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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 156 of 3815 books, filtered by Nonfiction 2010–19 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. 97 of the 156 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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50 100 150 200 250 300 20,000 40,000 60,000 A Black Hole Is Not a Hole · 2012 · pages 80 · words 9,433 Accused!: The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys: Lies, Prejudice, and the Fourteenth Amendment · 2019 · pages 192 · words 31,988 A Chicken Followed Me Home: Questions and Answers about a Familiar Fowl · 2015 · pages 40 · words 660 An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People · 2019 · pages 272 · words 48,764 Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust · 2012 · pages 228 · words 41,065 Billions of Years, Amazing Changes: The Story of Evolution · 2011 · pages 102 · words 14,041 Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—The World's Most Dangerous Weapon · 2012 · pages 272 · words 60,534 Bones: Skeletons and How They Work · 2010 · pages 48 · words 1,726 Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition · 2011 · pages 154 · words 28,446 Brown v. Board of Education: A Fight for Simple Justice · 2016 · pages 144 · words 22,492 Camp Panda: Helping Cubs Return to the Wild · 2018 · pages 64 · words 7,711 Candy Bomber · 2010 · pages 110 · words 10,307 Can We Save the Tiger? · 2011 · pages 50 · words 3,065 Chasing Cheetahs: The Race to Save Africa's Fastest Cat · 2014 · pages 80 · words 18,667 Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War · 2015 · pages 48 · words 4,659 Climbing Everest · 2015 · pages 112 · words 10,627 Counting Lions: Portraits from the Wild · 2015 · pages 40 · words 630 Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratroopers · 2013 · pages 160 · words 26,303 Coyote Moon · 2016 · pages 32 · words 324 Crash: The Great Depression and the Fall and Rise of America · 2018 · pages 240 · words 24,668 Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night · 2010 · pages 32 · words 2,604 Dogs on Duty: Soldiers' Best Friends on the Battlefield and Beyond · 2012 · pages 48 · words 5,708 Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty · 2013 · pages 120 · words 16,885 Emma Dilemma: Big Sister Poems · 2011 · pages 47 · words 1,546 Eruption!: Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives · 2013 · pages 80 · words 16,149 Eye to Eye: How Animals See the World · 2014 · pages 32 · words 1,927 Fabulous Frogs · 2016 · pages 32 · words 532 Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws That Affect Us Today · 2017 · pages 192 · words 50,307 Feathers: Not Just for Flying · 2014 · pages 32 · words 1,115 Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems · 2014 · pages 48 · words 833 First Flight Around the World: The Adventures of the American Fliers Who Won the Race · 2015 · pages 96 · words 19,140 Flutter and Hum: Animal Poems / Aleteo y zumbido: Poemas de animales · 2015 · pages 32 · words 358 Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi · 2014 · pages 120 · words 25,331 Games of Deception: The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany · 2019 · pages 240 · words 41,608 Go: A Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design · 2013 · pages 150 · words 16,172 Gorilla Walk · 2014 · pages 48 · words 2,698 Handle with Care: An Unusual Butterfly Journey · 2013 · pages 32 · words 1,485 Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans · 2011 · pages 108 · words 14,886 Her Right Foot · 2017 · pages 104 · words 1,538 Hey, Water! · 2019 · pages 48 · words 180 Hippos Are Huge! · 2015 · pages 32 · words 936 Home Geography for Primary Grades · 2017 · pages 164 · words 18,099 How to Be an Elephant: Growing Up in the African Wild · 2017 · pages 48 · words 2,278 How to Clean a Hippopotamus: A Look at Unusual Animal Partnerships · 2010 · pages 32 · words 2,999 Iceberg, Right Ahead!: The Tragedy of the Titanic · 2012 · pages 112 · words 26,363 Impact: Asteroids and the Science of Saving the World · 2017 · pages 80 · words 14,428 Into the Unknown: How Great Explorers Found Their Way by Land, Sea, and Air · 2011 · pages 96 · words 21,861 I Remember: Poems and Pictures of Heritage · 2019 · pages 56 · words 4,642 Island: A Story of the Galapagos · 2012 · pages 40 · words 2,120 Just Ducks! · 2012 · pages 32 · words 885 Just Right: Searching for the Goldilocks Planet · 2019 · pages 48 · words 1,710 Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot · 2010 · pages 80 · words 17,772 Kisses from Katie · 2011 · pages 275 · words 75,802 Lemons Are Not Red · 2016 · pages 32 · words 67 Liberty Arrives!: How America's Grandest Statue Found Her Home · 2019 · pages 40 · words 6,304 Life on Surtsey: Iceland's Upstart Island · 2017 · pages 80 · words 14,270 Lincoln's Grave Robbers · 2013 · pages 214 · words 31,140 Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 · 2012 · pages 160 · words 29,402 Moth: An Evolution Story · 2019 · pages 48 · words 567 My Grandma and Me · 2019 · pages 32 · words 767 My Pen · 2015 · pages 32 · words 254 Mysterious Patterns: Finding Fractals in Nature · 2014 · pages 32 · words 903 Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands · 2014 · pages 48 · words 2,049 Nic Bishop Lizards · 2010 · pages 48 · words 3,729 Older Than Dirt: A Wild But True History of Earth · 2017 · pages 112 · words 6,115 Sail Away · 2015 · pages 40 · words 695 Something Rotten: A Fresh Look at Roadkill · 2018 · pages 176 · words 36,855 Space, Stars, and the Beginning of Time: What the Hubble Telescope Saw · 2011 · pages 66 · words 12,967 Spooked!: How a Radio Broadcast and the War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America · 2018 · pages 144 · words 24,091 Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina · 2014 · pages 256 · words 54,051 Terezín: Voices from the Holocaust · 2011 · pages 64 · words 12,589 The Ballad of a Broken Nose · 2016 · pages 224 · words 40,178 The Beetle Book · 2012 · pages 31 · words 2,791 The Case of the Vanishing Little Brown Bats: A Scientific Mystery · 2015 · pages 48 · words 5,054 The Elephant Scientist · 2011 · pages 70 · words 11,564 The Great American Dust Bowl · 2013 · pages 80 · words 2,619 The Great Migration: Journey to the North · 2011 · pages 32 · words 1,229 The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe · 2010 · pages 66 · words 12,400 The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families · 2011 · pages 40 · words 1,640 The Mighty Mars Rovers: The Incredible Adventures of Spirit and Opportunity · 2012 · pages 80 · words 15,905 The Most Amazing Creature in the Sea · 2015 · pages 32 · words 1,141 The Poison Eaters: Fighting Danger and Fraud in Our Food and Drugs · 2019 · pages 160 · words 24,081 The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights · 2014 · pages 208 · words 33,632 The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk · 2016 · pages 44 · words 3,727 The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees · 2018 · pages 112 · words 3,788 The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found · 2017 · pages 176 · words 29,866 They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group · 2010 · pages 176 · words 34,266 Titanic: Voices from the Disaster · 2012 · pages 304 · words 42,835 Todos Iguales / All Equal: Un Corrido de Lemon Grove/A Ballad of Lemon Grove · 2019 · pages 40 · words 1,474 Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961 · 2017 · pages 112 · words 8,912 Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's Survivors · 2010 · pages 40 · words 3,600 Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II · 2016 · pages 256 · words 60,821 We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler · 2016 · pages 112 · words 14,588 Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold · 2014 · pages 32 · words 2,971 Witches!: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem · 2011 · pages 144 · words 20,062 Zombie Makers: True Stories of Nature's Undead · 2013 · pages 48 · words 7,222 Number of pages Word count

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