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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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.

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

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