# 1000 Books You Would Save **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 4, 2009, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589 "2009-10-04T21:54:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9a140/32.png) [@foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolscap)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589/21 "2009-10-05T15:34:13Z")
1. Holy Bible: New International Version 2. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins. 3. And Tango Makes Three 4. The Boy Scout Handbook 5. Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle 6. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby 7. A Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein 8. American Civil Engineers Handbook. fifth edition 1930’s 9. foucault’s pendulum. umberto eco 10. Hitchiker’s guide to the Universe 11. The Baring-Gould Version of The Annotated Sherlock Holmes 12. 101 Uses for a Dead Cat 13. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 1 14. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 2 15. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 3 16. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 4 17. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 5 18. On The Road - Kerouac 19. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson 20. Billions and Billions - Carl Sagan 21. Happy Endings - Jim Norton 22. Notes From Underground - Dostoevsky 23. Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand 24. The Collected Works of William Shakespeare, Annotated 25. A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens 26. The collected works of Lope de Vega. 27. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations 28. US Army Field Manual: Wilderness Survival 29. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein 30. Henley’s Formulas For Home And Workshop 1927 ed ---
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589/22 "2009-10-05T15:42:40Z")
> [@foolscap](#): > > 1. Holy Bible: New International Version > 2. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins. > 3. And Tango Makes Three > 4. The Boy Scout Handbook > 5. Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle > 6. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby > 7. A Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein > 8. American Civil Engineers Handbook. fifth edition 1930’s > 9. foucault’s pendulum. umberto eco > 10. Hitchiker’s guide to the Universe > 11. The Baring-Gould Version of The Annotated Sherlock Holmes > 12. 101 Uses for a Dead Cat > 13. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 1 > 14. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 2 > 15. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 3 > 16. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 4 > 17. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 5 > 18. On The Road - Kerouac > 19. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson > 20. Billions and Billions - Carl Sagan > 21. Happy Endings - Jim Norton > 22. Notes From Underground - Dostoevsky > 23. Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand > 24. The Collected Works of William Shakespeare, Annotated > 25. A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens > 26. The collected works of Lope de Vega. > 27. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations > 28. US Army Field Manual: Wilderness Survival > 29. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein > 30. Henley’s Formulas For Home And Workshop 1927 ed 1. The Bible, in the original Hebrew ---
**Author:** ![Enniaunus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b2d939/32.png) [@Enniaunus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enniaunus)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589/23 "2009-10-05T19:35:42Z")
1. Holy Bible: New International Version 2. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins. 3. And Tango Makes Three 4. The Boy Scout Handbook 5. Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle 6. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby 7. A Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein 8. American Civil Engineers Handbook. fifth edition 1930’s 9. foucault’s pendulum. umberto eco 10. Hitchiker’s guide to the Universe 11. The Baring-Gould Version of The Annotated Sherlock Holmes 12. 101 Uses for a Dead Cat 13. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 1 14. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 2 15. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 3 16. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 4 17. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 5 18. On The Road - Kerouac 19. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson 20. Billions and Billions - Carl Sagan 21. Happy Endings - Jim Norton 22. Notes From Underground - Dostoevsky 23. Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand 24. The Collected Works of William Shakespeare, Annotated 25. A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens 26. The collected works of Lope de Vega. 27. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations 28. US Army Field Manual: Wilderness Survival 29. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein 30. Henley’s Formulas For Home And Workshop 1927 ed 31. The Bible, in the original Hebrew 32. The Influence of Seapower upon History, Alfred Thayer Mahan 1 is a given, and 4 and 10 would be indispensable. IMHO, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589/24 "2009-10-05T20:10:48Z")
> [@Enniaunus](#): > > 1 is a given, and 4 and 10 would be indispensable. IMHO, of course. Yeah, but there is no book by the name of what’s in 10. There’s one about the Galaxy, but not one about the Universe. ---
**Author:** ![Terraplane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Terraplane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terraplane)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589/25 "2009-10-05T20:17:42Z")
1. Holy Bible: New International Version 2. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins. 3. And Tango Makes Three 4. The Boy Scout Handbook 5. Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle 6. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby 7. A Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein 8. American Civil Engineers Handbook. fifth edition 1930’s 9. foucault’s pendulum. umberto eco 10. Hitchiker’s guide to the Galaxy 11. The Baring-Gould Version of The Annotated Sherlock Holmes 12. 101 Uses for a Dead Cat 13. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 1 14. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 2 15. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 3 16. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 4 17. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 5 18. On The Road - Kerouac 19. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson 20. Billions and Billions - Carl Sagan 21. Happy Endings - Jim Norton 22. Notes From Underground - Dostoevsky 23. Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand 24. The Collected Works of William Shakespeare, Annotated 25. A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens 26. The collected works of Lope de Vega. 27. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations 28. US Army Field Manual: Wilderness Survival 29. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein 30. Henley’s Formulas For Home And Workshop 1927 ed 31. The Bible, in the original Hebrew 32. The Influence of Seapower upon History, Alfred Thayer Mahan 33. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589/26 "2009-10-05T20:20:23Z")
> [@omgzebras](#): > > 1. Holy Bible: New International Version > 2. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins. > 3. And Tango Makes Three > 4. The Boy Scout Handbook > 5. Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle > 6. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby > 7. A Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein > 8. American Civil Engineers Handbook. fifth edition 1930’s > 9. foucault’s pendulum. umberto eco > 10. Hitchiker’s guide to the Galaxy > 11. The Baring-Gould Version of The Annotated Sherlock Holmes > 12. 101 Uses for a Dead Cat > 13. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 1 > 14. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 2 > 15. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 3 > 16. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 4 > 17. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 5 > 18. On The Road - Kerouac > 19. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson > 20. Billions and Billions - Carl Sagan > 21. Happy Endings - Jim Norton > 22. Notes From Underground - Dostoevsky > 23. Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand > 24. The Collected Works of William Shakespeare, Annotated > 25. A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens > 26. The collected works of Lope de Vega. > 27. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations > 28. US Army Field Manual: Wilderness Survival > 29. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein > 30. Henley’s Formulas For Home And Workshop 1927 ed > 31. The Bible, in the original Hebrew > 32. The Influence of Seapower upon History, Alfred Thayer Mahan > 33. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 1. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aca169/32.png) [@Red\_Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589/27 "2009-10-05T20:23:06Z")
1. Holy Bible: New International Version 2. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins. 3. And Tango Makes Three 4. The Boy Scout Handbook 5. Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle 6. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby 7. A Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein 8. American Civil Engineers Handbook. fifth edition 1930’s 9. foucault’s pendulum. umberto eco 10. Hitchiker’s guide to the Galaxy 11. The Baring-Gould Version of The Annotated Sherlock Holmes 12. 101 Uses for a Dead Cat 13. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 1 14. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 2 15. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 3 16. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 4 17. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 5 18. On The Road - Kerouac 19. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson 20. Billions and Billions - Carl Sagan 21. Happy Endings - Jim Norton 22. Notes From Underground - Dostoevsky 23. Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand 24. The Collected Works of William Shakespeare, Annotated 25. A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens 26. The collected works of Lope de Vega. 27. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations 28. US Army Field Manual: Wilderness Survival 29. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein 30. Henley’s Formulas For Home And Workshop 1927 ed 31. The Bible, in the original Hebrew 32. The Influence of Seapower upon History, Alfred Thayer Mahan 33. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 34. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck 35. An Transition to Advanced Mathematics, Smith, Eggen, St. Andre 36. Euclid’s Elements 37. Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589/28 "2009-10-05T21:05:25Z")
1. Holy Bible: New International Version 2. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins. 3. And Tango Makes Three 4. The Boy Scout Handbook 5. Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle 6. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby 7. A Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein 8. American Civil Engineers Handbook. fifth edition 1930’s 9. foucault’s pendulum. umberto eco 10. Hitchiker’s guide to the Galaxy 11. The Baring-Gould Version of The Annotated Sherlock Holmes 12. 101 Uses for a Dead Cat 13. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 1 14. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 2 15. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 3 16. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 4 17. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 5 18. On The Road - Kerouac 19. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson 20. Billions and Billions - Carl Sagan 21. Happy Endings - Jim Norton 22. Notes From Underground - Dostoevsky 23. Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand 24. The Collected Works of William Shakespeare, Annotated 25. A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens 26. The collected works of Lope de Vega. 27. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations 28. US Army Field Manual: Wilderness Survival 29. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein 30. Henley’s Formulas For Home And Workshop 1927 ed 31. The Bible, in the original Hebrew 32. The Influence of Seapower upon History, Alfred Thayer Mahan 33. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 34. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck 35. An Transition to Advanced Mathematics, Smith, Eggen, St. Andre 36. Euclid’s Elements 37. Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury 38. Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner ---
**Author:** ![Enniaunus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b2d939/32.png) [@Enniaunus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enniaunus)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589/29 "2009-10-05T21:25:56Z")
1. Holy Bible: New International Version 2. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins. 3. And Tango Makes Three 4. The Boy Scout Handbook 5. Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle 6. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby 7. A Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein 8. American Civil Engineers Handbook. fifth edition 1930’s 9. foucault’s pendulum. umberto eco 10. Hitchiker’s guide to the Galaxy 11. The Baring-Gould Version of The Annotated Sherlock Holmes 12. 101 Uses for a Dead Cat 13. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 1 14. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 2 15. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 3 16. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 4 17. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 5 18. On The Road - Kerouac 19. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson 20. Billions and Billions - Carl Sagan 21. Happy Endings - Jim Norton 22. Notes From Underground - Dostoevsky 23. Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand 24. The Collected Works of William Shakespeare, Annotated 25. A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens 26. The collected works of Lope de Vega. 27. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations 28. US Army Field Manual: Wilderness Survival 29. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein 30. Henley’s Formulas For Home And Workshop 1927 ed 31. The Bible, in the original Hebrew 32. The Influence of Seapower upon History, Alfred Thayer Mahan 33. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 34. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck 35. An Transition to Advanced Mathematics, Smith, Eggen, St. Andre 36. Euclid’s Elements 37. Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury 38. Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner 39. The Waste Land, TS Eliot ---
**Author:** ![Enniaunus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b2d939/32.png) [@Enniaunus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enniaunus)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589/30 "2009-10-05T21:37:41Z")
1. Holy Bible: New International Version 2. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins. 3. And Tango Makes Three 4. The Boy Scout Handbook 5. Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle 6. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby 7. A Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein 8. American Civil Engineers Handbook. fifth edition 1930’s 9. foucault’s pendulum. umberto eco 10. Hitchiker’s guide to the Galaxy 11. The Baring-Gould Version of The Annotated Sherlock Holmes 12. 101 Uses for a Dead Cat 13. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 1 14. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 2 15. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 3 16. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 4 17. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 5 18. On The Road - Kerouac 19. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson 20. Billions and Billions - Carl Sagan 21. Happy Endings - Jim Norton 22. Notes From Underground - Dostoevsky 23. Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand 24. The Collected Works of William Shakespeare, Annotated 25. A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens 26. The collected works of Lope de Vega. 27. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations 28. US Army Field Manual: Wilderness Survival 29. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein 30. Henley’s Formulas For Home And Workshop 1927 ed 31. The Bible, in the original Hebrew 32. The Influence of Seapower upon History, Alfred Thayer Mahan 33. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 34. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck 35. An Transition to Advanced Mathematics, Smith, Eggen, St. Andre 36. Euclid’s Elements 37. Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury 38. Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner 39. The Waste Land, TS Eliot My roommate’s additions: 1. Principia Mathematica, Newton 2. War and Peace, Tolstoy 3. Night, Elie Wiesel ---
**Author:** ![Terraplane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Terraplane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terraplane)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589/31 "2009-10-06T00:11:26Z")
1. Holy Bible: New International Version 2. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins. 3. And Tango Makes Three 4. The Boy Scout Handbook 5. Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle 6. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby 7. A Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein 8. American Civil Engineers Handbook. fifth edition 1930’s 9. foucault’s pendulum. umberto eco 10. Hitchiker’s guide to the Galaxy 11. The Baring-Gould Version of The Annotated Sherlock Holmes 12. 101 Uses for a Dead Cat 13. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 1 14. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 2 15. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 3 16. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 4 17. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 5 18. On The Road - Kerouac 19. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson 20. Billions and Billions - Carl Sagan 21. Happy Endings - Jim Norton 22. Notes From Underground - Dostoevsky 23. Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand 24. The Collected Works of William Shakespeare, Annotated 25. A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens 26. The collected works of Lope de Vega. 27. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations 28. US Army Field Manual: Wilderness Survival 29. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein 30. Henley’s Formulas For Home And Workshop 1927 ed 31. The Bible, in the original Hebrew 32. The Influence of Seapower upon History, Alfred Thayer Mahan 33. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 34. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck 35. An Transition to Advanced Mathematics, Smith, Eggen, St. Andre 36. Euclid’s Elements 37. Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury 38. Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner 39. The Waste Land, TS Eliot 40. Principia Mathematica, Newton 41. War and Peace, Tolstoy 42. Night, Elie Wiesel 43. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry 44. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway 45. Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy 46. Desolation Island (Master and Commander #5), Patrick O’Brian Everybody else is doing multiples so I added to my last one with a few more that I really love. Every single Master and Commander book is good enough to make this list but I don’t want to hog it with 20 books in a row so I just put in my favorite one. ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589/32 "2009-10-06T00:18:25Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > Yeah, but there is no book by the name of what’s in 10. > > There’s one about the Galaxy, but not one about the Universe. :smack: ---
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1. Holy Bible: New International Version 2. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins. 3. And Tango Makes Three 4. The Boy Scout Handbook 5. Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle 6. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby 7. A Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein 8. American Civil Engineers Handbook. fifth edition 1930’s 9. foucault’s pendulum. umberto eco 10. Hitchiker’s guide to the Galaxy 11. The Baring-Gould Version of The Annotated Sherlock Holmes 12. 101 Uses for a Dead Cat 13. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 1 14. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 2 15. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 3 16. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 4 17. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 5 18. On The Road - Kerouac 19. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson 20. Billions and Billions - Carl Sagan 21. Happy Endings - Jim Norton 22. Notes From Underground - Dostoevsky 23. Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand 24. The Collected Works of William Shakespeare, Annotated 25. A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens 26. The collected works of Lope de Vega. 27. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations 28. US Army Field Manual: Wilderness Survival 29. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein 30. Henley’s Formulas For Home And Workshop 1927 ed 31. The Bible, in the original Hebrew 32. The Influence of Seapower upon History, Alfred Thayer Mahan 33. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 34. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck 35. An Transition to Advanced Mathematics, Smith, Eggen, St. Andre 36. Euclid’s Elements 37. Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury 38. Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner 39. The Waste Land, TS Eliot 40. Principia Mathematica, Newton 41. War and Peace, Tolstoy 42. Night, Elie Wiesel 43. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry 44. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway 45. Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy 46. Desolation Island (Master and Commander #5), Patrick O’Brian 47. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth 48. Moby Dick, Herman Melville ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589/34 "2009-10-06T01:21:06Z")
1. Holy Bible: New International Version 2. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins. 3. And Tango Makes Three 4. The Boy Scout Handbook 5. Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle 6. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby 7. A Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein 8. American Civil Engineers Handbook. fifth edition 1930’s 9. foucault’s pendulum. umberto eco 10. Hitchiker’s guide to the Galaxy 11. The Baring-Gould Version of The Annotated Sherlock Holmes 12. 101 Uses for a Dead Cat 13. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 1 14. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 2 15. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 3 16. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 4 17. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 5 18. On The Road - Kerouac 19. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson 20. Billions and Billions - Carl Sagan 21. Happy Endings - Jim Norton 22. Notes From Underground - Dostoevsky 23. Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand 24. The Collected Works of William Shakespeare, Annotated 25. A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens 26. The collected works of Lope de Vega. 27. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations 28. US Army Field Manual: Wilderness Survival 29. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein 30. Henley’s Formulas For Home And Workshop 1927 ed 31. The Bible, in the original Hebrew 32. The Influence of Seapower upon History, Alfred Thayer Mahan 33. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 34. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck 35. An Transition to Advanced Mathematics, Smith, Eggen, St. Andre 36. Euclid’s Elements 37. Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury 38. Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner 39. The Waste Land, TS Eliot 40. Principia Mathematica, Newton 41. War and Peace, Tolstoy 42. Night, Elie Wiesel 43. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry 44. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway 45. Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy 46. Desolation Island (Master and Commander #5), Patrick O’Brian 47. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth 48. Moby Dick, Herman Melville 49. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 50. 1984, George Orwell 51. Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett ---
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I’ll go with the flow and add three books. 1. Holy Bible: New International Version 2. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins. 3. And Tango Makes Three 4. The Boy Scout Handbook 5. Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle 6. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby 7. A Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein 8. American Civil Engineers Handbook. fifth edition 1930’s 9. foucault’s pendulum. umberto eco 10. Hitchiker’s guide to the Galaxy 11. The Baring-Gould Version of The Annotated Sherlock Holmes 12. 101 Uses for a Dead Cat 13. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 1 14. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 2 15. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 3 16. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 4 17. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 5 18. On The Road - Kerouac 19. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson 20. Billions and Billions - Carl Sagan 21. Happy Endings - Jim Norton 22. Notes From Underground - Dostoevsky 23. Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand 24. The Collected Works of William Shakespeare, Annotated 25. A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens 26. The collected works of Lope de Vega. 27. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations 28. US Army Field Manual: Wilderness Survival 29. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein 30. Henley’s Formulas For Home And Workshop 1927 ed 31. The Bible, in the original Hebrew 32. The Influence of Seapower upon History, Alfred Thayer Mahan 33. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 34. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck 35. An Transition to Advanced Mathematics, Smith, Eggen, St. Andre 36. Euclid’s Elements 37. Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury 38. Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner 39. The Waste Land, TS Eliot 40. Principia Mathematica, Newton 41. War and Peace, Tolstoy 42. Night, Elie Wiesel 43. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry 44. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway 45. Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy 46. Desolation Island (Master and Commander #5), Patrick O’Brian 47. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth 48. Moby Dick, Herman Melville 49. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 50. 1984, George Orwell 51. Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett 52. HP Lovecraft: The Fiction, H.P. Lovecraft 53. The Oxford History of the American People, Samuel Eliot Morison 54. Almanac of American History, James Miller and John Thompson ---
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1. Holy Bible: New International Version 2. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins. 3. And Tango Makes Three 4. The Boy Scout Handbook 5. Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle 6. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby 7. A Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein 8. American Civil Engineers Handbook. fifth edition 1930’s 9. foucault’s pendulum. umberto eco 10. Hitchiker’s guide to the Galaxy 11. The Baring-Gould Version of The Annotated Sherlock Holmes 12. 101 Uses for a Dead Cat 13. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 1 14. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 2 15. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 3 16. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 4 17. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 5 18. On The Road - Kerouac 19. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson 20. Billions and Billions - Carl Sagan 21. Happy Endings - Jim Norton 22. Notes From Underground - Dostoevsky 23. Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand 24. The Collected Works of William Shakespeare, Annotated 25. A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens 26. The collected works of Lope de Vega. 27. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations 28. US Army Field Manual: Wilderness Survival 29. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein 30. Henley’s Formulas For Home And Workshop 1927 ed 31. The Bible, in the original Hebrew 32. The Influence of Seapower upon History, Alfred Thayer Mahan 33. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 34. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck 35. An Transition to Advanced Mathematics, Smith, Eggen, St. Andre 36. Euclid’s Elements 37. Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury 38. Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner 39. The Waste Land, TS Eliot 40. Principia Mathematica, Newton 41. War and Peace, Tolstoy 42. Night, Elie Wiesel 43. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry 44. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway 45. Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy 46. Desolation Island (Master and Commander #5), Patrick O’Brian 47. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth 48. Moby Dick, Herman Melville 49. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 50. 1984, George Orwell 51. Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett 52. Essais, by Michel de Montaigne ---
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1. Holy Bible: New International Version 2. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins. 3. And Tango Makes Three 4. The Boy Scout Handbook 5. Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle 6. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby 7. A Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein 8. American Civil Engineers Handbook. fifth edition 1930’s 9. foucault’s pendulum. umberto eco 10. Hitchiker’s guide to the Galaxy 11. The Baring-Gould Version of The Annotated Sherlock Holmes 12. 101 Uses for a Dead Cat 13. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 1 14. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 2 15. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 3 16. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 4 17. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 5 18. On The Road - Kerouac 19. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson 20. Billions and Billions - Carl Sagan 21. Happy Endings - Jim Norton 22. Notes From Underground - Dostoevsky 23. Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand 24. The Collected Works of William Shakespeare, Annotated 25. A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens 26. The collected works of Lope de Vega. 27. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations 28. US Army Field Manual: Wilderness Survival 29. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein 30. Henley’s Formulas For Home And Workshop 1927 ed 31. The Bible, in the original Hebrew 32. The Influence of Seapower upon History, Alfred Thayer Mahan 33. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 34. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck 35. An Transition to Advanced Mathematics, Smith, Eggen, St. Andre 36. Euclid’s Elements 37. Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury 38. Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner 39. The Waste Land, TS Eliot 40. Principia Mathematica, Newton 41. War and Peace, Tolstoy 42. Night, Elie Wiesel 43. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry 44. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway 45. Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy 46. Desolation Island (Master and Commander #5), Patrick O’Brian 47. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth 48. Moby Dick, Herman Melville 49. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 50. 1984, George Orwell 51. Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett 52. HP Lovecraft: The Fiction, H.P. Lovecraft 53. The Oxford History of the American People, Samuel Eliot Morison 54. Almanac of American History, James Miller and John Thompson 55. Essais, by Michel de Montaigne ---
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1. Holy Bible: New International Version 2. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins. 3. And Tango Makes Three 4. The Boy Scout Handbook 5. Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle 6. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby 7. A Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein 8. American Civil Engineers Handbook. fifth edition 1930’s 9. foucault’s pendulum. umberto eco 10. Hitchiker’s guide to the Galaxy 11. The Baring-Gould Version of The Annotated Sherlock Holmes 12. 101 Uses for a Dead Cat 13. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 1 14. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 2 15. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 3 16. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 4 17. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 5 18. On The Road - Kerouac 19. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson 20. Billions and Billions - Carl Sagan 21. Happy Endings - Jim Norton 22. Notes From Underground - Dostoevsky 23. Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand 24. The Collected Works of William Shakespeare, Annotated 25. A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens 26. The collected works of Lope de Vega. 27. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations 28. US Army Field Manual: Wilderness Survival 29. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein 30. Henley’s Formulas For Home And Workshop 1927 ed 31. The Bible, in the original Hebrew 32. The Influence of Seapower upon History, Alfred Thayer Mahan 33. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 34. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck 35. An Transition to Advanced Mathematics, Smith, Eggen, St. Andre 36. Euclid’s Elements 37. Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury 38. Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner 39. The Waste Land, TS Eliot 40. Principia Mathematica, Newton 41. War and Peace, Tolstoy 42. Night, Elie Wiesel 43. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry 44. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway 45. Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy 46. Desolation Island (Master and Commander #5), Patrick O’Brian 47. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth 48. Moby Dick, Herman Melville 49. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 50. 1984, George Orwell 51. Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett 52. HP Lovecraft: The Fiction, H.P. Lovecraft 53. The Oxford History of the American People, Samuel Eliot Morison 54. Almanac of American History, James Miller and John Thompson 55. Essais, by Michel de Montaigne 56. Oxford English Dictionary ---
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1. Holy Bible: New International Version 2. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins. 3. And Tango Makes Three 4. The Boy Scout Handbook 5. Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle 6. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby 7. A Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein 8. American Civil Engineers Handbook. fifth edition 1930’s 9. foucault’s pendulum. umberto eco 10. Hitchiker’s guide to the Galaxy 11. The Baring-Gould Version of The Annotated Sherlock Holmes 12. 101 Uses for a Dead Cat 13. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 1 14. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 2 15. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 3 16. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 4 17. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 5 18. On The Road - Kerouac 19. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson 20. Billions and Billions - Carl Sagan 21. Happy Endings - Jim Norton 22. Notes From Underground - Dostoevsky 23. Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand 24. The Collected Works of William Shakespeare, Annotated 25. A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens 26. The collected works of Lope de Vega. 27. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations 28. US Army Field Manual: Wilderness Survival 29. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein 30. Henley’s Formulas For Home And Workshop 1927 ed 31. The Bible, in the original Hebrew 32. The Influence of Seapower upon History, Alfred Thayer Mahan 33. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 34. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck 35. An Transition to Advanced Mathematics, Smith, Eggen, St. Andre 36. Euclid’s Elements 37. Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury 38. Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner 39. The Waste Land, TS Eliot 40. Principia Mathematica, Newton 41. War and Peace, Tolstoy 42. Night, Elie Wiesel 43. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry 44. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway 45. Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy 46. Desolation Island (Master and Commander #5), Patrick O’Brian 47. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth 48. Moby Dick, Herman Melville 49. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 50. 1984, George Orwell 51. Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett 52. HP Lovecraft: The Fiction, H.P. Lovecraft 53. The Oxford History of the American People, Samuel Eliot Morison 54. Almanac of American History, James Miller and John Thompson 55. Essais, by Michel de Montaigne 56. Oxford English Dictionary 57. The Complete Far Side 58. Watchmen, Alan Moore 59. A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking (1996 expanded edition) 60. Animal Farm, George Orwell I realize the Complete Far Side is bound in two volumes, but since it comes in one box, I’m counting it as one. ---
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[quote=“Justin\_Credible, post:39, topic:512589”] 1. Holy Bible: New International Version 2. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins. 3. And Tango Makes Three 4. The Boy Scout Handbook 5. Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle 6. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby 7. A Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein 8. American Civil Engineers Handbook. fifth edition 1930’s 9. foucault’s pendulum. umberto eco 10. Hitchiker’s guide to the Galaxy 11. The Baring-Gould Version of The Annotated Sherlock Holmes 12. 101 Uses for a Dead Cat 13. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 1 14. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 2 15. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 3 16. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 4 17. Bloom County Complete Library Volume 5 18. On The Road - Kerouac 19. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson 20. Billions and Billions - Carl Sagan 21. Happy Endings - Jim Norton 22. Notes From Underground - Dostoevsky 23. Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand 24. The Collected Works of William Shakespeare, Annotated 25. A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens 26. The collected works of Lope de Vega. 27. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations 28. US Army Field Manual: Wilderness Survival 29. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein 30. Henley’s Formulas For Home And Workshop 1927 ed 31. The Bible, in the original Hebrew 32. The Influence of Seapower upon History, Alfred Thayer Mahan 33. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 34. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck 35. An Transition to Advanced Mathematics, Smith, Eggen, St. Andre 36. Euclid’s Elements 37. Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury 38. Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner 39. The Waste Land, TS Eliot 40. Principia Mathematica, Newton 41. War and Peace, Tolstoy 42. Night, Elie Wiesel 43. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry 44. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway 45. Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy 46. Desolation Island (Master and Commander #5), Patrick O’Brian 47. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth 48. Moby Dick, Herman Melville 49. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 50. 1984, George Orwell 51. Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett 52. HP Lovecraft: The Fiction, H.P. Lovecraft 53. The Oxford History of the American People, Samuel Eliot Morison 54. Almanac of American History, James Miller and John Thompson 55. Essais, by Michel de Montaigne 56. Oxford English Dictionary 57. The Complete Far Side 58. Watchmen, Alan Moore 59. A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking (1996 expanded edition) 60. Animal Farm, George Orwell 61. Encyclopaedia Britanica, 1958 edition. 62. American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition 63. Origin of Species, Charles Darwin [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589.md?page=3)