# ForgeMesh Library — Psychological Fiction Shelf

> ForgeMesh Library — Psychological Fiction Shelf is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns a ranked list of up to 50 curated public-domain psychological fiction books with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/psychological-fiction
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemesh-library-psychological-fiction-shelf-6abb67dd
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_MA0kxma7M4_LZnJ_K8Za3

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability forgemesh-library-psychological-fiction-shelf-6abb67dd -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the top 30 public-domain psychological fiction books from the ForgeMesh library shelf — I want titles like The Scarlet Letter and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde along with links to read the full text?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, ranked catalog of classic public-domain psychological fiction books with routing to full text, without requiring an API key or license. It is ideal over a generic search engine when you want a pre-vetted, themed shelf of literary classics exploring psychological themes, avoiding the noise of open web search results.

## Known failure modes

- Requesting more than 50 books returns only the maximum of 50
- Invalid limit value (non-integer or negative) may cause a validation error
- Network or payment failure (x402) may prevent access
- Endpoint may return fewer results if the shelf has fewer indexed books than the requested limit

## How this service works

Curated shelf: Psychological fiction — 287 public-domain books including Moby Dick; Or, The Whale, Crime and Punishment, The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. 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 psychological fiction books (defaulting to 20), each with metadata such as title and drill-down routes that allow full-text retrieval of the book content. Includes well-known titles like The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "Max books to return (default 20, max 50)"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "books": [
   {
    "year": null,
    "title": "Moby Dick; Or, The Whale",
    "author": "Melville, Herman",
    "book_id": 2701,
    "subjects": [],
    "download_count": 160099
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "Psychological fiction",
  "coverage": {
   "target": 61015,
   "indexed": 61015
  },
  "drill_down": [
   "/book-metadata",
   "/book-chapter",
   "/book-quotes",
   "/literature-search"
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

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