desert island books
The question didn't say how many I get, so I'm going to try to limit myself!
Looking at my bookshelf, I'd say I would take the following library of every fictional piece by Josef Skvorecky, William Gibson, Edith Wharton and Fay Weldon. Those four authors encompass quite a lot of what I love in fiction and all of them do it with style and strength.
If I had to go with just a few:
Skvorecky: Engineer of Human Souls, The Miracle Game, Two Murders in My Double Life
Gibson: Neuromancer, Idoru, The Peripheral
Wharton: The Reef, Twilight Sleep, The House of Mirth
Weldon: Mischief, Splitting, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Bonus books: The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay, The Sundering by Jacqueline Carey, Cyteen by CJ Cherryh, The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman, Transmetropolitan series by Warren Ellis.
These are books I love. Books that left a little piece of themselves in my heart somewhere, books I would read over and over and over.
Looking at my bookshelf, I'd say I would take the following library of every fictional piece by Josef Skvorecky, William Gibson, Edith Wharton and Fay Weldon. Those four authors encompass quite a lot of what I love in fiction and all of them do it with style and strength.
If I had to go with just a few:
Skvorecky: Engineer of Human Souls, The Miracle Game, Two Murders in My Double Life
Gibson: Neuromancer, Idoru, The Peripheral
Wharton: The Reef, Twilight Sleep, The House of Mirth
Weldon: Mischief, Splitting, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Bonus books: The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay, The Sundering by Jacqueline Carey, Cyteen by CJ Cherryh, The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman, Transmetropolitan series by Warren Ellis.
These are books I love. Books that left a little piece of themselves in my heart somewhere, books I would read over and over and over.