Reading path
The Labyrinth
Fiction that breaks its own rules and rebuilds them from the wreckage. Every work on this path is a puzzle, a trap door, a hall of mirrors. The ground shifts constantly. Stories fold in on themselves, narrators lie, structures dissolve. What emerges on the other side is a permanent shift in perception: the suspicion that reality is far stranger than the tidy stories we tell about it.
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. Tristram ShandyLaurence Sterne, 1767
- 2. Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll, 1865
- 3. UlyssesJames Joyce, 1922
- 4. Finnegans WakeJames Joyce, 1939
- 5. The Library of BabelJorge Luis Borges, 1941
- 6. The AlephJorge Luis Borges, 1945
- 7. If on a winter's night a travelerItalo Calvino, 1979
- 8. Invisible CitiesItalo Calvino, 1972
- 9. Life: A User's ManualGeorges Perec, 1978
- 10. Pale FireVladimir Nabokov, 1962
- 11. HopscotchJulio Cortázar, 1963
- 12. The Name of the RoseUmberto Eco, 1980
- 13. Gravity's RainbowThomas Pynchon, 1973
- 14. Infinite JestDavid Foster Wallace, 1996
- 15. 2666Roberto Bolaño, 2004
- 16. VThomas Pynchon, 1963
- 17. The Alexandria QuartetLawrence Durrell, 1957
- 18. House of LeavesMark Z. Danielewski, 2000
- 19. The CounterfeitersAndré Gide, 1925
- 20. PetersburgAndrei Bely, 1913
- 21. The History of the Siege of LisbonJosé Saramago, 1989
- 22. The Most Secret Memory Of MenMohamed Mbougar Sarr, 2021
- 23. A Brief LifeJuan Carlos Onetti, 1950
- 24. Point Counter PointAldous Huxley, 1928
- 25. The MagusJohn Fowles, 1965
- 26. SolenoidMircea Cărtărescu, 2015