Reading path
The Beautifully Lost
For readers who prefer not to arrive. These are books where wandering is the point, where identity dissolves into atmosphere and plot gives way to mood. Characters drift through cities, through memory, through their own uncertainty, and the writing drifts with them. If you have ever felt more alive while lost than while found, this path was written for you.
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. On The RoadJack Kerouac, 1957
- 2. The Dharma BumsJack Kerouac, 1958
- 3. SiddharthaHermann Hesse, 1922
- 4. SteppenwolfHermann Hesse, 1927
- 5. The Wind-Up Bird ChronicleHaruki Murakami, 1994
- 6. Confessions of a MaskYukio Mishima, 1949
- 7. The Book of DisquietFernando Pessoa, 1982
- 8. The Rings of SaturnW.G. Sebald, 1995
- 9. Invisible CitiesItalo Calvino, 1972
- 10. The Narrow Road to the Deep NorthMatsuo Bashō, 1689
- 11. Under the VolcanoMalcolm Lowry, 1947
- 12. The Savage DetectivesRoberto Bolaño, 1998
- 13. HopscotchJulio Cortázar, 1963
- 14. Against NatureJ.K. Huysmans, 1884
- 15. The Razor's EdgeW. Somerset Maugham, 1944
- 16. The Adventures and Misadventures of MaqrollAlvaro Mutis, 1993
- 17. Ship of FoolsCristina Peri Rossi, 1984
- 18. The Sheltering SkyPaul Bowles, 1949
- 19. Bruges-la-MorteGeorges Rodenbach, 1892
- 20. Leaving Las VegasJohn O'Brien, 1990
- 21. As I Walked Out One Midsummer MorningLaurie Lee, 1969