Desert island books?

It's not a review, just a random question!
You're on a desert island (no tv, music or people, so your paperback friends are all you have to keep you company), what 5 books would you take with you?

I know it might be hard for you bookworms to narrow it down but give it a go!

And no, you can't count the Harry Potter or Twilight (or any other 'series of the moment') books as one. I'm being mean, you have to choose!

Only 5!!!?!?!! What 5 books would you take then? Love to see you scramble your brain for that, which Anne Rice books would you take?...hehehehehe

hhmmmm,...right, let me think...... (still thinking)...

Right, here goes, (the following list may change )

1) My BOS of course! (what would i do without it?!?!?)

2)Charge of the Goddess by Doreen Valiente

3) The People Collection by Zenna Henderson

4) Thud by Terry Pratchett

5) Taltos the Assassin by Steven Brust

...i've decided...your just mean! I can't get all my favourites in 5 books!

If i was getting stranded on a desert island i'd grab a box full... *grumbles*

Ok, if i could grab a BOX FULL,...well...the following list would be what i grabbed.

All books from the Dragons of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey, plus her Talent's and Tower of the Hive serie's.
All Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett.
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
Princess of Flames by Ru Emerson
The Obernewtyn Chronicles by Isobelle Carmody (wish i could find copies..sigh)
Pagan Moon by Freda Warrington
An ABC of Witchcraft: Past and Present by Doreen Valiente
All Books by Tamora Pierce.....
..i'm sure i've missed loads! *sobs*
lets not ever get me stuck on a desert island...ok?... it'd be bad enough not having net connection, but reduced to 5 books??! \O/ the horror!

Damn… as soon as I’d posted it I regretted doing it! I knew I’d have to get my list down to 5 eventually.

You weren’t wrong about the Anne Rice but I limited myself to one (unless I could convince someone to publish all the Vampire Chronicles in one huge volume so I could technically claim it as 1 book? Hmmm… that doesn’t sound too likely!)

So I think I’m going to go with

* The Vampire Lestat (oh, but I want Interview and Blackwood Farm… damn it, stick with one!)

* William Blake Complete Works (one book so it counts).

* Good Omens- Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (Still not boring after the 12^th read!)

*Peter Pan- J M Barrie (Still not boring after 100^th read and 25 years of “Growing Up”)


Oh God, one space left!

I think I’m gonna have to go with Shakespeare, Complete works. It’s a bit of a cheat I know but it is technically one book and no matter what mood I’m in while I’m stranded on this island, there would be something in this book to satisfy it!

Oh, that was hard!

Books that barely missed the top 5 (but that I will try to smuggle on with me anyway) include,

*The previously mentioned Interview with the Vampire and Blackwood Farm- Anne Rice (reading about Louis and Quinn would make the time MUCH more bearable! MMM…Beautiful boys…)
*American Gods and Neverwhere- Neil Gaiman
*The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
*Dictionary of quotations and Dictionary of mythology (I do love my reference books)
*Orlando- Virginia Woolfe

And The Raven and the stories I like from Tales of Mystery and Imagination printed out on paper and smuggled in between the pages of one of the other books!