1,065 hand-made links across 335 books. None of them were generated by similarity scoring.
Every book on this shelf carries a small set of explicit links to other books. There are 1,065 of them. They are made by hand, one at a time, and each one means something specific — not “these are both about finance,” which is what a tag is for, but that one book is the prequel to another, or refutes it, or describes the same mechanism in a different domain.
The links accumulate rather than being designed. A book arrives, it gets read, and the question is which of the 335 books already on the shelf it argues with. Most books attach to five or six. A few attach to twenty. And some attach to almost nothing, which is its own kind of information — books that connect to nothing are, in my experience, disproportionately books that said nothing.
About seventy-five of the pairs here point one way only. That is deliberate: a later book often comments on an earlier one that has nothing to say in return. Both pages show the link; only one of them claims it. There is more on the method on the about page.
Connection density between themes, counting every linked pair. The library has two dense clusters that barely touch each other, and one thin bridge from history into technology.
| Theme | Business & Finance | Personal Growth & Leadership | Psychology & Mind | Tech & Future | History & Foreign Affairs | Society & Culture | Memoir & Biography | Crime & Justice | Politics & Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business & Finance | 66 | 37 | 15 | 18 | 34 | 34 | 14 | 23 | 30 |
| Personal Growth & Leadership | 37 | 98 | 168 | 8 | 2 | 14 | 14 | 1 | 5 |
| Psychology & Mind | 15 | 168 | 109 | 11 | 15 | 16 | 10 | 1 | 13 |
| Tech & Future | 18 | 8 | 11 | 40 | 68 | 18 | 15 | 18 | 19 |
| History & Foreign Affairs | 34 | 2 | 15 | 68 | 163 | 86 | 58 | 22 | 250 |
| Society & Culture | 34 | 14 | 16 | 18 | 86 | 83 | 29 | 31 | 129 |
| Memoir & Biography | 14 | 14 | 10 | 15 | 58 | 29 | 39 | 16 | 137 |
| Crime & Justice | 23 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 22 | 31 | 16 | 34 | 56 |
| Politics & Power | 30 | 5 | 13 | 19 | 250 | 129 | 137 | 56 | 350 |
Click any number to see the pairs behind it. Theology & Faith is left off these axes — it connects to almost nothing, and an empty row made the grid unreadable.
Pick a book at each end and the map walks the links between them — usually three or four hops, sometimes none at all.
Search a title below, or click any node on the map, and this panel fills with that book’s direct connections and everything two hops out. Every book page links straight here.
On a phone this opens in focus mode — one book, its connections, and theirs — which is readable where a 335-node graph is not. Tap any neighbour to travel to it.
Read something I’d love? Send it my way — I’m always adding to the stack.