📚 Eugenics

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with eugenics on their catalogue record, first published between 1655 and 2022, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject eugenics in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 2,814 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.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Eugenics and Other Evils	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	1922	477
Inquiries into human faculty and its development	Sir Francis Galton	1883	46
Annual report	Eugenics Society (London, England)	1911	30
Heredity in relation to eugenics	Charles Benedict Davenport	1911	23
Callipaedia	Claude Quillet	1655	20
Noteworthy families (modern science)	Sir Francis Galton	1906	12
The Oneida community	Allan Estlake	1900	11
Ancient eugenics	Allen G. Roper	1913	10
The life, letters and labours of Francis Galton	Karl Pearson	1914	10
Principles of genetics	Edmund Ware Sinnott	1925	9
Applied Eugenics	Paul Bowman Popenoe	1926	9
Superior	Angela Saini	2019	9
Genetics and eugenics	William E. Castle	1916	8
Liberal Eugenics	Nicholas Agar	2004	8
The blood of the nation	David Starr Jordan	1901	7
The Training of the Human Plant	Luther Burbank	1907	7
American eugenics	Nancy Ordover	2003	7
Intermarriage	Alexander Walker	1839	6
The heredity of Richard Roe	David Starr Jordan	1911	6
Eugenics	Edgar Schuster	1912	5
Being well-born	Michael F. Guyer	1916	5
Jin hua lun yu shan zhong xue	Changheng Chen	1923	5
An introduction to genetics	A. H. Sturtevant	1939	5
Margaret Sanger	Elasah Drogin	1980	5
Faster, Stronger, Smarter	Adam Rutherford	2022	5
Intermarriage	Alexander Walker	1838	4
Parenthood & race culture	Caleb Williams Saleeby	1909	4
Woman And Womanhood	Caleb Williams Saleeby	1911	4
Problems in eugenics	International Eugenics Congress (1st 1912 London)	1912	4
The church and eugenics	Thomas J. Gerrard	1912	4

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

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