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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 32 of 3815 books, filtered by 1875–99 Number of pages 272 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. 60 of the 95 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 2 books outside the frame.

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. 12 of the 95 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.

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200 400 600 100,000 200,000 300,000 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court · 1889 · pages 480 · words 111,358 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · 1885 · pages 327 · words 105,590 A Study in Scarlet · 1887 · pages 123 · words 43,295 Ben Hur · 1880 · pages 620 · words 162,796 Black Beauty · 1877 · pages 245 · words 59,635 Captains Courageous · 1897 · pages 161 · words 49,871 Casey at the Bat · 1888 · pages 32 · words 551 Eight Cousins · 1875 · pages 224 · words 72,711 English Fairy Tales · 1890 · pages 296 · words 66,754 Fifty Famous Stories Retold · 1896 · pages 200 · words 33,839 Flatland · 1884 · pages 96 · words 34,672 Four Great Americans · 1896 · pages 248 · words 40,349 Heart of Darkness · 1899 · pages 188 · words 53,285 Heidi · 1880 · pages 352 · words 89,242 How the Other Half Lives · 1890 · pages 256 · words 84,046 Idylls of the King · 1885 · pages 384 · words 52,536 In Freedom's Cause · 1884 · pages 320 · words 128,609 In His Steps · 1897 · pages 96 · words 84,980 In the Reign of Terror · 1887 · pages 148 · words 98,691 Jo's Boys · 1886 · pages 336 · words 98,022 Kidnapped · 1886 · pages 288 · words 78,787 Little Lord Fauntleroy · 1886 · pages 164 · words 58,604 Lord Jim · 1899 · pages 455 · words 127,949 Marco Polo: His Travels and Adventures · 1880 · pages 312 · words 57,903 Otto of the Silver Hand · 1888 · pages 192 · words 29,529 Pinocchio · 1883 · pages 262 · words 38,213 Poppy's Presents · 1887 · pages 48 · words 22,178 Queen Hildegarde · 1889 · pages 124 · words 47,276 Ramona · 1884 · pages 432 · words 153,054 Red Badge of Courage · 1895 · pages 288 · words 45,974 Rikki-Tikki-Tavi · 1894 · pages 48 · words 5,951 Secrets of the Woods · 1899 · pages 46 · words 44,366 Sir Gibbie · 1879 · pages 550 · words 192,026 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer · 1876 · pages 244 · words 68,079 The Black Arrow · 1883 · pages 242 · words 74,163 The Cat of Bubastes · 1889 · pages 339 · words 129,410 The Dragon and the Raven · 1885 · pages 238 · words 95,697 The Importance of Being Earnest · 1895 · pages 76 · words 20,582 The Jungle Book · 1893 · pages 277 · words 50,647 The Life of Christopher Columbus · 1891 · pages 320 · words 61,101 The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood · 1883 · pages 400 · words 110,743 The Necklace · 1884 · pages 48 · words 2,869 The Open Boat · 1897 · pages 64 · words 9,289 The Peterkin Papers · 1883 · pages 324 · words 45,249 The Picture of Dorian Gray · 1890 · pages 250 · words 78,462 The Portrait of a Lady · 1881 · pages 797 · words 225,615 The Prince and the Pauper · 1881 · pages 240 · words 66,538 The Prisoner of Zenda · 1894 · pages 140 · words 53,221 The Red Fairy Book · 1890 · pages 367 · words 86,632 The Story Of The Other Wise Man · 1895 · pages 112 · words 10,777 The Story of the Romans · 1896 · pages 368 · words 70,949 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde · 1886 · pages 144 · words 53,049 The Treasure Seekers · 1899 · pages 256 · words 52,537 Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) · 1889 · pages 192 · words 68,768 Treasure Island · 1882 · pages 311 · words 66,950 War of the Worlds · 1898 · pages 192 · words 3,740 Ways of Wood Folk · 1899 · pages 108 · words 49,162 Wild Animals I Have Known · 1898 · pages 280 · words 55,589 Number of pages Word count

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