📚 Liberty

Books with liberty on their catalogue record, first published between 1644 and 2011, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject liberty in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 13,976 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
	Areopagitica	John Milton	1644	113
	Utilitarianism	John Stuart Mill	1863	95
	The Open Society and Its Enemies (1+2)	Karl Popper	1945	76
	Le discours de la servitude volontaire	Étienne de La Boétie	1735	62
	On Liberty	John Mill	1859	37
	Give Me Liberty!	Eric Foner	2010	36
	Second Treatise of Government	John Locke	1764	32
	Democracy and liberty	William Edward Hartpole Lecky	1896	32
	Begrebet angest	Søren Kierkegaard	1844	28
	Oppression et liberté	Simone Weil	1955	26
	Philosophy of Freedom	Rudolf Steiner	1916	20
	Essay concerning the true original extent and end of civil government	John Locke	1691	19
	Give Me Liberty!	Eric Foner	2011	18
	Four Essays on Liberty	Isaiah Berlin	1969	17
	The Life of the Mind (Combined 2 Volumes in 1)	Hannah Arendt	1977	17
	Critics & crusaders	Charles Allan Madison	1947	15
	Utilitarianism	John Stuart Mill	1871	14
	Capitalism and freedom	Milton Friedman	1962	14
	Freedom, the individual and the law	Harry Street	1963	14
	Female Eunuch	Germaine Greer	1970	13
	Freedom	Maurice Cranston	1953	12
	Réflexions sur les causes de la liberté et de l’oppression sociale	Simone Weil	1955	12
	The constitution of liberty	Friedrich A. von Hayek	1960	12
	The naked society	Vance Packard	1964	11
	The anatomy of freedom	Robin Morgan	1982	11
	The Ecology of Freedom	Murray Bookchin	1982	11
	Essays in rebellion	Henry Woodd Nevinson	1909	10
	Mahatma Gandhi	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	1929	10
	Sovereignty	Bertrand de Jouvenel	1957	10
	Freedom from the Known	Jiddu Krishnamurti	1959	10

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

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