Reading path
Door-Stoppers
The big ones. Each of these is a serious commitment, and each is worth every page. These are books that demand weeks, not hours, that build entire worlds and populate them with enough life to fill a small country. Length is not a flaw here. It is the method. Some experiences in literature can only happen when a book has the room to unfold at the pace of life itself. Clear your schedule. Settle in. The reward is proportional to the investment.
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. War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy, 1869
- 2. Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy, 1877
- 3. In Search of Lost TimeMarcel Proust, 1927
- 4. The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoevsky, 1880
- 5. Les MisérablesVictor Hugo, 1862
- 6. Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes, 1605
- 7. UlyssesJames Joyce, 1922
- 8. MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot, 1872
- 9. Moby-DickHerman Melville, 1851
- 10. Bleak HouseCharles Dickens, 1853
- 11. Vanity FairWilliam Makepeace Thackeray, 1848
- 12. Infinite JestDavid Foster Wallace, 1996
- 13. Gravity's RainbowThomas Pynchon, 1973
- 14. 2666Roberto Bolaño, 2004
- 15. Lonesome DoveLarry McMurtry, 1985
- 16. The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas, 1844
- 17. ClarissaSamuel Richardson, 1748
- 18. The Man Without QualitiesRobert Musil, 1930
- 19. One Thousand and One NightsAnonymous, 1400
- 20. Tristram ShandyLaurence Sterne, 1767
- 21. The Lord of the RingsJ.R.R. Tolkien, 1954
- 22. The Canterbury TalesGeoffrey Chaucer, 1392
- 23. The Cairo TrilogyNaguib Mahfouz, 1957
- 24. Finnegans WakeJames Joyce, 1939
- 25. The Faerie QueeneEdmund Spenser, 1590
- 26. Gargantua and PantagruelFrançois Rabelais, 1534
- 27. The Divine ComedyDante Alighieri, 1308
- 28. Paradise LostJohn Milton, 1667
- 29. MahabharataVyasa, 400 BCE
- 30. The ShahnamehFerdowsi, 1010
- 31. Dream of the Red ChamberCao Xueqin, 1791
- 32. An American TragedyTheodore Dreiser, 1925
- 33. Atlas ShruggedAyn Rand, 1957
- 34. Joseph and His BrothersThomas Mann, 1933
- 35. La RegentaClarín, 1884
- 36. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and ClayMichael Chabon, 2000
- 37. The StandStephen King, 1978
- 38. Gone With the WindMargaret Mitchell, 1936
- 39. The Life of Samuel JohnsonJames Boswell, 1791
- 40. UnderworldDon DeLillo, 1997
- 41. Her LoverAlbert Cohen, 1968
- 42. The Civil WarShelby Foote, 1958
- 43. A Dance to the Music of TimeAnthony Powell, 1951
- 44. AnniversariesUwe Johnson, 1970
- 45. His Dark MaterialsPhilip Pullman, 1995
- 46. Journey to the WestWu Cheng'en, 1592
- 47. Our Mutual FriendCharles Dickens, 1864
- 48. Romance of the Three KingdomsGuanzhong Luo, 1400
- 49. The BetrothedAlessandro Manzoni, 1827
- 50. The Forsyte SagaJohn Galsworthy, 1906
- 51. Of Human BondageW. Somerset Maugham, 1915
- 52. From Here to EternityJames Jones, 1951
- 53. Sophie's ChoiceWilliam Styron, 1979
- 54. An American DilemmaGunnar Myrdal, 1944
- 55. Black Lamb and Grey FalconRebecca West, 1941
- 56. A Study of HistoryArnold J. Toynbee, 1934
- 57. The Making of the English Working ClassE.P. Thompson, 1963
- 58. The Making of the Atomic BombRichard Rhodes, 1986
- 59. Patriotic GoreEdmund Wilson, 1962
- 60. The Rise of the WestWilliam H. McNeill, 1963
- 61. James JoyceRichard Ellmann, 1959
- 62. Battle Cry of FreedomJames M. McPherson, 1988
- 63. The Rise of Theodore RooseveltEdmund Morris, 1979
- 64. The Power BrokerRobert Caro, 1974
- 65. The Orlando FuriosoLodovico Ariosto, 1516
- 66. Barnaby RudgeCharles Dickens, 1841
- 67. Little DorritCharles Dickens, 1855
- 68. Martin ChuzzlewitCharles Dickens, 1843
- 69. Phineas FinnAnthony Trollope, 1869
- 70. ArmadaleWilkie Collins, 1866
- 71. No NameWilkie Collins, 1862
- 72. The Heart Of MidlothianSir Walter Scott, 1818
- 73. ResurrectionLeo Tolstoy, 1899
- 74. Twenty Years AfterAlexandre Dumas, 1845
- 75. The Sorrow of BelgiumHugo Claus, 1983
- 76. Njal's SagaIceland, 1280
- 77. The Human ComedyHonoré de Balzac, 1830