📚 Attention

30 works · ordered by editions in print

The selective mind: from William James’s opening question to the concentration-shelf that cites him.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject attention in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. 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.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
The Power of Concentration	Theron Q. Dumont	1877	118
Flow	Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi	1990	25
Deep Work	Cal Newport	2016	16
How to Do Nothing	Jenny Odell	2019	13
Scientific Healing Affirmations	Yogananda Paramahansa	1926	11
Wherever You Go, There You Are	Jon Kabat-Zinn	1994	11
The psychology of attention	Théodule Armand Ribot	1890	10
Concentration and meditation	Christmas Humphreys	1968	10
Methods of mind-training	Catharine Aiken	1895	9
Pre-Suasion	Robert B. Cialdini	2016	9
Stolen Focus	Johann Hari	2022	9
Attention	W. B. Pillsbury	1908	7
The Master Key	L. W. de Laurence	1914	7
Don't Forget	Danielle C. Lapp	1987	7
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder	Russell Barkley	1990	7
Mind Hacks	Tom Stafford	2004	7
Hyperfocus	Chris Bailey	2018	7
Indistractable	Nir Eyal	2019	7
Mindfulness	Ellen J. Langer	1990	6
Listening and attention	Neville Moray	1969	5
Find Your Focus Zone	Lucy Jo Palladino	2007	5
Rapt	Winifred Gallagher	2009	4
Concentration and meditation	Paramananda Swami	1921	3
Mental efficiency without fatigue	Narciso Irala	1964	3
Focus	Daniel Goleman	2013	3
Concentration	Wood, Ernest	1973	2
Wherever You Go, There You Are	Jon Kabat-Zinn	2004	2
The open-focus brain	Les Fehmi	2007	2
Attention and effort	Daniel Kahneman	1973	1
Fluir (Flow)	Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi	2005	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 06 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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