# library.forgemesh.io — England Social Life and Customs Fiction Shelf

> library.forgemesh.io — England Social Life and Customs 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 2026-09-13).

Returns a ranked list of up to 50 public-domain books in the 'England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction' category, with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/england-social-life-and-customs-fiction
- 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-england-social-life-and-customs-fiction-shelf-b47c1bfa
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_QeEuicisNgD-X5nmmELZF

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-england-social-life-and-customs-fiction-shelf-b47c1bfa -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up a list of public-domain fiction books about English social life and customs — give me up to 30 results with links so I can read them?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, ranked list of public-domain fiction specifically about English social life and customs — particularly for discovering Jane Austen and contemporaries. Prefer it over full-text search when you want browse-style discovery rather than passage-level retrieval, and over general book APIs when you need guaranteed public-domain status and no licensing friction.

## Known failure modes

- limit out of range (above 50) may return an error or be capped
- network or payment failure returns no results
- shelf may return fewer than requested if corpus is smaller than limit
- malformed request body may return a validation error

## How this service works

Curated shelf: England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction — 226 public-domain books including The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of Jane Austen A Linked Index of all PG Editions of Jane Austen, Major Vigoureux, A Sheaf of Corn. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.

## Output

A ranked list of public-domain books (up to the requested limit, default 20, max 50) from the 'England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction' shelf, including titles such as The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of Jane Austen, Major Vigoureux, and A Sheaf of Corn, along with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval.

## 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": "The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of Jane Austen A Linked Index of all PG Editions of Jane Austen",
    "author": "Austen, Jane",
    "book_id": 31100,
    "subjects": [],
    "download_count": 46380
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction",
  "coverage": {
   "target": 61015,
   "indexed": 61015
  },
  "drill_down": [
   "/book-metadata",
   "/book-chapter",
   "/book-quotes",
   "/literature-search"
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

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- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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