One of the best parts of putting together my deserted island book list was realizing that my imagined desertion could commence on the island of my choice, since this is my imagined scenario.
Obviously, I chose my island for my desertion and here's my list. Mind you, this is just this week's list; next week or next year or even this evening's list may bear no resemblance to this one.
1. Until I Find You and 2. The World According to Garp by John Irving.
3. A Year of Magical Thinking and 4. Slouching Toward Bethlehem by Joan Didion. 5. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffennegger 6. I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe 7. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy 8. Truth and Beauty and 9. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett. 10. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver 11. Atonement by Ian McEwan 12. The Hours by Michael Cunningham 13. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 14. Evening by Susan Minot 15. Harriet the Spy by Louis Fitzhugh 16. 1000 Acres by Jane Smiley 17. to 23. The Harry Potter Series and of course, 24. Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I love 23.. that's 7 books!!!
ReplyDeleteNow Abul, I took that into consideration - note that it's #s 17 to 23 !! Lol
ReplyDeletePs. Matt was very impressed that you knew the number in the series but then again he also said you are the "smartest and most cultured" guy he knows. He thought there were maybe 3 books tops in that "series he will never read". He doesn't know what he's missing!
ReplyDeleteI never learned how to read!!! very good point...
ReplyDeletebtw, to answer an earlier comment from you...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Island_Discs
spin magazine or rolling stone or something then turned it into 10 instead of 8, so it was always a think about 10 (or 8 discs). Why do you book-worms get 24!!!
p.s. absolutely love the fact that you almost took up a third of your choices with those 7. Bold an AWESOME move!!!!
ReplyDelete