I read too much and remember too little, but here are some of the books/authors I really like:
Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You by Dorothy Bryant
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
the Harry Potter books
Most of Faulkner
A lot of Meg Cabot, David Eddings and Piers Anthony
Here goes (these are all in my home library):
Collected Works, Shakespeare
History of Civilization, Durant
Tao te Ching, Lao Tzu
Epic of Gilgamesh, Anonymous
Lord of the Rings, Tolkien
The Fountainhead, Rand
Iliad, Homer (Fagles translation)
Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky
Dune, Herbert
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, Heinlein
"What Not to Wear" is EVIL. I always stay up way too late on Friday nights, when they run one right after another.
The transformations are too much fun to watch, except for the parts where the occasional victim will find herself confronting some heinous self-esteem issues on-camera. I'm surprised they don't have a therapist in the mix, right in there alongside Nick and Carmindy (who may well be the most beautiful woman I've ever seen). It's always amazing to see how messing with people's outsides can do a lot to rearrange their insides.
Helpful hint for WNTW addicts who also want lives: I've learned that you can watch the last 10-20 minutes of any given episode and get the full jist of the thing.
can I give ten series...too damm may books I would need to have
the RiftWar cycles (at least the first trilogy)
Illuminatis trillogy(Hey that one is bound as one book 
)
hitchhickers guide to the galexy (trilogy in 6 parts)
dirk gentlies holistic detective
agancy (triolgy in two parts..Mr
adams had a lot of trouble countign to 3)
dancers at the end of time
elric omnibus (see thats like 20 books in 2)
foundation series
anotaited lovecraft
backyard blaistics
Boy scouts feild guide (I am stuck on an island afterall.)
Mrs. Robinson I never coudl fully trust nick...how can one trust a hair dresser without hair?
WNTW is one of teh primary shows in my house...post kids bedtime (DVR is wonderfull, I haven't watched live tv in years..we tried the other night after the second comercial break we decided to recored the show and watch it later )
Oh and FI i did my math right im only at 32 books, light necissary reading
ok... for me (but need a 100 to really cover it)
Tolkein LOTR(the all in one version so I only have to count it as one)
At least one book of poetry by e.e. cummings
The complete Sherlock Holmes
City by Clifford D. Simak
Charles Dickens: Four Novels (Great Expectations; Hard Times; A Christmas Carol; A Tale of Two Cities)
by Charles Dickens
How to Cook a Wolf by M. F. K. Fisher
The Hours: by Michael Cunningham
Tales from the White Hart by Arthur C. Clarke
Auguste Escoffier: Memories of My Life by Auguste Escoffier and Laurence Escoffier
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
by Brothers Grimm
i would cover my poetry by having one of those college anthologies
1. for england/ireland
2. america
i'd also cover a big, thin page/small print anthology of short stories and essays from
3 great britain
4. ireland
then i'd start going for classics
5 the peloponniesian wars - thucydides
6. don quixote - cervantes
7 les miserables - - hugo
8 tom jones - fielding
9 harlot's ghost - mailer
10. the foxfire books (1,2,and3 they have instructions on things like building canoes and whiskey stills)
oops.
silly silly me.
3 is supposed to be great britain/ireland
4 is america (i couldn't live without some twain, cooper, and hawthorne)
Okay here is my list:
The collected works of Dan Jenkins, Joseph Wambaugh, John LeCarre, Elmore Leonard, and Carl Hiassaon. Throw in a compendium of Sherlock Holmes too. Add up all of the really cool Poe, Faulkner, Wilty, O'Henry, O'Connor short stories I had to read in grade school and college and you have the opportunity to reflect and surmise that I am not very well read.
Interesting exercise. In no particular order:
1) Collected works of Shakesphere
2) Life and Fate, Vassily Grossman
3) The Boyscout Handbook
4) Collected Works of Stanislaw Lem
5) Collected Works of Mikhail Bulgakov
6) Mother London, Michael Moorcock
7) Don Quixote, Cervantes
8 ) Children of the Arbat, Anatoli Rybakov
9) Catch-22 Joseph Heller
10) Feynman Lectures on Physics, Richard Feynman (the definitive edition)
OK, so this is really more than 10 books, but still fewer than on Moonglum's list 
- Complete Shakespeare
- Homer (Iliad and Odyssey in one volume must exist somewhere)
- Lord of the Rings
- War and Peace
- Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment or Bros Karamazov probably
- Probably Complete Aeschylus or Sophocles plays (or a volume with both together if it's possible)
- Probably Dune
- Quixote
- Is there Proust in one single volume? (at least it would take a lot of time to read it )
- Ramayana or Mahabaratha - well, too big for one volume, but let's assume it's possible; these are so big I'll be busy for months
Periwinkle Spark Plug: the feild guid is realy more usefull in this situation tehn the handbook...
CluelessJoe admit it the Proust is jsut their to end your life with as you give up on beign rescued (eitehr bash yourself over the head with it, or die from bordoom in a vain attempt at reeading it )
My choice: "How to Survive on a Desert Island Without Going Flip City, vols. 1 - 10"
I've never seen "Lost" but I've heard much carping about the basic incoherence of the series, & the list above only seems to confirm it: the available reads are pretty much all Notable Works of Great Value ... not a low-rent airport read among 'em, much less an Oprah Club choice, celeb bio, self-help screed or financial advice from a future felon. What? No Grisham, no Sudoku? No "Ten Must-see Places in Fiji?"
none too plausible, methinks. In fact that list sounds more like what you'd find along the spines of a *fake* book case.
Glad I took the time to read this, when I saw the the title I thought it was about Wes Clark losing his marbles this weekend.
I'm with you infodog. I've never seen a single episode of the series and I've read every book listed in the post except for the following:
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
by Judy Blume
Ahhh - a kindred spirit! Minstrel Hussain Boy, The History of the Peloponnesian War is the first book I ever owned. It currently resides in a place of honor, in the basement library/shrine of the home of my mother and sister with every academic
textbook I've ever possessed. My Mom is sentimental about such things
I love LOST. Never miss it. I want to have Saied's babies (really just try alot since that time has passed)..... but Barbara Hershey beat me to it.... dammit.
First book that came to mind for me is:
Island of Blue Dolphins
The Secret Language
Mystery of the Green Cat
Her Majesty Grace Jones
Henry and the Paper Route
Henry and the Clubhouse
Scholastic Book Club selections from grade school I'd love to read again. I actually still have these books.... along with "Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret"
Also, with Mintrel Hussein Boy with the college anthologies... but they could rip out "The Yellow Wallpaper" and I'd be okay with that.
All of Jane Austen, Barbara Kingsolver, Florence Scovel Shinn, and okay Barbara Taylor Bradford.
Oh, and The Hobbit and LOTR. Yum!
If anyone on the the plane had any of the O'Reilly books, I'd burn them.:-|
WNTW ...... I love this show! It is addicting though. The other one is "House Hunters" and now "House Hunters International"..... I don't know why.
Stacy and Clinton are harsh! But the end is always good and these women remember who they are. I like that. The hair guy almost always gets it right. I just had to shop for a class reunion this weekend..... and dammit if I didn't hear Stacy and Clinton in my head telling me to try this or that to see how it might look. And I ended up with a NICE pair of muted PIN STRIPE pants that looked quite nice with a tank and a short shear topper AND some cute strappy sandals that I wouldn't have picked out normally. Comfy stuff too.
I would be humiliated to have them scope my closet! 
infodog, I stopped watching after the 2nd season but I'm pretty sure the books on the list aren't all ones that people had with them on the plane. I can only remember one character actually reading. The list is the books that get referenced in some way on the show. Someone quotes from one or a plot point is an allusion to one, etc.
Tsk. I've read only 7 of the list, if I'm counting right, and not the best 7, either.
However, I'm glad to see the big Lewis Carroll renaissance. Not only the top of the Lost list, but a pointed reference by the apeals court in the latest Gitmo case!
http://www.cnn.com/2008/
POLITICS...=rss_topstories
h/t to Oliver Willis.
Apparently the court is not impressed by the Administration's line of logic borrowed from the Bellman in The Hunting of the Snark, that "What I say three times is true." (Snark! Dontcha love it? That's one snarky legal decision.)
Ahem. As to the subject, ten is a much nicer number than the traditional three books for the desert island, but making lists is hard. Harder than math. Still, a few:
A Sherlock Holmes collection
A Lewis Carroll collection
Ditto Lord Peter Wimsey
Feynman's combined Surely You're Joking and What Do You Care
[Yes, I do like snark!]
Shakespeare, certainly
The Life of Johnson. We need great thick, square books here (but I am NOT taking Gibbon).
J. B. Phillips translation of the New Testament. I'll never read it through otherwise.
Our Mutual Friend. Ditto.
Uncarved Stone, Unbleached Silk, but Alan Watts. My one thin-book allowance.
And one utility infielder to be specified later.
hey Myrtle Hussein June leave those O'riely boosk alone, I may be writing a few of thsoe soon.
(my editors LOVE me, I keep them employed )
It's just that when someone asks me "What are you reading"..... I don't get to answer because it's always one of those fucking O'Reilly books. Now is C# (along with tech comm and ecotourism school books), which is fun, but still I don't get to read REAL books and prolly won't anytime soon.
On an island, O'Reilly books would be burned! (Unless you wrote it, of course)
book burning bad, even Oreilly books. Plus they have those cool animal covers
Good point, gator...... perhaps we'll need some TP, or wall paper, or insulation then.... perhaps we could make a pinata out of the pages and some tree sap for after dinner fun with them then. Animal covers as cave decor.
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