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N3XT191 OP t1_itl3ycb wrote

EDIT: “Historical” (4th genre) is Historical Fiction! “History” (7th) is non-fiction!

Data: My own shelves, exported from my own app (https://shelf.li, you can explore the data by clicking "Try the demo")

Tools: Matplotlib

Genres: Assigned manually, sometimes obviously debatable...

Books over 1100 pages:

  • Oathbringer (Brandon Sanderson): 1331
  • The Stand (Stephen King): 1325
  • The Count of Monte Cristo: 1312
  • Die Arena (Stephen King, German): 1279
  • The Power Broker (Robert A. Caro): 1246
  • World without End (Ken Follett): 1240
  • Rhythm of War (Brandon Sanderson): 1230
  • Master of the Senate (Robert A. Caro): 1200
  • Memories of Ice (Steven Erikson): 1180
  • Edge of Eternity (Ken Follett) 1158
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InsuranceToTheRescue t1_itmwplv wrote

What's the break between History & Current Events? Like What's the cutoff year for something passing from CE to History?

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N3XT191 OP t1_itmxdsy wrote

No hard cutoff, but CA is topics like climate change, covid, the Theranos scandal while the most recent books included in History are a book on Watergate and a book on The Troubles.

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