Reading · In numbers

The shelf in numbers

The same corpus the explorer searches, seen as its shape. What the 249 books are about, how the lists compare, when the books came out, and who shows up more than once. Every bar links to its hub.

249
books
6
lists
8
subjects
218
authors
109
publishers
2020–2026
published

By subject

What the corpus is about. Each subject is a themed list across every year.

17 · 7%
26 · 10%
74 · 30%
42 · 17%
43 · 17%
39 · 16%
7 · 3%
1 · 0%

Books per list

How the annual round-ups compare in size.

43
39
42
40
39
46

By publication year

When the featured books were published (each list gathers titles from its prior year or two).

2020
22
2021
43
2022
34
2023
51
2024
33
2025
46
2026
20

Most-featured publishers

Presses with more than one book across the corpus.

55
13
10
8
8
8
8
6
5
4
4
4
4
4
3
3
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2

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Authors who recur

The names that appear in more than one summer.

5 · 5 lists
4 · 2 lists
3 · 3 lists
2 · 2 lists
2 · 2 lists
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2 · 2 lists
2 · 2 lists
2 · 2 lists
2 · 2 lists
2 · 1 lists
2 · 2 lists
2 · 2 lists
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