Reading path
The Kind Intelligence
Books that make you feel wiser without making you feel smaller. Not preachy. Not sentimental. Just deeply intelligent writing by authors who seem to understand more about being human than they have any right to. Reading these works is like spending time with someone who sees everything clearly and judges nothing. You leave each one feeling slightly more capable of compassion, which is the rarest gift literature gives.
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. MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot, 1872
- 2. EssaysMichel de Montaigne, 1580
- 3. MeditationsMarcus Aurelius, 180 CE
- 4. Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen, 1813
- 5. Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy, 1877
- 6. To the LighthouseVirginia Woolf, 1927
- 7. The Cherry OrchardAnton Chekhov, 1904
- 8. GileadMarilynne Robinson, 2004
- 9. Where the Mind Is Without FearRabindranath Tagore, 1910
- 10. Letters to a Young PoetRainer Maria Rilke, 1929
- 11. PersuasionJane Austen, 1817
- 12. The Remains of the DayKazuo Ishiguro, 1989
- 13. The ProphetKahlil Gibran, 1923
- 14. The Little PrinceAntoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943
- 15. Little WomenLouisa May Alcott, 1868
- 16. Charlotte's WebE.B. White, 1952
- 17. Doctor ThorneAnthony Trollope, 1858
- 18. How to Read and WhyHarold Bloom, 2000