From 'Consolations of the Forest'

"Not to be confined by the greatest, yet to be contained within the smallest, is divine."

Books mentioned in the beautiful Consolations of the Forest by Sylvain Tesson

List of Ideal Reading Material Carefully Composed in Paris for a Six-Month Stay in the Siberian Forest:

• Hell Quay, Ingrid Astier
• Lady Chatterley's Lover, D. H. Lawrence
• The Sickness Unto Death, Kierkegaard
• Tales of a Lost Kingdom: A Journey into Northwest Pakistan, Erik L' Homme
• An Itinerant Theatre, Philippe Fenwick
• Lost in the Taiga: One Russian Family's Fifty-year Struggle for Survival and Religious Freedom in the Siberian Wilderness, Vasily Peskov
• Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness, Pete Fromm
• Men Possessed by God: The Story of the Desert Monks of Ancient Christendom, Jacques Lacarriere
• Friday, or, The Other Island, Michael Tournier
• Un taxi mauve, Michel Deon
• Philosophy in the Boudoir, Sade
• Gilles, Drieu La Rochelle
• Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
• In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
• Un an de cabane (A Year in a Cabin in the Yukon), Olaf Candau
• Nuptials, Camus
• The Fall, Camus
• An Island to Oneself, Tom Neale
• The Reveries of the Solitary Walker, Rousseau
• The Story of My Life, Casanova
• The Song of the World, Giono
• Fouquet, Paul Morand
• Carnets (notebooks), Montherlant
• Journal Vol 1, 1965-1970, Junger
• The Rebel's Treatise, or, Back to the Forest, Junger
• African Games, Junger
• The Flowers of Evil, Baudelaire
• The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain
• The Poet, Michael Connelly
• Blood on the Moon, James Ellroy
• Eve, James Hadley Chase
• The Stoics, Pleiade Edition
• Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett
• On the Nature of Things, Lucretius
• The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History, Mircea Eliade
• The World as Will and Representation, Schopenhauer
• Typhoon, Conrad
• Odes, Victor Segalen
• Life of Rance, Chateaubriand
• Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu
• The Marienbad Elegy, Goethe
• The Complete Novels, Hemingway
• Ecce Homo, Nietzsche
• Thus Spake Zarathustra, Nietzsche
• Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer, Nietzsche
• The Stars, the Snow, the Fire,: Twnety Five Years in the Alaska Wilderness, John Haines
• The Men of the Last Frontiers, Grey Owl
• Treatise on Solitary Cabins, Antoine Marcel
• At the Heart of the World, Blaise Cendrars
• Leaves of Grass, Whitman
• A Sand Country Alamanc, Aldo Leopold
• The Abyss, or, Zeno of Bruges, Marguerite Yourcenar
• The Thousand and One Nights
• A Midsummer night's dream
• The Merry Wives of Windsor
• Twelfth Night, Or, What you will
• Arthurian Romances, Chretien de Troyes
• American Black Box, Maurice G. Dantec
• American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
• Walden, Thoreau
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
• The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Yukio Mishima
• Promise at Dawn, Romain Gary
• Out of Africa, Karen Blixen
• The Adventurers, Jose Giovanni

other books mentioned

• Kolyma tales
• Hyperion, Holderlin. Epigraph ("Not to be confined by the greatest, yet to be contained within the smallest, is divine.")