Constellations
The books around The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
Every book here sits next to The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia for a reason, and the reason is written on the line between them. Click a book and the books next to it appear beside it, without the map moving. The list below has every reason in words, and a way to make any of these the book in the middle.
How to read it
One book in the middle, its neighbours around it, and a line for every reason they are neighbours. The order around the ring is the ranking: the closest neighbour is at the top, and the rest follow clockwise outward.
- a line drawn on a claim about what the books are — a shared subject, or the same author
- a line drawn on how they sit in the catalogue — the same genre, a similar reading measure — which is weaker evidence and is drawn dashed
- the book you started from
- a book with a solid border has neighbours of its own: click it and they appear beside it, while the ring stays exactly where it is
Every line, with its evidence
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Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood 2007 · 870L
The same subject (Wars and Social Issues), the same narrower subject (World History and Violence), the same catalogue tag (Biography and Nonfiction) and the same genre (Biography). Also within 80L of its reading measure.
same subject · Warssame subject · Social Issuessame subject · Historysame subject · Peopleboth filed under · Biographyboth filed under · Nonfictionsame narrower subject · World Historysame narrower subject · Violencesame genre · Biographyreading measure · 80L apart
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Raybearer 2020 · 5.5
The same subject (Mysteries and Social Issues), the same narrower subject (Murder, Royalty and Violence).
same subject · Mysteriessame subject · Social Issuessame subject · Peoplesame narrower subject · Murdersame narrower subject · Royaltysame narrower subject · Violence
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Son of a Gun 2012 · 700L
The same subject (Wars and Mysteries), the same narrower subject (Violence).
same subject · Warssame subject · Mysteriessame subject · Social Issuessame subject · Peoplesame narrower subject · Violence
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Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018 · 960L
The same subject (Wars and Social Issues), the same narrower subject (Violence), the same catalogue tag (Biography and Nonfiction) and the same genre (Biography). Also within 10L of its reading measure.
same subject · Warssame subject · Social Issuessame subject · Historyboth filed under · Biographyboth filed under · Nonfictionsame narrower subject · Violencesame genre · Biographyreading measure · 10L apart
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Mr. Lincoln's High-Tech War 2009 · 1180L
The same subject (Wars and Social Issues), the same narrower subject (Violence) and the same catalogue tag (Nonfiction).
same subject · Warssame subject · Social Issuessame subject · Historysame subject · Peopleboth filed under · Nonfictionsame narrower subject · Violence
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To Kill a Mockingbird 1960 · 790L
The same subject (Mysteries and Social Issues), the same narrower subject (Murder and Violence). Also within 160L of its reading measure.
same subject · Mysteriessame subject · Social Issuessame subject · Peoplesame narrower subject · Murdersame narrower subject · Violencereading measure · 160L apart
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Making Up Megaboy 1998 · 720L
The same subject (Mysteries and Social Issues), the same narrower subject (Murder and Violence).
same subject · Mysteriessame subject · Social Issuessame subject · Peoplesame narrower subject · Murdersame narrower subject · Violence
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George Washington's World 1941 · 8.0
The same subject (Wars and History), the same narrower subject (World History) and the same genre (Biography).
same subject · Warssame subject · Historysame subject · Peoplesame narrower subject · World Historysame genre · Biography
What the map is not showing
Coverage. 3,013 of the 3,815 books in the catalogue carry a curated subject tag, which is the strongest thing one book can share with another. Where a book has none, the map falls back to genre and reading measure — real reasons, drawn on the weaker line, but a beginning rather than a recommendation. The number above is also the work still to be done: a subject on the rest of the catalogue is the single change that would improve every map on this site at once.
Years and sizes. Two books published in the same decade are not more alike for it, and neither are two books of the same size. When they are neighbours here it is because of what they are, not when they were printed or how thick they are — which is why the ring around a book from 1937 can hold one from 1863 and one from 2003, and the list is better for it. The year is printed on a book's line because it is worth knowing, not because it draws anything.
Lists. Awards and recommended-reading lists are not used here at all. Every book on a list shares something with every other book on it, and that something is the list — which is what Treasury is for. Counting lists puts Holes next to The Hobbit.
One layer. This map shows what two books share. It cannot yet show what a book did for a reader — that a journey, or a funny voice, or being believed by somebody, is what made a book matter — because that is not written down anywhere in the catalogue. It comes from readers, and it is the next thing to build.
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