📚 Microbiology

30 works · ordered by editions in print

The invisible machinery of life: germs, cultures, and the small organisms that turned medicine inside out.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject microbiology 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
Microbiology	Gerard J. Tortora	1982	80
Advances in applied microbiology	Allen I. Laskin	2008	80
Advances in microbial physiology	Robert K. Poole	1996	54
Microbiology	Jacquelyn G. Black	1999	46
Advances in parasitology	J. R. Baker	1999	45
Advances in virus research	Karl Maramorosch	1986	43
Microbiology	Jacquelyn G. Black	1992	30
Microbiology	John Wade Foster	2008	29
Advances in microbial physiology	A. H. Rose	1966	26
Microbiology	Dave Wessner	2012	23
Methods in Microbiology	J. R. Norris	1969	19
Microbiology	Robert W. Bauman	2003	19
Germs Make Me Sick! (Let's Read-and-Find-Out Book)	Melvin Berger	1985	18
Microbiology	Hans Zinsser	1960	17
Foundations in microbiology	Kathleen Park Talaro	1993	16
Textbook of microbiology	William Burrows	1954	14
Microbe hunters	Paul De Kruif	1926	13
Essential Microbiology	Stuart Hogg	2005	13
Immune System	Peter Parham	2014	13
Microbiology	James G. Cappuccino	1987	12
Microbiology with Diseases by Body System	Robert W. Bauman	2008	12
Brock, biology of microorganisms	Michael T. Madigan	2000	11
I Contain Multitudes	Ed Yong	2016	11
The Song of the Cell	Siddhartha Mukherjee	2022	11
Microbiology	Lansing M. Prescott	1990	10
Foundations in Microbiology	Kathleen Park Talaro	2004	10
Modern food microbiology	James M. Jay	1970	9
Microbiology	Michael J. Pelczar	1878	8
Food microbiology	W. C. Frazier	1958	8
Medical microbiology	C. G. A. Thomas	1968	8

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

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