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year to date —

north star — cumulative books

282 of 1,000 · expected this year: 312 -30

0 expected 1,000

books finished

14 annual target: 52 -3 books

0 pace target

women authors

57%

target 50%

8 of 14 +1 books

global south authors

57%

target 50%

8 of 14 +1 books

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northstar progress

Cumulative books read since 2018. Target: 1,000 books per year, tracked across years. The expected value is the pro-rated advance for today's date.

delta

How far you are from the paced target at today's date. A delta of −4 books means the pace should have delivered 4 more books by now.

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50% women authors and 50% global south authors by year end. Delta shows how many books above or below that half-way count you are.

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Year Output

280 books

2026

Ciranda de Pedra — Lygia Fagundes Telles
Contos d'escárnio: textos grotescos — Hilda Hilst
Iracema — Jose de Alencar
Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir
Caderno do Fim do Mundo — cleyton cabral
As Cerejas — Lygia Fagundes Telles
Quaderno Proibito — Alba de Cespedes
L'Amore Molesto — elena ferrante
The Count of Monte Cristo — alexandre dumas
Canção para ninar menino grande — Conceicao Evaristo
Fim — Fernanda Torres
Noite na Taverna — Alvares de Azevedo
Rebecca — Daphne du Maurier
Daido Moriyama, Como Eu Faço Fotos — Takeshi Nakamoto

2025

The Murder on the Links — Agatha Christie
Brave New World — Aldous Huxley
The Call of Cthulhu — H.P. Lovecraft
The Mysterious Affair at Styles — Agatha Christie
Cabeça de Santo — Socorro Acioli
Christine — Stephen King
Pachinko — Min Jin Lee
A Paixão Segundo G.H. — Clarice Lispector
O Amanhã Não Está à Venda — Ailton Krenak
A Night in the Lonesome October — Roger Zelasny
Cachorro velho — Teresa Cardenas
Mar Morto — Jorge Amado
'Ora, ora desencana! Quem quer bolo de banana?' — Ana Terra
Illness as a Metaphor — Susan Sontag
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage — murakami
look and find animals — Kirsteen Robson
the red book — Barbara Lehman
toy story — Kristen L Depken
a casa das ilusoes perdidas — Violet Winspear
The Bluest Eye — Toni Morrison
Woman at Point Zero — Nawal El Saadawi
Norwegian Wood — murakami
Persepolis — Marjane Satrapi
sociedade do cansaco — byung-chul-han
La Vuelta al Mundo en 80 Dias — Jules Verne
All-star Superman — Grant Morrison
Pântano de Sangue — Pedro Bandeira
O Sangue Dos Outros — Simone De Beauvoir
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings — Maya Angelou
Uma Mulher — Annie Ernaux
The Beauty and the Beast — Gabrielle Barbot Villeneuve
Beauty and the Beast — Jeanne Marie Leprince Beaumont
Sou uma Tola por te Querer — Camila Sosa Villada
Um Rio Chamado Tempo, uma Casa Chamada Terra — Mia Couto
Needful Things — Stephen King
A Droga da Obediência — Pedro Bandeira
Salomé — David Shenton
Meu Amigo Dahmer — Derf Backderf
Silence, a Fable — Edgar Allan Poe
Las Mallas — Camila Sosa Villada
Mystification — Edgar Allan Poe
Homo Cameleopard — Edgar Allan Poe
Agnes Grey — Anne Bronte
Shadow, a Parable — Edgar Allan Poe
A Woman's Battles and Transformations — Edouard Louis
To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee
The Vegetarian — Han Kang
Olhos d'Água — Conceicao Evaristo
Salomé — Oscar Wilde

2024

Salvation — Bell Hooks
The Body Snatchers — Jack Finney
Transit — Rachel Cusk
Avesso da Pele — Jeferson Tenório
My Year of Rest and Relaxation — Ottessa Moshfegh
A Christmas Carol — Charles Dickens
Torto Arado — Itamar Vieira Junior
Anna Karenina — Lev Tolstoi
Outline — Rachel Cusk
Cat and Mouse in Partnership — Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Moça quase-viva enrodilhada numa amoreira quase-morta — Evandro Affonso Ferreira
Blue is the Warmest Color — Julie Maroh
The Frog King — Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
King Pest — Edgar Allan Poe
Kindred — Octavia E. Butler
La Casa de los Espiritus — Isabel Allende
Woman on the Edge of Time — Marge Piercy
Death's End — Cixin Liu
The Dark Forest — Cixin Liu
The Very Hungry Caterpillar — Eric Carle
The Three-Body Problem — Cixin Liu
As Meninas — Lygia Fagundes Telles
Pequeno Manual Antiracista — Djamila Ribeiro
50 Poemas de Revolta — multiple authors
Jacob's Room — Virginia Woolf
Memórias de Martha — Julia Lopes de Almeida
Poor Things — Alasdair Gray
Five Ways to Forgiveness — Ursula K. Le Guin
Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë
Opusculo Humanitario — Nisia Floresta
Beautiful World Where Are You — Sally Rooney
Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë

2023

Goodbye Columbus — Philip Roth
Second Place — Rachel Cusk
The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall — Edgar Allan Poe
Great Expectations — Charles Dickens
The Purloined Letter — Edgar Allan Poe
The Murders in the Rue Morgue — Edgar Allan Poe
The Man of the Crowd — Edgar Allan Poe
A Memory of Light — Robert Jordan
manuscript found in a bottle — Edgar Allan Poe
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain
Dear Life — Alice Munro
Of Mice and Man — John Steinbeck
To a Mouse — Robert Burns
Matilda — Roald Dahl
A Wrinkle In Time — Madaleine L'Engle
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer — Mark Twain
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter — Carson McCullers
Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen
The Time Machine — herbert george wells
The Shining — Stephen King
Towers of Midnight — Robert Jordan
The Lottery and Other Stories — Shirley Jackson
The Gathering Storm — Robert Jordan
Knife of Dreams — Robert Jordan
To the Lighthouse — Virginia Woolf
Crossroads of Twilight — Robert Jordan
Carmilla — Sheridan Le Fanu
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World — Haruki Murakami
Moby-Dick — herman melville
Winter's Heart — Robert Jordan
The Giver — Lois Lowry
Respiração Artificial — Ricardo Piglia
The Yellow Wallpaper — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The city and the stars and The sands of mars — Arthur C. Clarke
The Electric Ant — Philip K. Dick
The Importance of Being Earnest — Oscar Wilde
Exhalation — Ted Chiang
The Eternal Husband and Other Stories — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow — Gabrielle Zevin
Ten Days in a Mad House — Nellie Bly
Normal People — Sally Rooney
Vidas Secas — Graciliano Ramos
Primeiras Estórias — joao-guimares-rosa
American Gods — Neil Gaiman
Um belo diploma — Scholastique Mukasonga
New York: Life in the Big City — Will Eisner
Story of your life and others — Ted Chiang
Levaram tudo dele, inclusive alguns pressentimentos — Evandro Affonso Ferreira
A mercadoria mais preciosa — Jean-Claude Grumberg
Tower of Babylon — Ted Chiang
Dark Places — gillian flynn
White Nights — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Emma — Jane Austen
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man — Fyodor Dostoevsky

2022

The Machine Stops — E.M. Forster
Young Goodman Brown — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Before the Coffee Gets Cold — Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Nausea — Jean-Paul Sartre
A cachorra — Pilar Quintana
Lord of the Flies — William Golding
O acontecimento — Annie Ernaux
The sandman — ETA hoffman
Dracula — bram stoker
feliz ano novo — rubem fonseca
lacci — domenico starnone
o lugar — Annie Ernaux
lavoura arcaica — raduan nassar
gone girl — gillian flynn
mayombe — pepetela
the shining girls — lauren beukes
an artist of the floating world — kazuo ishiguro
sharp objects — gillian flynn
the unbearable lightness of being — milan kundera
rendezvous with rama — Arthur C. Clarke
the sorrows of young werther — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
la invencion de morel — adolfo bioy casares
the truce — primo levi
siddhartha — hermann hesse
wild sheep chase — Haruki Murakami
Chanson Douce — Leila Slimani
tudo é rio — carla madeira
if this is a man — primo levi
the metamorphosis — franz kafka
in the penal colony — franz kafka
heart of darkness — joseph conrad
nove noites — bernardo carvalho
I who have never known men — jaqueline harpman
o perseguidor — julio cortazar
utopia — thomas more
The Waves — Virginia Woolf
seminario dos ratos — Lygia Fagundes Telles
pinball — Haruki Murakami
offshore — penelope fitzgerald
hear the wind sing — Haruki Murakami
the dispossessed — Ursula K. Le Guin
ninguem escreve ao coronel — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
a filha perdida — elena ferrante
south of the border, west of the sun — Haruki Murakami
the invisible man — herbert george wells
o peso do passaro morto — aline bei
snow country — yasunari kawabata
the clouds — aristophanes
franny & zooey — jerome david salinger
the word for world is forest — Ursula K. Le Guin
please look after mom — shi kyung sook
path of daggers — Robert Jordan
você é minha mãe? — alison bechdel
drive your plow over the bones of the dead — olga tokarczuk
the old man and the sea — ernest hemingway

2021

house of the sleeping beauties — yasunari kawabata
dom casmurro — Machado de Assis
crown of swords — Robert Jordan
alves e cia — eça de queiroz
cidades invisíveis — italo calvino
o homem duplicado — jose saramago
things fall apart — chinua achebe
lysistrata — aristophanes
um copo de colera — raduan nassar
lord of chaos — Robert Jordan
nineteen eighty-four — george orwell
le dernier jour d'un condamné — victor hugo
o último dia de um condenado — victor hugo
Mrs Dalloway — Virginia Woolf
the death of ivan ilyitch — tolstoy
the symposium — plato
slaughterhouse five — kurt vonnegut
the fires of heaven — Robert Jordan
the picture of dorian grey — Oscar Wilde
alcestis — euripides
alice's adventures in wonderland — lewis caroll
the shadow rising — Robert Jordan
book of revelation — john of patmos
as troianas — euripides
the left hand of darkness — Ursula K. Le Guin
city of illusions — Ursula K. Le Guin
planet of exile — Ursula K. Le Guin
rocannon's world — Ursula K. Le Guin
antigone — sophocles
the dragon reborn — Robert Jordan
o cao sem plumas — joao cabral de melo neto
o rio — joao cabral de melo neto
morte e vida severina — joao cabral de melo neto
the illustrated man — ray bradbury
the great hunt — Robert Jordan
a noiva jovem — alessandro baricco
oepidus at colonus — sophocles
the eye of the world — Robert Jordan
the end of eternity — asimov
the tempest — William Shakespeare
oedipus rex — sophocles
the handmaid's tale — margaret atwood
lionizing — Edgar Allan Poe
morella — Edgar Allan Poe
doze contos peregrinos — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
book of esther — mordecai
berenice — Edgar Allan Poe
book of judith — unknown
the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde — robert louis stevenson
convenience store woman — sayaka murata
a room with a view — E.M. Forster
bartleby the scrivener — herman melville
medea — euripides
the assignation — Edgar Allan Poe
le horla — guy de maupassant
the lover — marguerite duras
bon-bon — Edgar Allan Poe
loss of breath — Edgar Allan Poe
metzengerstein — Edgar Allan Poe
the duc de l'omelette — Edgar Allan Poe
the pit and the pendulum — Edgar Allan Poe
the telltale heart — Edgar Allan Poe
the masque of the red death — Edgar Allan Poe
suicide — edouard leve

2020

O Imortal — Jorge Luis Borges
O Imortal — Machado de Assis
Habibi — Craig Thompson

2019

alice's adventures in wonderland (annotated edition) — lewis caroll

2018

Eles eram muitos cavalos — Luiz Ruffato

Unknown

The Idiot — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hamlet — William Shakespeare
Os Anos — Annie Ernaux
Example — example examplerson
pedro-paramo--juan-rulfo — Unknown
Triste Tigre — Neige Sinno

cumulative pages read

Authors Section

women authors (%)

col 2

col 3

historical

year	books (target)	pages	north star	women	global south