# library.forgemesh.io Best Books Ever Listings

> library.forgemesh.io Best Books Ever Listings 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 50 curated public-domain classic books with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/best-books-ever-listings
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/library-forgemesh-io-best-books-ever-listings-5d286a89
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_FeDwRA-IL3IUBt3ABW5Jn

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 library-forgemesh-io-best-books-ever-listings-5d286a89 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up a list of the top 30 best classic public-domain books — things like Pride and Prejudice or Moby-Dick — with links so I can read the full text?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, ranked list of well-known public-domain classic books (including titles like Pride and Prejudice, Moby-Dick, and Huckleberry Finn) with pointers to full-text retrieval — ideal for building reading apps, seeding recommendation engines, or presenting a browsable classics catalog. Prefer genre-specific sibling endpoints (plays, poetry, science, horror) if your use case targets a specific literary domain.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid limit value (e.g. negative or above 50) may return an error or be clamped
- Payment failure or insufficient USDC balance returns a 402 error
- Network timeout returns a 5xx error
- Limit parameter ignored or mistyped returns default 20 results

## How this service works

Curated shelf: Best Books Ever Listings — 154 public-domain books including Moby Dick; Or, The Whale, Pride and Prejudice, Crime and Punishment. 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 classic books (defaulting to 20), each entry including book title, author, ranking position, and drill-down route URLs for full-text retrieval of each title.

## 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": "Best Books Ever Listings",
  "coverage": {
   "target": 61015,
   "indexed": 61015
  },
  "drill_down": [
   "/book-metadata",
   "/book-chapter",
   "/book-quotes",
   "/literature-search"
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

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