The Damage
3,584
Books
28
Categories
1,649
Authors
1,702
Must-Reads
By the Numbers
1,276,756
Total pages
21,279
Hours to read all
89.6m
Of shelf space
2.4
Years nonstop reading
When the Books Are From
By first-edition decade. Oldest entry: 2100 BCE. Pre-1700 entries omitted from the chart for legibility — see the era table below.
Each bar is a decade; the two-digit label is the decade's tens digit (e.g. "49" = 1940s).
Where the Authors Are From
Books by primary nationality of their author (704 of 1891 authors enriched via Wikidata so far).
Hover a highlighted country for its counts. Shading is by book count (√-scaled).
Reading Progress
3,178
Read
406
Not yet
3,178 of 3,584 read (89%). The time spent tracking the other 406 could have been spent reading them.
Priority Breakdown
Book Data Coverage
3,569 of 3,584
3,543 of 3,584
3,513 of 3,584
3,463 of 3,584
3,574 of 3,584
3,584 of 3,584
3,584 of 3,584
1,315 of 3,584
313 of 3,584
Author Data Coverage
874 of 1,891
704 of 1,891
871 of 1,891
584 of 1,891
182 of 1,891
155 of 1,891
Publication Era
Spanning from -2100 to 2026
Most Represented Authors
Snapshot as of 7/24/2026. The pile has probably grown since then.