📚 Imagination

26 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with imagination on their catalogue record, first published between 1744 and 2018, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 26 works carrying the subject imagination in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 7,305 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
The pleasures of imagination	Mark Akenside	1744	44
Creative visualization	Shakti Gawain	1978	24
The art of creation	Edward Carpenter	1904	23
Applied Imagination	Alex Faickney Osborn	1953	22
L'imagination sociologique	C. Wright Mills	1959	22
Imagination	Jean-Paul Sartre	1936	14
Stumbling on happiness	Daniel T. Gilbert	2006	12
The psychology of imagination	Jean-Paul Sartre	1948	11
Calvin et Hobbes, tome 12	Bill Watterson	1988	9
The poetics of space	Gaston Bachelard	1964	8
Playing and reality	D. W. Winnicott	1971	8
Imaginaire	Jean-Paul Sartre	1948	8
The Utopia of Rules	David Graeber	2015	7
Art matters	Neil Gaiman	2018	7
Hypnosis and Imagination	Robert G. Kunzendorf	1996	6
Inner Work	Robert A. Johnson	1986	5
Inner work	Robert A. Johnson	1986	5
Imagine big	Terri Savelle Foy	2012	5
Power of Awareness	Neville Goddard	2010	4
The Power of Awareness	Neville Goddard	2012	3
The power of awareness	Neville Goddard	2013	3
The Elements of Visualization (Elements of ...)	Ursula Markham	1990	2
Your 3 Best Superpowers	Sonia Choquette	2016	2
The Elements of Visualisation	Ursula Markham	1997	1
The poetics of space	Gaston Bachelard	2014	1
The Power of Imagination	Neville	2015	1

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

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