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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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This Is Not My Hat

Jon Klassen

2012 ★ 4.4

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

1862 ★ 4.3

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame

1908 ★ 4.1

Le Comte de Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

1879 ★ 4.3

The Ambler warning

Robert Ludlum

2005 ★ 3.2

Different Seasons

Stephen King

1982 ★ 4.6

The Awakening

Kelley Armstrong

2009 ★ 4.4

The Great Escape (Bull's-eye S.)

Paul Brickhill

1950 ★ 3.7

Fire and desire

Brenda Jackson

2009 ★ 4.3

Incarceron (Incarceron #1)

Catherine Fisher

2007 ★ 3.5

Unspeakable

Sandra Brown

1998 ★ 4.7

The causal angel

Hannu Rajaniemi

2014 ★ 4.3

Copper sun

Sharon M. Draper

2006 ★ 4.6

Year of impossible goodbyes

Sook Nyul Choi

1991 ★ 4.7

The Quantum thief

Hannu Rajaniemi

2011 ★ 3.2

Five on a Hike Together

Enid Blyton

1969 ★ 5.0

Lockdown (Escape from Furnace #1)

Alexander Gordon Smith

2009 ★ 3.7

The grey lady and the strawberry snatcher

Molly Bang

1986 ★ 4.8

The Devil's Own

Renee Raudman, Sandra Brown

1987 ★ 4.5

In Order to Live

Maryanne Vollers, Yeonmi Park

2016 ★ 4.0

Papillon

Henri Charrière

1969 ★ 4.5

Grandpa’s Great Escape

David Walliams

2001 ★ 4.2

The Maze Runner

James Dashner

2009 ★ 4.0

Kaya's escape

Janet Beeler Shaw

2002 ★ 4.0

Hollow City

Ransom Riggs

2015 ★ 3.9

蜘蛛ですが、なにか? (light novel)

輝竜司, 馬場翁

2017 ★ 4.7

Rosie's walk

Pat Hutchins

1968 ★ 4.2

Sunwing

Kenneth Oppel

1999 ★ 3.8

The Day of the Locust

Nathanael West

1959 ★ 3.8

You Can't Win

Jack Black

2000 ★ 3.8

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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.