Stranded on an island

So you're stranded on an island and can only bring your top ten favorite books....what would you bring?

I'm working on my list now. I'm trying to narrow it down:

1. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3. Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati

and the other seven are hard to narrow down. I've got like fifty favorites and that's just a quick list.

10 is too hard, here are 3 all time faves

1. Poldark by Winston Graham
2. Shogun by James Clavell
3. Trinity by Leon Uris

King Hereafter by Dorothy Dunnett

Very quickly, and without too much thought except to limit it to historical fiction and one per author:

The Heart of Mid-Lothian
Flashman in the Great Game
The Persian Boy
I, Claudius
Desolation Island
Voss
The French lieutenant's woman
Baltasar and Blimunda
Nights at the circus
Indigo, or Mapping the waters

If I were really going to be stranded on a desert island and had time to raid the ship's library before it went down, I'd probably discard all the above and pick a bunch of long books that I haven't read yet.

Good question, off the top of my favorites list, but not in any order, which is hard!

1. Outlander
2. The Sunne in Splendour
3. Lonesome Dove
4. Caesar's Women
5. The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers
6. Island of the Swans
7. Tai-Pan
8. Gone With the Wind
9. East of Eden
10. 11/22/63: A Novel

Black Wind
Cryptonomicon
Lincoln: A Novel
Lonesome Dove
Sarum: The Novel of England
Night of Flames: A Novel of World War II
The Abominable: A Novel

I clicked here thinking this was a thread about books about characters being stranded on islands!

Sorry jldarden, that would be a great thread too! I just thought it would be fun to see what we would grab up. Y'know, if the ship goes down like we'd have time to run and pick out ten books, lol

I'm still thinking, but I'm pretty sure these would make the cut:

1. The Heaven Tree Trilogy by Edith Pargeter
2. Katherine by Anya Seton
3. The Brothers of Gwynedd Quartet by Edith Pargeter
4. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon plus as many of the rest of the series I could grab
5. The Legendary Lymond series by Dorothy Dunnett (Sorry, I know those are six books alone, but no one ever made it into a single volume yet!)
6. The House of Niccolo series by Dorothy Dunnett (And, yes, I know those are eight books!)

I simply couldn't leave behind any of Dorothy Dunnett's books, so I would be overweight and drown, or whatever. ;-)

I will have to visit thorold's island to borrow some books.

>11 varielle:
I'm keeping the coordinates a closely-guarded secret. Unless you happen to have a few tins of gramophone needles and a Man Friday you could lend me...

The best we could hope for is that we're all stranded on the same island and each grabbed ten different books! lol

That's a great idea, homeschoolmom!

Catch 22
Horton Hatches the Egg
Lord Jim
Heart of Darkness/The Secret Sharer
Typhoon and Other Tales
Don Quixote
American Pastoral
The Baseball Encyclopedia
Souls on Fire
Leaves of Grass
Sandburg's Life of Lincoln

Ask me tomorrow, probably five of these will have changed!

The Harper Hall of Pern (it's my security blanket)
The Hobbit
Things Fall Apart

There are other things that I enjoy reading more than these, at any given time, but I never get tired of these three.

Oh, yes! How could I forget all the Hobbit books! I would have to have the all, though.

Ahhh, yes mine would be:

Outlander (series)
Into the Wilderness (series)
Lord of the Rings
The Hobbit
anything by Susanna Kearsley
anything by Sarah Jio
Swiss Family Robinson
Last of the Mohicans
Pride and Prejudice (never mind just a large book with all of Jane Austen's books in them)
anything by Kate Morton

hmmm, looks like with all my "series" I'm waaayyyy over ten!

Sorry to break the thread, but is there a good radio broadcast of Pride and Prejudice?  Or any Jane Austen, really.  Mansfield Park would be great, since a good faithful adaptation has yet to be made (slogged through the 1983 series).  I just need something to listen to during commutes, and I'm on an Austen kick.

How about audiobooks? Jane Austen's works, plus many others, can be downloaded through your library card. I choose by the reader (Simon Vance, David Lee, Nadia May are some of my faves) and by audio publishing house (try Blackstone Audio). Hope this helps with your long drives.