Top Ten Tuesday: Desert Island Books

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Today's top ten books are the books that I would want to have with me on a deserted island. This is a difficult thing to figure out because I don't know where the island will be located, I don't know how long I will be there, I don't know if I will be alone (will there be other readers who constantly steal my books and bend the pages and piss me off so that I start a riot and kill them all off and then turn to cannibalism !), I don't know if I will have time to read with all the surviving I'll be doing, etc.
However, if I get the best case scenario desert island experience, these are the books I would like to have with me there.

10. 
Because it's just good sense to have a survival guide when you're trying to survive.

9. 
Because I would want to feel like there are other gals out there who have to survive on a deserted island, too.

8. 
For the same reason as #9 except change "gal" to "guy".

7. 
This book would serve to bring back good memories from college. It would also take a while to read all the plays and sonnets. Plus, I just love everything about this book.

6. 
Because who doesn't need a little humor with their survival?

5. 
I would want all of Mr. Sedaris' work with me, however if I could only select one I suppose that it would be this one. This was the first one I read and I fell in love with his writing and his brand of humor.

4. 
I would never get bored. I could, literally, read about any and everything in the world. I could read about the island I am stranded on and I could know the local animals and if there are any indigenous tribes I need to be wary of!

3. 
Is this cheating? I don't know. It is a box set that is sold like this. In that case, I suppose that I could go and locate a box set of Sedaris' work as well. However, unlike Sedaris' books I have never read any of the books in this series and I feel like my time on a deserted island would give me ample time to start and complete all of the first four books. So, I have decided that it is not cheating and I would like to add the rest of Sedaris' works to #5.

2. 
All the gory goodness in one book; desert island score!

1. 
Remember, we decided it wasn't cheating!