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The book box

A great book, every month, by post.

The classic the app is reading that month, in the Penguin Classics edition, wrapped and sealed by hand in London with a postcard of its sky, a bookmark and a letter. £25 a month, UK postage in.

A year of books for someone you love.

Twelve parcels, one a month, the first in time for Christmas. A present that keeps arriving long after the paper is in the recycling.

Reserve a book boxGive a year
The book box laid out on a table

Why buy it here

The same book, wrapped and sealed by hand.

  • The parcel as it arrives, with its bookmark
  • The postcard of Dracula’s sky
It keeps the app going
The Daily Canon is one small company in London. Every book bought here pays for the next one in the Library, the read-alongs, and the app staying free to open every morning.
A postcard of its sky
Each book comes with a postcard of the painted scene the app opens on for it, ready to keep or to send.
Chosen, not stocked
Only the classics the app reads, in the Penguin Classics editions we would give a friend. Nothing here is filler.

Merch

Things to read in.

A tee and a tote in two designs each, and the reading socks, each with a line from a book on it.

  • Reader, I finished it: Reader, I finished it.
    I contain multitudes: I contain multitudes. Mostly paperbacks.

    After Jane Eyre, chapter 38

    The tee

    Heavyweight organic cotton in cream, the line small on the chest in a book face with the mark beneath it, in the brand night. For the day you close the last page of something long.

    £35
    Out of stock
  • I would prefer not to: I would prefer not to.
    I contain multitudes: I contain multitudes.

    Bartleby, the Scrivener

    The tote

    Natural heavy canvas, long handles, Bartleby’s answer to everything printed in italic with the mark below. Room for a Russian novel and a coffee, and a reply for anyone who asks you to put it down.

    £35
    Out of stock
  • Reading socks: One more chapter.

    Every reader, at midnight

    Reading socks

    Soft cream wool crew socks with a night-blue heel, toe and cuff stripe, ONE MORE CHAPTER knitted round the leg and the mark beneath it. For feet up on the sofa with the book on your knees. One size fits all.

    £12
    Out of stock
All the merch

Start here

The books most readers reach for first.

The famous ones, in the order the Library shelf shows them.

This month

Read along, a piece a day.

The read-alongs setting off in the next six weeks. Buy the book here, read it in the app with everyone else, a chapter a day to the date it ends on.

A place to start

Under 200 Pages

Proof that brevity and greatness are not opposites.

The whole path

A place to start

One Sitting

Works you can start and finish in a single session.

The whole path

A place to start

The Dark Mirror

Literature that goes to the places most people would rather not look.

The whole path

A place to start

The Russian Soul

A literature built on extremes.

The whole path

A place to start

The Winter Reading Path

Books that belong to the cold months.

The whole path

With a reading guide

The books that have beaten you before.

Each of these has a reading guide in the app: a warm, plain companion that walks beside you.

Short

One sitting.

Under twenty thousand words. An evening, a train, a bath.

Long

A winter.

Over three hundred thousand words. The ones you keep meaning to.

In the original

Two languages, one book.

The original sits beside the English in the app, a toggle away.

By form

Novels, plays, poems, and the rest.

The Parcel

A book a month, by post.

One parcel a month: the month’s book in the Penguin Classics edition with everything the parcel holds, £25 a month. The pick is announced; you can swap it. A lovely thing to give.

  • The month’s book is announced in advance. Swap it for one of two alternates until the 20th.
  • Monthly or yearly. Pause or stop whenever you like.
  • A gift of three, six or twelve months, with a note in your own words.
The ParcelGive it
  • The month’s classic, the Penguin Classics edition, in a rigid mailer.
  • Wrapped in our tissue and sealed rather than taped.
  • An ex libris stamp pressed into the title page, with a line for your name.
  • A bookmark embossed with the mark, made for us by Mount Street Printers in London.
  • A postcard of the book’s own sky, the painted scene the app opens on.
  • A short letter from Henry about the book and the month.

How it works

Two ways to own a book.

Moby-Dick open in the reader at Chapter 1, Loomings, with "Call me Ishmael." lifted off the page

Digital

  • Yours for good, on every iPhone you sign in to.
  • Read in the app’s own reader, with the original beside the translation where there is one.
  • Downloaded, so it reads with no signal.
  • The same price as in the app. Folio members already read every book on this shelf; buying keeps one after Folio ends.
Dracula (Penguin Classics), the paperback

Physical

  • The Penguin Classics edition, new, in the Daily Canon parcel.
  • Packed in London and posted anywhere. Postage by zone at checkout: the United Kingdom, Europe, the rest of the world.
  • Ten editions to begin with, more as the shelf grows.

The postcard in the parcel.

The Parcel

  • The month’s book is announced in advance. Swap it for one of two alternates until the 20th.
  • Monthly or yearly. Pause or stop whenever you like.
  • A gift of three, six or twelve months, with a note in your own words.

Found

Short Story

59 books · Clear

  1. A Canary for OneErnest HemingwayUS only£1.99
  2. A Dreary StoryAnton Chekhov£1.99
  3. A Hunger ArtistFranz Kafka£1.99
  4. A Lodging for the NightRobert Louis Stevenson£1.99
  5. A Madman's DiaryLu Xun£1.99
  6. A Pursuit RaceErnest HemingwayUS only£1.99
  7. A Simple EnquiryErnest HemingwayUS only£1.99
  8. A Very Short StoryErnest HemingwayUS only£1.99
  9. An Alpine IdyllErnest HemingwayUS only£1.99
  10. Banal StoryErnest HemingwayUS only£1.99
  11. Bartleby, the ScrivenerHerman Melville£1.99
  12. Bezhin MeadowIvan Turgenev£1.99
  13. Big Two-Hearted RiverErnest HemingwayUS only£1.99
  14. Boule de SuifGuy de Maupassant£1.99
  15. Cat in the RainErnest HemingwayUS only£1.99
  16. Che Ti Dice la Patria?Ernest HemingwayUS only£1.99
  17. Cross-Country SnowErnest HemingwayUS only£1.99
  18. Fifty GrandErnest HemingwayUS only£1.99
  19. GooseberriesAnton Chekhov£1.99
  20. Hills Like White ElephantsErnest HemingwayUS only£1.99
  21. In Another CountryErnest HemingwayUS only£1.99
  22. Indian CampErnest HemingwayUS only£1.99
  23. IonitchAnton Chekhov£1.99
  24. MiseryAnton Chekhov£1.99
  25. Mr. and Mrs. ElliotErnest HemingwayUS only£1.99
  26. My Old ManErnest HemingwayUS only£1.99
  27. Now I Lay MeErnest HemingwayUS only£1.99
  28. Out of SeasonErnest HemingwayUS only£1.99
  29. OystersAnton Chekhov£1.99
  30. Rip Van WinkleWashington Irving£1.99
  31. Rothschild's FiddleAnton Chekhov£1.99
  32. Soldier's HomeErnest HemingwayUS only£1.99
  33. Ten IndiansErnest HemingwayUS only£1.99
  34. The BattlerErnest HemingwayUS only£1.99
  35. The BetAnton Chekhov£1.99
  36. The Body-SnatcherRobert Louis Stevenson£1.99
  37. The DarlingAnton Chekhov£1.99
  38. The DeadJames Joyce£1.99
  39. The Doctor and the Doctor's WifeErnest HemingwayUS only£1.99
  40. The End of SomethingErnest HemingwayUS only£1.99
  41. The Fall of the House of UsherEdgar Allan Poe£1.99
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  43. The KissAnton Chekhov£1.99
  44. The Lady with the DogAnton Chekhov£1.99
  45. The Monkey and the CrocodileUnknown£1.99
  46. The Monkey's PawW.W. Jacobs£1.99
  47. The NoseNikolai Gogol£1.99
  48. The OvercoatNikolai Gogol£1.99

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