📚 Vocabulary

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Wordpower as a measurable thing: the thesaurus tradition and the building programs built on it.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject vocabulary 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.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Word Power Made Easy	Norman Lewis	1949	31
Vocabulary Workshop	Jerome Shostak	1984	27
30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary	Wilfred John Funk	1942	25
First 1000 Words in Spanish Sticker Book	Heather Amery	1979	23
Wordly wise 3000	Kenneth Hodkinson	1998	21
Short introduction of grammar	William Lily	1638	20
First Thousand Words in French	Heather Amery	1979	20
Destinos	Bill VanPatten	1991	18
1100 words you need to know	Murray Bromberg	1971	12
Wordpower	Edward de Bono	1977	11
Concepts and Comments	Patricia Ackert	1985	10
Best word book ever	Richard Scarry	1963	9
Spot's big book of words	Eric Hill	1988	8
Word wealth	Ward S. Miller	1939	7
Inqolobane yesizwe	C. L. Sibusiso Nyembezi	1966	7
Gaining word power	Dorothy Rubin	1986	7
Vocabulary for GCSE French	Philip Horsfall	1988	7
McDougal, Littell wordskills	James E. Coomber	1991	7
I Am Not Going to Read Any Words Today!	Linda Hayward	1995	7
Fun with Words	Richard Scarry	1960	5
Word Power	Reader's Digest Association	1980	5
Picture This..	Alison Jay	1999	5
Gifts from the gods	Lise Lunge-Larsen	2011	5
The Blue Diamond	Bill Bowler	2002	4
All about words	Maxwell W. Nurnberg	1966	3
Vocabulary	Patricia Dunn-Rankin	1978	3
Word memory power in 30 days	Peter Funk	1981	3
1,000 most important words	Norman W. Schur	1982	3
A pocket guide to vocabulary	Brownstein, Samuel C.	1984	3
Pengajaran kosakata	Muhammad Attar Semi	1985	3

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

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