📚 Generosity

Giving’s economics and ethics: the philanthropy shelf and the experiments on why people hand over.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject generosity 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
	Generosity	Cynthia Fitterer Klingel	2007	13
	Giving	Bill Clinton	2007	10
	Cognitive Surplus	Clay Shirky	2010	10
	Never Eat Alone	Keith Ferrazzi	2005	9
	The Treasure Principle	Randy C. Alcorn	2001	8
	Theories of the gift in South Asia	Maria Heim	2004	7
	29 Gifts	Cami Walker	2009	7
	God's rule for Christian giving	William Speer	1875	6
	One simple act	Debbie Macomber	2002	6
	The complete idiot's guide to giving back	Elizabeth Ziemba	2009	6
	Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism	James Egge	2013	6
	Leading with GRIT	Laurie Sudbrink	2015	6
	50 Ways to Create Great Relationships	Steve Chandler	2000	5
	The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret	Jacques Derrida	2007	5
	Showing up for life	Bill Gates Sr.	2009	5
	God and money	Gregory Baumer	2016	5
	Donner la mort	Derrida	1995	4
	Lord of the Cranes	Kerstin Chen	2000	4
	One simple act	Debbie Macomber	2009	4
	Honor yourself	Patricia R. Spadaro	2009	4
	The generosity ladder	Nelson Searcy	2010	4
	Largesse	Jean Starobinski	1994	3
	Generous Living	Ron Blue	1997	3
	Free of charge	Miroslav Volf	2005	3
	We Make A Life By What We Give	Richard B. Gunderman	2008	3
	More or less	Jeff Shinabarger	2013	3
	G3	Tim Cork	2013	3
	Lend a Hand	John Frank	2014	3
	What does it mean to be kind?	Rana DiOrio	2015	3
	Grace of Giving	John Stott	2016	3

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

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