"Stranded on a desert Island" Book List

1. Tami Hoag A Thin Dark Line sigh..gotta love trashy crime novels
2. Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita
3. Homer The Odyssey
4. Shakespeare Complete works
5. Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner
6. Douglas Adams The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
7. Brian Friel Translations
8. Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
9. Alexander Pushkin Eugene Onegin, The Queen of Spades
10. Julian May The Trillium Series (Black Trillium, Blood Trillium, Sky Trillium) Ok so technically that's three books, but there must be a collective edition...)

Right! Off to the island then! :nod:

welcome to the isle, Behemoth! Our library is growing!

Though feeling a little indecisive, on my 'stranded' top 10 list, I may want to replace one or two of the books with either or both Anna Karenina and War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy. I cannot choose which, but, so as to sneak those two books in, I could probably fit some of those smaller novels I listed under my shirt, or something. :D

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Originally Posted by Asa Adams

welcome to the isle, Behemoth! Our library is growing!

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Thanks! ;) Great idea for a thread, by the way. I thought it would be simple but the more I thought about it, the harder it got lol.

Alright, time to add in a list, I'm bored of just reading everyone else's lists...

1)Franz Kafka - The Castle/The Trial (I have a big book with both novels in it)
2)James Joyce - Finnegan's Wake
3)Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes From Underground
4)My Collected Short Stories of William Faulkner
5)Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms
6)One of those books of Edible Roots and Plants
7)Kant - Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals or Critique of Pure Reason
8)Heinlein - Starship Troopers (So Entertaining :D )
9)Something by Nietszche can't decide....probably Thus Spoke Zarathustra
10)Salinger - Catcher in the Rye

Just a bunch of entertaining books, favorite books by favorite authors, and a few difficult books which like others have stated I'll finally have enough time to properly disect and attempt to understand.

1. Bible
2. Lord of the Rings
3. Peter Pan (that book gives me crinkles up and down my spine....can't get enough of its simple delightfulness)
4. The Complete Works of Shakespeare
5. The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
6. The Princess Bride
7. Pride and Prejudice
8. The Blue Sword
9. Rose Daughter
10. Worst Case Scenario ;)

I'm sure I'll change my mind at least once!

1. On The Road, Jack Kerouac :banana:
2. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand :confused:
3. Boredom, Alberto Moravia
4. Big Sur, Jack Kerouac
5. The Plague, Albert Camus
6. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
7. Jonathan L. Seagull, Richard Bach
8. As We Are Now, May Sarton
9. Journal of a Solitude, May Sarton :banana:
10. Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller :cool:
I'm done-

Welcome, Tend, Jon1jt, Vintage. All great Lists.

I know how you feel Behemoth. You too Mono! :nod:

I think I might post my ten in pieces hehe, because I have managed to come up with a few.

1. The Bible
2. Don Quixote (laughter, tears, and morals oh my!!)
3. The Lord of the Rings
4. Something from Henry Rider Haggard - King Soloman's Mines probably

I will come back later!!! Oooh Asa you make me think too hard grrr...

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Originally Posted by grace86

I think I might post my ten in pieces hehe, because I have managed to come up with a few.

1. The Bible
2. Don Quixote (laughter, tears, and morals oh my!!)
3. The Lord of the Rings
4. Something from Henry Rider Haggard - King Soloman's Mines probably

I will come back later!!! Oooh Asa you make me think too hard grrr...

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You know I love it, Grace!!!

1. Dante Allighieri- The Divine Comedy
2. William Shakespeare- Collected Plays
3. John Milton- Paradise Lost
4. Cervantes- Don Quixote
5. The Bible (King James Translation)
6. William Blake- Collected Poetic Works
7. J.L. Borges- Collected Fictions
8. Kafka- Collected Short Stories
9. Italo Calvino- Invisible Cities
10. Proust- In Search of Lost Time (as I'll have found all the time I'll ever need
I'll finally be able to complete this one ;).

welcome stlukesguild! TO ZI ISLANNNND, MUWAHAHAHA......(Evil creepy german accent!!)

5. The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
6. Paradise Lost - John Milton
7. Something educational (I am thinking about the Priest from The Count of Monte Cristo, he had all those books in his cell....So I might pick some sort of book to learn something new)


Three more to come later Asa.

Beautiful, Grace.

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1. Dante Allighieri- The Divine Comedy
2. William Shakespeare- Collected Plays
3. John Milton- Paradise Lost
4. Cervantes- Don Quixote
5. The Bible (King James Translation)
6. William Blake- Collected Poetic Works
7. J.L. Borges- Collected Fictions
8. Kafka- Collected Short Stories
9. Italo Calvino- Invisible Cities
10. Proust- In Search of Lost Time (as I'll have found all the time I'll ever need
I'll finally be able to complete this one ;).

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Wow, very nice list...that may be my favorite serious one yet!

Indeed. It will make a fine part of the collection

1- the complete Tolkien
2- the odyssey
3- tertium organum - Ouspenski
4- the complete set of Louis Lamour
5- vol 1 - 5 of the complete works of Michelangelo
6- history of science all 5 volumes
7- sociology and the world's religions
8- the complete volume set of the history of philosophy (1-9)
9- complete collection of books by Tom Brown
10- a printed version of The Archive of World Poetry - over 5,000 classic poems


and some way of writing and writing and writing.. maybe a solar powered laptop in a water tight case...

Well, in no particular order:

*The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
*The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
*The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
*Jane Eyre....Bronte
*Persuasion....Austen
*Maurice....Forster
*The Phantom of the Opera....Leroux
*A Tale of Two Cities....Dickens
*The Chronicles of Narnia....Lewis
*The Complete Little House Collection....Laura Ingalls Wilder

If I could sneak any more in, I would like to take all of Wodehouse's "Jeeves and Wooster" stories. :) And maybe Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited", too. :)

Volumes of poetry, Shakespeare, Proust, and Joyce. That's enough material to keep me locked away on the island for a life time.

Pablo Neruda- Complete Works
Borges- Labyrinths
Marquez- Collected Short Stories
Dostoevsky-Great Short Works
Dostoevsky- The Idiot
Joyce- Finnegans Wake (with all those years I might be able to finally follow)
Cervantes- Don Quixote
Wilde- Complete Works
Complete Calvin and Hobbes
Complete Far Side


(and as they are just small books I would have to smuggle in Albert Camus "the fall" and Nabokov's "Invitation to a Beheading")

1.) Dummies Guide to Escaping a Desert Island
2.) Bible (Just in Case)
And if all else fails...
3.) Atonement - Ian Mcewen
4.) Romeo & Juliet - William Shakespeare
5.) A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
6.) Pride & prejudice - Jane Austen
7.) Dracula - Bram Stoker
8.) When He was Wicked - Julia Quinn
9.) An Offer From a Gentlemen - Julia Quinn
10.) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling (couldn't resist!)

1. LOTR Trilogy-JRR Tolkien
2. Complete works of Edgar Allan Poe
3. Complete works of Shakespeare
4. Great expectations-Charles Dickens
5. Nicholas Nickleby-Charled Dickens
6. Carlos Castenda series
7. Complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelly
8. Pride and prejudice-Jane Austen
9. The odyssey-Homer
10. Leaves of grass-Whalt Whitman

I'm probably going to do this and think of better things later.

1. Omeros - Derek Walcott
2. Glendower Country - my grandmother wrote this book
3. The Egypt Game - Zilpha Keatley Snyder
4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling
5. The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
6. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
7. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
8. a dictionary - why not learn lots of new words?
9. The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon
10. Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino

All of these are either books that I find comforting in some way or books that I think I could find a lot of new and interesting things in if I had the time to read them over and over again. And in some cases, the books fulfill both requirements. :)

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6. Carlos Castenda series

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now why would you want carlos castaneda books... just what kinds of things do you suppose grow on this little island;) ...

How to get off a deserted island for dummies?

ten paper backs with half naked guys on the cover!

Anne Morrow Lindberg's "Gifts from the Sea" might bring some comfort.

In no particular order:

The Brothers Karamazov
Ulysses
Finnegans Wake
Anna Karenina
Gullivers Travel's
Gravity's Rainbow
Being and Time
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The complete works of Shakespeare
Anthology of world poetry

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How to get off a deserted island for dummies?

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Scroll up a little.
:lol: Great minds...

lol

Yeah I saw that after I typed it.

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10.) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling (couldn't resist!)

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Oh yes, fuel for the fire. :p

From the books I own, I would take:

1. The Holy Bible (KJV)
2. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems
3. The Brothers Karamazov by D
4. Les Miserables by Hugo
5. Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo
6. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
7. The Essential Thucydides (a complete annotated edition, with maps and stuff, of The Peloponesian War)
8. Chaucer's Collected Works (in Middle English)
9. The Will to Power by Nietzsche

and...

10. The biggest book I can find, hollowed out, with matches, flint & steel, bandages, pocket knife, etc. inside the book. ;)

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6. The Art of War by Sun Tzu

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Dori, do you think there might just be a war on the island someday? :lol:

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Dori, do you think there might just be a war on the island someday? :lol:

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Yes, Man versus Nature. ;) It seems Nature would naturally have the advantage, so I need some guidance to tip the balance. :p

1. The Black Stallion seris, cannot thing off the top of my head who wrote it, but I started reading it once and really liked it, but never got to finnish it. (is that cheating to call it one book?)
2. Island of the Blue Dolphins-Scott Odell
3. The Legend of Nightfall-Mickey Zucker Reichert
4. At least one book that I have not already read by Morgan Llywelyn (I would probably just close my eyes and randomly pick one if I could not bring her whole collection)
5. Women in Love -D.H. Lawrence, because I have not read that one yet, and really want to.
6. Still Life With Woodpecker - Tom Robbins
7. Paradise Lost - Milton
8. Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
9. World Without End - Ken Follett
10. A journal/sketch book

The Odyssy and Divine Comedy. I want those because they are extremly long and since I am gonna spend alot of time in the desert might as well kill some time with these readings. I'd also take The Brothers Karamazov because I want to read it again. I'd take War and Peace, the long long very long version lol. Hmm, what else? Oh, I'd take a "learn how to spean French in ten years" book. Also, Crime and Punishemnt.
I've always wanted to read Love in the time of Cholera but I couldn't get past the first fifty pages or so. Books get very boring to me when they have little to no dialoug.

I don't know about 10, but two I'd definitely take would be the Mahābhārata and the Mathnavi. Those two alone would keep one busy for a while.

Since this is, ahem, obviously a matter of size, I shall take a Kindle. And only an Amazon Kindle...

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Originally Posted by Homyrrh

Since this is, ahem, obviously a matter of size, I shall take a Kindle. And only an Amazon Kindle...

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Why not the iLiad? :p I would take that over the Kindle.

How long to expect the battery to last with no means of charging it on the island?

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
Arabian Nights
Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
Tao Te Ching - Lao-Tzu
The Analects - Confucius
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy

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Originally Posted by Julian Koller

Meditations - Marcus Aurelius

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You're right stoic philosophers would probably be useful in such a situation :lol: