Desert Island, All-Time Top 45 Books (in no particular order)

Submitted by tango41 on Fri, 10/14/2005 - 11:54
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  1. High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
  2. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
  3. Cathcer in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
  4. Summer of the Monkeys - Wilson Rawls
  5. The Princess Bride - William Goldman
  6. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
  7. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
  8. The Confessions of Max Tivoli - Andrew Sean Greer
  9. The Pleasure of My Company - Steve Martin
  10. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon
  11. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
  12. Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
  13. 100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  14. About a Boy - Nick Hornby
  15. Mystic River - Denis Lehane
  16. The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
  17. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon
  18. Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard
  19. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
  20. Silence - Shusaku Endo
  21. The Stranger - Albert Camus
  22. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
  23. Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
  24. How to be Good - Nick Hornby
  25. Shutter Island - Denis Lehane
  26. East of Eden - John Steinbeck
  27. The Devil and the White City - Eric Larsen
  28. Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
  29. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
  30. A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby
  31. Fletch - Gregory MacDonald
  32. Carter Beats the Devil - Glen David Gold
  33. Empire Falls - Richard Russo
  34. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
  35. Lamb - Christopher Moore
  36. Fever Pitch - Nick Hornby
  37. The Plot Against America - Phillip Roth
  38. Blue Like Jazz - Donald Miller
  39. 'Tis - Frank McCourt
  40. Matilda - Roald Dahl
  41. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
  42. Lamb - Christopher Moore
  43. Tourist Season - Carl Hiassen
  44. Rita Hayrowth and the Shawshank Redemption - Steven King
  45. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
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192210/15/2005

#3, 6, 19, 21, 22 and 26 would also be in my 'desert island'- equipment.

professor10/16/2005

Excellent list. Your 3 and 6 would also be on my desert-island list, 2 and 26 are on my list to read in 2006, and 19, 22, and 45 are on my bookshelf to be read later.