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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 1 of 3815 books, filtered by Nonfiction 1975–99 Word count 70,000 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. 22 of the 82 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. 50 of the 82 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.

Number of pages
to up to 100100–200200–300300 and up
Word count
to up to 50,00050,000–100,000100,000 and up clear Word count
100 200 300 50,000 100,000 Bodies from the Bog · 1998 · pages 42 · words 5,181 Castle · 1977 · pages 80 · words 6,103 Come Sunday · 1996 · pages 32 · words 1,040 G is for Googol: A Math Alphabet Book · 1998 · pages 57 · words 8,017 Growing Up in Coal Country · 1996 · pages 128 · words 17,828 I Am an American: A True Story of Japanese Internment · 1996 · pages 102 · words 16,173 In Daddy's Arms I am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers · 1997 · pages 32 · words 805 Insectlopedia · 1999 · pages 56 · words 758 Nights of the Pufflings · 1995 · pages 32 · words 1,385 No More Strangers Now: Young Voices from a New South Africa · 1998 · pages 112 · words 15,822 Rocket Boys · 1998 · pages 384 · words 129,931 Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust · 1994 · pages 128 · words 11,294 The Bone Detectives: How Forensic Anthropologists Solve Crimes and Uncover Mysteries of the Dead · 1996 · pages 48 · words 9,579 The Great Fire · 1995 · pages 144 · words 22,281 The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party · 1999 · pages 192 · words 35,597 The Story of Rosy Dock · 1995 · pages 32 · words 336 The Sweet and Sour Animal Book · 1994 · pages 48 · words 688 The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest · 1999 · pages 32 · words 1,117 This Land is Your Land · 1998 · pages 32 · words 1,223 What Do Illustrators Do? · 1999 · pages 40 · words 569 When Plague Strikes: The Black Death, Smallpox, AIDS · 1995 · pages 212 · words 36,874 Where Once There Was a Wood · 1997 · pages 32 · words 132 Number of pages Word count

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