📚 Magic

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Sleight of hand and older beliefs: the conjurers’ secrets, the folk magic the word once meant, and the spells fiction kept.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject magic 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. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
The Phoenix and the Carpet	Edith Nesbit	1903	438
The Magic World	Edith Nesbit	1959	352
The Magic Finger	Roald Dahl	1966	92
A Wizard of Earthsea	Ursula K. Le Guin	1968	87
The Tombs of Atuan	Ursula K. Le Guin	1971	67
Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code	Eoin Colfer	2003	63
The Chronicles of Narnia	C. S. Lewis	1970	60
The Red Pyramid	Rick Riordan	2010	50
The magic Faraway Tree	Enid Blyton	1943	48
The Serpent's Shadow	Rick Riordan	2012	44
Magic Kingdom For Sale/Sold!	Terry Brooks	1984	40
The Wishing Spell	Chris Colfer	1990	38
Howl's Moving Castle	Diana Wynne Jones	1986	37
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child	Jack Thorne	2001	36
The Well of Ascension	Brandon Sanderson	2007	36
A Court of Mist and Fury	Sarah J. Maas	2014	31
The Mystical Qabalah	Violet M. Firth (Dion Fortune)	1935	30
Lirael Daughter of the Clayr	Garth Nix	2001	29
Siege and Storm	Leigh Bardugo	2013	28
Castle in the Air	Diana Wynne Jones	1990	27
The Hero of Ages	Brandon Sanderson	2008	27
The Girl Who Drank the Moon	Kelly Regan Barnhill	2016	27
A Spell for Chameleon	Piers Anthony	1977	25
Empire of Storms	Sarah J. Maas	2016	25
Chrzest ognia	Andrzej Sapkowski	1996	22
The Magic in the Weaving	Tamora Pierce	1997	21
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld	Patricia A. McKillip	1974	18
The Sorcerer of the North	John Flanagan	2008	18
Dogme et rituel de la haute magie	Eliphas Lévi	1860	17
Egyptian magic	E. A. Wallis Budge	1899	17

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

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