Water	Ezra Bayda	2003	3
	Emotional awareness	Paul Ekman	2008	3
	Fields of the fatherless	Tom Davis	2008	3
	Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life	Karen Armstrong	2010	3
	The compassionate instinct	Dacher Keltner	2010	3
	Courageous compassion	Beth Grant	2014	3
	Altruism	Matthieu Ricard	2015	3
	Ocean of Nectar	Kelsang Gyatso	1995	2

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

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