This year, I decided to join the GoodReads 2020 Reading Challenge (https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/5715136-pjmartin?shelf=2020-reading-challenge), in which participants keep a list of the books they read this year. It made me start to think: If I knew I was going to be stranded on a deserted island, what books would I want to have with me. I tried to narrow it down to a list of 10, but that's not happening! So, I've divided it into three (maybe four -- we'll see!) lists; let me know what you think!
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
* Charlotte's Web (E. B. White)
* Amelia Bedelia (Peggy Parish) -- all of them!
* The Borrowers (Mary Norton)
* From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (E. L. Konigsburg)
* Harriet the Spy (Louise Fitzhugh)
* The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
* Madeline (Ludwig Bemelmans)
* Make Way for Ducklings (Robert McCloskey)
* Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Mildred D. Taylor)
* Winnie the Pooh (A. A. Milne)
(Back-ups: Matilda, Roald Dahl; Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of NIMH, Robert C. O'Brien; The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit, Julius Lester)
CLASSICAL LITERATURE (Most of these made the list because I've never read them in their entirety!)
* The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
* Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
* The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
* Animal Farm (George Orwell)
* Les Miserables (Victor Hugo) -- Sorry, won't let me include the diacritical mark!
* Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
* War & Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
* Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
* Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes)
* Dracula (Bram Stoker)
COZY MYSTERY SERIES
* Zoe Donovan (Kathi Daley)
* Whales & Tales (Kathi Daley)
* Writer's Retreat (Kathi Daley)
* The Inn at Holiday Bay (Kathi Daley)
* Cruise Ship (Hope Callaghan)
* Garden Girls (Hope Callaghan)
* Made in Savannah (Hope Callaghan)
* Ghost-in-Law (Jana DeLeon)
* Cozy Corgi (Mildred Abbot)
* Ginger Gold (Lee Strauss)
MISCELLANEOUS AUTHORS
* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
* Agatha Christie
* Dorothy Sayers
* Sue Grafton
* Elizabeth Peters
* Anne Perry
* Anne McCaffrey
* J. K. Rowling
* Dr. Seuss
* Leighann Dobbs
So, which books make your "must have on a deserted island" list?
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