Reading path
The Companion
Cicero called a friend a second self. Three thousand years of literature has been working it out: Gilgamesh weeping for Enkidu, Ruth refusing to leave Naomi, Sancho with Quixote, Sam carrying Frodo, Sethe with the daughter who came back. The witness who follows the hero, the road companion, the brother-in-arms, the friend you keep through everything. These books know the deepest thing one person can do is stand beside another.
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 Epic of GilgameshAnonymous, 2100 BCE
- 2. The IliadHomer, 750 BCE
- 3. The Book of RuthAnonymous, 450 BCE
- 4. EssaysMichel de Montaigne, 1580
- 5. Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes, 1605
- 6. The Three MusketeersAlexandre Dumas, 1844
- 7. A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens, 1859
- 8. War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy, 1869
- 9. Huckleberry FinnMark Twain, 1884
- 10. Mrs DallowayVirginia Woolf, 1925
- 11. Letters to a Young PoetRainer Maria Rilke, 1929
- 12. Of Mice and MenJohn Steinbeck, 1937
- 13. Brideshead RevisitedEvelyn Waugh, 1945
- 14. Waiting for GodotSamuel Beckett, 1953
- 15. The Lord of the RingsJ.R.R. Tolkien, 1954
- 16. On The RoadJack Kerouac, 1957
- 17. Lonesome DoveLarry McMurtry, 1985
- 18. BelovedToni Morrison, 1987
- 19. King Solomon's MinesH. Rider Haggard, 1885
- 20. A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens, 1859
- 21. The Autobiography of Alice B. ToklasGertrude Stein, 1933
- 22. The Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper, 1826
- 23. The Little PrinceAntoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943
- 24. Death Comes for the ArchbishopWilla Cather, 1927
- 25. The Life of Samuel JohnsonJames Boswell, 1791
- 26. A Wizard Of EarthseaUrsula K. Le Guin, 1968
- 27. Zorba the GreekNikos Kazantzakis, 1946
- 28. The Baron in the TreesItalo Calvino, 1957
- 29. The Adventures of Tom SawyerMark Twain, 1876
- 30. Charlotte's WebE.B. White, 1952
- 31. The Wind in the WillowsKenneth Grahame, 1908
- 32. Watership DownRichard Adams, 1972
- 33. So Long a LetterMariama Bâ, 1980
- 34. On FriendshipMarcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BCE
- 35. The Life of Charlotte BrontëElizabeth Gaskell, 1857
- 36. The Prince and the PauperMark Twain, 1881
- 37. Twenty Years AfterAlexandre Dumas, 1845
- 38. Julian and MaddaloPercy Bysshe Shelley, 1824
- 39. Three Men in a BoatJerome K. Jerome, 1889