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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.

Showing 5 of 3815 books, filtered by Nonfiction 2020+ Number of pages 300 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. 33 of the 62 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. 5 of the 62 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.

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100 200 300 400 20,000 40,000 60,000 A River of Dust: The Life-Giving Link Between North Africa and the Amazon · 2023 · pages 48 · words 501 A River's Gifts: The Mighty Elwha River Reborn · 2022 · pages 48 · words 2,720 A World Without Summer: A Volcano Erupts, a Creature Awakens, and the Sun Goes Out · 2025 · pages 304 · words 34,098 Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky · 2022 · pages 40 · words 1,009 Bounce!: A Scientific History of Rubber · 2024 · pages 48 · words 1,337 Concrete: From the Ground Up · 2022 · pages 48 · words 1,820 Evidence!: How Dr. John Snow Solved the Mystery of Cholera · 2024 · pages 40 · words 1,107 Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown · 2021 · pages 352 · words 65,068 Honeybee Rescue: A Backyard Drama · 2022 · pages 40 · words 1,067 How to Build a Human: In Seven Evolutionary Steps · 2022 · pages 176 · words 26,177 How We Got to the Moon: The People, Technology, and Daring Feats of Science Behind Humanity's Greatest Adventure · 2020 · pages 264 · words 47,031 I'm a Dumbo Octopus!: A Graphic Guide to Cephalopods · 2025 · pages 72 · words 2,517 In My Mosque · 2021 · pages 40 · words 394 Killer Underwear Invasion!: How to Spot Fake News, Disinformation & Conspiracy Theories · 2022 · pages 104 · words 3,330 My Presentation Today Is about the Anaconda · 2025 · pages 224 · words 20,089 Poisoned Water: How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan, Fought for Their Lives and Warned the Nation · 2020 · pages 256 · words 42,788 Race Against Time: The Untold Story of Scipio Jones and the Battle to Save Twelve Innocent Men · 2021 · pages 144 · words 18,657 Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People · 2021 · pages 400 · words 72,633 Shipwrecked!: Diving for Hidden Time Capsules on the Ocean Floor · 2023 · pages 144 · words 28,238 Stamped (for Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You · 2021 · pages 176 · words 15,164 Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You · 2020 · pages 320 · words 36,733 Summertime Sleepers: Animals That Estivate · 2021 · pages 40 · words 1,297 The Black Mambas: The World's First All-Woman Anti-Poaching Unit · 2025 · pages 40 · words 2,378 The Book of Turtles · 2023 · pages 40 · words 2,947 The Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II · 2024 · pages 384 · words 37,315 The Iguanodon's Horn: How Artists and Scientists Put a Dinosaur Back Together Again and Again and Again · 2024 · pages 48 · words 1,844 The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity · 2023 · pages 288 · words 41,050 The People Remember · 2021 · pages 64 · words 1,996 The Vanishing of Lake Peigneur: A Graphic Novel Based on a True Story · 2025 · pages 176 · words 11,843 This Very Tree: A Story of 9/11, Resilience, and Regrowth · 2021 · pages 48 · words 543 Twenty-One Steps: Guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier · 2021 · pages 32 · words 886 We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know · 2021 · pages 40 · words 1,250 Yoshi and the Ocean: A Sea Turtle's Incredible Journey Home · 2022 · pages 64 · words 2,853 Number of pages Word count

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