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Small Press Distribution Bestseller Lists 2006-2023

fiction
poetry
nonfiction
bestsellers
publishing
dataset

This dataset documents the bestselling authors and titles distributed by Small Press Distribution (SPD) between 2006-2023, including American poetry, short and experimental fiction, and hybrid nonfiction and essay.
Jul 9, 2026
Sera-Ann Hargrove, Micah Bateman

The Playboy Fiction Index

metadata
fiction
print
dataset

The Playboy Fiction Index (1953–2020) contains metadata for over one thousand works of fiction published by Playboy between 1953 and the end of its print run in 2020.
May 14, 2026
Nora Shaalan

The Canon of Asian American Literature

asian american
literature
canon
fiction
dataset

This dataset traces the Asian American literary canon through nearly 1,900 scholarly citations from 1971 to 2023, capturing which authors and texts have shaped the field over time.
Aug 13, 2025
Long Le-Khac

International Bestsellers: The Dataset

bestsellers
publishing
translation
global
fiction
literature
dataset

This dataset contains bestseller lists in fiction for France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United States, and periodic lists from 40 other countries, from June 2013 through December 2022. Data is drawn from Publishing Trends and The New York Times.
Jul 29, 2025
Sean DiLeonardi, Becca Cohen, Dan Sinykin

Time Horizons of Futuristic Fiction

speculative fiction
science fiction
film
fiction
video games
television
comics
radio
dataset

This dataset contains metadata for 2.5k English-language narrative works set in the future, each marked with the year it was released and the year it takes place.
Jun 24, 2025
Grant Wythoff, Theodore Leane

Selected British Literary Prizes (1990-2022)

prizes
british
dataset
race
gender

The Selected British Literary Prizes (SBLP) dataset contains information on nine major literary prizes in the U.K. from 1990 to 2022 and demographic information on 682 prize winners and shortlisted authors.
Jun 11, 2025
Katherine Binhammer, Kanika Batra, Theo Gray, Maryse Jayasuriya

Feminist Bookstore News Issues and Articles (1976-2000)

print
feminist
bookstore
publishing
dataset

This dataset contains metadata for all articles and issues of Feminist Bookstore News from 1976 to 2000.
Jan 9, 2025
Julie R. Enszer, Salome Grasland, Cassidy Hunt, Michaela Hayes

The National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships (1965-2024)

prizes
education
gender
race
MFA
dataset

This dataset contains a comprehensive list of the writers sponsored by NEA fellowships from the organization’s founding in 1965 to 2024, including information about those writers’ demographics, education, and geography.
Dec 11, 2024
Alexander Manshel

The Nordic Noir in Translation Database (2000–2020)

translation
genre fiction
dataset

This dataset contains bibliographic records of all translations of Nordic crime fiction for adults, written in any of the five main Nordic languages (Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish) and published in translation during the period 2000–2020.
Feb 1, 2024
Karl Berglund, Jesper Gulddal, Stewart King

The Index of Major Literary Prizes in the US

prizes
education
gender
MFA
dataset

The Index of Major Literary Prizes in the US includes datasets to the winners and judges of prizes for prose, poetry, or unspecified genre between 1918 and 2020 with a purse of $10,000 and over.
Dec 5, 2022
Claire Grossman, Juliana Spahr, Stephanie Young

New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers (1931–2020)

bestsellers
fiction
dataset

The New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers includes datasets about bestselling books from 1931 and 2020.
Feb 1, 2022
Jordan Pruett

Iowa Writers’ Workshop

education
MFA
gender
dataset

The Program Era Project (PEP) has assembled three datasets related to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (IWW), one of the most prestigious MFA programs in the US.
Apr 21, 2021
Nicholas Kelley, Nicoel White, Loren Glass

HathiTrust Post45 Fiction (1945-2013)

metadata
fiction
dataset

This dataset contains metadata and HathiTrust IDs for fiction held by the HathiTrust Digital Library published between 1945 and 2013.
Apr 21, 2021
Ted Underwood
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