📚 Housekeeping

The domestic regime as a written craft: the victorian manuals and the efficiency studies that followed them.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject housekeeping 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
	Original White House Cookbook	Hugo Ziemann	1887	49
	Miss Beecher's housekeeper and healthkeeper	Catharine Esther Beecher	1873	12
	The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up	Marie Kondo	2014	10
	Housewifery	Lydia Ray Balderston	1919	8
	Cre-Fydd's family fare	Cre-Fydd	1871	6
	The I Hate to Housekeep Book	Peg Bracken	1962	6
	Manual of household work and management	Annie Butterworth	1906	5
	The professional housekeeper	Georgina Tucker	1975	4
	How to Clean Absolutely Everything	Yvonne Worth	2004	4
	Clutter's last stand	Don Aslett	1984	3
	Mary Ellen's Clean House!	Mary Ellen Pinkham	1993	3
	Domestic bliss	Rita Konig	2002	3
	The well-ordered home	Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett	2003	3
	The National Trust Manual of Housekeeping	National Trust	2005	3
	Just clean enough	I. B. Caruso	2010	3
	The complete book of home organization	Toni Hammersley	2016	3
	Mrs. Dunwoody's Excellent Instructions for Homekeeping	Miriam Lukken	2003	2
	ULTIMATE ACCIDENTAL HOUSEWIFE, THE	Julie Edelman	2008	2
	The country almanac of housekeeping techniques that save you money	Richard Freudenberger	2012	2
	The wartime housewife	Biff Raven-Hill	2013	2
	The CHAOS Cure	Marla Cilley	2018	2
	The homemaker and her goal	United States. Department of Agriculture. Radio Service	1930	1
	The Good Housekeeping Housekeeping Book	Good Housekeeping Institute (New York, N.Y.)	1947	1
	Housekeeping after office hours	Charlotte Adams	1953	1
	The Queen of Clean's	Linda; Cobb, Linda Queen For All Seasons Cobb	2002	1
	Cleaning up the Clutter	Emilie Barnes	2004	1
	Good Housekeeping the Complete Household Handbook	Good Housekeeping Institute (New York, N.Y.)	2005	1
	The Complete Clutter Solution	C. J. Petersen	2005	1
	Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook	Martha Stewart	2006	1
	Finally organized, finally free	María Gracia	2006	1

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

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