Desert Island Books

[WendyS]

Which eight books would you take to your Desert Island?

[mycatis]

1. Dune by Frank Herbert
2. Macbeth
3. Wuthering Heights
4. "And to my nephew Albert I leave the island what I won off Fatty Hagan in a poker game"
5. Memory - Lois McMaster Bujold
6. The man who mistook his wife for a hat
7. Exodus -Leon Uris
8. A Bible (have you read the old testament? it's mad! lol)

[dot.hawkes]

Poldark (Nine Vols)

Jane Eyre

History of the World In 10half weeks Iain Banks

HMS Ullyses Alistair McLean

How to survive on a Desert Island - SAS handbook

Readers Digest Guide to Poisonous anything

First Aid for Beginners (Snakebite edition)

Gilligan's Island, How I survived - The Professor.

[robbo82]

Are we assuming the Bible and the Complete Works of Shakespeare are already there? If so, I'd have a nice mix of books I really like and ones I haven't read, for a bit of variety:

Catch-22- Joseph Heller

On the Road- Jack Kerouac

Ulysses- James Joyce

War and Peace- Leo Tolstoy

Matilda- Roald Dahl

A Christmas Carol- Charles Dickens

High Fidelity- Nick Hornby

The Magus- John Fowles

[spudqueen]

Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Office Life - Keith Waterhouse
Tales Out of Time (a collection of short stories edited by Barbara Ireson)
Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
Fatu Hiva - Thor Heyerdahl
Harry Potter (if only 1 then the first one - Philosophers Stone) - J K Rowling
SAS Survival Handbook

[CLOWN TICKLE]

Assuming Shakespeare and the Bible are there

1 Pride and Predudice J Austen

2 Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music S Fry

3 Christmas Carol C Dickens

4 Harry Potter and the Philosophers stone J K Rowling

5 A Volume of Alan Ayckbourns Plays

6 The Hobbit J R Tolkein

7 Moahib is my Washpot S Fry

8 The Adventures of S Holmes Sir A C Doyle

[Drusilla1S]

• To Kill A Mockingbird-Harper Lee


• To The Lighthouse -Virginia Woolf


• Persuasion -Jane Austen


• Jane Eyre -Charlotte Bronte


• Nights At The Circus -Angela Carter


• Les Enfants Terribles -Jean Cocteau


• The Portrait Of A Lady-Henry James


• Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit-Jeanette Winterson

[joko]

i would get all-in-one-books of -
all the hitchikers guide to the galaxy books,
all the red dwarf books,
all the harry potter books,
all the horrible histories books

i'd also have a blank book for my own writing

[kick3m0n]

1. The Deeper Meaning of Liff - Douglas Adams and John Lloyd


2. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks


3. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee


4. Hitchhikers Guide Boxset


5. Lemony Snickett boxset


6. Give Me Ten Seconds - John Sargent


7. Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh


8. LA Confidential - James Ellroy

And if everyone else is including Shakespeare and the Bible, I'll have any two books by Christopher Brookmyre to make up the numbers.

[quizzywig]

1. My Family and Other Animals - Gerald Durrell
2. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - J K Rowling
3. Twice Shy - Dick Francis
4. Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen
5. Black Sheep - Georgette Heyer
6. Corpse in a Gilded Cage - Robert Barnard
7. Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
8. The Diaries of Tony Benn
9. Untold Stories - Alan Bennett
10.Skinny Dip - Carl Hiassen

Nothing very deep - just a mixture of humour, mystery and romance!

[quizzywig]

Just realised I picked 10 not 8. OOps!!! Got carried away, I'm afraid.

[WendyS]

Thank you all for your wonderfully varied responses which include some interesting titles I've not yet read.
Looks like my own library reading list is now booked for some months ahead!.

You've also given me some interesting titles to search for for the audio books I get from the library for a blind friend of mine. Thank you.

[happi_red]

1. Jane Eyre

2. Captain Corelli's Mandolin

3. Matilda (Roald Dahl!)

4. Frankenstein

5. To Kill A Mockingbird

6. Any book by Tom Holt.

7. Black Beauty

8. 101 Thing do to before you die

[Tartan Tiger]

Touching the void - Joe Simpson
Into thin air - Jon Krakauer
A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY - John Irving
The Secret History - Danna Tart
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

[Blu-Tack Jes]

Heya ppl!

These are in no particucular order:

1.Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
2. Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
3. Around the world in 80days - Jules Verne (brilliant man)
4. Dancing in My nuddy-pants - Louise Rennison
5. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy - Douglas Adams
6. Diary of Adrian Mole - Sue Townsend
7.Olivia Jules and the overactive imagination - Helen Feilding
8.The 10th Kingdom - Kathryn Wesley
9.Harry and the wrinkles (yeah, I know, but it makes me feel better if I've had another panic attack) - Alan Temperly
10. Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare

I'm sure I'll think of different ones and thus be v.annoyed as soon as I press submit but hey...
Jess xxx

[Blu-Tack Jes]

Heya ppl!

I've cheated a bit and included boxsets :-{ but, in no particular order:

1. 'Hitchhikers' boxset - Douglas Adams
2. georgia boxset - Louise Rennison
3. Much Ado about nothing - William Shakespeare
4. 10th Kingdom - Kathryn Wesley
5. Around The world in 80days - Jules Verne (beyond brilliant man)
6. 1984 - George orwell
7. Angels and demons - Dan Brown
8. Olivia jules and the overactive imagination - Helen Fielding
9. Artemis fowl boxset
10. Harry and the wrinkles combo set (cause it puts me at ease which, lets face it, I'll need to be if I've just been stranded on a desert island oui?) - Alan temperley

Ps. I love joko's answer!
Jess xxx

[Blu-Tack Jes]

Wow - I feel well stupid, I put my top ten instead of 8. ooops....

Jess xxx

[Manon]

Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald

The Return of The Dark Knight (graphic novel) - Alan Moore

Satanic Verses - Salomon Rushdie

Beloved - Toni Morrison

History of Art - Jansen??

8 Million Ways To Die - - not sure, terrible movie, beautiful book

The Sound and The Fury - Faulkner

Oh, The Places You'll Go --- Dr. Seuss (just to be masochistic(

[GroovyLady]

I am never going to a desert island!!!!