Fifty Desert-Island Books Records and Films: #1-#40

Explore the ultimate desert-island list with Fifty Desert-Island Books, Records, and Films: #1-#40. Discover must-read books, iconic records, and unforgettable films for your isolated escape. Perfect for culture lovers!

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Three Novels

by Samuel Beckett

Few works of contemporary literature are so universally acclaimed as central to our understanding of the human experience as Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s famous …
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2666

by Roberto Bolaño

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2008 Time Magazine's Best Book of 2008 Los Angeles …
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The Soft Machine

by William S. Burroughs

Science fiction-roman.
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The Philip K. Dick Collection

by Philip K. Dick

Collects thirteen definitive works by the eminent science-fiction master, in a chronologically arranged, three-volume boxed set that includes such titles as Do Androids Dream of …
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Bleak House

by Charles Dickens

Filled with dramatic constructions and poetic evocations, this 150th anniversary edition once again brings to life Dicken's tale about the suit of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce …
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The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Originally published in 1990 by North Point Press.
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Discipline and Punish

by Michel Foucault

A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition …
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Our Lady of the Flowers

by Jean Genet

Jean Genet's masterpiece, composed entirely in the solitude of his prison cell. With an introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre. Jean Genet's first, and arguably greatest, novel …
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Modern Classics Finnegans Wake

by James Joyce

A daring work of experimental, Modernist genius, James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is one of the greatest literary achievements of the twentieth century, and the crowning …
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The Trial

by Franz Kafka

A brilliant translation of one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, revealing a tale that is as full of energy and power …
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On the Road

by Jack Kerouac

A reproduction of Kerouac's original 1951 scroll draft of "On the Road" offers insight into the writer's thematic vision and narrative voice as influenced by …
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The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing

Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African …
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Moby-Dick, Or, The Whale

by Herman Melville

A classic of the sea, telling of the pursuit of Moby Dick, the white whale who defied capture.
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Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller

The account of a young writer and his friends in free-wheeling Paris.
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Beloved

by Toni Morrison

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past. One of The …
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Pale Fire

by Vladimir Nabokov

A darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue from one of the leading writers of the twentieth century, the acclaimed …
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In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

The first installment of the French author's multivolume autobiographical novel, originally published in 1913, in which he recalls his childhood and first infatuation.
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Gilead

by Marilynne Robinson

In 1956, toward the end of his life, Reverend John Ames begins a letter to his young son, sharing the story of his life and …
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