Antilibrary

Explore a world of books beyond your own shelves.

7,000+ books. 30,000+ ideas. 1,000 questions.
And growing every day.

Your next idea might come from a book you've never opened—or a passage you highlighted years ago.

Antilibrary brings a thoughtfully curated world library together with highlights from your own reading. Our collection reaches across cultures, subjects, and traditions, seeking out voices that familiar accounts—and AI's default answers—can overlook.

Explore the library on its own, or connect your Kindle to rediscover your highlights. Follow an interest, consider another perspective, or stumble upon something you didn't know to look for.

Discover an idea
Swipe and shuffle through ideas from across the collection. Find unexpected connections between books and subjects.

Explore a question
Consider different authors' perspectives, with answers grounded in the library and source books shown.

Rediscover your reading
Import your Kindle highlights and return to passages that once caught your attention.

Follow your curiosity
Search books, ideas, questions, and your highlights in one place. Like ideas, dismiss others, and share discoveries.

Inspired by Nassim Nicholas Taleb's account of Umberto Eco's library, Antilibrary celebrates the possibilities in books we have yet to read.

We encourage you to buy, own, and read books. There is no substitute for spending time with a whole book. We hope something you discover here makes you want to open one.