Reading path
Hope Against Evidence
Dark worlds containing stubborn light. These books stare into catastrophe, injustice, and suffering and refuse to let hope die. Not naive hope. Not comfortable hope. The hard, earned kind that survives because something in the human spirit insists on it even when the evidence says otherwise. These are the books that make you believe in people despite everything you know about people.
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 PlagueAlbert Camus, 1947
- 2. Man's Search for MeaningViktor Frankl, 1946
- 3. If This Is a ManPrimo Levi, 1947
- 4. Les MisérablesVictor Hugo, 1862
- 5. Their Eyes Were Watching GodZora Neale Hurston, 1937
- 6. Song of SolomonToni Morrison, 1977
- 7. A Raisin in the SunLorraine Hansberry, 1959
- 8. BelovedToni Morrison, 1987
- 9. The Diary of a Young GirlAnne Frank, 1947
- 10. I Have a DreamMartin Luther King Jr., 1963
- 11. GileadMarilynne Robinson, 2004
- 12. The RoadCormac McCarthy, 2006
- 13. Midnight's ChildrenSalman Rushdie, 1981
- 14. The StandStephen King, 1978
- 15. Cry, the Beloved CountryAlan Paton, 1948
- 16. A Fine BalanceRohinton Mistry, 1995
- 17. Zorba the GreekNikos Kazantzakis, 1946
- 18. The BetrothedAlessandro Manzoni, 1827
- 19. The Lion, The Witch and the WardrobeC.S. Lewis, 1950
- 20. Memed, My HawkYashar Kemal, 1955
- 21. Life's Good, BrotherNâzim Hikmet, 1962
- 22. The Heart Of MidlothianSir Walter Scott, 1818