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According to the website wikihow.com, a person arriving on a desert island must "evaluate your resources."
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"Do you have a source of fresh water?" the site asks. "Do you have a long range radio, satellite phone, or other means of communication? Are there other people? People, if managed correctly, can be your greatest resource."
No mention of what Daily Circuit listeners would consider a crucial resource:
Books.
What books would you take to a desert island? When The New Yorker asked the question last year, one of the replies was "Desert Island for Dummies," which would be a good idea if such a book existed. It doesn't.
THE TAKEAWAY: All the books mentioned on the air during the show.
"The Secret Garden," by Frances Hodgson Burnett
"A Wrinkle in Time," by Madeleine L'Engle
"Island of the Blue Dolphins," by Scott O'Dell
"Moby-Dick," by Herman Melville
"The Great Gatsby," by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Pride and Prejudice," by Jane Austen
"The Alchemist," By Paulo Coelho
"Great Expectations," by Charles Dickens
"David Copperfield," by Charles Dickens
"Bleak House," by Charles Dickens
"A Tale of Two Cities," by Charles Dickens
"War and Peace," by Leo Tolstoy
"Anna Karenina," by Leo Tolstoy
"The Idiot," by Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Don Quixote," by Miguel Cervantes
The Journals of Lewis and Clark
"Undaunted Courage," by Stephen E. Ambrose
"The Brothers K," by David James Duncan
"Life of Pi," by Yann Martel
"The Count of Monte Cristo," by Alexandre Dumas
"Galapagos," by Kurt Vonnegut
"Little Women," by Louisa May Alcott
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," by J.K. Rowling
"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," by J.K. Rowling
"Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell," by Susanna Clarke
"Cryptonomicon," by Neal Stephenson
"In Cold Blood," by Truman Capote
"Consider the Lobster," by David Foster Wallace
"Into the Wild," by Jon Krakauer
"One Hundred Years of Solitude," by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"The Magus," by John Fowles
"The French Lieutenant's Woman," by John Fowles
The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
"The Catcher in the Rye," by J. D. Salinger
"The Fifth Business," by Robertson Davies
"The Aeneid," by Virgil
"On the Shoulders of Giants," edited by Stephen Hawking
"The Iliad," by Homer
"It," by Stephen King
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," by Douglas Adams
"In This House of Brede," by Rumer Godden
The Collected Stories of Anton Chekhov
"Lit," by Mary Karr
"A Long Way Down," by Nick Hornby
