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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 65 of 3815 books, filtered by Fiction 1950–74 Number of pages up to 500 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. 51 of the 102 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.

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. 37 of the 102 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 and up

The 65 books that match

A Coffin for King Charles by C. V. Wedgwood, 1964 Fiction
its constellation roads from here
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt, 1964 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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1100L

AR

6.6

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green, 1956 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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1110L

AR

8.1

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Air Raid - Pearl Harbor! by Theodore Taylor, 1971 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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1070L

AR

8.7

AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst, 1972 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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840L

AR

3.7

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
Along Came A Dog by Meindert De Jong, 1958 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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950L

AR

5.7

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish, 1963 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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340L

AR

2.5

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
A Toad for Tuesday by Russell Erickson, 1974 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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740L

AR

4.4

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, 1962 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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740L

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4.7

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Centerburg Tales by Robert McCloskey, 1951 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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1020L

AR

6.0

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino, 1965 Fiction
its constellation roads from here
Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor, 1965 Fiction
its constellation roads from here
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg, 1967 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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700L

AR

4.7

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Gentle Ben by Walt Morey, 1965 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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740L

AR

4.8

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Gone Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright, 1957 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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760L

AR

5.3

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh, 1964 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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760L

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4.5

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Henry Reed, Inc. by Keith Robertson, 1958 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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880L

AR

5.5

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Ice Falcon by Rita Ritchie, 1963 Fiction
its constellation roads from here
Impunity Jane: the Story of a Pocket Doll by Rumer Godden, 1954 Fiction
its constellation roads from here
It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville, 1964 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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810L

AR

4.7

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George, 1973 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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860L

AR

5.8

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Kävik the Wolf Dog by Walt Morey, 1968 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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740L

AR

4.9
Labyrinths by Jorge Borges, 1962 Fiction
its constellation roads from here
Leaf Storm: and Other Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1955 Fiction
its constellation roads from here
Minnow on the Say by Philippa Pearce, 1955 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

AR

6.0

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara, 1973 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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960L

AR

6.0

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George, 1959 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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810L

AR

5.2
Neither Five nor Three by Helen MacInnes, 1951 Fiction
its constellation roads from here
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson, 1964 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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910L

AR

5.0

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, 1962 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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900L

AR

5.5

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Onion John by Joseph Krumgold, 1960 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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710L

AR

4.5

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 1955 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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940L
Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat, 1970 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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980L

AR

5.0

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
Rascal by Sterling North, 1963 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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1140L

AR

7.1

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil, 1952 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

AR

3.4

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Return To Gone Away by Elizabeth Enright, 1961 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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810L

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5.8

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska, 1965 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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740L

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5.2

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Sounder by William H. Armstrong, 1970 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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900L

AR

5.3

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars, 1971 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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830L

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4.9

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
The Ark by Margot Benary-Isbert, 1953 Fiction
its constellation roads from here
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest Gaines, 1971 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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710L

AR

4.6

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh, 1952 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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590L

AR

3.5

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier, 1974 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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820L

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5.4

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
The Chosen by Chaim Potok, 1968 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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900L

AR

6.6

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles, 1969 Fiction
its constellation roads from here
The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford, 1961 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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1320L

AR

7.6

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
The Lilies of the Field by William Edmund Barrett, 1962 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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770L

AR

5.4
The Lost Prince of Samavia by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1971 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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910L

AR

6.0

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono, 1953 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

AR

6.5
The Most Wonderful Doll in the World by Phyllis McGinley, 1950 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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830L

AR

4.6

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton, 1967 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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750L

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4.7

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
The Pigman by Paul Zindel, 1968 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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880L

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5.5

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill, 1964 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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1050L

AR

6.5

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
The Three Toymakers by Ursula Moray Williams, 1970 Fiction
its constellation roads from here
The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor, 1960 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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980L
The Wishing Apple Tree by Jean Bothwell, 1953 Fiction
its constellation roads from here
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken, 1962 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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1020L

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6.5

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet by Eleanor Cameron, 1954 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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1030L

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6.3

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, 1958 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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890L

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6.2

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Tiger on the Mountain by Shirley L. Arora, 1960 Fiction
its constellation roads from here
To Sir With Love by Edward Ricardo Braithwaite, 1959 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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1010L

AR

7.5

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Treasures of the Snow by Patricia St. John, 1950 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

AR

5.6

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Tucker's Countryside by George Selden, 1969 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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750L

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4.9

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt, 1967 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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1060L

AR

6.6

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Where the Red Fern Grows by Woodrow Wilson Rawls, 1974 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

700L

AR

4.9

AR Interest: MG (4–8)