📚 Prayer

The practice catalogued: forms, catechisms, and the rare studies that tried to measure its effects.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject prayer 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
	Prayers and meditations	Samuel Johnson	1785	33
	Letters to Malcolm	C. S. Lewis	1964	22
	A method for prayer	Matthew Henry	1710	20
	The Power of a Praying Parent	Stormie Omartian	1995	19
	With Christ in the school of prayer	Andrew Murray	1885	18
	The meaning of prayer	Harry Emerson Fosdick	1915	17
	With open hands	Henri J. M. Nouwen	1972	15
	A guide to prayer	Isaac Watts	1715	13
	How to Pray	Reuben Archer Torrey	1876	12
	Betrachtende Gebet	Hans Urs von Balthasar	1958	11
	Contemplative prayer	Thomas Merton	1969	10
	Open Mind, Open Heart	Thomas Keating	1986	10
	Too busy not to pray	Bill Hybels	1988	10
	Prayer	Richard J. Foster	1992	9
	The Prayer Life	Andrew Murray	1848	8
	Adventures in Prayer	Catherine Marshall	1978	8
	The Power of a Praying Woman	Stormie Omartian	2002	8
	The essentials of prayer	E.M. Bounds	1925	7
	Prayer	Rosalind Rinker	1959	7
	Power through prayer	E.M. Bounds	1930	6
	Beginning to pray	Anthony Bloom	1970	6
	Prayer Is Invading the Impossible	Jack W. Hayford	1977	6
	The prayer of Jabez	Bruce Wilkinson	2000	6
	Prayer	Neville Goddard	1945	5
	Pray in the Spirit	Arthur Wallis	1970	5
	Could You Not Tarry One Hour?	Larry Lea	1985	5
	Give Me Grace	Cynthia Rylant	1999	5
	Prayer	Frank C. Laubach	1946	4
	Approach to prayer	Hubert Van Zeller	1958	4
	Destined for the throne	Paul E. Billheimer	1975	4

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

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