Skip to content

Reading path

Kafka's Children

The literature of systems that crush the individual. Bureaucracies that consume people whole. Societies that smile while they erase what makes someone human. Darkly funny, deeply unsettling, and more relevant with every passing year. This path sharpens the eye for the machinery that hides in plain sight, in institutions, in language, in the quiet agreements nobody remembers making.

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.

Open in the appDownload

The first button needs the app on this device; the second gets it there.

The route

  • 1. The TrialFranz Kafka, 1925
  • 2. The CastleFranz Kafka, 1926
  • 3. The MetamorphosisFranz Kafka, 1915
  • 4. A Hunger ArtistFranz Kafka, 1922
  • 5. 1984George Orwell, 1949
  • 6. Animal FarmGeorge Orwell, 1945
  • 7. Darkness at NoonArthur Koestler, 1940
  • 8. Brave New WorldAldous Huxley, 1932
  • 9. RhinocerosEugène Ionesco, 1959
  • 10. Catch-22Joseph Heller, 1961
  • 11. Slaughterhouse-FiveKurt Vonnegut, 1969
  • 12. The Book of Laughter and ForgettingMilan Kundera, 1979
  • 13. White NoiseDon DeLillo, 1985
  • 14. SatantangoLászló Krasznahorkai, 1985
  • 15. The Handmaid's TaleMargaret Atwood, 1985
  • 16. BlindnessJosé Saramago, 1995
  • 17. Little DorritCharles Dickens, 1855
  • 18. The VegetarianHan Kang, 2007