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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 34 of 3815 books, filtered by Fiction 1975–99 Word count up to 20,000 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. 77 of the 176 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 1 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. 23 of the 176 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 clear Word count

The 34 books that match

26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola, 1999 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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640L

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4.4

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
Abel's Island by William Steig, 1976 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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920L

AR

5.9
A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1994 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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1190L

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3.4
A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder by Walter Wick, 1997 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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870L

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5.8

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant, 1986 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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680L

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4.2

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
A World of Knowing by Andy Russell Bowen, 1995 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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920L
Babe: The Gallant Pig by Dick King-Smith, 1983 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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1040L

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5.6
Cinnabar, the One O'Clock Fox by Marguerite Henry, 1980 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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800L

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5.4

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary, 1984 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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910L

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4.9

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Doctor De Soto by William Steig, 1982 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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560L

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3.6
Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel, 1976 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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450L

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2.6

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
Go Fish by Mary Stolz, 1991 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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770L

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4.4
Grandaddy's Stars by Helen V. Griffith, 1995 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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3.1

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
Half-a-Moon Inn by Paul Fleischman, 1980 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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5.7

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Hannah by Gloria Whelan, 1993 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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740L

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4.3

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus by Barbara Park, 1992 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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380L

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2.9

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes, 1984 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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400L

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2.9

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
Making Up Megaboy by Virginia Walter, 1998 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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720L

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4.8

AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
Missing May by Cynthia Rylant, 1993 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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980L

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5.3

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Mr. Putter & Tabby Pick the Pears by Cynthia Rylant, 1995 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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500L

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2.7

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer, 1986 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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750L

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4.7

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman, 1997 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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710L

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4.3

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Shortcut by David Macaulay, 1995 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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590L

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2.8

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
Songs of Papa's Island by Barbara Kerley, 1995 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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3.3

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Sun & Spoon by Kevin Henkes, 1997 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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780L

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4.9

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads, 1993 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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750L

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4.7

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis, 1975 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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600L

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3.9

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy, 1984 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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870L

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6.3

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
The Kid Next Door and Other Headaches: Stories about Adam Joshua by Janice Lee Smith, 1984 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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4.4

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
The Light at Tern Rock by Julia L. Sauer, 1994 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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820L

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4.8

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
The Silver Balloon by Susan Bonners, 1997 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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630L

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4.1

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen, 1989 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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1110L

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5.0
What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman, 1995 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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950L

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5.4

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Zelda and Ivy by Laura McGee Kvasnosky, 1998 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

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380L

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3.0

AR Interest: LG (K–3)