Reading path
The Outsider Looking In
For anyone who has stood at the edge of a room and watched the world happen to other people. These are books about characters who see everything and belong nowhere: not mad, not broken, just permanently at a distance. The observation is sharper for the exclusion. The loneliness is quieter for never being named. You will recognise this feeling before you finish the first page.
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 StrangerAlbert Camus, 1942
- 2. Invisible ManRalph Ellison, 1952
- 3. The Catcher in the RyeJ.D. Salinger, 1951
- 4. The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
- 5. A Passage to IndiaE.M. Forster, 1924
- 6. Ward No. 6Anton Chekhov, 1892
- 7. The Remains of the DayKazuo Ishiguro, 1989
- 8. The Good SoldierFord Madox Ford, 1915
- 9. The Woman in the DunesKōbō Abe, 1962
- 10. The Heart Is a Lonely HunterCarson McCullers, 1940
- 11. Season of Migration to the NorthTayeb Salih, 1966
- 12. The Tartar SteppeDino Buzzati, 1940
- 13. The Talented Mr. RipleyPatricia Highsmith, 1955
- 14. The Long GoodbyeRaymond Chandler, 1953
- 15. Wolf HallHilary Mantel, 2009
- 16. RebeccaDaphne du Maurier, 1938
- 17. AmericanahChimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2013
- 18. The Baron in the TreesItalo Calvino, 1957
- 19. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestKen Kesey, 1962
- 20. Waiting for the BarbariansJ.M. Coetzee, 1980
- 21. Burmese DaysGeorge Orwell, 1934
- 22. KimRudyard Kipling, 1901
- 23. Moll FlandersDaniel Defoe, 1722
- 24. Of Human BondageW. Somerset Maugham, 1915
- 25. Life is a Carawanserai Has Two Doors I Went in One I Came out the OtherEmine Sevgi Özdamar, 1992
- 26. Ambiguous AdventureCheikh Hamidou Kane, 1961
- 27. Smilla's Sense of SnowPeter Høeg, 1992
- 28. The Lonely LondonersSam Selvon, 1956
- 29. The Road Into The OpenArthur Schnitzler, 1908
- 30. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their AccentsJulia Alvarez, 1991
- 31. A Bend in the RiverV.S. Naipaul, 1979
- 32. The Death of the HeartElizabeth Bowen, 1938
- 33. Agnes GreyAnne Brontë, 1847
- 34. The Blithedale RomanceNathaniel Hawthorne, 1852
- 35. In the Skin of a LionMichael Ondaatje, 1987
- 36. How Should a Person Be?Sheila Heti, 2010
- 37. Let The Right One InJohn Ajvide Lindqvist, 2004
- 38. The AssistantRobert Walser, 1908
- 39. The Bone PeopleKeri Hulme, 1984
- 40. Once Were WarriorsAlan Duff, 1990
- 41. Death And The PenguinAndrey Kurkov, 1996
- 42. Deep RiversJosé María Arguedas, 1958
- 43. A World for JuliusAlfredo Bryce Echenique, 1970
- 44. No Longer HumanOsamu Dazai, 1948