“The Mind at Three Miles an Hour” in Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit

  • The Peripatetic (1793) by John Thelwall
  • Reveries of a Solitary Walker (1782) by Jean Jacques Rousseau
  • “The World of the Living Present and the Constitution of the Surrounding World External to the Organism” (1931) by Edmund Husserl

“Introduction” in The Flaneur by Keith Tester

  • “The Painter of Modern Life” (1863) by Charles Baudelaire
  • Life: A User’s Manual (1987) by George Perec

No Lease on Life by Lynne Tillman

Open City by Teju Cole

  • The walks range from short to longer, but they exist less in discrete pieces, and more as parts of a larger aggregated arc. Taken together, the book itself is one long walk with the protagonist Julius.

Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald

The Old Ways by Robert MacFarlane