📚 Taoism

The way that cannot be named: Laozi and Zhuangzi, the alchemy, and the religion that grew from the philosophy.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject taoism 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
	Gorin no sho	Miyamoto Musashi	1963	237
	The Tao of Physics	Fritjof Capra	1975	35
	I Ching	Richard Wilhelm	1950	32
	Nature, Man,& Woman	Alan Watts	1958	19
	The Tao of Pooh	Benjamin Hoff	1982	19
	Tai yi jin hua zong zhi jin yi	Dongbin Lü	1931	17
	Taoism	Russell Kirkland	2004	15
	Zhuangzi	Zhuangzi	1930	14
	The Tao of leadership	John Heider	1985	14
	Taoism, the parting of the way	Holmes Welch	1957	13
	The way of Chuang Tzu	Thomas Merton	1968	13
	Tao	Alan Watts	1975	13
	The Multi-orgasmic Man	Mantak Chia	1996	13
	Tao	Bhagwan Rajneesh	1900	12
	The thinking body	Mabel Elsworth Todd	1937	11
	The way and its power	老子	1934	9
	Tao	Philip S. Rawson	1973	9
	The tao of love and sex	Jolan Chang	1977	9
	The parting of the way	Holmes Welch	1957	8
	The World's Religions	Huston Smith	1990	8
	The Tao of Pooh / The Te of Piglet	Benjamin Hoff	1992	8
	Daoism in history	Benjamin Penny	2005	8
	The Texts of Taoism, Part I (The Sacred Books of China, Part 5; The Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 39)	James Legge	1891	7
	The tao is silent	Raymond M. Smullyan	1977	7
	The use and abuse of history	Friedrich Nietzsche	1949	6
	Tao Te Ching	Stephen Mitchell	1991	6
	The Secret of Everlasting Life	Richard Bertschinger	1994	6
	The Taoist Classics, Volume 1	Thomas Cleary	1999	6
	Lâo-Tsze, the great thinker	George Gardiner Alexander	1895	5
	The Wisdom of Laotse	Lin, Yutang	1948	5

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

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