📚 Matter

Books with matter on their catalogue record, first published between 1876 and 2015, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject matter in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 6,888 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
	Mathematical recreations and problems of past and present times	W. W. Rouse Ball	1892	102
	Mati ere et me moire	Henri Bergson	1896	74
	Solid State Physics	Frederick Seitz	1956	30
	The scientific papers of James Clerk Maxwell	James Clerk Maxwell	1890	26
	The Analysis of Matter	Bertrand Russell	1927	23
	Matter	Darlene R. Stille	2003	19
	Aether and gravitation	William George Hooper	1903	17
	Atoms and the universe	Gwyn Owain Jones	1956	17
	Matter and motion	James Clerk Maxwell	1876	16
	The architecture of matter	Stephen Edelston Toulmin	1962	14
	Matter & interactions	Ruth W. Chabay	1999	14
	Atombau und Spektrallinien	Arnold Sommerfeld	1919	13
	Concepts of modern physics	Arthur Beiser	1963	13
	Matter	Sally M. Walker	2006	12
	How Big, How Heavy, How Dense?	Jennifer Boothroyd	2010	11
	The God particle	Leon M. Lederman	1993	10
	Many Kinds Of Matter A Look At Solids Liquids And Gases	Jennifer Boothroyd	2010	10
	La terre et les rêveries du repos	Gaston Bachelard	1948	9
	Introduction to solid state physics	Charles Kittel	1953	9
	Realms of being	George Santayana	1927	8
	Classical Physics of Matter (The Physical World, Book 4)	J Bolton	1987	8
	The art of molecular dynamics simulation	D. C. Rapaport	1995	8
	What is Matter?	Lola M. Schaefer	1999	8
	States of Matter (Chemicals in Action)	Chris Oxlade	2002	8
	All about matter	Mari C. Schuh	2011	8
	What Is It Made Of?	Martha E. H. Rustad	2015	8
	The realm of matter	George Santayana	1930	7
	Solid, Liquid or Gas? (It's Science!)	Sally Hewitt	1997	7
	The solid truth about matter	Mark Weakland	2012	7
	The electrical nature of matter and radioactivity	Jones, Harry Clary	1906	6

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

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