📚 The Puritans

Reformation’s earnest wing: the sermons, the commonwealth experiment, and the culture argument they still win.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject puritans 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 Saint' everlasting rest	Richard Baxter	1650	137
	The practice of piety	Lewis Bayly	1621	87
	A call to the unconverted to turn and live, and accept of mercy while mercy may be had, as ever they would find mercy in the day of extremity, from the living God	Richard Baxter	1658	76
	Life and letters of John Winthrop	Robert Charles Winthrop	1864	29
	The works of John Owen	John Owen	1826	27
	Bunyan	James Anthony Froude	1880	25
	A Book of Prefaces	H. L. Mencken	1917	20
	The Doctrine of Justification by Faith Through the Imputation of The Righteousness of Christ, Explained, Confirmed, & Vindicated	John Owen	1677	18
	The beginnings of New England	John Fiske	1889	18
	The Emancipation of Massachusetts	Brooks Adams	1887	17
	The works of Thomas Goodwin	Goodwin, Thomas	1861	16
	Prophecies of the Reverend Christopher Love	Love, Christopher	1793	15
	The works of John Bunyan	John Bunyan	1853	14
	The Life of John Bunyan	Edmund Venables	1888	13
	Puritanism and revolution	Christopher Hill	1958	13
	Wayward Puritans	Kai Erikson	1966	12
	The influence of Puritanism on the political & religious thought of the English	John Stephen Flynn	1920	10
	Jonathan Edwards	Edward H. Davidson	1966	9
	The struggle with Puritanism	Bruce Blaxland	1910	8
	Representation and misrepresentation of the Puritan in Elizabethan drama	Aaron Michael Myers	1931	8
	The sociology of Colonial Virginia	Morris Talpalar	1960	7
	Cotton Mather, the Puritan priest	Barrett Wendell	1891	6
	The Puritan in England and New England	Byington, Ezra Hoyt	1896	6
	The English Puritans	John Brown	1910	6
	The Marian exiles	Christina Hallowell Garrett	1938	6
	Puritanism in Old and New England	Alan Simpson	1955	6
	The Puritans	Hopkins, Samuel	1859	5
	Puritanism	Clarence Meily	1911	5
	The diary of Michael Wigglesworth 1653-1657	Michael Wigglesworth	1946	5
	Hawthorne's ambivalence toward puritanism	J. Golden Taylor	1965	5

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

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