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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 155 of 3815 books, filtered by Nonfiction 2000–09 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. 96 of the 155 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 1 books outside the frame.

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 Dream of Freedom · 2004 · pages 160 · words 38,571 Adventures in Cartooning · 2009 · pages 109 · words 2,240 A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return · 2007 · pages 188 · words 6,857 Ain't Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry · 2007 · pages 64 · words 10,933 A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms · 2005 · pages 64 · words 3,213 An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming · 2007 · pages 191 · words 9,213 A Whiff of Pine, a Hint of Skunk: A Forest of Poems · 2009 · pages 40 · words 1,177 Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 · 2001 · pages 160 · words 29,900 Blizzard · 2000 · pages 136 · words 25,085 Blue Lipstick: Concrete Poems · 2007 · pages 48 · words 5,999 Blues Journey · 2003 · pages 48 · words 734 Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past · 2008 · pages 58 · words 11,730 Brooklyn Bridge · 2001 · pages 40 · words 4,673 Building Big · 2000 · pages 192 · words 26,570 Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow · 2006 · pages 48 · words 2,074 Celebrating Ramadan · 2001 · pages 32 · words 4,575 Children of the Great Depression · 2005 · pages 118 · words 13,152 Cora Frear · 2002 · pages 64 · words 5,109 Digging for Bird-Dinosaurs: An Expedition to Madagascar · 2000 · pages 48 · words 6,985 Down, Down, Down: A Journey to the Bottom of the Sea · 2009 · pages 40 · words 1,988 Elephants Can Paint Too! · 2005 · pages 40 · words 742 Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey · 2002 · pages 48 · words 1,030 Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott · 2006 · pages 114 · words 17,804 George vs. George: The Revolutionary War as Seen from Both Sides · 2004 · pages 64 · words 9,405 Good Sports: Rhymes about Running, Jumping, Throwing, and More · 2007 · pages 40 · words 959 Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Apes · 2005 · pages 64 · words 6,852 Guys Write for Guys Read: Favorite Authors Write about Being Boys · 2005 · pages 272 · words 56,314 Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices · 2004 · pages 88 · words 9,146 Here's Looking at Me: How Artists See Themselves · 2006 · pages 32 · words 2,920 Hidden Worlds: Looking Through a Scientist's Microscope · 2001 · pages 64 · words 6,118 I Face the Wind · 2003 · pages 40 · words 697 Iguanas in the Snow and Other Winter Poems / Iguanas en la nieve y otros poemas de invierno · 2001 · pages 32 · words 682 In Defense of Liberty: The Story of America's Bill of Rights · 2003 · pages 196 · words 28,393 In the Days of the Vaqueros: America's First True Cowboys · 2001 · pages 80 · words 8,922 I Pledge Allegiance · 2004 · pages 1 · words 576 I See the Rhythm · 2005 · pages 32 · words 1,372 It's Not the Stork!: A Book about Girls, Boys, Babies, Bodies, Families and Friends · 2006 · pages 59 · words 5,969 Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America · 2005 · pages 152 · words 34,491 Liberty · 2002 · pages 48 · words 5,604 Lightship · 2007 · pages 48 · words 354 Mammoths on the Move · 2006 · pages 32 · words 472 Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary · 2009 · pages 80 · words 15,232 Miss Crandall's School for Young Ladies and Little Misses of Color: Poems · 2007 · pages 48 · words 2,660 Mosque · 2003 · pages 96 · words 6,768 Mother Goose Numbers on the Loose · 2007 · pages 56 · words 727 Mr. Lincoln's High-Tech War · 2009 · pages 144 · words 35,877 My Season with Penguins: An Antarctic Journal · 2000 · pages 48 · words 7,093 Nic Bishop Frogs · 2008 · pages 48 · words 3,064 Nic Bishop Spiders · 2007 · pages 48 · words 2,499 Off to the Sweet Shores of Africa: And Other Talking Drum Rhymes · 2000 · pages 56 · words 1,735 Oh, Rats!: The Story of Rats and People · 2006 · pages 48 · words 10,370 On Earth · 2005 · pages 32 · words 332 On Writing · 2000 · pages 320 · words 77,415 Our Stories, Our Songs: African Children Talk about AIDS · 2005 · pages 104 · words 28,915 Owen and Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship · 2006 · pages 40 · words 2,314 Patriots in Petticoats · 2004 · pages 128 · words 9,615 Pharaoh's Boat · 2009 · pages 32 · words 4,044 Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea · 2006 · pages 79 · words 15,496 Remember Little Bighorn: Indians, Soldiers, and Scouts Tell Their Stories · 2006 · pages 61 · words 14,521 Remember: The Journey to School Integration · 2004 · pages 78 · words 2,116 Revenge of the Whale: True Story of the Whaleship Essex · 2002 · pages 164 · words 48,387 River of Dreams: The Story of the Hudson River · 2009 · pages 40 · words 3,700 Satchel Paige · 2003 · pages 40 · words 2,517 Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley · 2005 · pages 112 · words 22,484 Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929 · 2002 · pages 160 · words 29,322 Stars Beneath Your Bed: The Surprising Story of Dust · 2005 · pages 32 · words 967 Surprising Sharks · 2003 · pages 32 · words 1,022 Surviving Hitler · 2001 · pages 146 · words 24,194 Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon · 2006 · pages 80 · words 12,895 Technically, It's Not My Fault: Concrete Poems · 2004 · pages 48 · words 3,948 The Cod's Tale · 2001 · pages 44 · words 5,725 The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors · 2009 · pages 48 · words 2,084 The Frog Scientist · 2009 · pages 64 · words 7,741 The Grand Mosque of Paris: A Story of How Muslims Saved Jews During the Holocaust · 2009 · pages 40 · words 3,794 The Lamp, the Ice, and the Boat Called Fish · 2001 · pages 48 · words 4,630 The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere · 2001 · pages 40 · words 983 The Neighborhood Mother Goose · 2004 · pages 64 · words 1,352 The Omnivore's Dilemma · 2006 · pages 450 · words 68,242 The Prairie Builders: Reconstructing America's Lost Grasslands · 2005 · pages 72 · words 6,882 The Race to Save the Lord God Bird · 2004 · pages 196 · words 50,392 The Story of Salt · 2006 · pages 48 · words 4,481 The Tarantula Scientist · 2004 · pages 80 · words 13,146 To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel · 2006 · pages 64 · words 3,220 Togo · 2002 · pages 48 · words 1,876 Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion · 2007 · pages 56 · words 8,971 Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting · 2009 · pages 144 · words 13,623 Understanding the Holy Land: Answering Questions about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict · 2005 · pages 160 · words 35,948 Vote! · 2003 · pages 47 · words 2,901 Waiting for Wings · 2001 · pages 40 · words 147 Whatcha Mean, What's a Zine?: The Art of Making Zines and Mini Comics · 2006 · pages 112 · words 17,442 Wild Tracks!: A Guide to Nature's Footprints · 2008 · pages 32 · words 1,375 With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote · 2004 · pages 111 · words 17,929 Wolfsnail: A Backyard Predator · 2008 · pages 32 · words 851 Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland · 2009 · pages 144 · words 32,062 Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl · 2009 · pages 128 · words 24,174 Number of pages Word count

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