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3815 books on the shelf
3815 filed under a genre
16 genres
6 with no recorded year

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Titles by genre

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Titles by year published

The whole timeline, back to the catalogue's oldest book. The bars widen as they go back, because equal-width bars across four thousand years would press everything before 1900 into a single pixel — where the statistics page leaves those books out of its chart and says so in the caption, the explorer has to be able to reach them, so its bars change width instead of stopping. Each bar counts the books of that era which survive the genre filter.

Two measures at a time

The books above, as dots. 230 of the 396 carry both measures and can be plotted; a book missing a measure has no place on that axis, so it is left off rather than drawn at zero. Each axis covers the middle 98% of what is shown, with 5 books outside the frame.

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200 400 600 50,000 100,000 150,000 200,000 250,000 Abigail Adams · 1949 · pages 192 · words 24,516 A First Time for Everything · 2023 · pages 320 · words 13,401 Ain't Burned All the Bright · 2022 · pages 384 · words 2,085 Akimbo and the Snakes · 2006 · pages 64 · words 9,047 An Extraordinary Life · 1997 · pages 64 · words 10,952 A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of the Snowy Day · 2016 · pages 60 · words 2,462 Bad Sister · 2021 · pages 240 · words 7,881 Becoming Muhammad Ali · 2020 · pages 320 · words 22,365 Ben Franklin's Almanac: Being a True Account of the Good Gentleman's Life · 2003 · pages 120 · words 37,781 Benjamin Franklin · 1950 · pages 48 · words 6,115 Beyond the Myth: The Story of Joan of Arc · 1990 · pages 176 · words 38,511 Black & White: The Confrontation of Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene “Bull” Connor · 2011 · pages 112 · words 21,623 Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917 · 2011 · pages 145 · words 24,313 Blood Brother: Jonathan Daniels and His Sacrifice for Civil Rights · 2016 · pages 352 · words 41,836 Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam · 2018 · pages 224 · words 43,345 Born to Fly: The First Women's Air Race Across America · 2019 · pages 288 · words 50,474 Boss of the Plains · 1998 · pages 1 · words 1,561 Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom · 2020 · pages 56 · words 2,897 Breaking Through · 2003 · pages 208 · words 43,806 Brown Girl Dreaming · 2014 · pages 336 · words 30,318 Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt · 1991 · pages 121 · words 25,450 Carver: A Life in Poems · 2001 · pages 103 · words 9,377 Chocolate by Hershey · 1994 · pages 64 · words 7,849 Chuck Close: Up Close · 1998 · pages 48 · words 4,589 Clara Schumann: Piano Virtuoso · 1999 · pages 128 · words 12,379 Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice · 2009 · pages 133 · words 32,581 Commander in Chief · 1997 · pages 256 · words 69,771 Diary of A Young Girl · 1952 · pages 283 · words 82,762 Diego: Bigger Than Life · 2009 · pages 64 · words 4,758 Diego Rivera: An Artist for the People · 2013 · pages 56 · words 8,122 Dragon Hoops · 2020 · pages 448 · words 24,027 Drawing from Memory · 2011 · pages 72 · words 7,281 Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans · 2015 · pages 96 · words 3,207 Edison, His Life and Inventions · 1910 · pages 553 · words 135,684 Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah · 2015 · pages 36 · words 892 Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir · 2015 · pages 208 · words 13,609 Enormous Smallness: A Story of e. e. cummings · 2015 · pages 64 · words 1,846 Escape!: The Story of the Great Houdini · 2006 · pages 210 · words 29,724 Fabre, Poet of Science · 1913 · pages 364 · words 71,772 Florence Nightingale the Angel of Crimea · 1909 · pages 87 · words 32,430 Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation · 2000 · pages 248 · words 95,780 Frank O. Gehry: Outside In · 2000 · pages 48 · words 5,052 Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement · 2006 · pages 79 · words 14,243 Frida: ¡Viva La Vida! Long Live Life! · 2007 · pages 64 · words 3,590 Genius: A Photobiography of Albert Einstein · 2005 · pages 64 · words 9,065 George Washington's World · 1941 · pages 357 · words 92,031 Gifted Hands · 1992 · pages 224 · words 68,301 Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth · 2005 · pages 244 · words 62,851 Good Queen Bess · 1936 · pages 40 · words 4,111 Hana's Suitcase: A True Story · 2002 · pages 120 · words 15,484 Harriet, The Moses of Her People · 2006 · pages 156 · words 31,092 Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad · 1955 · pages 256 · words 53,574 Helen Keller · 1969 · pages 96 · words 9,846 Heroes Every Child Should Know · 1905 · pages 396 · words 91,533 Hey, Kiddo · 2018 · pages 320 · words 16,162 Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow · 2005 · pages 176 · words 31,785 Hole in My Life · 2002 · pages 208 · words 47,392 How I Discovered Poetry · 2014 · pages 112 · words 5,606 How They Croaked · 2011 · pages 192 · words 26,208 How to Draw a Secret · 2025 · pages 272 · words 11,503 How to Say Goodbye in Cuban · 2025 · pages 240 · words 9,804 Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement · 2000 · pages 192 · words 39,923 Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe · 2023 · pages 256 · words 48,604 Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from World War II to Peace · 2019 · pages 112 · words 12,559 In the Days of Queen Elizabeth · 2007 · pages 240 · words 59,288 In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, & Five Black Lives · 2016 · pages 304 · words 44,571 Inventing the Future: A Photobiography of Thomas Alva Edison · 2002 · pages 64 · words 8,239 Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women · 1934 · pages 256 · words 55,156 Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure · 2012 · pages 149 · words 22,972 Isaac Newton · 2006 · pages 126 · words 16,778 Isaac the Alchemist: Secrets of Isaac Newton, Reveal'd · 2017 · pages 176 · words 17,060 Jack: The Early Years of John F. Kennedy · 2013 · pages 167 · words 34,703 Joan of Arc · 1998 · pages 48 · words 8,001 John Adams and the American Revolution · 1950 · pages 699 · words 292,775 John Steinbeck · 2004 · pages 176 · words 30,721 Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker · 2014 · pages 104 · words 3,874 Just a Girl: A True Story of World War II · 2022 · pages 144 · words 16,949 Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor · 1994 · pages 112 · words 9,077 Kon Tiki · 1950 · pages 240 · words 79,477 Lafayette and the American Revolution · 2010 · pages 88 · words 17,815 Leonardo da Vinci · 1996 · pages 48 · words 7,580 Leonardo Da Vinci · 2005 · pages 124 · words 17,515 Leon's Story · 1997 · pages 107 · words 10,845 Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters · 2000 · pages 120 · words 23,637 Lincoln: A Photobiography · 1988 · pages 160 · words 28,244 Little Britches · 1991 · pages 260 · words 88,526 Longitude · 1995 · pages 192 · words 36,770 March Book One · 2013 · pages 128 · words 7,966 March Book Three · 2016 · pages 256 · words 21,078 March Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior to Little Rock Nine · 2018 · pages 224 · words 44,614 Marco Polo: His Travels and Adventures · 1880 · pages 312 · words 57,903 Marie Curie · 2007 · pages 142 · words 21,213 Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl · 2005 · pages 48 · words 7,154 Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life · 1998 · pages 176 · words 25,621 Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song · 2013 · pages 1 · words 1,147 Martin Rising: Requiem for a King · 2018 · pages 128 · words 6,605 Meet Abraham Lincoln · 1965 · pages 80 · words 5,576 Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir · 2023 · pages 320 · words 25,025 Michelangelo · 2000 · pages 48 · words 7,478 Midnight’s Children · 1981 · pages 647 · words 208,773 Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War · 2015 · pages 384 · words 63,654 Muckrakers: How Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, & Lincoln Steffens Helped Expose Scandal, Inspire Reform, and... · 2007 · pages 111 · words 14,492 Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein · 2011 · pages 178 · words 22,835 My Antarctica: True Adventures in the Land of Mummified Seals, Space Robots, and So Much More · 2024 · pages 96 · words 5,295 Night Flight: Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic · 2011 · pages 40 · words 1,215 No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War · 1998 · pages 208 · words 51,933 On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein · 2013 · pages 56 · words 1,558 Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir · 2019 · pages 336 · words 27,976 Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story · 1996 · pages 80 · words 12,507 Osceola: Memories of a Sharecropper's Daughter · 2000 · pages 64 · words 6,418 Our Eleanor: A Scrapbook Look at Eleanor Roosevelt's Remarkable Life · 2005 · pages 192 · words 57,332 Path to the Pacific: The Story of Sacagawea · 2007 · pages 177 · words 38,017 Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss and What I Learned · 2000 · pages 187 · words 15,273 Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science · 2002 · pages 96 · words 12,994 Photo by Brady: A Picture of the Civil War · 2005 · pages 160 · words 24,379 Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes · 2014 · pages 96 · words 15,819 Presenting Buffalo Bill: The Man Who Invented the Wild West · 2016 · pages 288 · words 57,856 Queen Eleanor: Independent Spirit of the Medieval World · 1983 · pages 192 · words 34,410 Raggin', Jazzin', Rockin' · 2011 · pages 140 · words 32,230 Reaching Out · 2008 · pages 208 · words 46,437 Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange · 1998 · pages 128 · words 20,103 Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown Sound · 2015 · pages 176 · words 30,787 Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II · 1995 · pages 120 · words 17,130 Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune · 2016 · pages 256 · words 35,599 Seeds of Discovery: How Barbara McClintock Used Corn and Curiosity to Solve a Science Mystery and Win a Nobel Prize · 2025 · pages 128 · words 10,733 Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal about the Japanese American Incarceration · 2022 · pages 132 · words 7,202 Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance · 1998 · pages 144 · words 34,562 Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy · 2003 · pages 80 · words 11,117 Sigmund Freud · 2006 · pages 144 · words 21,972 Silent Days, Silent Dreams · 2017 · pages 64 · words 1,895 Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado · 2000 · pages 240 · words 41,736 Sisters · 2014 · pages 208 · words 5,068 Sky Pioneer: A Photobiography of Amelia Earhart · 1997 · pages 64 · words 6,966 Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio · 1996 · pages 184 · words 28,431 Smile · 2010 · pages 213 · words 8,270 Some Writer!: The Story of E.B. White · 2016 · pages 176 · words 13,503 Squanto · 1965 · pages 154 · words 37,716 Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims · 1982 · pages 112 · words 11,737 Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler · 2022 · pages 128 · words 11,168 Stealing Home: The Story of Jackie Robinson · 1990 · pages 128 · words 19,098 Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different · 2012 · pages 304 · words 50,666 Streetcar to Justice: How Elizabeth Jennings Won the Right to Ride in New York · 2018 · pages 160 · words 16,694 Su Dongpo: Chinese Genius · 2006 · pages 56 · words 3,044 Survivors of the Holocaust: True Stories of Six Extraordinary Children · 2019 · pages 96 · words 3,941 Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman · 2002 · pages 1 · words 5,020 Talking with Artists, Volume 3 · 1999 · pages 96 · words 18,912 Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood · 2007 · pages 176 · words 41,938 Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World · 2012 · pages 148 · words 23,907 Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America · 2015 · pages 240 · words 27,676 Thanks to My Mother · 1991 · pages 256 · words 78,935 The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible...on Schindler's List · 2013 · pages 231 · words 39,195 The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln · 1906 · pages 324 · words 60,141 The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club · 2015 · pages 208 · words 42,201 The Boy Who Drew Birds · 2004 · pages 32 · words 1,813 The Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World and Ours · 2001 · pages 80 · words 9,727 The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson · 1979 · pages 440 · words 157,693 The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia · 1968 · pages 256 · words 61,776 The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia · 2014 · pages 304 · words 69,196 The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba · 2010 · pages 151 · words 8,182 The Forbidden Schoolhouse: The True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and Her Students · 2005 · pages 150 · words 19,599 The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain · 2021 · pages 208 · words 22,210 The Girl from Chimel · 2005 · pages 54 · words 7,968 The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival · 2024 · pages 272 · words 9,301 The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P.T. Barnum · 2009 · pages 160 · words 30,520 The Greatest: Muhammad Ali · 2001 · pages 192 · words 31,117 The Hiding Place · 1971 · pages 242 · words 81,387 The Hyena Scientist · 2018 · pages 80 · words 19,825 The Indestructible Tom Crean: Heroic Explorer of the Antarctic · 2023 · pages 56 · words 2,477 The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H.A. Rey · 2005 · pages 72 · words 6,354 The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler · 2002 · pages 256 · words 58,802 The Life of Christopher Columbus · 1891 · pages 320 · words 61,101 The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson · 1908 · pages 288 · words 96,054 The Life of Sir Thomas More · 1530 · pages 212 · words 75,041 The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist · 2013 · pages 182 · words 11,142 The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary · 2008 · pages 181 · words 79,736 The Longitude Prize · 2000 · pages 208 · words 37,583 The Mad Potter: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius · 2013 · pages 53 · words 5,837 The Maid of France: Being the Story of the Life and Death of Jeanne D'Arc · 1909 · pages 379 · words 147,269 The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins · 2003 · pages 77 · words 5,506 The Man without a Country · 1863 · pages 46 · words 15,203 The Many Rides of Paul Revere · 2007 · pages 85 · words 13,699 Theodore Roosevelt: Champion of the American Spirit · 2003 · pages 208 · words 39,374 The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano · 2006 · pages 183 · words 12,804 The Scraps Book: Notes from a Colorful Life · 2014 · pages 72 · words 676 The Signers: The 56 Stories Behind the Declaration of Independence · 2011 · pages 176 · words 14,520 The Story of Abraham Lincoln · 2010 · pages 148 · words 24,376 The Story of David Livingstone · 2007 · pages 92 · words 20,454 The Story of My Life · 1902 · pages 240 · words 71,219 The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West · 2008 · pages 224 · words 26,932 The Upstairs Room · 1972 · pages 208 · words 44,235 The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights · 2004 · pages 114 · words 17,170 The Von Trapp Family Singers · 1949 · pages 320 · words 3,747 They Called Us Enemy · 2019 · pages 192 · words 13,653 This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie · 2002 · pages 220 · words 46,608 This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality · 2019 · pages 320 · words 24,938 Through My Eyes · 1999 · pages 64 · words 11,246 Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of the Children's Ship · 2019 · pages 288 · words 56,725 Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March · 2015 · pages 128 · words 8,856 Two Years before the Mast · 1840 · pages 458 · words 169,612 Unbroken · 2010 · pages 492 · words 63,138 Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team · 2017 · pages 288 · words 53,891 Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America · 2006 · pages 120 · words 20,184 Up From Slavery · 1900 · pages 256 · words 73,359 Uprooted · 2024 · pages 288 · words 9,689 Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice · 2022 · pages 208 · words 15,711 Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist · 2001 · pages 144 · words 26,001 Walking the Road to Freedom · 1988 · pages 64 · words 7,713 Walt Whitman: Words for America · 2004 · pages 56 · words 2,764 Washington at Valley Forge · 2008 · pages 100 · words 17,501 We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World · 2019 · pages 224 · words 32,657 Weirdo · 2024 · pages 320 · words 12,465 We Shall Overcome: A Song That Changed the World · 2010 · pages 72 · words 12,140 We Were There, Too!: Young People in U.S. History · 2001 · pages 276 · words 99,733 When I Was a Soldier · 2005 · pages 235 · words 53,187 When Stars Are Scattered · 2020 · pages 264 · words 27,175 Where the Action Was: Women War Correspondents in World War II · 2002 · pages 128 · words 15,777 While I Was Away · 2021 · pages 320 · words 65,800 Who Was First?: Discovering the Americas · 2007 · pages 88 · words 14,574 Wings of an Eagle: The Gold Medal Dreams of Billy Mills · 2024 · pages 48 · words 1,547 Words to My Life's Song · 2009 · pages 58 · words 5,974 Wright Brothers: Pioneers of American Aviation · 1950 · pages 183 · words 24,761 You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen · 2016 · pages 96 · words 5,070 Young Thomas Edison · 2009 · pages 192 · words 31,359 You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton? · 1995 · pages 96 · words 15,485 Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty · 2010 · pages 94 · words 5,086 Number of pages Word count

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