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In this post you’ll find highly creative book visualizations, presenting books in a surprisingly new light.<\/strong><\/div>\n

In times of picture-driven internet, where we are hunting for various kinds of infographics, animations, and chart, books prove they are a highly inspiring topic for visual design.<\/p>\n

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Many of these visualizations are possible thanks to the internet and digitization.<\/p>\n

As soon as the book goes digital, its entire content can be analysed like never before. Creators can include much more data in the analysis, what leads to breath-taking visuals.<\/p>\n

Let’s just take a tool every internet user can utilize: Google Ngram Viewer<\/a>. You can track the appearance\u00a0of selected words in books\u00a0over time. A simple idea\u00a0to make infographics like this one: Love DNA of classic novels<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Processing the information is important, but\u00a0nothing will replace the talent of a designer to present the data in a clear and exciting way.<\/p>\n

You’ll see below the greatest examples of data visualization applied to books, but not only that. Having unlimited access to images on the internet artists can create collages that represent the content of a single book or entire book genres. In the list below you’ll see such examples as well.<\/p>\n

Please share in the comments the projects that should be\u00a0highlighted. I’ll add them in the next update of the list.<\/p>\n

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16 amazing book charts and visualizations<\/h2>\n

1. A guide to fiction genres<\/h3>\n

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\u201cA Plotting of Fiction Genres\u201d chart is epic. It investigates the genres of most famous books and puts them together in a catching visual.<\/p>\n

Whether you\u2019re partial to Epic Fantasies (\u201cThe Lord of The Rings), Romance (\u201cBridget Jones\u2019s Diary\u201d), Cozy Mysteries (\u201cThe Convivial Codfish\u201d), or Literature Qua Literature (\u201cMoby Dick\u201d), this celebration of creative writing\u2019s delineations is sure to please readers of all brows\u2014whether high-, low-, or in-between.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The book covers you\u2019ll find in the design are fictional. The team from Pop Chart Lab designed them for the main fiction genres, like science-fiction, mystery, or horror.<\/p>\n

From there you\u2019ll be able to follow sub-genres \u2013 each one represented by the most famous title.<\/p>\n

\u21e2 Credits and more info<\/a><\/p>\n

2. Character interactions in Shakespeare’s tragedies<\/h3>\n

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A series of fascinating network graphs created by a Swiss data research analyst and designer Martin Grandjean explores the structure and character interactions of eleven classic tragedies by William Shakespeare.<\/p>\n

Each chart presents all characters from a specific tragedy. Each character is represented as a circle. The more important the character the bigger the circle.<\/p>\n

The lines connect characters to other characters with whom they interact in the same scene. Network density measures how close the graph is to complete.<\/p>\n

The result speaks for itself: the longest tragedy (Hamlet<\/em>) is not the most structurally complex and is less dense than King Lear<\/em>, Titus Andronicus<\/em> or Othello<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When you analyze the graphs, you’ll see that in some tragedies characters belong to clear groups. It’s obvious with Romeo and Juliet<\/em>, where we have Montague and Capulet families.<\/p>\n

\u21e2 Credits and more info<\/a><\/p>\n

3. YA reading calendar<\/h3>\n

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This calendar with YA book recommendations is epic. It’s not only a useful tool that lets discover new books, but also an extremely detailed and well designed visual.<\/p>\n

The 2015 YA reading calendar\u00a0brakes\u00a0down YA books into seasonal, monthly, weekly and daily recommendations. Separate charts for seasonal reads were also prepared by Epic Reads team.<\/p>\n

This infographic\u00a0marks the beginning of the new breed of discovery\u00a0tools – the ones that put recommended titles into an advanced, visually catchy form that is much more enjoyable to explore than a mere collage of book covers.<\/p>\n

It’s not the first creative\u00a0design from Epic Reads, and I’m sure we can expect a lot more from this YA-focused book community.<\/p>\n

\u21e2 Credits and more info<\/a><\/p>\n

4. Opening lines of famous novels<\/h3>\n

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This is one of the most stunning designs\u00a0from Pop Chart Lab<\/a>. The chart\u00a0brings the most exciting analysis of what many book lovers consider the most exciting part of the book: opening line.<\/p>\n

Diagrammatical Dissertation on Opening Lines of Notable Novels breaks down\u00a0grammatical construction of opening sentences of 25 famous novels.<\/p>\n

Each sentence is\u00a0diagrammed into\u00a0a partitioned, color-coded pictogram,\u00a0according to the dictates of the classic Reed-Kellogg system.<\/p>\n

Whether you\u2019re a book buff, an English teacher, or a hard-line grammarian, this diagrammatical dissertation has something for the aesthete in all of us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u21e2 Credits and more info<\/a><\/p>\n

5. Plot Lines<\/h3>\n

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This is one of the most beautiful examples of literary visualizations I’ve ever seen – and it actually gives a very useful advice for every aspiring author.<\/p>\n

What’s the best recipe to make your novel a bestseller? Kill off your characters.<\/p>\n

The infographic was developed by Joanna Kamradt and Christian Tate for the literary magazine “Delayed Gratification”. It analyses the plot of 13 novels that won the prestigious Man Booker Prize in 2011.<\/p>\n

Every single title includes death – the black part of the chart is overwhelmingly large.<\/p>\n

\u21e2 Credits and more info<\/a><\/p>\n

6. Narrative structure of books<\/h3>\n

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What you see above is just a teaser – a screenshot of an interactive visualization<\/a> of narrative flow of\u00a0Kafka on the Shore<\/em> by Haruki Murakami.<\/p>\n

The visualization was developed by\u00a0Natalia Bilenko and Asako Miyakawa, neuroscience PhD students at UC Berkeley.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A dynamically changing graph studies\u00a0connections between characters throughout the book.\u00a0Emotional strength and valence of each sentence are shown in a color-coded sentiment plot.<\/p>\n

When you hover over the sentence bars, you’ll see\u00a0the text of the original sentences.<\/p>\n

\u21e2 Credits and more info<\/a><\/p>\n

7. Color signatures<\/h3>\n

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