Ijon Tichy series by Stanislaw Lem is all wrong

[d]

I am reading the Ijon Tichy series. I read #1 The Star Diaries, and now I am reading #2 Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy.

They are listed as separate volumes on the Wikipedia page, which correctly lists the chapters I have read in these books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sta...

But on Goodreads, there is one book: "The Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy". This is not a book. That looks like both books combined in one title. The only source on the Internet that seems to suggest this book exists is Amazon/Audible, and I actually _read_ the Audible version and I can confirm that it only contains the chapters that are listed on the Wikipedia page under "The Star Diaries".

So can we rename this book to "The Star Diaries" (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8...) and it can stay as "Ijon Tichy #1". But there is a missing book called "Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Further Reminscences of Ijon Tichy", which is Ijon Tichy #2.

And Goodreads already has the third book in this series correct. If you look at the series page, it seems to miss #2. That is because of this error.

[gem]

It appears that "The Star Diaries" and "Memoirs of a Space Traveler" were all combined into the same work under the title "The Star Diaries". If you sort the editions list alphabetically you can see multiple editions with the "Memoirs..." title.

It looks like some of the short stories in these books overlap in some editions but not all, and is further complicated by Polish versus English releases being different.

However, according to WorldCat (an approved GR source) these works are actually considered the same book: https://search.worldcat.org/formats-e...

I see that Wikipedia does list them as separate volumes with different publication dates, but Wikipedia is not an approved GR source for book data so I can't use that as justification for separating them into two books.

Furthermore, Amazon (another approved GR source, as they own Goodreads) shows this as the official series list: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074CF65HR?...

Book #2 is "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub", which I have added to the GR series page as book 2.

As far as the title of "The Star Diaries", I'm seeing some editions of this book do have the "Further Reminiscences" in the title (notably the Kindle version on Amazon). However it does look like the paperback version with ISBN 9780156849050 should not have this subtitle, so I removed it from that edition. This matches the Amazon page for this edition: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0156849054/

WorldCat also shows it with no subtitle: https://search.worldcat.org/title/113...

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[d]

Thanks @gem. That's pretty sad that the official sources show mixed up information :/
I know that Memoirs Found In a Bathtub is not part of the Ijon Tichy series because I have read it, and the Ijon Tichy character does not show in it, it has different themes, and is an independent story.
Amazon is totally wrong there but I guess there's nothing we can do about it.