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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 69 of 3815 books, filtered by Nonfiction Word count up to 20,000 Number of pages 62 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. 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. 246 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.

Horizontal axis

Vertical axis

Number of pages

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Word count

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The 69 books that match

A Black Hole Is Not a Hole by Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano, 2012 Nonfiction
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900L

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6.1

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Adventures in Cartooning by James Sturm, 2009 Nonfiction
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460L

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2.1

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return by Zeina Abirached, 2007 Nonfiction
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680L

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3.4

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Ain't Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry by Scott Nelson, 2007 Nonfiction
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1030L

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6.6

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms by Paul B. Janeczko, 2005 Nonfiction
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6.0
An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming by Al Gore, 2007 Nonfiction
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1070L

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7.4
Billions of Years, Amazing Changes: The Story of Evolution by Laurence Pringle, 2011 Nonfiction
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1000L

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7.5

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Camp Panda: Helping Cubs Return to the Wild by Catherine Thimmesh, 2018 Nonfiction
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1260L

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8.4

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Candy Bomber by Michael O. Tunnell, 2010 Nonfiction
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1130L

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7.2

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Castle by David Macaulay, 1977 Nonfiction
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1180L

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7.9

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Cathedral by David Macaulay, 1973 Nonfiction
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1180L

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7.3

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Chasing Cheetahs: The Race to Save Africa's Fastest Cat by Sy Montgomery, 2014 Nonfiction
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1000L

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6.5

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Children of the Great Depression by Russell Freedman, 2005 Nonfiction
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1170L

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7.5

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
City by David Macaulay, 1974 Nonfiction
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1100L

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7.7

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Climbing Everest by Gail Herman, 2015 Nonfiction
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570L

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4.4

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
Cora Frear by Susan E. Goodman, 2002 Nonfiction
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3.5

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty by Tonya Bolden, 2013 Nonfiction
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1160L

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8.9

AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
Eruption!: Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives by Elizabeth Rusch, 2013 Nonfiction
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1000L

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6.9

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
First Flight Around the World: The Adventures of the American Fliers Who Won the Race by Tim Grove, 2015 Nonfiction
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1100L

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7.7

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell Freedman, 2006 Nonfiction
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1110L

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7.7

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
George vs. George: The Revolutionary War as Seen from Both Sides by Rosalyn Schanzer, 2004 Nonfiction
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1120L

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7.5
Go: A Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design by Chip Kidd, 2013 Nonfiction
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1100L

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7.2

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Apes by Pamela S. Turner, 2005 Nonfiction
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910L

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6.2

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Growing Up in Coal Country by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, 1996 Nonfiction
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1110L

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6.8

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson, 2011 Nonfiction
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1050L

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6.6

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices by Walter Dean Myers, 2004 Nonfiction
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5.9

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Her Right Foot by Dave Eggers, 2017 Nonfiction
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800L

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4.5

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
Hidden Worlds: Looking Through a Scientist's Microscope by Stephen Kramer, 2001 Nonfiction
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1040L

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7.0

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Home Geography for Primary Grades by C. C. Long, 2017 Nonfiction
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I Am an American: A True Story of Japanese Internment by Jerry Stanley, 1996 Nonfiction
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1180L

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8.2

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
I'm a Dumbo Octopus!: A Graphic Guide to Cephalopods by Anne Lambelet, 2025 Nonfiction
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3.9

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Impact: Asteroids and the Science of Saving the World by Elizabeth Rusch, 2017 Nonfiction
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1070L

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7.2

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
In the Days of the Vaqueros: America's First True Cowboys by Russell Freedman, 2001 Nonfiction
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1180L

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7.0

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot by Sy Montgomery, 2010 Nonfiction
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950L

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6.4

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Killer Underwear Invasion!: How to Spot Fake News, Disinformation & Conspiracy Theories by Elise Gravel, 2022 Nonfiction
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500L

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3.6

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Life on Surtsey: Iceland's Upstart Island by Loree Griffin Burns, 2017 Nonfiction
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1090L

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7.2

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary by Elizabeth Partridge, 2009 Nonfiction
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960L

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6.6

AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
Mosque by David Macaulay, 2003 Nonfiction
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1340L

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8.4

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
No More Strangers Now: Young Voices from a New South Africa by Tim McKee, 1998 Nonfiction
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1050L

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6.1

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Older Than Dirt: A Wild But True History of Earth by Don Brown, 2017 Nonfiction
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730L

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4.8

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Paddle to the Sea by Holling C. Holling, 1941 Nonfiction
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840L

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5.4

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Patriots in Petticoats by Shirley Raye-Redmond, 2004 Nonfiction
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5.4

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea by Sy Montgomery, 2006 Nonfiction
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830L

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5.3

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Race Against Time: The Untold Story of Scipio Jones and the Battle to Save Twelve Innocent Men by Sandra Neil Wallace, 2021 Nonfiction
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1120L

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7.8

AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
Remember: The Journey to School Integration by Toni Morrison, 2004 Nonfiction
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660L

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5.0

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Space, Stars, and the Beginning of Time: What the Hubble Telescope Saw by Elaine Scott, 2011 Nonfiction
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1180L

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8.6

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Stamped (for Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds, 2021 Nonfiction
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6.5
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thimmesh, 2006 Nonfiction
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1060L

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7.5

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust by Susan D. Bachrach, 1994 Nonfiction
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1190L

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8.7
Terezín: Voices from the Holocaust by Ruth Thomson, 2011 Nonfiction
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980L

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7.0
The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr., E.B. White, 1918 Nonfiction
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The Elephant Scientist by Caitlin O'Connell, 2011 Nonfiction
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1260L

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8.4

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
The Frog Scientist by Pamela S. Turner, 2009 Nonfiction
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950L

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6.3

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
The Great American Dust Bowl by Don Brown, 2013 Nonfiction
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860L

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5.1

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe by Loree Griffin Burns, 2010 Nonfiction
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1120L

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7.5
The Mighty Mars Rovers: The Incredible Adventures of Spirit and Opportunity by Elizabeth Rusch, 2012 Nonfiction
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950L

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6.4
The Neighborhood Mother Goose by Nina Crews, 2004 Nonfiction
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3.8

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
The People Remember by Ibi Zoboi, 2021 Nonfiction
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5.8

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
The Prairie Builders: Reconstructing America's Lost Grasslands by Sneed B. Collard, III, 2005 Nonfiction
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1090L

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7.3
The Tarantula Scientist by Sy Montgomery, 2004 Nonfiction
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890L

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5.8

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees by Don Brown, 2018 Nonfiction
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860L

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5.7
The Vanishing of Lake Peigneur: A Graphic Novel Based on a True Story by Allan Wolf, 2025 Nonfiction
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5.1
To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel by Siena Cherson Siegel, 2006 Nonfiction
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610L

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3.8

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting by Jim Murphy, 2009 Nonfiction
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1160L

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8.2

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961 by Larry Dane Brimner, 2017 Nonfiction
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1080L

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7.0

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler by Russell Freedman, 2016 Nonfiction
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630L

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7.7
Whatcha Mean, What's a Zine?: The Art of Making Zines and Mini Comics by Esther Pearl Watson, 2006 Nonfiction
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5.8
With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote by Ann Bausum, 2004 Nonfiction
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1080L

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8.3

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Yoshi and the Ocean: A Sea Turtle's Incredible Journey Home by Lindsay Moore, 2022 Nonfiction
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5.9

AR Interest: LG (K–3)