📚 Consciousness

The lights-on question: neural correlates, reports and the philosophies that refuse to reduce it.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject consciousness 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.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Power of Now	Eckhart Tolle	1997	45
	The analysis of mind	Bertrand Russell	1921	28
	Cosmic Consciousness	Richard Maurice Bucke	1894	26
	Cosmic consciousness	Richard Maurice Bucke	1923	25
	Consciousness	Susan J. Blackmore	2003	25
	Tertium Organum	Uspenskiĭ Petr Demʹi͡anovich	1922	24
	La transcendance de l'ego	Jean-Paul Sartre	1957	24
	The art of creation	Edward Carpenter	1904	23
	Mental Radio 1930	Upton Sinclair	1930	23
	The Way of Initiation (1911)	Rudolf Steiner	1908	19
	Man and His Symbols	Carl Gustav Jung	1964	18
	Spook	Mary Roach	2005	14
	The River of Consciousness	Oliver Sacks	2017	13
	The untethered soul	Michael A. Singer	2007	11
	Kinds of minds	Daniel C. Dennett	1996	10
	The infinite way	Joel S. Goldsmith	1947	9
	Handbook to higher consciousness	Ken Keyes	1973	9
	Journey of awakening	Ram Dass.	1978	9
	The psychology of consciousness	C. Daly King	1932	8
	The joyous cosmology	Alan Watts	1962	8
	Mystery of the Mind	Wilder Penfield	1975	8
	The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind	Julian Jaynes	1976	8
	The Power of Alpha Thinking	Jess Stearn	1976	8
	A brief history of everything	Ken Wilber	1996	8
	I Am a Strange Loop	Douglas R. Hofstadter	2007	8
	The idiot brain	Dean Burnett	2016	8
	The Great Challenge	Bhagwan Rajneesh	1982	7
	Prometheus Rising	Robert Anton Wilson	1983	7
	The Oxford companion to consciousness	Tim Bayne	2009	7
	On Looking	Alexandra Horowitz	2013	7

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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