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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 9 of 3815 books, filtered by Classics Word count 250,000 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. 106 of the 160 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 4 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. 36 of the 160 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

to up to 500 500–1,000 1,000 and up

Word count

to up to 100,000 100,000–200,000 200,000–300,000 300,000–400,000 400,000–500,000 500,000 and up clear Word count

The 9 books that match

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, 1850 Classics
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1070L

AR

9.5
Don Quixote, Part 1 by Miguel Cervantes, 1612 Classics
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1410L

AR

13.2

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, 1936 Classics
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1030L

AR

7.1

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, 1862 Classics
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1010L

AR

9.8

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Middlemarch by George Eliot, 1871 Classics
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1210L

AR

10.4

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, 1837 Classics
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1210L

AR

11.8

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1879 Classics
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1150L

AR

10.4

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 1985 Classics
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1270L

AR

12.4

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy, 1867 Classics
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1130L

AR

10.1

AR Interest: UG (9–12)