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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 52 of 3815 books, filtered by History Number of pages 260 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. 49 of the 125 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. 24 of the 125 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

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The 52 books that match

A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys by John Buchan, 1925 History
its constellation roads from here
A Diary from Dixie by Mary Chestnut, 1905 History
its constellation roads from here
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, 1859 History
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1130L

AR

9.7

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Book of the Ancient Romans by Dorothy Mills, 1909 History
its constellation roads from here
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown, 1971 History
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1160L

AR

7.9

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Decision Points by George Bush, 2010 History
its constellation roads from here

AR

8.5
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, 1831 History
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1310L

AR

13.4
Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede, 731 History
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1470L
Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman, 1962 History
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1350L
Lewis and Clark by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns, 1997 History
its constellation roads from here
Mein Kampf (My Struggle) by Adolf Hitler, 1925 History
its constellation roads from here
Miracle at Philadelphia by Catherine Drinker Bowen, 1966 History
its constellation roads from here
Missionary Travels by David Livingstone, 2001 History
its constellation roads from here
Modern Times Revised Edition: World from the Twenties to the Nineties by Paul Johnson, 1983 History
its constellation roads from here
Now it Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs, 1920 History
its constellation roads from here
Only Yesterday by Frederick Allen, 1931 History
its constellation roads from here
On War by Carl von Clausewitz, 1832 History
its constellation roads from here
Our National Parks by John Muir, 1900 History
its constellation roads from here
Race and Culture by Thomas Sowell, 1995 History
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1750L
Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-li Jiang, 1997 History
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

780L

AR

5.0

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Seven Miracles That Saved America by Chris Stewart & Ted Stewart, 2009 History
its constellation roads from here
South by Sir Ernest Shackleton, 1919 History
its constellation roads from here
Stories of the Pilgrims by Margaret Pumphrey, 1910 History
its constellation roads from here
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain, 1933 History
its constellation roads from here
The Art of the Commonplace by Wendell Berry, 2002 History
its constellation roads from here
The Birth of Britain by Winston Churchill, 1956 History
its constellation roads from here
The Book of Marvels (Occident and Orient) by Richard Halliburton, 2017 History
its constellation roads from here
The Book of the Ancient Greeks by Dorothy Mills, 1925 History
its constellation roads from here
The Brendan Voyage by Tim Severin, 1978 History
its constellation roads from here

AR

8.1
The Chronicles of Jean Froissart by Jean Froissart, 1400 History
its constellation roads from here
The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels, 1848 History
its constellation roads from here
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, 1776 History
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1230L
The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, 1787 History
its constellation roads from here
The Great Democracies by Winston Churchill, 1958 History
its constellation roads from here
The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw, 1998 History
its constellation roads from here

AR

8.6
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1973 History
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1100L
The History of the Ancient World by Susan Wise Bauer, 2007 History
its constellation roads from here
The Invasion of Canada by Pierre Berton, 1980 History
its constellation roads from here
The New World by Winston Churchill, 1956 History
its constellation roads from here
The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman, 1849 History
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1190L

AR

8.5

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
There Really is a Santa Claus by William J. Federer, 2002 History
its constellation roads from here
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer, 1960 History
its constellation roads from here
The Second World War by Winston Churchill, 1948 History
its constellation roads from here
The Story of Inventions by Michael J. McHugh and Frank P. Bachman, 1992 History
its constellation roads from here
The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Van Loon, 1921 History
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1260L
The Story of the Greeks by H.A. Guerber, 2011 History
its constellation roads from here
The Story of the Romans by H.A. Guerber, 1896 History
its constellation roads from here
The Story of the World Volume 4, The Modern Age by Susan Wise Bauer, 2005 History
its constellation roads from here
This Country of Ours by H. E. Marshall, 1917 History
its constellation roads from here
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, 1853 History
its constellation roads from here
Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose, 1996 History
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1190L

AR

9.0
What Everyone Should Know About the 20th Century by Phillips Axelrod, 1995 History
its constellation roads from here