Search Books

Search and filter books based on matching a query, the ISBN, rating, and more fields. The query is semantically parsed using our own large ontology. That means you can search paranormal books and the ontology knows that Aliens, Werewolves, Ghosts, and Shapeshifters fall into that category.

The following list shows all supported book genres you can in the genres filter the books.

  • action
  • adventure
  • anthropology
  • astronomy
  • archaeology
  • architecture
  • art
  • aviation
  • biography
  • biology
  • business
  • chemistry
  • children
  • classics
  • contemporary
  • cookbook
  • crafts
  • crime
  • dystopia
  • economics
  • education
  • engineering
  • environment
  • erotica
  • essay
  • fairy_tales
  • fantasy
  • fashion
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • finance
  • folklore
  • food
  • gaming
  • gardening
  • geography
  • geology
  • graphic_novel
  • health
  • historical
  • historical_fiction
  • history
  • horror
  • how_to
  • humor
  • inspirational
  • journalism
  • law
  • literary_fiction
  • literature
  • magical_realism
  • manga
  • martial_arts
  • mathematics
  • medicine
  • medieval
  • memoir
  • mystery
  • mythology
  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • novel
  • occult
  • paranormal
  • parenting
  • philosophy
  • physics
  • picture_book
  • poetry
  • politics
  • programming
  • psychology
  • reference
  • relationships
  • religion
  • romance
  • science_and_technology
  • science_fiction
  • self_help
  • short_stories
  • society
  • sociology
  • space
  • spirituality
  • sports
  • text_book
  • thriller
  • travel
  • true_crime
  • war
  • writing
  • young_adult
GET
https://api.apileague.com/search-books
Example Request and Response
GET
https://api.apileague.com/{{ examples.getSearchBooks }}
{
    "total_results": 5999,
    "number": 10,
    "offset": 0,
    "books": [
        [
            {
                "id": 17200576,
                "title": "Journey to Hogwarts",
                "image": "https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/2520429-M.jpg"
            }
        ],
        [
            {
                "id": 15954006,
                "title": "Inside Hogwarts",
                "subtitle": "Magical Paintbook",
                "image": "https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/2520430-M.jpg"
            }
        ],
        [
            {
                "id": 16384516,
                "title": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire",
                "image": "https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/12775900-M.jpg"
            }
        ],
        [
            {
                "id": 14296534,
                "title": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix",
                "image": "https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/11416565-M.jpg"
            }
        ],
        [
            {
                "id": 14530450,
                "title": "Great Gatsby (Silver Screen Edition)",
                "image": "https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/12791857-M.jpg"
            }
        ],
        [
            {
                "id": 18810398,
                "title": "The Hobbit",
                "subtitle": "or, There and back again",
                "image": "https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/394001-M.jpg"
            }
        ],
        [
            {
                "id": 13597674,
                "title": "The Name of the Wind",
                "subtitle": "The Kingkiller Chronicle : day one",
                "image": "https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6282709-M.jpg"
            }
        ]
    ]
}
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