Set a course for the book you want to reach.
Bookfarer charts the passage. Name your destination, and it suggests books that help, one at a time, with a reason for each.
Example map: The Divine Comedy
Select any book to see why it’s on the map.
The Odyssey
- Challenged by The Republic · optional
Plato asks whether Homer’s stories are fit to teach the young.
- Inspired The Aeneid
Virgil wrote the Aeneid as a Roman answer to Homer’s epics.
- Challenged by Nicomachean Ethics · optional
Aristotle, Plato’s student, pushes back on his teacher’s idea of the good.
- Ideas used in The Divine Comedy
Dante draws on Aristotle’s ideas about right and wrong.
- Model for The Divine Comedy
Dante admired Virgil above all other poets, and his poem builds on the Aeneid.
- Stories used in The Divine Comedy
Many of the myths and figures Dante mentions come from Ovid.
You can start here. The other books help, but none are required.
The logbook is yours.
Books read, books ahead, and the notes you made along the way.
| Finished | The Odyssey |
|---|---|
| Reading | The Republic |
| Up next | Nicomachean Ethics |
| Notes | “What makes a society fair?” |