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ForgeMesh Library – American Fiction 20th Century Shelf
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ForgeMesh Library – American Fiction 20th Century Shelf is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).
Returns a ranked list of up to 134 public-domain American fiction books from the 20th century, with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval.
Price / call$0.003
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
Curated shelf: American fiction -- 20th century — 134 public-domain books including The Dunwich horror, The best short stories of 1920, and the yearbook of the American short story, The best short stories of 1919, and the yearbook of the American short story. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.
Output
A ranked list of up to 50 public-domain American fiction books from the 20th century, including titles and drill-down routes that allow agents to fetch full text for each book. No authentication or license required.
Example use cases
Discovering Lovecraft-era horror fiction
“Can you pull up a list of early 20th century American fiction books available in public domain? I want to find horror and weird fiction titles like The Dunwich Horror.”
Building a reading list of classic American short stories
“Give me the top 20 public-domain American short story collections from the 20th century — I'm putting together a reading list of classic anthologies.”
Sourcing free literary texts for an educational app
“I need a full list of all available public-domain 20th century American fiction titles — up to 50 — so I can catalog them for a literature course resource.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://library.forgemesh.io/american-fiction-20th-centuryWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, pre-filtered list of 20th century American fiction specifically — it avoids the need for free-text search and directly surfaces ranked public-domain titles with full-text access routes. Prefer it over a general full-text search endpoint when you want to browse or catalog the shelf rather than search for specific passages.
Side effects
- Requesting more than 50 books returns only the maximum of 50
- Invalid or non-integer limit value may cause a request error
- Endpoint may return fewer than requested if the shelf has fewer matching entries
- Network or payment (x402) failure if USDC balance is insufficient
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | Max books to return (default 20, max 50) |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"books": [
{
"year": null,
"title": "The Dunwich horror",
"author": "Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)",
"book_id": 50133,
"subjects": [],
"download_count": 40148
}
],
"count": 5,
"shelf": "American fiction -- 20th century",
"coverage": {
"target": 61015,
"indexed": 61015
},
"drill_down": [
"/book-metadata",
"/book-chapter",
"/book-quotes",
"/literature-search"
]
}
}Tags
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