Reading path
The Controlled Explosion
Short works that hit like a freight train. Novellas, long stories, and compressed novels that contain more force per page than most thousand-page epics. Nothing is gradual here. The devastation is built into the architecture: tight, inevitable, and over before you can brace yourself. These are the works you finish in one sitting and carry for years.
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 MetamorphosisFranz Kafka, 1915
- 2. The StrangerAlbert Camus, 1942
- 3. Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad, 1899
- 4. The Death of Ivan IlyichLeo Tolstoy, 1886
- 5. The Old Man and the SeaErnest Hemingway, 1952
- 6. A Hunger ArtistFranz Kafka, 1922
- 7. The DeadJames Joyce, 1914
- 8. The LotteryShirley Jackson, 1948
- 9. Pedro PáramoJuan Rulfo, 1955
- 10. The Bell JarSylvia Plath, 1963
- 11. FatelessnessImre Kertész, 1975
- 12. DaddySylvia Plath, 1965
- 13. HowlAllen Ginsberg, 1956
- 14. HiroshimaJohn Hersey, 1946
- 15. A Season in HellArthur Rimbaud, 1873
- 16. The Bridge of San Luis ReyThornton Wilder, 1927
- 17. The Day of the LocustNathanael West, 1939
- 18. The Kreutzer SonataLeo Tolstoy, 1889
- 19. Colonel ChabertHonoré de Balzac, 1832
- 20. TyphoonJoseph Conrad, 1902
- 21. And Then There Were NoneAgatha Christie, 1939