Wisdom from Woolf on International Women’s Day. A pearl from Proust’s In Search of Lost Time on 29 February. Discover gems from four millennia of novels, plays and poetry in Daily Canon.

What we love: Each excerpt is paired with an insightful blurb, the full work’s length and, for many titles, a link to start reading right in the app. Daily Canon reaches beyond the Western canon, introducing masterpieces from across cultures and eras.

Quick tip: Not sure where to start? Choose from over 70 curated Reading Paths, which collect works around a single theme, movement or literary tradition. “The City as Character,” for example, traces Joyce’s Dublin, Dickens’ London and Baudelaire’s Paris.

Meet the creator: Hal Wall built Daily Canon over six months and “an embarrassing number of late evenings,” he says. “I’ve always thought reading the canon is a bit like fishing. Most days, nothing bites. But every so often, a sentence or a book catches you completely and stays with you for weeks. Daily Canon is designed to keep your line across as broad a stretch of the literary river as possible.”