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Top Ten Books I Would Want On A Deserted Island

13th November 2012 By Julianne Leave a Comment

This is my eleventh Top Ten Tuesday post. Top Ten Tuesday was created and is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s theme is:

Top Ten Books I Would Want On A Deserted Island

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I decided immediately that size matters. I need to not get bored on this island by myself.

1. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J K Rowling

It’s the biggest Harry Potter. End of.

2. The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works

Because there are so many of Shakespeare’s plays and poems that I haven’t read, and on the deserted island, I might finally have the time. Hopefully not though, because I’d still really miss the internet.

3. Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories, by Angela Carter

I own this, it’s large, and I’ve yet to finish it. Angela Carter is one of my favourite authors and I could happily read the stories from The Bloody Chamber over and over again.

4. War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy

I enjoyed Anna Karenina, so why not?

5. Ash: A Secret History, by Mary Gentle

I’ve been meaning to re-read this for ages. Oh, and it’s the longest fantasy novel ever published in a single volume.

6. Adorkable, by Sarra Manning

Longest YA Sarra Manning book.

7. SAS Survival Guide: How to survive in the Wild, on Land or Sea

Obviously. Gotta live so that I can get back to the internet. Oh, and my human loved ones…

8. Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell

So I’d have to finish it. Plus it is quite long.

9. In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust

Longest novel ever. I had to read the first volume, Swann’s Way, at university and I enjoyed it. I don’t remember very much about it but it is beautifully written, even if I did skip those six pages describing a church. I’m sure someone must have published it in one volume…

10. The Writer’s Idea Book by Jack Heffron

I can’t just spend my time on survival chores and lying around reading fiction. I have to work on my own career. And I need something to keep me going, lest I resort to ‘Memoirs of a Shipwrecked Blogger’.

Which of my suggestions would you prefer to have on a desert island?

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