📚 Shame

Books with shame on their catalogue record, first published between 1953 and 2023, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject shame in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 709 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
	On shame and the search for identity	Helen Merrell Lynd	1958	22
	Healing the shame that binds you	Bradshaw, John	1988	11
	Shame, Guilt, and Alcoholism	Ronald Potter-Efron	2002	11
	Shame	Robert H. Albers	1995	10
	Fear and Other Uninvited Guests	Harriet Goldhor Lerner	2004	8
	So You've Been Publicly Shamed	Jon Ronson	2015	8
	The voice of shame	Lee, Robert G.	1996	7
	Shame in Shakespeare	Ewan Fernie	2001	7
	The dance of fear	Harriet Goldhor Lerner	2004	7
	The velvet rage	Alan Downs	2005	7
	I Thought It Was Just Me	Brené Brown	2007	7
	Shame Experience	Susan Miller	1993	6
	Shame and Humiliation	Rodolfo Moguillansky	2013	6
	Temporality, Shame, and the Problem of Evil in Jungian Psychology	Murray Stein	2020	6
	Shame-Informed Counselling and Psychotherapy	Edmund Ng	2020	6
	The Shame Machine	Cathy O'Neil	2022	6
	Letting go of shame	Ronald T. Potter-Efron	1989	5
	Shame and Grace	Lewis B. Smedes	1993	5
	On Shame	Michael Morgan	2011	5
	Body Shame	Paul Gilbert	2014	5
	Shame	Andrew P. Morrison	2014	5
	Shame and Sexuality	Claire Pajaczkowska	2014	5
	Is shame necessary?	Jennifer Jacquet	2015	5
	Bee Sting	Paul Murray	2023	5
	Shame and guilt	Gerhart Piers	1953	4
	Shame and Guilt in Neurosis	Helen Block Lewis	1971	4
	The psychology of shame	Gershen Kaufman	1989	4
	Saving shame	Virginia Burrus	2008	4
	Shame and attachment loss	Joseph Nicolosi	2009	4
	Shame in Context	Susan Miller	2013	4

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

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