If you were stuck on a desert island, what ten books would you have with you?

Question

Here are mine:
1. The Bible
2. The Works of William Shakespeare
3. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
4. The I Ching
5. The Tao te Ching
6. Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkein
7. The Stories of Anton Chekhov
8. The haiku of Basho
9. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoi
10. The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki

Answer 1

Here are mine:



1. The Flowers in the Attic Series by V.C. Andrews

2. The Works of William Shakespeare

3. Exile in Guyville by Dave White

4. Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs

5. Ship of Fools by Katharine Anne Porter

6. A Prologue to Love by Taylor Caldwell

7. The Collected Works of Geoffrey Chaucer

8. The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

9. Emma Who Saved My Life by Wilton Barnhardt

10. A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole



If I could count the 92 Twilight Zone scripts by Rod Serling as 1 book, I'd substitute that for Emma Who Saved My Life

Answer 2

1. The Bible

2. The Book of Mormon

3. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

4. The Time Travellers Wife by Leslie Nefenneger

5. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

6. The Collected Works of Shakespeare

7. The Collected Works of Edgar Allen Poe

8. The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

9. Jesus the Christ by James Talmadge

10. A Marvelous Work and a Wonder by LeGrand Richards

Answer 3

1. The Time Travelers Wife- Audrey Niffenegger

2. To Kill A Mockingbird- Harper Lee

3. The Notebook- Nicholas Sparks

4. Atonement- Ian McEwen

5. Harry Potter- JK Rowling

6. Snow Falling on Cedars- David Guterson

7. The Works of William Shakespeare

8. Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen

9. The Lovely Bones- Alice Sebold

10. Lord Of The Rings- J. R. R. Tolkein

Answer 4

Nice choices here are mine:

1. The Bible

2. Twilight

3. New Moon

4. Nancy Drew

5. Ivanhoe

6. Little Women

7. Lord of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein

8. Pride and Predjudice

9. Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows (Awesome Ending)

10. The Supernaturalist

Answer 5

1. The Bible

2. a survival guide with a lot of how tos included

3. a medical guide that includes home remedies and a guide to herbs and medicinal plants

4. The complete works of Jane Austen

5. The complete works of William Shakespeare

6. A book that teaches you how to build your own boat - using readily available materials - that will withstand the ocean and its harsh conditions

7. As many of Charles Dickens' novels and short stories as can be found in one volume

8. a book that teaches you how to create a short wave radio or other device by which you may be able to communicate with someone off the island (also using readily available items)

9. Little Women, Little Men and Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott in one volume

10. The complete works of Oscar Wilde (He was so witty that you laugh while reading some of his stories - like The Importance of Being Earnest - and you'd need a book that makes you laugh.)



Granted, I don't know if some of my required books are even in existence, but one could hope - if one got stuck on a desert island!

Answer 6

1. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

2. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

3. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell

4. How to Make an American Quilt by Whitney Otto

5. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

6. Whale Music by Paul Quarrington

7. Charms For the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons

8. The Stand by Stephen King

9. The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King

10. The Bible

Answer 7

Jane Eyre

Little Women

Great Expectations

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Northanger Abbey

Pride and Prejudice

And maybe...

Tale of Two Cities

A Separate Peace

Answer 8

1)The Bible 2) The art of war 3) The complete encyclopedia on everything in the entire univrse vol. VMDCLXVII

4) The coffee house at the edge of the universe 5) Taoism

6) The teachings of Bushido 7) The teachings of Capawaya 8) The internal workings in the mind of a Xiaolin warrior

9) I am America so can you 10) The legal system vol. 26

I only brought #10 cuz its a really good fire starter.

Answer 9

1. The Bible

2. A whole volume by Dumas

3. Jemima J

4. Hatchet (I need to learn how to survive!)

5. A volume of Froids works

6. A volume of eight different languages

7. A trashy romance

8. A stupid sci-fi

9. The Historian

10. twelfth Night

Answer 10

in no particular order okay?



Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen

Lord of the Rings-J.R.R. Tolkien

Harry Potter Series- J.K. Rowling

Twilight Series- Stephenie Meyer

A Great and Terrible Beauty- Libba Bray

If You Come Softly- Jacqueline Woodson

The Catcher in the Rye- J.D. Salinger

David Copperfield- Charles Dickens

All of William Shakespeare's works

The Joy Luck Club- Amy Tan



i wish it weren't limited

i have many other books

Answer 11

"Boat Building For Dummies"...nah, just kiddin'.



"A Journey to the Center of the Earth"-Jules Verne.

"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"- Hunter S. Thompson.

"The Hound of the Baskervilles"-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

"The Odyssey"-Homer.

"The Divine Comedy"-Dante.

"As I Lay Dying"-William Faulkner.

"The Onion Presents: Our Dumb World"- Let's face it, I'm going to need a little levity on this island.

"The Grapes of Wrath"-John Steinbeck.

"My Antonia"- Willa Cather.



(shrugs) What the heck. "Robinson Crusoe"- Daniel Defoe.

Answer 12

1. "The Mediator" series (1-6) by Meg Cabot

2. "The Truth About Forever" by Sarah Dessen

3. "Just Listen" by Sarah Dessen

4. "Wicked" Series by Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie

5. The Bible

6. "Sweep" series by Cate Tiernan

7. "Hindenburg 1937" by Cameron Dokey

8. "Children of the River" by Linda Crew

9. "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte

10. "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

Answer 13

I'd bring the bible only if it was written in hebrew.



Other than that, any skill increasing book. Nothing to tickle my fancy and make me a desert island couch potato living in the fantasy of other's minds.

Answer 14

all the harry potter series (7) a year down yonder. and ummm.the encyclopedia of cats and lord of the rings

Answer 15

1.Bible

2.Eragon

3.Eldest

4.Jane Eyre

5.cronicles or Narnia

thats ten

Answer 16

How about some survivalist handbooks in that list, if you are on a desert island!(hehehe)!

Answer 17

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