Reading path
The Late-Night Path
Books that feel different after midnight. When the house is dark and the world is quiet, certain writing comes alive in a way it never does in daylight. Atmospheric, hypnotic, slightly hallucinatory. These are books that pull you deeper into the small hours, books that understand the particular quality of thought that only happens when everyone else is asleep.
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 Master & MargaritaMikhail Bulgakov, 1967
- 2. Pedro PáramoJuan Rulfo, 1955
- 3. The Wind-Up Bird ChronicleHaruki Murakami, 1994
- 4. The Tell-Tale HeartEdgar Allan Poe, 1843
- 5. FrankensteinMary Shelley, 1818
- 6. The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde, 1890
- 7. The CastleFranz Kafka, 1926
- 8. The Fall of the House of UsherEdgar Allan Poe, 1839
- 9. NightwoodDjuna Barnes, 1936
- 10. One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel García Márquez, 1967
- 11. The Name of the RoseUmberto Eco, 1980
- 12. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeRobert Louis Stevenson, 1886
- 13. The Hound of the BaskervillesArthur Conan Doyle, 1902
- 14. The Woman in WhiteWilkie Collins, 1860
- 15. The Hollow ManJohn Dickson Carr, 1935
- 16. Murder on the Orient ExpressAgatha Christie, 1934
- 17. The RavenEdgar Allan Poe, 1845
- 18. The Pit and the PendulumEdgar Allan Poe, 1842