Reading path
Where Literature Changed Forever
The before-and-after moments. Every work on this path cracked open a door that could never be closed again: a new way of telling a story, a new way of seeing the world, a new idea of what a book could be. After each of these, everything that followed was different. This is the path for readers who want to understand not just what the canon contains, but how it got that way.
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 IliadHomer, 750 BCE
- 2. The Divine ComedyDante Alighieri, 1308
- 3. Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes, 1605
- 4. WaverleySir Walter Scott, 1814
- 5. HamletWilliam Shakespeare, 1601
- 6. Paradise LostJohn Milton, 1667
- 7. Song of MyselfWalt Whitman, 1855
- 8. Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert, 1857
- 9. Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky, 1866
- 10. The Waste LandT.S. Eliot, 1922
- 11. UlyssesJames Joyce, 1922
- 12. The MetamorphosisFranz Kafka, 1915
- 13. One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel García Márquez, 1967
- 14. BelovedToni Morrison, 1987
- 15. First FolioWilliam Shakespeare, 1623
- 16. Leaves of GrassWalt Whitman, 1855
- 17. Tradition and the Individual TalentT.S. Eliot, 1919