Books I'd Want With Me While Stranded on a Desert Island

Happy Top Ten Tuesday over at That Artsy Reader Girl!

I feel like we've done a lot of similar ones before, but I'll try to include some fresher favorites. Also, what a lap of luxury, to have TEN books on my proverbial desert island :-)

1. Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore

2. Middlemarch by George Eliot

3. The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders

4. The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

5. A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

6. The Dream of a Common Language by Adrienne Rich

7. Devotions by Mary Oliver

8. Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott

9. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

10. The Ultimate Survival Guide by John Lofty Wiseman

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R's Rue said…

I have Devotions on my bedside table. Thank you for the nudge to read it. Thank you.
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July 27, 2021 at 4:15 PM

Lydia said…

Devotions was on my list, too! It’s so cool that we’re both fans of Mary Oliver’s work.

My post: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-books-id-want-with-me-while-stranded-on-a-deserted-island/

July 27, 2021 at 4:29 PM

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