“Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

Yesterday I sussed out my first three Desert Island Books – I’ll finish out the list here.

I started out making a list of possibilities: LOTR, The Riverworld Series, Sputnik Sweetheart, The War of the Rull, Jealousy (by Alain Robbe-Grillet)….

As I was thinking, number four popped into my mind.

4. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A slam-dunk – although I liked Love in the Time of Cholera almost almost as much.

And that’s how I completed the ten. I kept listing books and every now and then one would jump out at me. I wrote: Lolita, Pale Fire, Under the Volcano, Absalom, Absalom, Slaughterhouse Five, Cat’s Cradle, Waiting for the Barbarians, 1Q84, The Brothers Karamazov, A Clockwork Orange… – all worthy candidates, but the ones that I selected (and will change constantly):

5. Moby Dick

Of course

6. Dune

Of course

7. Crash

The J.G. Ballard novel

8. The Sound and the Fury

One of my Difficult Reading Book Club selections – the second on the list.

9. On the Road

10. Catch-22

So, What do you think? What have I missed? What have I not read?