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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 272 of 3815 books, filtered by 1925–49 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. 109 of the 272 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 4 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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200 400 600 800 1,000 100,000 200,000 300,000 1984 · 1949 · pages 311 · words 88,942 Abe Lincoln Grows Up · 1928 · pages 222 · words 36,185 Abigail Adams · 1949 · pages 192 · words 24,516 A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys · 1925 · pages 304 · words 60,402 Adam of the Road · 1943 · pages 320 · words 57,357 Admiral of the Ocean Sea · 1942 · pages 680 · words 170,000 A Lantern In Her Hand · 1928 · pages 251 · words 83,720 All Quiet on the Western Front · 1929 · pages 295 · words 61,922 All the King’s Men · 1946 · pages 439 · words 214,872 Animal Farm · 1945 · pages 141 · words 29,060 Anne of Green Gables · 1935 · pages 320 · words 97,364 Anthem · 1938 · pages 105 · words 19,142 Augustus Caesar's World · 1947 · pages 330 · words 330 Bambi · 1929 · pages 192 · words 40,680 Benjamin West and his Cat Grimalkin · 1947 · pages 145 · words 25,008 Betsy-Tacy · 1940 · pages 113 · words 18,380 Betsy-Tacy and Tib · 1941 · pages 140 · words 18,175 Black Stallion · 1941 · pages 275 · words 49,003 Boxcar Children · 1942 · pages 160 · words 17,087 Brave New World · 1931 · pages 288 · words 63,766 Calico Bush · 1931 · pages 201 · words 55,559 Call It Courage · 1941 · pages 128 · words 19,326 Caps for Sale · 1938 · pages 48 · words 672 Cry the Beloved Country · 1948 · pages 316 · words 83,774 Curious George · 1941 · pages 48 · words 918 Daniel Boone · 1940 · pages 94 · words 19,852 Death Comes for the Archbishop · 1927 · pages 297 · words 66,721 Dobry · 1935 · pages 192 · words 36,060 Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon · 1928 · pages 192 · words 38,724 George Washington's World · 1941 · pages 357 · words 92,031 Goodbye Mr. Chips · 1934 · pages 128 · words 16,121 Goodnight Moon · 1947 · pages 32 · words 131 Good Queen Bess · 1936 · pages 40 · words 4,111 Heaven to Betsy · 1945 · pages 268 · words 63,708 Hitty, Her First Hundred Years · 1930 · pages 256 · words 63,431 Homer Price · 1942 · pages 149 · words 21,328 How Green Was My Valley · 1939 · pages 448 · words 178,665 Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women · 1934 · pages 256 · words 55,156 Johnny Tremain · 1943 · pages 322 · words 83,124 King of the Wind · 1948 · pages 176 · words 33,035 Lassie Come Home · 1940 · pages 256 · words 55,755 Lentil · 1940 · pages 64 · words 849 Light in August · 1932 · pages 507 · words 151,118 Li Lun, Lad of Courage · 1947 · pages 96 · words 16,904 Little House in the Big Woods · 1932 · pages 238 · words 33,586 Little House on the Prairie · 1935 · pages 335 · words 52,038 Little Pear · 1931 · pages 128 · words 10,792 Madeline · 1939 · pages 44 · words 418 Magnificent Obsession · 1929 · pages 336 · words 89,260 Make Way for Ducklings · 1941 · pages 64 · words 1,149 Mary Poppins · 1934 · pages 209 · words 38,085 Mein Kampf (My Struggle) · 1925 · pages 288 · words 81,211 Millions of Cats · 1928 · pages 32 · words 965 Miss Hickory · 1947 · pages 128 · words 24,002 Misty of Chincoteague · 1947 · pages 173 · words 23,416 Mother Carey's Chickens · 1938 · pages 254 · words 75,787 Mr. Popper’s Penguins · 1938 · pages 139 · words 16,160 My Father’s Dragon · 1948 · pages 96 · words 7,682 Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock · 1930 · pages 210 · words 35,317 Native Son · 1940 · pages 504 · words 147,797 Of Mice and Men · 1937 · pages 112 · words 29,572 Out of the Silent Planet · 1938 · pages 224 · words 57,383 Paddle to the Sea · 1941 · pages 64 · words 7,948 Rabbit Hill · 1944 · pages 127 · words 20,482 Roller Skates · 1937 · pages 186 · words 46,235 Shane · 1949 · pages 119 · words 42,909 Shen of the Sea · 1926 · pages 221 · words 38,311 Smoky, the Cowhorse · 1927 · pages 310 · words 78,567 Snow Treasure · 1942 · pages 208 · words 34,121 Story About Ping · 1933 · pages 32 · words 1,139 Strawberry Girl · 1946 · pages 208 · words 37,341 Stuart Little · 1945 · pages 131 · words 18,841 Swallows and Amazons · 1930 · pages 315 · words 103,509 Tales from Silver Lands · 1925 · pages 207 · words 59,793 The American Twins of the Revolution · 1926 · pages 240 · words 27,137 The Birds' Christmas Carol · 1941 · pages 69 · words 12,150 The Cat Who Went to Heaven · 1931 · pages 72 · words 11,140 The Door in the Wall · 1949 · pages 120 · words 27,565 The Good Earth · 1931 · pages 418 · words 114,157 The Grapes of Wrath · 1939 · pages 479 · words 169,481 The Heart is A Lonely Hunter · 1940 · pages 368 · words 119,450 The Hidden Treasure of Glaston · 1946 · pages 340 · words 80,757 The Hobbit · 1937 · pages 366 · words 95,022 The Hundred Dresses · 1945 · pages 80 · words 7,329 The Little House · 1942 · pages 40 · words 1,388 The Little Prince · 1943 · pages 96 · words 16,534 The Matchlock Gun · 1941 · pages 80 · words 5,708 The Mind of the Maker · 1941 · pages 229 · words 55,985 The Plutocrat · 1927 · pages 548 · words 114,050 The Runaway Bunny · 1942 · pages 48 · words 404 The Screwtape Letters · 1942 · pages 223 · words 36,173 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty · 1939 · pages 32 · words 2,512 The Sound and the Fury · 1929 · pages 326 · words 96,931 The Story of Babar · 1933 · pages 48 · words 1,192 The Story of Ferdinand · 1936 · pages 72 · words 737 The Trumpeter of Krakow · 1929 · pages 208 · words 59,275 The Twenty-One Balloons · 1947 · pages 180 · words 33,649 The Von Trapp Family Singers · 1949 · pages 320 · words 3,747 The White Stag · 1938 · pages 94 · words 14,415 The Yearling · 1938 · pages 513 · words 128,886 Thimble Summer · 1938 · pages 144 · words 34,242 Tree of Freedom · 1949 · pages 279 · words 60,306 Waterless Mountain · 1932 · pages 212 · words 49,884 Winnie-the-Pooh · 1926 · pages 161 · words 22,671 Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze · 1933 · pages 302 · words 59,742 Number of pages Word count

The 272 books that match

72 more match and are not listed here. Narrow the shelf with a bar above and they will come into view — the list is capped so that it stays a list.