Isolarii #9 A Book of My Own — Personal Canons, Intimate Worlds, and Literary Self-Possession

The ninth installment of Isolarii continues its revival of the Renaissance “island book” tradition — compact publications each centered on a singular, self-contained idea. A Book of My Own turns inward, inviting contributors to chart their personal literary universes and reflect on the texts that have shaped their inner lives.

At once manifesto and memoir, anthology and confession, this issue gathers fragmented libraries, annotated margins, and readerly rituals to ask what it means to possess a book — or to be possessed by one. A meditation on autonomy, identity, and the quiet revolution of reading, Isolarii #9 transforms the solitary act of choosing a book into a collective gesture of world-building.