Reading path
Cathedrals
Books built to contain a world. Architectural, accumulated over years, sacred in ambition, each one vast enough to hold everything its author knew. Genji stands at the threshold, a thousand years old: the form is not a nineteenth-century European invention but a thousand-year-old human impulse. Walk in and time behaves differently. Come out and you are a different reader.
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. The Tale of GenjiMurasaki Shikibu, 1010
- 2. Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes, 1605
- 3. Dream of the Red ChamberCao Xueqin, 1791
- 4. The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas, 1844
- 5. Moby-DickHerman Melville, 1851
- 6. Bleak HouseCharles Dickens, 1853
- 7. Les MisérablesVictor Hugo, 1862
- 8. War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy, 1869
- 9. The IdiotFyodor Dostoevsky, 1869
- 10. MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot, 1872
- 11. Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy, 1877
- 12. The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoevsky, 1880
- 13. In Search of Lost TimeMarcel Proust, 1913
- 14. UlyssesJames Joyce, 1922
- 15. The Magic MountainThomas Mann, 1924
- 16. The Man Without QualitiesRobert Musil, 1930
- 17. Absalom, Absalom!William Faulkner, 1936
- 18. One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel García Márquez, 1967
- 19. Gravity's RainbowThomas Pynchon, 1973
- 20. 2666Roberto Bolaño, 2004
- 21. Joseph and His BrothersThomas Mann, 1933
- 22. La RegentaClarín, 1884
- 23. UnderworldDon DeLillo, 1997
- 24. Fortunata and JacintaBenito Pérez Galdós, 1887
- 25. The Hunchback of Notre-DameVictor Hugo, 1831
- 26. Le Morte d'ArthurThomas Malory, 1485