desert island books: my 24

All read, excepting The Conquest of New Spain (edit: now read!) and The Recognitions. Oh, and the second book of Don Quixote.

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J.D. Salinger - Franny and Zooey
J.D. Salinger - Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters / Seymour: an Introduction
Simon Callow - Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu
Richard Farina - Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
Hunter S. Thompson - The Great Shark Hunt
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
Joseph Heller - Catch-22
John Irving - The World According to Garp
J.S. Mill - On Liberty
Cervantes - Don Quixote
Jorge Luis Borges - Labyrinths
Isaiah Berlin - Concepts & Categories
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5
William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury
Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing: on the Campaign Trail '72
Tom Wolfe - The Bonfire of the Vanities
Thomas Pynchon - V
Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
Bernal Diaz - The Conquest of New Spain
Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle
Albert Camus - The Outsider
William Gaddis - The Recognitions
Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms

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    Pierre Metivier, AmerigoLand, erda28, ilyenez, and 43 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. Pierre Metivier (74 months ago | reply)

    Thx Stëve... you're number 10 if you don't mind being a number. A few classics we have already (Camus, Vonnegut, Irving, Borges, Heller..) and a a few new ones too like Callow, Farina.... Great collection and thanks for participating.

  3. atypicalsnowman* (63 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called I Want to Meet J.D. Salinger, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

    Also, I'm with you on a lot of these. Although I think I'd trade Seymour for Nine Stories.

  4. bonnielukk (58 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Top 50 excellent books, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  5. a.khongpak (52 months ago | reply)

    Nice pic !.

  6. Paupière de roche [deleted] (50 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Couvertures de livres, jaquettes… post 1 invite 1 or award 1, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  7. jalalspages (48 months ago | reply)

    Hello Book Lover!! We at Jalalspages have added another album/group for the book lovers alone - would be very much delighted to see you visiting our library and add books to it - thanks

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Jalalspages Library, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

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  10. Mr.FoxTalbot (44 months ago | reply)

    Borges was a genius.

  11. roberthuffstutter (25 months ago | reply)

    Feel welcome to add as many to group as you would like. WRITER OF THE WORLD...INVITE. Rob

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  14. chrisrgreen2008 (14 months ago | reply)

    That is a great picture, I have read quite a few of those books but to see their original covers? Fantastic. Vonnegut, Faulkner, Thompson, Toole, Wolfe and Salinger. Also from my hometown Manchester, Anthony Burgess.

  15. tqsdpji (12 months ago | reply)

    真漂亮

  16. Alistair McGuinness (6 months ago | reply)

    Hi Steve, intriguing picture. I am about to write a blog article about book covers and would love to use this picture to give examples.... I will link back to here of course!!....cheers...Alistair

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