Reading path
The Survivor's Voice
Testimony, endurance, and the act of witnessing as resistance. These works are written by people who survived what should have been unsurvivable and found the words to carry it forward. Prison, genocide, slavery, exile, oppression. The writing is not always beautiful. It is always necessary. These are the books that refuse to let the world forget what happened, and in doing so, keep something essential alive.
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. If This Is a ManPrimo Levi, 1947
- 2. BlindnessJosé Saramago, 1995
- 3. Man's Search for MeaningViktor Frankl, 1946
- 4. The Diary of a Young GirlAnne Frank, 1947
- 5. RequiemAnna Akhmatova, 1963
- 6. BelovedToni Morrison, 1987
- 7. Go Tell It on the MountainJames Baldwin, 1953
- 8. Notes of a Native SonJames Baldwin, 1955
- 9. I Have a DreamMartin Luther King Jr., 1963
- 10. Things Fall ApartChinua Achebe, 1958
- 11. FatelessnessImre Kertész, 1975
- 12. Darkness at NoonArthur Koestler, 1940
- 13. Death FuguePaul Celan, 1948
- 14. AusterlitzW.G. Sebald, 2001
- 15. One Day in the Life of Ivan DenisovichAleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1962
- 16. The Autobiography of Malcolm XAlex Haley, 1965
- 17. Bury My Heart at Wounded KneeDee Alexander Brown, 1970
- 18. Life's Good, BrotherNâzim Hikmet, 1962
- 19. Woman at Point ZeroNawal El Saadawi, 1975
- 20. Reading Lolita in TehranAzar Nafisi, 2003
- 21. Before Night FallsReinaldo Arenas, 1992
- 22. Human ActsHan Kang, 2014
- 23. Long Walk To FreedomNelson Mandela, 1994
- 24. The Notebook, The Proof, The Third LieAgota Kristof, 1986
- 25. W, or the Memory of ChildhoodGeorges Perec, 1975
- 26. Up from SlaveryBooker T. Washington, 1901
- 27. Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass, 1845
- 28. Chronicle of the Narváez ExpeditionÁlvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, 1542
- 29. I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsMaya Angelou, 1969
- 30. Fugitive PiecesAnne Michaels, 1996
- 31. Journal, 1935 44Mihail Sebastian, 1996
- 32. Faces In The WaterJanet Frame, 1961
- 33. Once Were WarriorsAlan Duff, 1990