Make Some Plots

Here you will find direct links to interactive data visualizations for a wide variety of books. Enjoy.

To begin exploring books using quantitative data, choose a book of interest below. That will take you to a searchable database of every word in the book and the number of times it was used per chapter (or scene, sections, etc.). Books are listed alphabetically, by title. If there are books you don’t see but would love to, drop me a note. Books will be updated regularly so check back soon.

• 1984 by George Orwell

• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

• Aftermath by LeVar Burton

• Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

• The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed

• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

• Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

• Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

• The Duke of Bannerman Prep by Katie A. Nelson

• Efrén Dividido/Divided by Ernesto Cisneros (English, Spanish)

• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

• The Giver by Lois Lowry

• Great by Sara Benincasa

• Hamlet by William Shakespeare

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

• Hell of a Book by Jason Mott

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

• Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

• A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park

• Macbeth by William Shakespeare

• A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

• Moby Dick by Herman Melville

• Native Son by Richard Wright

• Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry

• Noor by Nnedi Okorafor

• Normal People by Sally Rooney

• Once by Morris Gleitzman

• The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

• Paradise Lost by John Milton

• Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

• Persuasion by Jane Austen

• The Pigman by Paul Zindel

• The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

• A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

• Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

• Sonnets by William Shakespeare

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

• Wonder by R.J. Palacio

• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte