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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.

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. 30 of the 84 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. 54 of the 84 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 200200–400400–600600–800800 and up clear Number of pages
Word count
200 400 600 800 100,000 200,000 300,000 A Lantern In Her Hand · 1928 · pages 251 · words 83,720 Alas, Babylon · 1959 · pages 323 · words 100,900 Al Capone Does My Shirts · 2004 · pages 225 · words 49,509 A Lion to Guard Us · 1989 · pages 117 · words 14,257 A Little Princess · 1961 · pages 242 · words 66,117 All the Answers · 2015 · pages 248 · words 53,802 All the Blues in the Sky · 2025 · pages 208 · words 17,150 All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team · 2020 · pages 288 · words 42,568 Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir · 2020 · pages 240 · words 18,247 Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream · 2009 · pages 133 · words 26,179 Always Inventing · 1999 · pages 64 · words 4,359 Amanda Pig and the Really Hot Day · 2005 · pages 48 · words 1,501 Amari and the Night Brothers · 2021 · pages 416 · words 92,515 A Maze Me: Poems for Girls · 2005 · pages 118 · words 8,350 Amber & Clay · 2021 · pages 544 · words 85,664 An American Tragedy · 1981 · pages 859 · words 353,014 Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids · 2021 · pages 320 · words 61,198 And Then There Were None · 1972 · pages 264 · words 52,656 An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding · 1748 · pages 96 · words 85,115 Anya's Ghost · 2011 · pages 221 · words 8,185 Bad Badger: A Love Story · 2025 · pages 192 · words 21,642 Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare · 1992 · pages 48 · words 4,224 De Anima · -350 · pages 368 · words 9,984 Discourse on Method · 1637 · pages 58 · words 62,546 Meditations · 180 · pages 304 · words 77,078 Nicomachean Ethics · -350 · pages 368 · words 119,560 Physics · -350 · pages 368 · words 102,612 Poetics · -350 · pages 368 · words 171,678 The Alchemist · 1612 · pages 256 · words 29,498 The Americanization of Edward Bok · 1920 · pages 316 · words 126,023 Number of pages Word count

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