Ten Books To Have When Stranded On A Desert Island

[Redbeanz]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/22/t-magazine/my-10-favorite-books-gloria-steinem.html?emc=edit_bg_20160126&nl=booming&nlid=35167394&_r=0

This list, Gloria Steinem's, is one in a series. And you? Any favorites?

 

[scotttswan]

Wilderness Survival For Dummies


How to Survive on a Desert Island (Tough Guides)


Devlin's Boatbuilding: How to Build Any Boat the Stitch-and-Glue Way


How to Sail a Boat: Sailing & Yachting 101 Basics for Beginners


Fishing for Dummies

Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft

 

[RodalfoWalsh]

Raft building for dummies.

The ultimate guide to water distillation

Etc.

 

[RodalfoWalsh]

Damn ejcot beat me by a second

 

[scotttswan]

Raft building for dummies.

The ultimate guide to water distillation

Etc.

beat you to it

 

[Dada]

I would personally prefer a complete guide to destillation, not necessarily limited to water

The other 9 would be blank, so I have something to write on.

 

[wineguy999]

These guys...

I'll play:

Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Time's Arrow - Martin Amis
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
Complete Works of Richard Brautigan
Moby-Dick or The Whale - Herman Melville
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Tin Drum - Günter Grass
Papillon - Henri Charriére

 

[scotttswan]

oh seriously?

Catch-22 Joseph Heller
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
The World According to Garp - John Irving
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
Animal Farm - George Orwell

 

[diegoro]

I'd choose:

Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
(this three from ejcot's list. I really love them)

[background=rgb(252, 252, 252)]Complete Works of William Shakespeare[/background]
(this is from wineguy list. I've never finished it, but in an island with plenty of time ...)

And then I'd add:

The Foundation Trilogy - Isaac Asimov
1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
El Aleph - Borges
The Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Cuentos Completos - Julio Cortazar
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

oh seriously?

Catch-22 Joseph Heller
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
The World According to Garp - John Irving
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
Animal Farm - George Orwell

 

[mc kenna]

Whatever you do, don't take kamasutra if you are gonna be stranded alone........very little use i reckon