Books/Readings

Bookshop List

Books I wasn’t able to include on the Bookshop list, but I would also recommend:

  • Ways to Wander by Clare Qualmann (Editor), Claire Hind (Editor) – a book of scores (directions for walking)
  • Prompts for Participatory Walks edited by Todd Shalom – this is really great for those interested in group walks (has a link to the free PDF download on this page)
  • Walk Ways by Tom Marioni (2002)
  • The Art of Walking: A Field Guide. by David Evans. ISBN: 978-1907317873
  • The Vintage Book of Walking, edited by Duncan Minshull. Random House UK, 2000.
  • On Procession edited by Rebecca Uchill
  • Through the Labyrinth by Herman Kern. ISBN: 978-3791321448
  • The Situationists and the City: A Reader. edited by Tom McDonough. ISBN: 9781844673643
  • Walking Detroit by JeeYeun Lee. ISBN: 9780578717845
  • Richard Long: A Line Made by Walking by Dieter Roelstraete (2010). ISBN: 978-1846380587
  • London Walking: a Handbook for Survival by Simon Pope (2001). ISBN: 978-1841660561
  • Iain Sinclair has several books about walking, such as London Orbital in which he walks the M25 highway that encircles London
  • Pacing by Francis Alÿs (2014). ISBN: 978-84-941462-6-8

Articles

Novels/Other writings about walking that are popular:

  • Open City by Teju Cole.
  • The Salt Path: A Memoir by Raynor Winn
  • The Walk by Robert Walser (tedious, but I can see how some might enjoy the stream of consciousness approach)
  • The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald (haven’t read it)

Poets, Essayists, Scholars, Artists, and Novelists who write/wrote about walking or are/were known for walking:

  • Peter Ackroyd
  • Joseph Amato, On Foot: A History of Walking
  • Li Bai
  • JG Ballard
  • Basho, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
  • Charles Baudelaire
  • Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project
  • Anna Best, Occasional Sights
  • William Blake
  • André Breton
  • David Le Breton
  • John Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress
  • Elizabeth Carter
  • Michel De Certeau
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Linda Cracknell
  • Guy Debord, The Theory of the Dérive
  • Daniel Defoe
  • T.S. Eliot
  • Lauren Elkin
  • Robert Frost
  • Du Fu
  • Stephen Graham, The Gentle Art of Tramping
  • Frédéric Gros
  • Alyson Hallett
  • Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt
  • Franz Hessel
  • Stewart Home
  • Jean-Louis Hue
  • Joris-karl Huysmans
  • Tim Ingold
  • Ikkyu
  • Franz Kafka
  • Satish Kumar, Spiritual Compass
  • Arthur Machen
  • Robert Macfarlane
  • Harriet Martineau
  • Doreen Massey, For Space
  • John Muir, A thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf
  • Anaïs Nin
  • Thomas De Quincey
  • Nicholas Royle
  • Dan Rubinstein
  • Will Self
  • Nan Shepherd
  • Iain Sinclair
  • Phil Smith
  • Mary Soderstrom
  • Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust
  • Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Maureen Stone, Black Woman Walking
  • Cheryl Strayed
  • Henry David Thoreau
  • Karen Till
  • Jo Vergunst
  • Ellen Weeton
  • Walt Whitman
  • Virginia Woolf
  • Dorothy Wordsworth
  • William Wordsworth