📚 The Human Body

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Systems working as one: how the body moves, digests, breathes and regulates itself, written for readers who want the whole machine, not one organ.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject human body 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
Principles of Anatomy and Physiology	Gerard J. Tortora	1975	218
Natural Symbols	Profess Douglas	1970	32
The Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body	Joanna Cole	1989	30
Human Body (DK Eyewitness)	Steve Parker	1993	28
The Body	Bill Bryson	2019	28
The Human Brain	Isaac Asimov	1963	27
The Human Body	Isaac Asimov	1963	24
Introduction to the Human Body	Gerard J. Tortora	1988	24
It's Perfectly Normal	Robie H. Harris	1994	23
I Contain Multitudes	Ed Yong	2016	11
The Fashioned Body	Joanne Entwistle	2000	10
The body and society	Bryan S. Turner	1984	9
The body and social theory	Chris Shilling	1993	9
The body is not an apology	Sonya Renee Taylor	1900	8
Bodywatching	Desmond Morris	1985	8
The body social	Anthony Synnott	1993	8
Human body	Richard Walker	1999	8
I Wonder Why I Blink (I Wonder Why)	Brigid Avison	1993	7
The Odd Body	Stephen Juan	1996	7
Me and my amazing body	Joan Sweeney	1999	7
The Pornography Of Meat	Carol J. Adams	2003	7
The wisdom of the body	Walter B. Cannon	1932	6
Grossology	Sylvia Branzei	1995	6
Cunt	Inga Muscio	1998	6
The Naked Man	Desmond Morris	1998	6
Human Body	Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld	2001	6
Radionics and the Subtle Anatomy of Man	David Tansley	1972	5
The theology of the body	John Paul II	1980	5
Le symbolisme du corps humain	Annick de Souzenelle	1984	5
Unbearable weight	Susan Bordo	1993	5

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

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