Ten Books To Have When Stranded On A Desert Island

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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?
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
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