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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 49 of 3815 books, filtered by Word count 200,000 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. 2288 of the 3815 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 69 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. 1048 of the 3815 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 200 200–400 400–600 600 and up

Word count

to up to 50,000 50,000–100,000 100,000–150,000 150,000–200,000 200,000 and up clear Word count

The 49 books that match

All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren, 1946 Science/Math
its constellation roads from here

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1060L

AR

6.8

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, 1981 Philosophy
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1170L

AR

8.5

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, 1878 Science/Math
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1080L

AR

9.6

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope, 1857 Historical Fiction
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1090L
Brave Story by Miyuki Miyabe, 2007 SciFi/Fantasy
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4.9

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
City of God by Augustine, 450 Religion
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1500L

AR

14.3

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy, 1989 Fiction
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920L

AR

6.5
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866 Classics
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900L

AR

8.7

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, 1781 Philosophy
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1500L
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, 1850 Classics
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1070L

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9.5
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, 1831 History
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1310L

AR

13.4
Don Quixote, Part 1 by Miguel Cervantes, 1612 Classics
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1410L

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13.2

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Essays Moral, Political, and Literary by David Hume, 1750 Nonfiction
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Etiquette by Emily Post, 1969 Nonfiction
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Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, 1936 Classics
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1030L

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7.1

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling, 2003 SciFi/Fantasy
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7.2

AR Interest: MG (4–8)
John Adams and the American Revolution by Catherine Drinker Bowen, 1950 Biography
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Lavengro, The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest by George Henry Borrow, 1851 Fiction
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Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, 1862 Classics
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1010L

AR

9.8

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes, 1651 Political Science
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1270L
Middlemarch by George Eliot, 1871 Classics
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1210L

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10.4

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie, 1981 Biography
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1120L

AR

8.4

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson, 2006 SciFi/Fantasy
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740L

AR

5.5

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville, 1851 Classics
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1150L

AR

10.3
My Life by Bill Clinton, 2004 Biography
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AR

10.0
Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, 1837 Classics
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1210L

AR

11.8

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Snowbound with Betsy by Carolyn Haywood, 1975 Children's
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3.7

AR Interest: LG (K–3)
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow, 1953 Nonfiction
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1040L

AR

6.8

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1879 Classics
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1150L

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10.4

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel, 1984 Historical Fiction
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1000L

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7.0
The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade, 1970 Historical Fiction
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, 1776 History
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1230L
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, 2005 Fiction
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7.3

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
The History of Freedom by John Dalberg-Acton, 1993 History
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The History of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding, 1749 Fiction
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1360L

AR

13.8
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain, 1869 Classics
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The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot, 1860 Fiction
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1240L

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9.9

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
The Once and Future King by T.H. White, 1958 Classics
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1080L

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7.4

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, 1881 Fiction
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940L

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9.6
The Second World War by Winston Churchill, 1948 History
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The Student's Life of Washington by Washington Irving, 1870 Biography
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The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks, 1977 SciFi/Fantasy
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1160L

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8.7

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin, 1839 Science/Math
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1220L

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13.4

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson, 2010 SciFi/Fantasy
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5.2

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose, 1996 History
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1190L

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9.0
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 1985 Classics
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1270L

AR

12.4

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy, 1867 Classics
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1130L

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10.1

AR Interest: UG (9–12)
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, 1776 Political Science
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1500L
Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson, 2014 SciFi/Fantasy
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680L

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5.0

AR Interest: UG (9–12)