If you had to choose twenty books

[Books+anime+Beatles]

...To take to a desert island, which books would you choose?

This is difficult, but here goes my list:

- Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë
- Sevenwaters Trilogy, by Juliet Marillier
- Heart's Blood, by Juliet Marillier
- Rebecca, by Daphne Du Maurier
- Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Brontë
- The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas
- Romeo and Juliet, by Shakespeare
- Othello, by Shakespeare
- Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
- The strange case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
- Dracula, by Bram Stoker (and no, I'm not a vampires stories fan, but I find Dracula an excellent classic)
- Wildwood Dancing, by Juliet Marillier
- Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
- The Scapegoat, by Daphne Du Maurier
- Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
- Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen
- Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet B. Stowe

I would have to leave some very good books (that I loved reading) behind, like A Christmas Carol, by Dickens, Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, etc , but I would choose these 20 books (thinking about which books to take is actually an interesting - and hard! - exercise).

[janmarie1116]

I would take 19 books I have always wanted to read, but hadn't read yet. And the, "The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers" by Margaret George. Have read it only twice and would like to read it a few more times.

[whitneybell]

Well, I would NOT take any Bronte sisters or Jane Austen, with the possible exception of Wuthering Heights. I think Jane Eyre and all of Austen's novels are good but a bit too self-righteous and preachy. I would take The Great Gatsby, The Way of All Flesh, Kate Chopin's The Awakening, some William Faulkner that I haven't read, everything Virginia Woolf wrote, and Hemingway for sure.

[FNAWrite]

The twenty longest books I could find.

[TrishaAnn92]

I would take as many book as I could, which would be more than 20! And they would have to be really long!

[murchlove+]

It would have to be a book series that isn't complete yet. There would not be and island on this planet I wouldn't be able to figure out a way off of if the temptation for the next book in a series is dangling just out of reach.

[Reading lady]

I would choose twenty books I hadn't read yet preferably by my favourite authors - anthologies if possible with several books in one and the longer the better. How long am I going to be on thus deserted island? Hopefully I would be returning in about a month just about the time I finished these books?

[Divya Tamilselvan]

I would choose 19 books that I always wanted to read but have not read. In those 19 books, 10 books would be fiction and 9 books would be non-fiction. And the 20th book will be my favorite book The Secret by Rhonda Byrne.

[Tommy Mayengbam]

I will definitely not take novels I have read. Instead, I'll pick 15-16 fiction with intriguing titles and blurbs. And I'll take 4 or 5 self-help books (that I already read and know are good) for survival.

[Tomy Chandrafrost]

I feel the "School of Life" series is quite good to read, "Boundaries" by Nedra Tawwab, the "Emotional Immature Parent" series, "Untigering" by Iris Chen, the psychology series from the Gottman Institute, and several books by Dale Carnegie are also worth reading.

[London Baum]

Ohhh this is fun and so hard
1-3. The Crescent City series by Sarah J Maas
4-9. The Eden’s series by Devney Perry
10. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
11-20. Books high on my “want to read” list