Books

Hypothetical question for all you book-heads like me: If you were to be trapped on a deserted island for an unsubstantial amount of time, what book would you want for company? You cannot choose just one? Well, me neither. Here is a list of great works of pleasant fiction I dub as my closest friends.

The Complete Poems, by Emily Dickinson
A Separate Peace, by John Knowles
The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
Speak, by Laurie Halse Alderson
Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden
The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier
The Shack, by William P. Young
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelly
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka
Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
The Fixer, by Bernard Malamud
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
Atonement, by Iam McEwan
White Oleander, by Janet Fitch
The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte