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Reading path

The Winter Reading Path

Books that belong to the cold months. Interior, reflective, slow-burning. The kind of reading that asks for a blanket, a long afternoon, and nowhere to be. These works move at the pace of winter itself: patient, deliberate, accumulating quietly until you realise how far you have travelled. Let the world outside be grey. The world inside these pages is immense.

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. War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy, 1869
  • 2. In Search of Lost TimeMarcel Proust, 1913
  • 3. The Magic MountainThomas Mann, 1924
  • 4. MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot, 1872
  • 5. Bleak HouseCharles Dickens, 1853
  • 6. Snow CountryYasunari Kawabata, 1956
  • 7. Doctor ZhivagoBoris Pasternak, 1957
  • 8. The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoevsky, 1880
  • 9. Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë, 1847
  • 10. Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë, 1847
  • 11. Independent PeopleHalldór Laxness, 1935
  • 12. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningRobert Frost, 1923
  • 13. A Winter In HakkariFerit Edgü, 1977
  • 14. Smilla's Sense of SnowPeter Høeg, 1992
  • 15. The Snow ManWallace Stevens, 1923
  • 16. The Night Before ChristmasClement Clarke Moore, 1823