📚 Study Skills

Learning as a technique: note systems, reading methods and the university manuals that teach the rest.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject study skills 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
	Bible	Bible	1200	6,113
	Motivation and learning strategies for college success	Myron H. Dembo	2000	35
	Learning to Study: Study Skills/Study Stragegies (6 Volume Set : Study Skills/Study Strategies)	Charles T. Mangrum	1983	30
	Critical thinking	Richard W. Paul	1990	24
	Breaking Through	Brenda D. Smith	1987	21
	How to study in college	Walter Pauk	1900	20
	Becoming a master student	Dave Ellis	2002	16
	College Study Skills	Dianna L. Van Blerkom	1993	14
	Academic reading	Kathleen T. McWhorter	1990	12
	College reading and study skills	Kathleen T. McWhorter	1980	11
	How to study	Ronald W. Fry	1989	10
	Early Times	Suzanne Strauss Art	1993	9
	On Course	Skip Downing	1996	9
	New Beginnings	Linda Simon	1998	9
	Essential Study Skills	Tom Burns (undifferentiated)	2008	9
	How to use your mind	Harry Dexter Kitson	1916	8
	How to Study	Harry Maddox	1963	8
	Learning and Studying	James Hartley	1998	8
	Writing today	Richard Johnson-Sheehan	2010	8
	Psychology of Effective Studying	Paul Penn	2019	8
	How to study	Clifford Thomas Morgan	1957	7
	Becoming a master student	David B. Ellis	1994	7
	Study Skills for Learning Power	Regina Hellyer	1997	7
	The psychology of study	Cecil Alec Mace	1932	6
	Best methods of study	Samuel Smith	1938	6
	Study is hard work	William H. Armstrong	1956	6
	Use both sides of your brain	Tony Buzan	1976	6
	Succeed in college!	Walter Pauk	1989	6
	The study skills handbook	Stella Cottrell	1999	6
	Study skills	Stephen Piscitelli	2003	6

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

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