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The Catalogue

Pick a bar to narrow the shelf. Every panel below follows the same filter — the two charts, the plot, and the list of books — and each bar says how many books choosing it would leave you with.

3815 books on the shelf

3815 filed under a genre

16 genres

6 with no recorded year

For the same counts drawn as figures, see Statistics.

6 of them record no publication year at all — show those books.

Showing 99 of 3815 books, filtered by Biography Word count 30,000 and up Clear all

Titles by genre

Each bar counts the books of that genre which survive the year filter, so it says what picking that genre would leave you with. The 0 books filed under no genre at all are in no bar here.

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.

The dots outside your ranges are still drawn, faded, so that you can see what you are narrowing from; the bars above and the list below obey the ranges. 134 of the 396 books in view carry no measure on a ranged axis, so no range can place them — take the ranges off to see them.

Point at a dot to see which book it is, and where it sits on each axis. Click one to open that book's own page of neighbours — the same book, in the middle of a map, with the books closest to it around it.

Horizontal axis

Vertical axis

Number of pages

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Word count

to up to 50,000 50,000–100,000 100,000–150,000 150,000–200,000 200,000–250,000 250,000 and up clear Word count

The 99 books that match

Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People by Clara Ingram Judson, 1950 Biography
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

900L

AR

7.3

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland by Jeanette Eaton, 1929 Biography
its constellation roads from here
Ben Franklin's Almanac: Being a True Account of the Good Gentleman's Life by Candace Fleming, 2003 Biography
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1000L

AR

8.0

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Beyond the Myth: The Story of Joan of Arc by Polly Schoyer Brooks, 1990 Biography
its constellation roads from here

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1100L

AR

8.3

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Blood Brother: Jonathan Daniels and His Sacrifice for Civil Rights by Rich Wallace, 2016 Biography
its constellation roads from here

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1030L

AR

7.4

AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam by Elizabeth Partridge, 2018 Biography
its constellation roads from here

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960L

AR

7.1

AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
Born to Fly: The First Women's Air Race Across America by Steve Sheinkin, 2019 Biography
its constellation roads from here

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930L

AR

6.3

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Breaking Through by Francisco Jiménez, 2003 Biography
its constellation roads from here

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750L

AR

5.3

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson, 2014 Biography
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990L

AR

5.3

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose, 2009 Biography
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1000L

AR

6.8

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Commander in Chief by Albert Marrin, 1997 Biography
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890L

AR

7.6

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank, 1952 Biography
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1020L

AR

6.5

AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis and Thomas Commerford Martin Dyer, 1910 Biography
its constellation roads from here
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman, 1993 Biography
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1100L

AR

7.8

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Fabre, Poet of Science by Dr. Georges Victor Legros, 1913 Biography
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Florence Nightingale the Angel of Crimea by Laura E. Richards, 1909 Biography
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis, 2000 Biography
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1410L

AR

12.8

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Frozen in Time by Mark Kurlansky, 2014 Biography
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1220L

AR

8.3

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword by Jeanette Eaton, 1950 Biography
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AR

7.6

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster, 1941 Biography
its constellation roads from here

AR

8.0

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Gifted Hands by Cecil Murphey and Ben Carson, 1992 Biography
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Lexile

950L

AR

6.8

AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth by James Cross Giblin, 2005 Biography
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1130L

AR

8.3

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Harriet, The Moses of Her People by Sarah H. Bradford, 2006 Biography
its constellation roads from here
Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad by Ann Petry, 1955 Biography
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Lexile

1000L

AR

6.6

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Heroes Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie, 1905 Biography
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Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, 2005 Biography
its constellation roads from here

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1050L

AR

7.8

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos, 2002 Biography
its constellation roads from here

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840L

AR

5.7

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement by Dennis Brindell Fradin, 2000 Biography
its constellation roads from here

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1140L

AR

8.3

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe by Steve Sheinkin, 2023 Biography
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Lexile

850L

AR

6.1

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
In the Days of Queen Elizabeth by Eva March Tappan, 2007 Biography
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In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, & Five Black Lives by Kenneth C. Davis, 2016 Biography
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1110L

AR

8.2
Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs, 1934 Biography
its constellation roads from here

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1150L

AR

8.0

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Jack: The Early Years of John F. Kennedy by Ilene Cooper, 2013 Biography
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1090L

AR

7.8
John Adams and the American Revolution by Catherine Drinker Bowen, 1950 Biography
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John Steinbeck by Catherine Reef, 2004 Biography
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980L

AR

7.2

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Kon Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl, 1950 Biography
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1310L

AR

8.0

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Little Britches by Ralph Moody, 1991 Biography
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Lexile

600L

AR

5.3

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Lives by Plutarch, 80 Biography
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1690L
Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams by Jeanette Eaton, 1944 Biography
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AR

8.3

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Longitude by Dava Sobel, 1995 Biography
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1320L

AR

9.7

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
March Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior to Little Rock Nine by Melba Pattillo Beals, 2018 Biography
its constellation roads from here

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950L

AR

5.9

AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
Marco Polo: His Travels and Adventures by George Makepeace Towle, 1880 Biography
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Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie, 1981 Biography
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1120L

AR

8.4

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War by Steve Sheinkin, 2015 Biography
its constellation roads from here

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890L

AR

6.7

AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
Mr. Sam: How Sam Walton Built Walmart and Became America's Richest Man by Karen Blumenthal, 2011 Biography
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1200L

AR

8.2

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
My Life by Bill Clinton, 2004 Biography
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AR

10.0
Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall, 1940 Biography
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AR

8.0

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Nelson Mandela: South African Revolutionary by Beatrice Gormley, 2014 Biography
its constellation roads from here

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1080L

AR

8.0

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War by Anita Lobel, 1998 Biography
its constellation roads from here

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750L

AR

5.0

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Our Eleanor: A Scrapbook Look at Eleanor Roosevelt's Remarkable Life by Candace Fleming, 2005 Biography
its constellation roads from here

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1040L

AR

8.0

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Path to the Pacific: The Story of Sacagawea by Neta Lohnes Frazier, 2007 Biography
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1170L

AR

7.1

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Presenting Buffalo Bill: The Man Who Invented the Wild West by Candace Fleming, 2016 Biography
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

900L

AR

6.5

AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
Queen Eleanor: Independent Spirit of the Medieval World by Polly Brooks, 1983 Biography
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AR

8.3
Raggin', Jazzin', Rockin' by Susan VanHecke, 2011 Biography
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1090L

AR

8.0

AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
Reaching Out by Francisco Jiménez, 2008 Biography
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

910L

AR

6.1

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown Sound by Andrea Davis Pinkney, 2015 Biography
its constellation roads from here

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1030L

AR

6.8

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz by Mabel Robinson, 1939 Biography
its constellation roads from here

AR

8.4

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune by Pamela S. Turner, 2016 Biography
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

950L

AR

7.2

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Shaking the Nickel Bush by Ralph Moody, 1962 Biography
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1200L

AR

5.8

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance by Jennifer Armstrong, 1998 Biography
its constellation roads from here

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1090L

AR

7.3

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado by Marc Aronson, 2000 Biography
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1030L

AR

8.2

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Squanto by Feenie Ziner, 1965 Biography
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AR

6.8
Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different by Karen Blumenthal, 2012 Biography
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1110L

AR

8.2

AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood by Ibtisam Barakat, 2007 Biography
its constellation roads from here

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870L

AR

5.8

AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
Thanks to My Mother by Schoschana Rabinovici, 1991 Biography
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

790L

AR

6.2

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible...on Schindler's List by Leon Leyson, 2013 Biography
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Lexile

1000L

AR

7.0

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln by Helen Nicolay, 1906 Biography
its constellation roads from here
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club by Phillip Hoose, 2015 Biography
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970L

AR

7.1

AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson by Sarah N. Randolph, 1979 Biography
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The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia by Esther Hautzig, 1968 Biography
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Lexile

880L

AR

6.3

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming, 2014 Biography
its constellation roads from here

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950L

AR

7.2
The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P.T. Barnum by Candace Fleming, 2009 Biography
its constellation roads from here

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980L

AR

7.0

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
The Greatest: Muhammad Ali by Walter Dean Myers, 2001 Biography
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1030L

AR

7.8

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom, 1971 Biography
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

900L

AR

6.4

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler by James Cross Giblin, 2002 Biography
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1100L

AR

9.2

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
The Life and Death of Crazy Horse by Russell Freedman, 1996 Biography
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1100L

AR

7.2

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
The Life of Christopher Columbus by Edward Everett Hale, 1891 Biography
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The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson by Robert Southey, 1908 Biography
its constellation roads from here
The Life of Sir Thomas More by William Roper, 1530 Biography
its constellation roads from here
The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary by Candace Fleming, 2008 Biography
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1050L

AR

8.1
The Longitude Prize by Joan Dash, 2000 Biography
its constellation roads from here

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1160L

AR

8.6

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
The Maid of France: Being the Story of the Life and Death of Jeanne D'Arc by Andrew Lang, 1909 Biography
its constellation roads from here
Theodore Roosevelt: Champion of the American Spirit by Betsy Harvey Kraft, 2003 Biography
its constellation roads from here

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980L

AR

7.6

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
The Real Benedict Arnold by Jim Murphy, 2007 Biography
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1240L

AR

9.6

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller, 1902 Biography
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1150L

AR

6.8

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
The Student's Life of Washington by Washington Irving, 1870 Biography
its constellation roads from here
The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss, 1972 Biography
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

380L

AR

2.9

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
This Boy's Life: A Memoir by Tobias Wolff, 2000 Biography
its constellation roads from here

AR

5.6

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie by Elizabeth Partridge, 2002 Biography
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1020L

AR

7.0

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of the Children's Ship by Deborah Heiligman, 2019 Biography
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

840L

AR

6.0

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Two Years before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., 1840 Biography
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1290L
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, 2010 Biography
its constellation roads from here

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1010L

AR

6.4
Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team by Steve Sheinkin, 2017 Biography
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

980L

AR

6.8

AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington, 1900 Biography
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1320L

AR

8.2

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World by Malala Yousafzai, 2019 Biography
its constellation roads from here

AR

6.0

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
We Were There, Too!: Young People in U.S. History by Phillip Hoose, 2001 Biography
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

950L

AR

7.1

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
When I Was a Soldier by Valerie Zenatti, 2005 Biography
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

880L

AR

6.4

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
While I Was Away by Waka T. Brown, 2021 Biography
its constellation roads from here

AR

5.1

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Young Thomas Edison by Sterling North, 2009 Biography
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1150L

AR

8.5

AR Interest: MG (4–8)