deserted island

I felt kinda bad just having a hall of shame, so I thought I’d better have a corresponding list of books I actually did like. Listed in alphabetical order by author, these are the books I would take with me to a deserted island. If you’re wondering what you should read next, wonder no more.

  1. Fangs – Sarah Andersen
  2. Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
  3. Odder – Katherine Applegate
  4. The Bear and the Nightingale – Katherine Arden
  5. The Travelling Cat Chronicles – Hiro Arikawa
  6. Life After Life – Kate Atkinson
  7. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
  8. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
  9. Dearly – Margaret Atwood
  10. Hag-Seed – Margaret Atwood
  11. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
  12. Bookshops & Bonedust – Travis Baldree
  13. Legends & Lattes – Travis Baldree
  14. Goblins & Greatcoats – Travis Baldree
  15. Brigands & Breadknives – Travis Baldree
  16. Senlin Ascends – Josiah Bancroft
  17. When Women Were Dragons – Kelly Barnhill
  18. Mirror Lake – Juneau Black
  19. Twilight Falls – Juneau Black
  20. Summers End – Juneau Black
  21. Mockingbird Court – Juneau Black
  22. The Curse of Chalion – Lois McMaster Bujold
  23. The Stranger – Albert Camus
  24. My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-Wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me – Caleb Carr
  25. The Fox Wife – Yangsze Choo
  26. Catherine, Called Birdy – Karen Cushman
  27. Matilda – Roald Dahl
  28. All Who Go Do Not Return – Shulem Deen
  29. Woman World – Aminder Dhaliwal
  30. The Spellshop – Sarah Beth Durst
  31. The Enchanted Greenhouse – Sarah Beth Durst
  32. The Office of Historical Corrections – Danielle Evans
  33. Neverwhere (The Author’s Preferred Text) – Neil Gaiman
  34. Last Violent Call – Chloe Gong
  35. Foul Heart Huntsman – Chloe Gong
  36. The Hill We Climb – Amanda Gorman
  37. Chocolat – Joanne Harris
  38. Weyward – Emilia Hart
  39. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman
  40. M. Butterfly – David Henry Hwang
  41. Fractured Fairy Tales – A.J. Jacobs
  42. The Long Patrol – Brian Jacques
  43. Lord Brocktree – Brian Jacques
  44. Triss – Brian Jacques
  45. The Map of Salt and Stars – Zeyn Joukhadar
  46. The Thirty Names of Night – Zeyn Joukhadar
  47. The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery – Siddharth Kara
  48. Three Plays: Once in a Lifetime/You Can’t Take It With You/The Man Who Came to Dinner – George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
  49. Curiosity Thrilled the Cat – Sofie Kelly
  50. The Book of Longings – Sue Monk Kidd
  51. Swordheart – T. Kingfisher
  52. The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts – Maxine Hong Kingston
  53. Just So Stories – Rudyard Kipling
  54. Build Your House Around My Body – Violet Kupersmith
  55. Ella Enchanted – Gail Carson Levine
  56. Circe – Madeline Miller
  57. The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller
  58. The Great Passage – Shion Miura
  59. Gideon the Ninth – Tamsyn Muir
  60. Nona the Ninth – Tamsyn Muir
  61. The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich – Deya Muniz
  62. Macbeth – Jo Nesbø
  63. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees – Aimee Nezhukumatathil
  64. World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments – Aimee Nezhukumatathil
  65. Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell
  66. The Marriage Portrait – Maggie O’Farrell
  67. The Bullet That Missed – Richard Osman
  68. The League of Lady Poisoners: Illustrated True Stories of Dangerous Women – Lisa Perrin
  69. Alexandra Petri’s US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up) – Alexandra Petri
  70. Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why – Alexandra Petri
  71. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch – Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
  72. The Poisoned King – Katherine Rundell
  73. The Cartographers – Peng Shepherd
  74. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
  75. And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges – Amber Sparks
  76. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk
  77. Book Love – Debbie Tung
  78. The Toss of a Lemon – Padma Viswanathan
  79. The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
  80. The Enchanted Forest Chronicles – Patricia C. Wrede
  81. How Much of These Hills Is Gold – C Pam Zhang