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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 63 of 3815 books, filtered by Nonfiction Word count 35,000 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. 195 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

to up to 50,000 50,000–100,000 100,000–150,000 150,000 and up clear Word count

The 63 books that match

1919: The Year That Changed America by Martin W. Sandler, 2019 Nonfiction
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9.2

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
A Dream of Freedom by Diane McWhorter, 2004 Nonfiction
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1220L

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9.1

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
America Is Born: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson, 1959 Nonfiction
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7.1

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Americans Before Columbus by Elizabeth Baity, 1951 Nonfiction
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8.6

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, 2019 Nonfiction
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1220L

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9.6
Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust by Doreen Rappaport, 2012 Nonfiction
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1030L

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7.4

AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—The World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin, 2012 Nonfiction
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Lexile

920L

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6.9

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Chocolate: Sweet Science & Dark Secrets of the World's Favorite Treat by Kay Frydenborg, 2015 Nonfiction
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1330L

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9.2

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Eothen by Alexander Kinglake, 1844 Nonfiction
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1480L
Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1840 Nonfiction
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Essays, Civil and Moral & The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon, 1600 Nonfiction
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Essays Moral, Political, and Literary by David Hume, 1750 Nonfiction
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Etiquette by Emily Post, 1969 Nonfiction
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Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown by Steve Sheinkin, 2021 Nonfiction
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890L

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6.6

AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws That Affect Us Today by Cynthia Y. Levinson, 2017 Nonfiction
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1110L

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8.8

AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
Four Great Americans by James Baldwin, 1896 Nonfiction
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Games of Deception: The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany by Andrew Maraniss, 2019 Nonfiction
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1230L

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8.8

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Guys Write for Guys Read: Favorite Authors Write about Being Boys by Jon Scieszka, 2005 Nonfiction
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920L

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6.2

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz, 1982 Nonfiction
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860L

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5.1

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
How We Got to the Moon: The People, Technology, and Daring Feats of Science Behind Humanity's Greatest Adventure by John Rocco, 2020 Nonfiction
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1170L

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8.3

AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
Iron Rails, Iron Men, and the Race to Link the Nation by Martin W. Sandler, 2015 Nonfiction
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1230L

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8.5

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Island Treasures by Alma Flor Ada, 2015 Nonfiction
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1080L

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6.7

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Kisses from Katie by Katie J. Davis, 2011 Nonfiction
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6.6

AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen, 1955 Nonfiction
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8.3

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Mr. Lincoln's High-Tech War by Thomas B. Allen, 2009 Nonfiction
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1180L

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8.9

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
New Found World by Katherine Shippen, 1945 Nonfiction
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8.8

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
On Writing by Stephen King, 2000 Nonfiction
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7.4

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger, 1934 Nonfiction
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8.8

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Poisoned Water: How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan, Fought for Their Lives and Warned the Nation by Candy J. Cooper, 2020 Nonfiction
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7.7

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Revenge of the Whale: True Story of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick, 2002 Nonfiction
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1170L

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8.3

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People by Kekla Magoon, 2021 Nonfiction
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1200L

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9.2

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam, 1998 Nonfiction
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Lexile

900L

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5.9

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Secrets of the Woods by William J. Long, 1899 Nonfiction
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Smart Aleck's Guide to American History by Adam Selzer, 2009 Nonfiction
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1200L

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8.5

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Social Life in the Insect World by J. Henri Fabre, 1916 Nonfiction
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Something Rotten: A Fresh Look at Roadkill by Heather L. Montgomery, 2018 Nonfiction
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850L

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6.2

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Some Thoughts Concerning Education by John Locke, 1660 Nonfiction
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds, 2020 Nonfiction
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Lexile

1000L

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7.4

AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps, 1948 Nonfiction
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8.8

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina by Michaela DePrince, 2014 Nonfiction
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940L

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6.3

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow, 1953 Nonfiction
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1040L

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6.8

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
The Ballad of a Broken Nose by Arne Svingen, 2016 Nonfiction
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560L

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4.0

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
The Dark Game: True Spy Stories by Paul B. Janeczko, 2010 Nonfiction
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1200L

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9.6

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, 1947 Nonfiction
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670L

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6.5
The Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II by Candace Fleming, 2024 Nonfiction
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870L

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6.6

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History: The Story of the Monuments Men by Robert M. Edsel, 2019 Nonfiction
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1200L

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8.9

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, 2010 Nonfiction
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1140L

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8.0

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
The Land of Little Rain by Mary Austin, 1903 Nonfiction
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The Lay of the Land by Dallas Lore Sharp, 1908 Nonfiction
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The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy Sayers, 1941 Nonfiction
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10.3
The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity by Nicholas Day, 2023 Nonfiction
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780L

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6.3
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, 2006 Nonfiction
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930L

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6.8

AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party by Marian Calabro, 1999 Nonfiction
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1020L

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7.2

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
The Race to Save the Lord God Bird by Phillip Hoose, 2004 Nonfiction
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1150L

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7.9

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
The Road from Home by David Kherdian, 1979 Nonfiction
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5.7

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman, 2005 Nonfiction
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10.3

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Titanic: Voices from the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson, 2012 Nonfiction
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1040L

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7.4

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Understanding the Holy Land: Answering Questions about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Mitch Frank, 2005 Nonfiction
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1130L

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8.7

AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939–1944 by Aranka Siegal, 1981 Nonfiction
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830L

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5.5

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II by Albert Marrin, 2016 Nonfiction
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1050L

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8.2

AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March by Cynthia Y. Levinson, 2012 Nonfiction
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1020L

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7.4

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
When Plague Strikes: The Black Death, Smallpox, AIDS by James Cross Giblin, 1995 Nonfiction
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1190L

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9.8

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton, 1898 Nonfiction
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