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What a great thread! I'll need to have a think, but I just want to say that hardcover - noooo! They're SO heavy!
Well, I don't think I could do without these stand-alone books:
1. An Old Fashioned Girl - Louisa May Alcott
2. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
3. A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
but, I'd find a way to also smuggle in the Kindle version of these series:
4. The Sookie Stackhouse Novels
5. Dragon Tattoo trilogy - Stein Larsson
6. The Hunger Games trilogy - Suzanne Collins
I'm going to cheat and bring Stephen King's Dark Tower series
Top of my head and I haven't read these in decades probably so I might feel differently about them now. You know how that goes. A great movie from the old days suddenly doesn't seem as great when you watch it in current times. But these 3 books spring to mind for me.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
And if I get two more (haha I am so greedy)
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
There are so many amazing books but for some reason these came to my mind immediately. I have to read them again and see if I feel the same now.
Yes, Pride & Prejudice for sure. I'd also add Persuasion. Can never have enough Jane.
I’d also bring a Bible. History, mystery, instruction, and inspiration... it could give me food for thought for a long time.
Something by Dostoyevsky. In all honesty, I haven’t read Dostoyevsky since high school! But we read two of his books in one of my English classes (go figure!) and I remember being so incredibly impressed by his writing and insight. With my shortened attention span these days, it would probably take being stranded on a desert island for me try it again.
Gosh, just one more book? Just for fun, probably Pride and Prejudice, or Rebecca, or something by Jan Karon.
And perhaps I could sneak The Little Prince in a back pocket. It’s short... more like a pamphlet, right?
These I've read through dozens of times, but can still pick up and read everyday.....
My Bible
Gone with the Wind-Margaret Mitchell
Pillars of the Earth-Ken Follet
I read GWTW when I was 12 yrs. old. I never grow tired of that story. It created a life-long love of the Civil War era.I love Gone with the Wind. I think the first time I read that book I devoured it within 2 days. I am not sure I took time to sleep that night lol. It was worth it.