Dataset	Authors	Date	Summary	Details	Repo
Asian American Literary Canon (Data Essay)	Long Le-Khac	Aug 13, 2025	Scholarly citations shaping the Asian American literary canon.	Show Details 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.	repo
International Bestsellers (Data Essay)	Sean DiLeonardi, Becca Cohen, Dan Sinykin	July 2025	International bestseller lists	Show Details 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.	repo
Futuristic Fiction (Data Essay)	Grant Wythoff, Theodore Leane	June 2025	Narrative works set in the future.	Show Details This dataset contains metadata for 2.5k English-language narrative works set in the future, each marked with its release year and the year it takes place.	repo
Selected British Literary Prizes (Data Essay)	Katherine Binhammer, Kanika Batra, Theo Gray, Maryse Jayasuriya	May 22, 2025	British literary prize winners and shortlists (1990–2022).	Show Details 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. Prizes include the James Tait Black, Costa, Booker, Women’s, Gold Dagger, British Science Fiction, T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, and Baillie Gifford.	repo
Feminist Bookstore News (Data Essay)	Julie R. Enszer, Salome Grasland, Cassidy Hunt, Michaela Hayes	Jan 9, 2025	Archival metadata from Feminist Bookstore News (1976–2000).	Show Details This dataset contains metadata for all articles and issues of Feminist Bookstore News from 1976 to 2000.	repo
NEA Writing Fellowships (Data Essay)	Alexander Manshel	Dec 11, 2024	NEA fellows and demographics (1965–2024).	Show Details This dataset contains a comprehensive list of writers sponsored by NEA fellowships from the organization’s founding in 1965 through 2024, including demographics, education, and geographic data.	repo
Nordic Noir Translation Database (Data Essay)	Karl Berglund, Jesper Gulddal, Stewart King	Feb 1, 2024	Nordic crime fiction in English translation (2000–2020).	Show Details This dataset contains bibliographic records of all translations of Nordic crime fiction for adults, written in Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, or Swedish and published in English during 2000–2020.	repo
Major Literary Prizes (Data Essay)	Claire Grossman, Juliana Spahr, Stephanie Young	Dec 5, 2022	Prize winners and judges (1918–2020).	Show Details The Index of Major Literary Prizes in the US includes data on the winners and judges of prizes for prose, poetry, or unspecified genres between 1918 and 2020 with a purse of $10,000 or more.	repo
NYT Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers (Data Essay)	Jordan Pruett	Feb 1, 2022	Bestseller metadata from 1931 to 2020.	Show Details The New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers dataset includes metadata about bestselling books from 1931 through 2020.	repo
Iowa Writers’ Workshop (Data Essay)	Nicholas Kelley, Nicole White, Loren Glass	Apr 21, 2021	Writer and publication metadata.	Show Details 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, including data on demographics, publications, and education.	repo
HathiTrust Fiction (Data Essay)	Ted Underwood	Apr 21, 2021	Fiction metadata and IDs from HathiTrust (1945–2013).	Show Details This dataset contains metadata and HathiTrust IDs for fiction held by the HathiTrust Digital Library published between 1945 and 2013.	repo