Fiction. Man owns a bookstore or has files? of everyone on Earth. One strange day he picks up a book with his own name on it.

[Rachel]

i was in a bookstore a week ago & picked up a book, read the back & put it back down, i’ve been trying to find it all week - from what i remember it’s about a man who owns a bookstore or has files? of everyone on earth & one strange day he picks up a book with his own name on ! that’s all i remember if anyone knows that book please help !

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

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[Kris]

Rachel, I copied book details to the topic header. Feel free to edit it.

What's the genre or tone - e.g., fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, etc.?

[Kris]

A long shot - Palimpsest by Charles Stross?

Some Goodreads reviewers say:
- "Agent Pierce murdered his own grandfather to join Stasis, the covert organization which works outside of time to reseed the Earth with humans every time they’re about to make themselves extinct..."
- "Every bit of data, every page written, every theory published in these societies is recorded and stored in an archive that exists billions and billions of years from now near the cold, black death of the universe - a record of every human there ever was, and every human achievement..."

Google search of Goodreads:
site:goodreads.com "fiction" "man" "record of every" "on earth"