# Library ForgeMesh – Young Men Fiction Shelf

> Library ForgeMesh – Young Men 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 public-domain books in the 'Young men – Fiction' category, with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/young-men-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/library-forgemesh-young-men-fiction-shelf-93075a78
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_1hHxgumxVSowlghywqw8x

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-young-men-fiction-shelf-93075a78 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the top 10 public-domain coming-of-age fiction books from the ForgeMesh library shelf for young men — things like Great Expectations or David Copperfield — so I can browse what's available?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, pre-ranked list of public-domain coming-of-age or young men's fiction titles without any licensing or API-key overhead. It is ideal for discovery and browsing use cases where you want canonical classics like Dickens or Joyce surfaced immediately, with drill-down paths for full-text access. Prefer it over general web search when you need a clean, structured book list rather than unstructured web results.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid limit value (e.g. exceeds 50) may return an error or be clamped
- Payment failure via x402 protocol returns a 402 status requiring USDC payment
- Service unavailability returns a 5xx error with no book list
- Empty result set if the shelf index is misconfigured

## How this service works

Curated shelf: Young men -- Fiction — 11 public-domain books including Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. 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 books in the 'Young men – Fiction' category, including titles, authors, and drill-down routes that link to full-text retrieval endpoints. The list is ordered by historical popularity.

## 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": "Great Expectations",
    "author": "Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870",
    "book_id": 1400,
    "subjects": [],
    "download_count": 12892
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "Young men -- Fiction",
  "coverage": {
   "target": 860,
   "indexed": 860
  },
  "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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