Reading path
Books That Shouldn't Work (But Do)
A novel written as a dictionary. A story made of footnotes. A book with no plot, no characters, or no ending. Every work on this path breaks the rules of what fiction is supposed to be, and every one of them is somehow more emotionally devastating for it. These are the books that expand what you think literature can do. Expect to be confused, then moved, then permanently changed.
In the app a path keeps your place, marks what you have read, and hands you the next work when you are ready for it.
The first button needs the app on this device; the second gets it there.
The route
- 1. Tristram ShandyLaurence Sterne, 1759
- 2. UlyssesJames Joyce, 1922
- 3. If on a winter's night a travelerItalo Calvino, 1979
- 4. Invisible CitiesItalo Calvino, 1972
- 5. Pale FireVladimir Nabokov, 1962
- 6. The Sound and the FuryWilliam Faulkner, 1929
- 7. HopscotchJulio Cortázar, 1963
- 8. Life: A User's ManualGeorges Perec, 1978
- 9. Six Characters in Search of an AuthorLuigi Pirandello, 1921
- 10. The Waste LandT.S. Eliot, 1922
- 11. Gravity's RainbowThomas Pynchon, 1973
- 12. Infinite JestDavid Foster Wallace, 1996
- 13. Against NatureJ.K. Huysmans, 1884
- 14. The Golden NotebookDoris May Lessing, 1962
- 15. At Swim Two-BirdsFlann O'Brien, 1939
- 16. Bouvard et PécuchetGustave Flaubert, 1881
- 17. House of LeavesMark Z. Danielewski, 2000
- 18. If I Forget Thee, JerusalemWilliam Faulkner, 1939
- 19. Naked LunchWilliam S. Burroughs, 1959
- 20. The Notebook, The Proof, The Third LieAgota Kristof, 1986
- 21. SolenoidMircea Cărtărescu, 2015