The aim of the site is to determine which books are truly worth reading.

Of course, not every book will have the same importance for every individual. If I want to learn how to make a woman fall in love with me, many books have been written on the subject. Some will be good, and some will not be very good. But the main problem is that a book about making someone fall in love may be a complete waste of time for a married man who is more concerned about his children’s behavior at school. So ratings and rankings can become messy.

We already know that. Still, I do not think it will be a major issue. A book may not fit my personal needs and still be considered a masterpiece.

The major issue is representing the enormous number of books published worldwide. Only the ones that truly stand out will deserve a place on the website. And the numbers are staggering:

-"Don Quixote", for example, has had tens of thousands of editions published. It was first released in 1605 and has been translated into roughly 140 languages.

-The most accurate way to determine whether a book meets professional standards of importance is through the assignment of an ISBN (International Standard Book Number), combined with legal deposit registration. The ISBN system was launched in 1970. But the problem remains: hardcover editions, paperback editions, revised versions, translations, and so on. Between 50 and 70 million books have been assigned ISBNs worldwide.

-Amazon, the company that wants to sell practically everything, lists around 32 million individual book titles worldwide.

So these are the numbers.

We are going to ignore e-books and self-published books. Thirty-two million books, each with an average width of an inch, would fill a bookshelf stretching 505 miles. Nowadays, that is not such a terrifying figure: I suppose a low-cost Boeing 737 could take you from one end to the other in about an hour and twenty minutes.

So, among all these books, which ones are truly worth reading?

We cannot read them all, I’m afraid. Even if you could read one book every hour, it would still take around 3,600 years -and that would leave no time for sleep. Filtering is necessary. And cruelty is necessary too, because the world is full of interesting people.

Who are the authors who truly stand out? Who are the ones who found wisdom and enlightenment?

Nuandez.com will build its database with the most important books of them all.

Will every one of them eventually make it onto the list?