📚 Conversation

Books with conversation on their catalogue record, first published between 1817 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject conversation in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 24,510 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
	The Varieties of Religious Experience	William James	1817	267
	Conversation	Mary Greer Conklin	1912	19
	The fine art of small talk	Debra Fine	1960	11
	How to Talk to Absolutely Anyone	Mark Rhodes	2013	9
	Speech can change your life	Dorothy Sarnoff	1970	7
	The principles of the art of conversation	Mahaffy, John Pentland Sir	1887	6
	We Need to Talk	Celeste Headlee	2017	6
	How to speak, how to listen	Mortimer J. Adler	1983	5
	How to start a conversation and make friends	Don Gabor	1986	5
	Book of Questions	Gregory Stock	1987	5
	How to talk with people	Irving J. Lee	1952	4
	Conversationally speaking	Garner, Alan	1981	4
	The tao of conversation	Michael Kahn	1995	4
	The Art of Talking to Anyone	Rosalie Maggio	2005	4
	The art of conversation	Catherine Blyth	2008	4
	How to Have Impossible Conversations	Peter Boghossian	2019	4
	How to talk with practically anybody about practically anything	Barbara Walters	1970	3
	The art of conversation	Morris, James A.	1976	3
	How to start a conversation and make friends	Don Gabor	1983	3
	Conversational Power	James K. Van Fleet	1984	3
	Everyday conversation	Robert E. Nofsinger	1991	3
	How to talk to anybody about anything	Leil Lowndes	1993	3
	How to talk to anyone, anytime, anywhere	King, Larry	1994	3
	How to talk to anyone, anytime, anywhere	Larry King	1995	3
	The Art of Witty Banter	Patrick King	2016	3
	L' art de la conversation	Alain Milon	1993	2
	Speaking solutions	Candace Matthews	1994	2
	The complete guide to verbal manipulation	James K. Van Fleet	1998	2
	A good talk	Daniel Menaker	2010	2
	Do not interrupt	Stephen Kuusisto	2010	2

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

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