Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories -- Sarah Orne Jewett
Joy in the Morning -- P.G. Wodehouse
The Best of Wodehouse -- P.G. Wodehouse
Mansfield Park -- Jane Austen
The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne
Masnavi -- Rumi
Lord of the Rings -- Tolkien
Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry -- editor Frederick Nims
(I taught this book many times and came to love the poems Nims selected.)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes -- Conan Doyle
A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life -- Santideva (Maybe I would become enlightened on a desert island -- no distractions. It's possible. Might as well try.)
More poetry than I would have thought. And no Faulkner. Well, I need to be comforted and entertained on a desert island.
Not counting these among my ten because, although I would want them with me, I probably would not read them for pleasure:
The Boy Scout Manual
A Guide to Edible Plants
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