Three Books for Your Desert Island Trip

Rules of the Game: The trip is of indefinite duration. You can take an empty book and a package of pens to write in. But what three books would you take to read?



None can be the collected works of a writer/s. (No Shakespeare's Plays, for instance)

Single author books only. (No best mysteries of 2009)

And no best short stories of a writer. (No collected Works of John Updike for instance)







What would they be? Would you pick books you know you will like because you have read them already. Books you know you will like from recommendations?



I'd pick three collections of short stories because there is so much to think about in a volume of perhaps 15-20 stories.



Raymond Carver, Cathedral.



Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find



Alice Munro, Moons of Jupiter



What about you?