The citations in chapter 7 are from:
The Odyssey, Book 14
Violette Leduc, L’Affamée
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Arthur Rimbaud, “L’Éternité”
Marie NDiaye, Three Strong Women
Sandrine Collette, Nothing But Dust
On the Y.S.’s first trip, Juliette travels with:
The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas
Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame
The Wonderful Adventure of Nils Holgersson by Selma Lagerlöf
My Brother and His Brother by Håkan Lindquist
Sula by Toni Morrison
The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
Mudwoman by Joyce Carol Oates
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Break of Day by Colette
Seedtime by Philippe Jaccottet
La voix sombre by Ryoko Sekiguchi
The Human Race by Robert Antelme
The Ratcatcher: A Lyrical Satire by Marina Tsvetaeva
Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Last Things by Umberto Saba
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The Book of Sand by Jorge Luis Borges
The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon
Nedjma by Kateb Yacine
Vowels of the Sea: Amers by Saint-John Perse
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
In the Mothers’ Land by Elisabeth Vonarburg
A Suspicious River by Laura Kasischke
Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar
The Day Before Happiness by Erri De Luca
Un petit cheval et une voiture by Anne Perry-Bouquet
The Lion by Joseph Kessel
The Torment of Others by Val McDermid
Ice by Anna Kavan
Les Pierres sauvages by Fernand Pouillon
Gare du Nord by Abdelkader Djemaï
Milena by Margarete Buber-Neumann
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Beggars of Life by Jim Tully
Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
Ask the Dust by John Fante
Dalva by Jim Harrison
Journal by Mireille Havet
The Suns of Independence by Ahmadou Kourouma
This list, although extremely incomplete—it wasn’t possible to mention all the books on board the Y.S.—is given haphazardly, as it was compiled. That is the charm of many libraries. You can add your own favorites, your discoveries, all the books you’d recommend to a friend—or to your worst enemy, so they will no longer be so, if the magic works. Or even to the person sitting next to you on the train.