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Robert Waugh's "My Twenty Favorite Books"

Apparently I have nothing better to do right now than assemble a list of twenty books I would take to a deserted island, have packed in my sarcophagus, write out by hand on loose leaf paper… whatever. If not this, then what?
1. Anne of Green Gables (Signet Classics)
by L. M. Montgomery
  
2. Norwegian Wood
by Haruki Murakami
  
3. Goodbye Tsugumi
by Banana Yoshimoto
  
4. Let Evening Come
by Jane Kenyon
  
5. Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
  
6. Wind, Sand and Stars
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  
7. Mapp & Lucia
by E. F. Benson
  
8. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel (Vintage International)
by Haruki Murakami
  
9. In Watermelon Sugar
by Richard Brautigan
  
10. Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms
by Gertrude Stein
  
11. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
  
12. Peter Pan (100th Anniversary Edition)
by J. M. Barrie
  
13. Kidnapped (Scholastic Classics)
by Robert Louis Stevenson
  
14. Small Is Beautiful : Economics as if People Mattered
by E. F. Schumacher
  
15. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by Christopher Alexander
  
16. My Side of the Mountain (Puffin Modern Classics) (Puffin Modern Classics)
by Jean Craighead Craighead George
  
17. The Inland Island
by Josephine Winslow Johnson
  
18. Winter's Tale
by Mark Helprin
  
19. Howl's Moving Castle
by Diana Wynne Jones
  
20.
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 The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming
by Masanobu Fukuoka
  
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Created by Robert Waugh on Dec 20, 2007.