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Pick fiction or non-fiction, then a genre, then a topic inside it. A book can sit in more than one genre.

The full library classification — every book has exactly one, more granular than Genre. Different counts for a same-named bucket here vs. Genre reflect two different systems, not an error.

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Ken Grimwood

1988 ★ 4.3

The white stag

Kate Seredy

1937 ★ 3.0

Home

Toni Morrison

2012 ★ 4.0

Quicksilver

Neal Stephenson

2003 ★ 4.0

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

1970 ★ 4.2

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

Roddy Doyle

1993 ★ 3.8

The Terminal Experiment

Robert J. Sawyer

1995

The healer's war

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

1988

Amsterdam

Ian McEwan

1998 ★ 3.8

Humboldt's Gift

Saul Bellow

1973 ★ 3.8

Drummer Hoff

Barbara Emberley, Ed Emberley

1967 ★ 4.0

The March

E. L. Doctorow

2005

Bud, Not Buddy

Christopher Paul Curtis, Alberto Jimenez Rioja, Reginald André Jackson et al.

1999 ★ 4.5

Smoky Night

Eve Bunting

1994 ★ 5.0

A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought)

Vernor Vinge

1999 ★ 4.4

Rainbows End

Vernor Vinge

2006 ★ 3.6

So you want to be president?

Judith St George, David Small

2000

Rapunzel

Paul O. Zelinsky

1997 ★ 4.3

A Case of Conscience

James Blish

1958 ★ 4.0

The education of Henry Adams

Henry Adams

1907

The Bunker Diary

Kevin Brooks

2013 ★ 4.2

Vurt

Jeff Noon

1993 ★ 4.0

Ringworld

Larry Niven

1970 ★ 3.8

How We Die

Sherwin B. Nuland

1994 ★ 3.8

Possession

A. S. Byatt

1990 ★ 3.6

Annihilation

Jeff VanderMeer

2014 ★ 3.6

The Undefeated

Kwame Alexander

2019

Wolf in the Snow

Matthew Cordell

2017

The wild iris

Louise Glück

1992 ★ 4.2

Salvage the Bones

Jesmyn Ward

2011 ★ 3.7

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Book Explorer lets readers browse the free, readable part of the Open Library catalogue by familiar genres, or by the exact subject tags Open Library assigns each book. Every book has its own page with a reader where one is available, plus links to Open Library, your library, Libby and Amazon.