FICTION / NON-FICTION
1984- GEORGE ORWELL
20000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA- JULES VERNE
A FAREWELL TO ARMS- ERNEST HEMMINGWAY
A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY- JOHN IRVING (added by chicago guy)
A SEPARATE PEACE- JOHN KNOWELS
ADOLF HITLER- JOHN TOLAND
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER- MARK TWAIN
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT- ERICH MARIAREMARQUE
ANIMAL FARM- GEORGE ORWELL
ANNA KARENINA- LEO TOLSTOY
ATLAS SHRUGGED- AYN RAND
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOM X
AZTEC- GARY JENNINGS
BICENTENNIAL SERIES KENT FAMILY CHROICLES- JOHN JAKES
BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL- FRIEDRICH NEITZSCHE
BODY AND SOUL- FRANK CONROY (added by chicago guy)
BRAIN DROPPINGS-GEORGE CARLIN
BRAVE NEW WORLD- ALDOUS HUXLEY
THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV- F.M. DOSTOIEVSKI
CALL OF THE WILD- JACK LONDON
CANNERY ROW- JOHN STEINBECK
CARL SANDBURG- COMPLETE COLLECTION
CATCH 22- JOSEPH HELLER
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE- J.D. SALLINGER
CENTENNIAL- JAMES A. MICHENER
CHARLES DICKENS-COMPLETE WORKS
COLLECTED POEMS- WILLIAM BUTLER YEATES
COLLECTED WORKS OF CHECKOV- (added by chicago guy)
COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO- ALEXANDRE DUMAS
CYRANO DE BERGERAC- EDMUND ROSTAND
DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY- ERIK LARSON
DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL- ANNE FRANK
DUDE WHERE’S MY COUNTRY? - MICHAEL MOORE
THE DIVINE COMEDY- DANTE ALIGIERI
DON QUIXOTE- MIGUEL CERVANTES
EAST OF EDEN- JOHN STEINBECK
EDGAR ALLEN POE- COMPLETE WORKS
THE ELECTRIC KOOL AID ACID TEST- TOM WOLFE (added by denise)
EMILY DICKENSON- THE COMPLETE POEMS
THE ESSAYS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON-(added by Bill Beck)
EXODUS- LEON URIS
THE FAR PAVILLIONS- M.M KAYE
THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING TRILOGY- J.R.R. TOLKIEN
FOCAULT’S PENDULUM- UMBERTO ECHO
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS- ERNEST HEMMINGWAY
THE FOUNTAINHEAD- AYN RAND
FRANKENSTEIN- MARY SHELLY
FREDERICK DOUGLAS AUTOBIOGRAPHY
THE GRAPES OF WRATH- JOHN STEINBECK
THE GREAT GATSBY- F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
GREEN MANSIONS- W.H. HUDSON
HAVING OUR SAY DELANEY SISTERS FIRST 100 YEARS- SARAH & A. ELIZABETH DELANEYWITH AMY HILL HEARTH
HAWAII- JAMES A. MICHENER
HELTER SKELTER- VINCENT BUGLIOSI
THE HOBBIT- J.R.R.TOLKIEN
HUCKLEBERRY FINN- MARK TWAIN
I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS- MAYA ANGELOU
IN COLD BLOOD- TRUMAN CAPOTE
THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU- H.G. WELLS
THE ILLIAD AND THE ODYSSEY- HOMER
INTO AFRICA STANLEY & LIVINGSTONE- MARTIN DUGARD
JANE EYRE- CHARLOTTE BRONTE’
THE JUNGLE- UPTON SINCLAIR
THE LAST LECTURE-RANDY PAUSCH
LEAVES OF GRASS- WALT WHITMAN
LORD OF THE FLIES- WILLIAM GOLDING
LISTEN TO THE WARM- ROD MCCUEN
LONESOME DOVE- LARRY MCMURTY (added by Chicago Guy))
MADAME BOVARY- GUSTAV FLAUBERT
THE MALTESE FALCON- DASHIELL HAMMETT
THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK- ALEXANDRE DUMAS (added by Hourglass Figure)
METAMORPHASIS- FRANZ KAFKA
THE MIRROR- MARLYS MILLHAUSER
MOBY DICK- HERMAN MELVILLE
THE NAKED APE- DESMOND MORRIS
OF MICE AND MEN- JOHN STEINBECK
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST- KEN KESEY (added by denese)
ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES- CHARLES DARWIN
THE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT- SIDNEY SHELDON
PARADISE LOST- JOHN MILTON
PARADISE SCREWED- CARL HAAISEN (added by denese)
THE PEARL- JOHN STEINBECK
PETER PAN- J. M. BARRIE
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY- OSCAR WILDE
THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH- KEN FOLLETT
POETRY OF ROBERT FROST
PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT- PHILIP ROTH
THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER- MARK TWAIN
QB VII- LEON URIS
QUOTABLE WILL ROGERS - JOSEPH H. CARTER
THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE- STEPHEN CRANE
REDEMPTION- LEON URIS (added by Walter Blevins)
RICH MAN POOR MAN- IRWIN SHAW
ROBINSON CRUSOE- DANIEL DAFOE
ROOTS- ALEX HALEY
THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS- C S LEWIS
SHAKESPEARE – COMPLEAT WORKS
SHERLOCK HOLMES- SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (added by Hourglass Figure)
THE SOURCE- JAMES A. MICHENER (added by Walter Blevins)
STANYAN STREET & OTHER SORROWS- ROD MCCUEN
STEPHEN KING COMPLETE COLLECTION
THE STORY OF MY LIFE- HELEN KELLER
SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON- JOHANN DAVID WYSS
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS COMPLETE COLLECTION
THE TIME MACHINE- H.G. WELLS
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD- HARPER LEE
THE TRAIL OF TEARS THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN REMOVALS 1813-1855 - GLORIA JAHODA
TREASURE ISLAND- ROBERT LEWIS STEVENSON (added by Hourglass Figure)
TRINITY- LEON URIS (added by Walter Blevins)
TROPIC OF CANCER- HENRY MILLER
ULYSSES- JAMES JOYCE
UNCLE TOM’S CABIN- HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
UNIVERSE IN A NUTSHELL-STEPHEN HAWKING
WALDEN-HENRY DAVID THOREAU
WAR AND PEACE- LEO TOLSTOY
WATERSHIP DOWN- RICHARD ADAMS
WHEELS- ARTHUR HALEY
WHILE REAGAN SLEPT- ART BUCHWALD
WUTHERING HEIGHTS- EMILY BRONTE
ZANE GREY COMPLETE WORKS
REFERENCE
LEARN DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION-MARY MORTIMER
BOYSCOUT HANDBOOK
FIRST AID-RED CROSS
EDIBLE WILD PLANTS-LEE ALLEN PETERSON
HERBAL ANTIBIOTICS-STEPHEN HARROD BUHNE
MEDICINAL PLANTS AND HERBS-STEVEN FOSTER & JAMES A. DUKE
CLINICAL SURGERY IN GENERAL-Churchill Livingstone
HOW TO FIX EVERYTHING FOR DUMMIES
THE BIBLE
THE KORAN- (added by Hourglass Figure)
THE TALMUD
A TIME TO TEAR DOWN A TIME TO BUILD UP REREADING ECCLESIASTES- MICHAEL V. FOX (added by denese)
THE CONCISE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY AND PHILOSOPHERS
ARISTOTLE- COMPLETE COLLECTION
PLATO- COMPLETE COLLECTION
EASTERN PHILOSOPHY
WORLD HISTORY
WESTERN CIVILIZATION-PERRY
UNABRIDGED AMERICAN HISTORY- CAROLYN BAKER
AMERICAN EDUCATION A HISTORY-WAYNE J. URBAN & JENNINGS I. WAGTEIHT, JR.
WRITING HISTORY- WILLIAM KELLIHER STOREY
ARCHEOLOGY- ADOLF MICHAELLS (added by MrsRaptor)
BRINGING FOSSILS TO LIFE: AN INTRODUCTION TO PALEOBIOLOGY- DONALD PROTHERO (added by MrsRaptor)
UNABRIDGED ENGLISH DICTIONARY
ROGET’S THESAURUS
ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITINNICA
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC VISUAL OF THE WORLD ATLAS
THE CARE OF THE SELF THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY- MICHEL FOCAULT
KAMA SUTRA- (added by MrsRaptor)
TEN DISCOVERIES THAT REWROTE HISTORY- PATRICK HUNT
GREATEST INVENTIONS OF THE PAST 2000 YEARS- JOHN BROCKMAN
EASY COMPUTER BASICS
BETTY CROCKER COOKBOOK
BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS COOKBOOK
FANNIE FARMER'S COOKBOOK- (added by MrsRaptor)
THE LITTLE HOUSE COOKBOOK- BARBARA M. WALKER & GARTH WILLIAMS
THE GOURMET COOKBOOK
ESSENTIAL VEGETARIAN COOKBOOK- DIANA SHAW
TECNIQUES IN WINEMAKING- DANIEL PAMBIANCHI
CANDLEMAKING- BOB SHERMAN
PAPERMAKING & BOOKBINDING- HEIDI REIMER REPP & MARY REIMER
JATTSON’S HISTORY OF ART
BASIC HISTORY OF WESTERN ART- JANSON & JANSON
IMPRESSIONISTS
NORMAN ROCKWELL 332 MAGAZINE COVERS
DISNEY’S WORLD OF FANTASY- ADRIAN BAILEY
WORKING WITH WALT INTERVIEWS WITH DISNEY ARTISTS- DON PERI
THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY- BEAUMONT NEWHALL
THE DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK- SCOTT KELLBY
APPRECIATING DANCE-HARRIET R.LIHS
MUSIC IN WESTERN CULTURE- MARK EVAN BONDS
STORIES OF THE GREAT COMPOSERS- JUNE MONTGOMERY & MAURICE HINSON
JAZZ STYLES A HISTORY- MARKC. GRIDLEY
ROLLING STONE HISTORY OF ROCK & ROLL
COLLECTED ACTION COMICS
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY- JUDITH VIORST (added by halfof42)
AN AMERICAN TAIL- MICHAEL TEITELBAUM
THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER- AESOP'S FABLE
THE STORY OF BABAR THE LITTLE ELEPHANT- JEAN DE BRUNHOFF
BIG BOOK OF THE BERENSTAIN BEARS- STAN & JOAN BERENSTAIN
BLUEBERRIES FOR SAL- ROBERT MCCLOSKEY (added by halfof42)
CAPS FOR SALE- ESPHYR SLOBODKINA (added by halfof42)
CHICKA CHICKA BOOM BOOM- BILL MARTIN JR & JOHN ARCHAMBAULT (added by halfof42)
CHICKEN LITTLE- MICHAEL CRAWFORD
CORDUROY- DON FREEMAN (added by halfof42)
THE STORY OF FERDINAND- MUNRO LEAF (added by halfof42)
THE GINGERBREAD MAN- JENNY TYLER
GOODNIGHT MOON- MARGARET WISE BROWN
HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON- CROCKETT JOHNSON (added by halfof42)
IF YOU GIVE A MOUSE A COOKIE- LAURA JOFFE NUMEROFF & FELICIA BOND (added by halfof42)
JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH- RONALD DAHL
JOHN HENRY- EZRA JACK KEATES
JUST SO STORIES- RUDYARD KIPLING
THE LION AND THE MOUSE- YHOMAS BELL
THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD- WATTY PIPER
LITTLE GOLDEN BOOKS- COMPLETE COLLECTION
THE LITTLE HOUSE- FELICIA LEE BURTON (added by halfof42)
THE LITTLE RED HEN- CAROL OTTOLENGHI
MADELINE- LUDWIG BEMELMANS
MIKE MULLIGAN AND MORE- VIRGINIA LEE BURTON
MILLIONS OF CATS- WANDA GAG (added by halfof42)
THE NAPPING HOUSE- AUDREY WOOD & DON WOOD (added by halfof42)
PEACH AND BLUE- SARAH KILBORNE & STEVE JOHNSON (added by halfof42)
PETER RABBIT- BEATRIX POTTER
PIGS APLENTY, PIGS GALORE- DAVID MCPHAIL (added by halfof42)
THE STORY ABOUT PING- MARJORIE FLACK
THE RUNAWAY PANCAKE- BEN WILLIAMS
SESAME STREET 40 YEARS ON THE BLOCK
STREGA NONA- TOMIE DEPAOLA (added by halfof42)
THUMBELINA- SUSAN JEFFERS
TOM THUMB- RICHARD JESSE WATSON
THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE- AESOP'S FABLE
THE UGLY DUCKLING- JERRY PINSKEY
THE COMPLETE TALES OF UNCLE REMUS- JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS
WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS- SHEL SILVERSTEIN
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE- MAURICE SENDAK (added by halfof42)
WIND IN THE WILLOWS- KENNETH GRAHAME
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Two suggestions: For reference, The Whole World Catalog, all additions. From them you can make anything. And, even more important, O'Really's soon to be published, "Sex - My Way: The Illustrated Version." It not only includes instructions, but she comes with it as the teacher; that perfect companion on those long balmy island nights ... spiceeee!
But won't we have Wifi on the OSland? I think we should all buy Kindles with some of the money that is left over from the OSIsland purchase. Books might rot.
I love the wine making and cookbooks you listed. I will volunteer to be the winemaker and secondarily serve as sous chef to cartouche. The only cookbooks I have to have are any you can find by Jimella Lucas and Nanci Main, owners and chefs of The Ark Restaurant & Bakery on Washington's Long Beach Peninsula.
My favorite books are all of the Jungian, feminist, ecologist type, such as Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Jean Shinoda Bolen and Susan M. Tiberghien, and Johanna Macy. Also, Robert Michael Pyle, Susan Tweit, and Terry Tempest Williams.
You already have the Bible and the Talmud. Books by spiritual/religious writers would be any book by Anne Lamotte, Michael Fox, CS Lewis, CG Jung, Sri Aurobindo.
Funny books: Carl Hiassen and David Sedaris. Some Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Suess)?
Being from Oregon, I'd have to bring my Ken Kesey's books: One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion. Related to that: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (I love Tom Wolfe).
denese
Before you can move on to Betty Crocker or Fannie Farmer (and the Fannie Farmer Cookbook needs to be added to the list of reference materials) you need to at least have some basic knowledge and unfortunately there are a lot of people who really can't boil water.
~Jean Auel's Earth's Children series of books.
~The entire library of writings by Anne McCaffrey.
~A few good books on mythology.
~Robert Heinlein's "Stranger in a strange land".
~ David Eddings books.
~Edgar Allen Poe, Burns, Rossetti, Shakespeare, Wilde, Yeats, Byron, etc...
~"The Art of War" by Sun-Tzu
~Herodotus, Pliny (both), Plato, etc...
I would also add books to the reference section about:
~ Geology and Vulcanology
~A Thesaurus
~at least one set of Encyclopedias
~Black's Law Dictionary
~Merck Manual
~Taber's Medical Dictionary
~Physician's Desk Reference
~Kama Sutra
~An Atlas
~Astronomy texts
~the Foxfire Series
~ A basic sewing manual
~Language dictionaries (i.e. French-English, Spanish-English, etc...)
~World history books
~Sheet music
~The Notebooks of DaVinci
Chekhov, the Russian writers
Book of the Dead
Cambrensis
Agatha Christie
Sven Hassel
Erich Maria Remarque
Baghavad Gita
Koran
All Thomas Hardy
All David Gemmell
All Bronte books
Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
Last Days of Pompeii
I, Claudius and Claudius the God
Julius Caesar
Alice in Wonderland
All Enid Blyton
Tom Brown's Schooldays
Brothers Grimm
Hans Christian Anderson
James Clavell (all of them)
Wilbur Smith
Treasure Island
Kidnapped
Lost World
Tarzan
Sherlock Holmes (all of them)
Just William
Chalet School Books by Elinor M Brent-Dyer
Elise ou la vraie vie
Marcel Pagnon
Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Man in the Iron Mask
Hunchback of Notre Dame
Pocahontas
Sacagawea
Dracula
King Solomon's Mines
war books....... Bridge Too Far, Band of Brothers, Angels 22, Dam Busters, Reach for the Sky and all other Paul Brickhill books, and I'll need to bring the Paddy Maine biography I haven't gotten round to yet.
a good dressmaking book
................. we may be back *laughs*
Julius Ceasar
Chalet School books
Laura Ingalls Wilder
"If you give a mouse a cookie"
"Paddle-to-the-sea"
"Hiawatha"
Johanna Spyri (Wrote a series of tween books about an Austrian girl named "Heidi")
"Pocahontas"
"Sacajawea"
Archeology texts
Paleontology texts
Whiskey Galore
Nigel Tranter
"Reach for the sky", Paul Brickhill
The Wagon's West series by Dana Fuller Ross
"Dune"
"Shogun"
Louis L'Amour
Zane Grey
Catherine Gaskin
Neville Shute
R F Delderfield
"Black Beauty" - Anna Sewell
Poldark series, Winston Graham
-Ferdinand
-Corduroy
-Harold and the Purple Crayon
-Where the Wild Things Are
-Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day
-Caps for Sale
-The Pokey Little Puppy
-One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
-The Napping House
-Strega Nona
-Goodnight Moon
-Millions of Cats
-The Little House
-Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
-Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
-Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore
-Peach and Blue
-Blueberries for Sal
i could go on, but i'll stop there :)
-The Power of One
-Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
-My Antonia
-The Color Purple
-The Good Earth
-The Brief History of the Dead
-Childhood's End
-Ender's Game
-Rubyfruit Jungle
-Middlesex
-Solitaire
-What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
-The Tattoo Artist
and
-The Tao of Pooh
:)
Greg- Thanks much for the reference.
Denese- WiFi andKindles? I'm old-school I guess...love the heft of a book in my hand, the scents of the cover and pages and being able to place a homemade bookmark, set it on my nightstand and have it beacon me to return...
I like your suggestions and your comment made me realize that I had intended to include C.S. Lewis "The Screwtape Letters" (pulled the virtual jacket and everything before posting) Now corrected. Thanks.
Spin Doctor- Me too, from the suggestions in comments.
Stephen- No surprise here, either. How in the world did I neglect to include Tennessee Williams? Omission corrected! I used his, "From Candles to the Sun," book jacket. I read it years ago and was captivated by this story of the coalminers' struggle to unionize. Right up there with Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle," in my opinion.
Chicago Guy- All excellent, but how did I forget Checkov? (slapping forehead)
T. Michael- Impressive list and as above, slapping forehead yet again for omitting Ray Bradbury, Williams S. Burroughs, Keats, D.H. Lawrence.
hourglass, halfof42 &MrsRaptor- WOW! My kist took two days to create and post, this could be a month-long process! lol
These were already included in the original post:
Unabridged Dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus, Encyclopedia Britannica, National Geographic Atlas, Poe, Shakespeare, Wilde, Yeats, Bronte sisters, Anderson & Bros. Grimm.
I meant to include The PDR, Basic Sewing guide, Koran, Astronomy Guide and a World Histor volume. Thanks for the reminders.
And the others are fine additions indeed, Ladies. I appreciate you taking the time to send your lists. I'll work them into my original post, as time permits. (and credit each of you of course)
Fanny Farmer's cookbook will be added post-haste.
Walter- I like your alternative suggestions. I am captivated by all of Michener's work. And I'll be happy to add Leon Uris other two...adored trinity as well.
100 years of Solitude, among others, by "El Gabo" Gabriel García Márquez (from Colombia)
Complete poems, by Pablo Neruda (from Chile)
Ardiente Paciencia, By Antonio Skármeta (from Chile)
Dona Flor e seus dois maridos, among others, by Jorge Amado (from Brazil)
Conversación en la Catedral, among others, by Mario Vargas Llosa (from Perú)
Hijo de Hombre, by Augusto Roa Bastos (from Paraguay)
Bomarzo, Boquitas Pintadas, among others, by Manuel Mujica Lainez (from Argentina)
Complete stories, by Jorge Luis Borges (from Argentina)
Sobre héroes y tumbas, among others, by Ernesto Sábato (from Argentina)
La Tregua, La borra del Café, Gracias por el fuego, among others, by Mario Benedetti (from Uruguay)
Plus science Fiction:
Martian Chronicles, among others, by Ray Bradbury
The left hand of Darkness, among others, by Ursula Le Guin
The Invisible cities, by Italo Calvino
The Colour out of space, among others, by H P Lovecraft
And so on, and so forth.
Kisses,
Marcela
SUCH a literary light weight. =o)
But this list bears more thinking about....
:-)
(the balance of the 15 on my own post) and,
Justice as Fairness by John Rawls
The Thomas Covenant Chronicles by Stephen Donaldson
The Sandman graphic novels by Neil Gaiman
Death with interruptions by Jose Saramago
Ulysses and also
Dubliners by James Joyce
The collected Poems of T S Elliott
The Book of my life by Girolamo Cardano
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
Mort (or any number of others! by Terry Pratchett
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Civilisation and its Discontents, and also
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Freud
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Beloved by Toni Morrisson
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Midnight Court by Brian Merriman
This side of Brightness by Colum McCann
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby and finally, Anam Cara by John O'Donohue
Sorry, my enthusiasm got the better of me! Rated for sharing ;)
Verbal Remedy gifted me with a VIRTUAL $10K. I'd be perusing used book stores and begging for donations in the real world. ;0)