Guiding principles: lyrical philosophy, conceptual writing, experimental writing, uncreative writing

Current

Competitive

1. Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are by John Kaag (2018)
2. Walking with Buddha by CW Lockhart (2020)
3. The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane (2013)

Contextual

1. Wanderlust by Rebecca Solnit (2001) (history of walking)
2. The Art of Wandering: The Writer as Walker by Merlin Coverley (2012) (philosophical history)
3. Anitismo
4. Experimental Writing by Lenhart and Cordeiro (2024)
5. Imaoka Shin'ichiro's Essays (revised 2025)

Contemporary

1. Things Become Other Things by Craig Mod (2025)

Classics

1. The Living Mountain by Nan Shepard (1977)
2. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (1974)
3. The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald (1995)

Next

Competitive

• Walking in Circles by Todd Wassel (2020)
• Walking: One Step at a Time by Erling Kaage (2019)
• In Praise of Paths by Torbjørn Ekelund (2020)
• A Walk Through Paris by Eric Hazan (2016)

Contextual

Filipino religion

• Pasyon and Revolution by Ileto

Walking

• How We Walk by Matthew Beaumont (2024)
• Faraway the Southern Sky: A Novel by Joseph Andras (2024)
• The Walker: On Losing and Finding Yourself in the Modern City by Matthew Beaumont (2020)
• Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London by Matthew Beaumont (2015)
• On Looking: A Walker's Guide to the Art of Observation by Alexandra Horowitz (2013)
• Open City by Teju Cole (2011)
• How to Walk by Thich Nhat Hanh
• In Praise of Walking by Shane O'Mara (2019) (neuroscience of walking)
• First Steps by Jeremy DeSilva (2021) (anthropology of walking)
• On Foot: A History of Walking (2004)
• A Walking Life by Antonia Malchik (2019) (social history of walking)
• The Lost Art of Walking by Geoff Nicholson (2008)
• On Trails by Robert Moor (2019)
• Beneath my Feet by Duncan Minshull (2019) (anthology)
• While Wandering by Duncan Minshull (2014) (anthology)
• The Joy of Walking by Suzy Cripps (2020) (anthology)
• Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean
• 100 Years of Life by Imaoka
• To the Sunny Short by Capek

Contemporary

Classics

• The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
• Walden by Thoreau