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Reading path

The Recovery Path

For the space between big books. After you finish something enormous and world-altering, you need something that is gentle without being trivial, intelligent without being exhausting. These works are warm baths for the literary mind: beautifully written, modestly sized, and kind to readers who are still recovering from whatever they just read. No pressure. Just pleasure.

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.

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The first button needs the app on this device; the second gets it there.

The route

  • 1. SiddharthaHermann Hesse, 1922
  • 2. CandideVoltaire, 1759
  • 3. Letters to a Young PoetRainer Maria Rilke, 1929
  • 4. The Importance of Being EarnestOscar Wilde, 1895
  • 5. Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen, 1813
  • 6. EmmaJane Austen, 1815
  • 7. The TempestWilliam Shakespeare, 1611
  • 8. I Wandered Lonely as a CloudWilliam Wordsworth, 1807
  • 9. Snow CountryYasunari Kawabata, 1956
  • 10. WaldenHenry David Thoreau, 1854
  • 11. The Old Man and the SeaErnest Hemingway, 1952
  • 12. Anne of Green GablesL.M. Montgomery, 1908
  • 13. A Wrinkle In TimeMadeleine L'Engle, 1962
  • 14. Little WomenLouisa May Alcott, 1868
  • 15. The Chronicles of NarniaC.S. Lewis, 1950
  • 16. The Adventures of Tom SawyerMark Twain, 1876
  • 17. Under the Greenwood TreeThomas Hardy, 1872