📚 Persecution

Books with persecution on their catalogue record, first published between 1563 and 2016, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject persecution in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 19,426 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
	Fox's book of martyrs	John Foxe	1741	112
	Actes and monuments	John Foxe	1563	89
	A history of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages	Henry Charles Lea	1887	32
	Europe's inner demons	Norman Rufus Colin Cohn	1975	23
	De mortibus persecutorum	Lactantius	1680	13
	African holocaust	John Francis Faupel	1962	11
	Martyrdom and persecution in the early church	W. H. C. Frend	1965	9
	Der blutige Schau-Platz oder Martyrer-Spiegel der Tauffs Gesiånten oder Wehrlosen-Christen	Thieleman J. van Braght	1748	8
	The Spanish Inquisition	Cecil Roth	1937	8
	Witches & neighbours	Robin Briggs	1996	7
	The early persecutions of the Christians	Leon H. Canfield	1913	6
	Antisemitism	Robert S. Wistrich	1991	6
	Saving My Assassin	Virginia Prodan	2016	6
	The Albigensian Crusade	Jonathan Sumption	1782	5
	Vanya	Myrna Grant	1974	5
	The formation of a persecuting society	R. I. Moore	1987	5
	Religious Persecution	E. S. P. Haynes	1906	4
	Tortured for his faith	Haralan Popoff	1970	4
	If prison walls could speak	Richard Wurmbrand	1972	3
	With God in solitary confinement	Richard Wurmbrand	1979	3
	Dank meiner Mutter	Shoshanah Rabinovits	1997	3
	Jesus freaks	DC Talk	1999	3
	The Insanity of God	Nik Ripken	2013	3
	The restraining hand	Rudolf Alfred Bosshardt	1936	2
	--to nás zachránilo	Silvester Krčméry	1995	2
	The heavenly man	Paul Hattaway	2002	2
	The heavenly man	Yun Brother	2002	2
	Hearts of Fire	The Voice of the Martyrs	2003	2
	Crucified Again	Raymond Ibrahim	2013	2
	The Insanity of Obedience	Nik Ripken	2014	2

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

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