I remember that particularly
in the early 1980’s I was always making up lists of, say, 20 essential books to
take if exiled on a deserted island or going into space. The idea of how many
digital books you could take had never even entered my imagination. Today the
fancy came to me of which 20 I would select today if I were to, say, dump them
on my past self (I’m always thinking about that guy. He never thought about
me!). I would restrict myself to books I had today. It is a bit of a cheat as
many volumes contain multiple books (for a total of 41), but hey, it’s my list,
my rules.
1) The
Oxford Annotated Bible
2) The
Annotated Alice
3) The
Lord of the Rings
4) The
Complete Tales of the Brothers Grimm
5) Oxford
Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes
6) The
Once and Future King
7) The
Complete Chronicles of Narnia
8) The
Annotated Wizard of Oz
9) Reader’s
Digest Great Stories for Young Readers
10)
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
11)
The Annotated Sherlock Holmes
12)
The Greek Myths
13)
Collected Works GKC Vol. 6
14)
The Gormenghast Novels
15)
The Books of Earthsea
16)
The Oxford Book of English Verse
17)
The Deptford Trilogy
18)
The Children of Odin
19)
The Dark is Rising
20) Fantasy of the 20th Century
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