Reading path
Books Writers Secretly Worship
The writer's writer list. These are the books that other authors keep on their nightstands, quote in interviews, and name as the works that taught them how to write. Not always the most famous. Not always the most accessible. But the ones that people who make books for a living turn to when they need to remember why they started. An insider's canon within the canon.
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. In Search of Lost TimeMarcel Proust, 1913
- 2. Pale FireVladimir Nabokov, 1962
- 3. LolitaVladimir Nabokov, 1955
- 4. The Master & MargaritaMikhail Bulgakov, 1967
- 5. Pedro PáramoJuan Rulfo, 1955
- 6. The Library of BabelJorge Luis Borges, 1941
- 7. To the LighthouseVirginia Woolf, 1927
- 8. The Passion According to G.H.Clarice Lispector, 1964
- 9. The Book of DisquietFernando Pessoa, 1982
- 10. NightwoodDjuna Barnes, 1936
- 11. Posthumous Memoirs of Brás CubasMachado de Assis, 1881
- 12. The Rings of SaturnW.G. Sebald, 1995
- 13. StonerJohn Edward Williams, 1965
- 14. The Life of Samuel JohnsonJames Boswell, 1791
- 15. The Most Secret Memory Of MenMohamed Mbougar Sarr, 2021
- 16. The Seven MadmenRoberto Arlt, 1929
- 17. James JoyceRichard Ellmann, 1959
- 18. The Unknown MasterpieceHonoré de Balzac, 1831
- 19. Letters of John Keats to His Family and FriendsJohn Keats, 1891