📚 Public Speaking

Addressing a room on purpose: the elocution schools, the Toastmasters shelf, and the speeches written down after.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject public speaking 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
	The Art of Public Speaking	Dale Carnegie	1915	237
	The Art of Public Speaking	Stephen E. Lucas	1983	80
	Public Speaking and Influencing Men in Business	Dale Carnegie	1926	59
	The Columbian Orator	Caleb Bingham	1797	38
	Public speaking and civic engagement	J. Michael Hogan	2007	26
	Rhetorical Public Speaking	Nathan Crick	2010	20
	Public Speaking	Steven A. Beebe	1991	19
	A Natural Speaker	Randy Fujishin	2011	19
	Public speaking	David Zarefsky	1999	14
	Communication in everyday life	Steve Duck	2009	14
	Communicating for success	Cheryl Hamilton	2010	13
	Mastering public speaking	George L. Grice	1998	12
	Public speaking	Michael Osborn	1994	11
	Principles of public speaking	Kathleen M. German	2000	11
	Public speaking	Michael Osborn	1988	10
	Public speaking	David Zarefsky	1995	10
	Talk Like TED	Carmine Gallo	2014	10
	Speech	Charles S. Mudd	1969	9
	Public speaking for college and career	Hamilton Gregory	2000	9
	DK guide to public speaking -- Second Custom Edition for Harrisburg Area Community College	Lisa A. Ford-Brown	2012	9
	Practically Speaking	J. Dan Rothwell	2013	9
	Public speaking for college and career	Hamilton Gregory	1987	8
	Public Speaking	Clella Jaffe	1994	8
	The natural speaker	Randy Fujishin	1994	8
	Public speaking	Clella Iles Jaffe	1995	8
	How to present	Michelle Bowden	2013	8
	Speech can change your life	Dorothy Sarnoff	1970	7
	Speaking with a purpose	Koch, Arthur	1988	7
	Inspire Any Audience	Tony Jeary	1996	7
	The Essential Elements of Public Speaking	Joseph A. DeVito	2011	7

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 07 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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