📚 Stupidity

Books with stupidity on their catalogue record, first published between 1840 and 2020, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject stupidity in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 308 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
	Mental efficiency	Arnold Bennett	1887	65
	The Queer Art of Failure	Jack Halberstam	2011	15
	The Darwin Awards	Wendy Northcutt	2000	11
	Outlines of imperfect and disordered mental action	Thomas Cogswell Upham	1840	8
	Mental deficiency	Ann M. Clarke	1958	8
	The Darwin Awards II	Wendy Northcutt	2001	8
	The Utopia of Rules	David Graeber	2015	7
	Stupidity in Politics	Nobutaka Otobe	2020	6
	Why Good People Do Bad Things	Debbie Ford	2008	5
	Idiot America	Charles P. Pierce	2009	5
	The cult of incompetence	Émile Faguet	1911	4
	Irrationality	Stuart Sutherland	1992	4
	How to draw stupid and other essentials of cartooning	Kyle Baker	2008	4
	Sway	Ori Brafman	2008	4
	Sway	Ori Brafman	2008	4
	Basic Laws of Human Stupidity	Carlo M. Cipolla	2019	4
	The comforts of unreason	Rupert Crawshay-Williams	1947	3
	The 776 stupidest things ever said	Ross Petras	1993	3
	Uncle John's Presents Book of the Dumb 2 (Uncle Johns Presents)	John Scalzi	2004	3
	The Encyclopedia of Stupidity	Matthijs van Boxsel	2004	3
	Well , Duh !	Bob Fenster	2004	3
	Here's Your Sign	Bill Engvall	2005	3
	Duh!	Bob Fenster	2006	3
	Blind spots	Madeleine L. Van Hecke	2007	3
	Everyday Survival	Laurence Gonzales	2008	3
	Psychology of Stupidity	Jean-Francois Marmion	2020	3
	Psychologie de la connerie en politique	Jean-François Marmion	2020	3
	The cult of incompetence	Émile Faguet	1913	2
	A short introduction to the history of human stupidity	Walter B. Pitkin	1932	2
	Über die Dummheit	Robert Musil	1937	2

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

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