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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 26 of 3815 books, filtered by 1850–74 Number of pages 200–400 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. 51 of the 74 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. 11 of the 74 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

to up to 500 500–1,000 1,000 and up clear Number of pages

Word count

to up to 100,000 100,000–200,000 200,000–300,000 300,000–400,000 400,000–500,000 500,000 and up

The 26 books that match

A Book of Golden Deeds by Charlotte Yonge, 1864 Children's
its constellation roads from here
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, 1865 Children's
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

880L

AR

7.4

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, 1873 Children's
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1090L

AR

9.6

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald, 1871 Fiction
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

850L

AR

5.4

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
A Wonder Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851 SciFi/Fantasy
its constellation roads from here
Davy Crockett: His Life and Adventures by John S. C. Abbott, 1874 Biography
its constellation roads from here
Ester Ried’s Awakening by Isabella Alden, 1870 Historical Fiction
its constellation roads from here
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne, 1864 SciFi/Fantasy
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1030L

AR

9.9

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Lavengro, The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest by George Henry Borrow, 1851 Fiction
its constellation roads from here
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott, 1871 Classics
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1150L

AR

8.1

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley, 1869 Science/Math
its constellation roads from here
Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh, 1869 Biography
its constellation roads from here
Rural Hours by Susan Fenimore Cooper, 1850 Historical Fiction
its constellation roads from here
Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin, 1865 Nonfiction
its constellation roads from here
Silas Marner, The Weaver of Raveloe by George Eliot, 1861 Classics
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1250L
Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851 Children's
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1260L
The Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch, 1855 Children's
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1190L
The English Constitution by Walter Bagehot, 1867 Political Science
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1270L
The History of King Charles II of England by Jacob Abbott, 1858 Biography
its constellation roads from here
The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851 Classics
its constellation roads from here

AR

11.0
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald, 1872 SciFi/Fantasy
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1030L

AR

6.1

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley, 1863 SciFi/Fantasy
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1070L

AR

8.3

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll, 1871 Classics
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

840L

AR

7.6
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, 1853 History
its constellation roads from here
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, 1869 Classics
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1030L

AR

10.0
Walden by Henry David Thoreau, 1854 Classics
its constellation roads from here

Lexile

1420L

AR

8.7

AR Interest: UG (9–12)