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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.

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. 63 of the 98 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. 16 of the 98 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.

Number of pages
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Word count
to up to 50,00050,000–100,000100,000 and up clear Word count
100 200 300 50,000 100,000 A Long Way From Chicago · 1998 · pages 148 · words 35,226 Beloved · 1987 · pages 324 · words 95,418 Black Ships Before Troy · 1993 · pages 151 · words 31,982 Black Star, Bright Dawn · 1988 · pages 134 · words 28,519 Catherine, Called Birdy · 1994 · pages 176 · words 47,808 Daughter of the Mountains · 1993 · pages 191 · words 48,770 Dave at Night · 1999 · pages 288 · words 58,717 Days of Terror · 1981 · pages 152 · words 42,365 Doe Sia · 1999 · pages 203 · words 30,672 Dragonwings · 1975 · pages 248 · words 68,278 Echoes of the White Giraffe · 1993 · pages 144 · words 34,470 Escape from Warsaw · 1990 · pages 218 · words 40,851 Girlhood Journeys: Isabella · 1997 · pages 71 · words 11,310 Guns for General Washington · 1990 · pages 122 · words 22,032 Hannah of Fairfield · 1999 · pages 96 · words 11,443 Jacob Have I Loved · 1981 · pages 244 · words 52,594 Jamestown, New World Adventure · 1982 · pages 30 · words 3,155 Letters from Rifka · 1992 · pages 160 · words 28,448 Lily's Crossing · 1997 · pages 192 · words 36,019 Men of Iron · 1993 · pages 372 · words 67,758 Middle Passage · 1998 · pages 209 · words 63,698 Naya Nuki · 1983 · pages 175 · words 27,031 Night Journeys · 1979 · pages 160 · words 28,726 Number the Stars · 1989 · pages 137 · words 27,197 Out of the Dust · 1998 · pages 227 · words 19,756 Sarah Plain and Tall · 1985 · pages 64 · words 8,377 Seabird · 1978 · pages 64 · words 9,946 Seaman: The Dog Who Explored the West With Lewis & Clark · 1999 · pages 187 · words 54,159 SeeSaw Girl · 1999 · pages 90 · words 16,442 So Far from the Bamboo Grove · 1986 · pages 183 · words 40,696 Stone Fox · 1983 · pages 81 · words 8,957 Stones in Water · 1997 · pages 224 · words 46,911 Strudel Stories · 1999 · pages 144 · words 17,816 Tar Beach · 1991 · pages 32 · words 503 The Birchbark House · 1999 · pages 250 · words 43,840 The Bronze Bow · 1997 · pages 256 · words 68,215 The Buffalo Knife · 1990 · pages 123 · words 25,678 The Devil's Arithmetic · 1988 · pages 170 · words 38,286 The Forestwife · 1995 · pages 170 · words 43,781 The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day · 1975 · pages 182 · words 51,843 The House of Sixty Fathers · 1987 · pages 189 · words 40,922 The Iron Dragon Never Sleeps · 1994 · pages 90 · words 12,392 The King's Shadow · 1997 · pages 272 · words 72,829 The Last Mission · 1979 · pages 182 · words 43,506 The Midwife's Apprentice · 1996 · pages 128 · words 21,603 The Night the Bells Rang · 1991 · pages 79 · words 8,090 The Samurai's Tale · 1984 · pages 256 · words 61,650 The Shakespeare Stealer · 1998 · pages 208 · words 47,688 The Shining Company · 1990 · pages 295 · words 77,809 The Sign of the Beaver · 1983 · pages 148 · words 32,818 The Sign Painter's Secret · 1991 · pages 48 · words 7,518 The Virginian · 1979 · pages 352 · words 127,671 The Watsons Go to Birmingham · 1995 · pages 224 · words 50,225 The Well · 1995 · pages 96 · words 18,860 Toliver's Secret · 1976 · pages 176 · words 27,946 Underground to Canada · 1978 · pages 144 · words 34,565 Under the Blood Red Sun · 1994 · pages 256 · words 54,740 Water Buffalo Days: Growing Up in Vietnam · 1997 · pages 128 · words 16,915 When the Soldiers Were Gone · 1999 · pages 101 · words 16,611 Year of Impossible Goodbyes · 1991 · pages 169 · words 45,897 Year of the Black Pony · 1976 · pages 171 · words 41,967 Zia · 1976 · pages 208 · words 35,384 Number of pages Word count

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