Saturday, June 20, 2009

Remote Island Books



Five books for a long stay on a remote island:
  1. The Bible

  2. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

  3. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

  4. The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor

  5. Modern Times by Paul Johnson

2 comments:

Penelope Brown said...

Nice list. I'll try to put my own list too. Now what could be it? I guess 5 will never be enough! :)

Michael Wade said...

Ah, but the real challenge is to keep it to five! A list of ten is fairly comfortable. With five, you keep wondering about the ones that were left off.