I like good books. I like short books. But finding good short books can be challenging. For most needs, sorting Amazon search results by sales rank or average customer review works well, but there’s no easy way to filter or sort by book length.
Given a book’s ISBN, Amazon’s Product Advertising API lets you retrieve information such as the number of pages, sales rank, price, title, and author. I downloaded this information for NPR’s Best Books from 2013 through 2024.
The visualization below shows each book as a point on a scatterplot, the x-axis displays the logarithm of the number of pages and the y-axis displays the logarithm of the sales rank. Click any point to see detailed information about the book, and use the filters below to explore books by year and topic. The plot supports zooming and panning to make clicking points a little easier.
Filter by Year
Filter by Topic
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