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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.
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. 268 of the 514 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 9 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. 80 of the 514 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.
The 34 books that match
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Lexile1220LAR9.1AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, 2001 NonfictionLexile1040LAR8.1AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition by Karen Blumenthal, 2011 NonfictionLexile1250LAR9.1AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
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Lexile980LAR7.1AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratroopers by Tanya Lee Stone, 2013 NonfictionLexile1090LAR8.0AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile1100LAR7.2AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America by Karen Blumenthal, 2005 NonfictionLexile1140LAR8.7AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile640L
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Lexile1150LAR7.9AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile1180LAR8.9AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Race Against Time: The Untold Story of Scipio Jones and the Battle to Save Twelve Innocent Men by Sandra Neil Wallace, 2021 NonfictionLexile1120LAR7.8AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
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Lexile710L
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Lexile1040LAR7.9AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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Spooked!: How a Radio Broadcast and the War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America by Gail Jarrow, 2018 NonfictionLexile1000LAR7.2AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Lexile820LAR6.1AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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Lexile1130LAR7.6AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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Lexile1020LAR7.7
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Lexile1160LAR8.2AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Understanding the Holy Land: Answering Questions about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Mitch Frank, 2005 NonfictionLexile1130LAR8.7AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
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What Is Color?: The Global and Sometimes Gross Story of Pigments, Paint, and the Wondrous World of Art by Steven Weinberg, 2024 Nonfiction
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Lexile1150L
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Lexile1360L
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Lexile1190LAR7.8AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland by Sally M. Walker, 2009 NonfictionLexile1140LAR9.0AR Interest: UG (9–12)