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.
- Fangs – Sarah Andersen
- Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
- The Travelling Cat Chronicles – Hiro Arikawa
- Life After Life – Kate Atkinson
- Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
- The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
- Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
- Hag-Seed – Margaret Atwood
- The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
- Senlin Ascends – Josiah Bancroft
- When Women Were Dragons – Kelly Barnhill
- The Curse of Chalion – Lois McMaster Bujold
- Catherine, Called Birdy – Karen Cushman
- All Who Go Do Not Return – Shulem Deen
- Woman World – Aminder Dhaliwal
- The Office of Historical Corrections – Danielle Evans
- Neverwhere (The Author’s Preferred Text) – Neil Gaiman
- The Hill We Climb – Amanda Gorman
- Chocolat – Joanne Harris
- Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman
- M. Butterfly – David Henry Hwang
- The Long Patrol – Brian Jacques
- Lord Brocktree – Brian Jacques
- Marlfox – Brian Jacques
- Martin the Warrior – Brian Jacques
- The Map of Salt and Stars – Zeyn Joukhadar
- The Thirty Names of Night – Zeyn Joukhadar
- 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
- The Book of Longings – Sue Monk Kidd
- Swordheart – T. Kingfisher
- The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts – Maxine Hong Kingston
- Just So Stories – Rudyard Kipling
- Build Your House Around My Body – Violet Kupersmith
- Ella Enchanted – Gail Carson Levine
- Circe – Madeline Miller
- The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller
- The Great Passage – Shion Miura
- Gideon the Ninth – Tamsyn Muir
- Nona the Ninth – Tamsyn Muir
- Macbeth – Jo Nesbø
- World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments – Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell
- The Marriage Portrait – Maggie O’Farrell
- Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why – Alexandra Petri
- Alexandra Petri’s US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up) – Alexandra Petri
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
- And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges – Amber Sparks
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk
- Book Love – Debbie Tung
- The Toss of a Lemon – Padma Viswanathan
- Sharks in the Time of Saviors – Kawai Strong Washburn
- The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
- The Enchanted Forest Chronicles – Patricia C. Wrede
- How Much of These Hills Is Gold – C Pam Zhang