[David]

You are being exiled to a lonely island for life. You may take ten one-volume books with you. What do you take?


Here's what I take:

Rameau's Nephew (Diderot)
The Varieties of Religious Experience (James)
Romanticism & the Modern Ego (Barzun)
The Riverside Shakespeare (1st ed.)
1846: The Year of Decision (De Voto)
The English Constitution (Bagehot)
To the Finland Station (Wilson)
The Great Plains (Prescott Webb)
Bleak House (Dickens)
Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior