# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589/41 "2009-10-06T03:07:15Z")
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 64. Koran (Why just the Bible?) 65. the Bhagavad Gita 66. Ulysses - James Joyce 67. the Iliad - Homer 68. the Odyssey - Homer 69. Hero with 1000 Faces - Joseph Campbell ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589/42 "2009-10-06T03:20:42Z")
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 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 64. Koran (Why just the Bible?) 65. the Bhagavad Gita 66. Ulysses - James Joyce 67. the Iliad - Homer 68. the Odyssey - Homer 69. Hero with 1000 Faces - Joseph Campbell 70. The Eye of Argon - Jim Theis I figure, we’ve got to have one piece of horribly written turgid heap of purple prose that isn’t controversial, so that when we rebuild our literature, people will know what not to do. Plus, entertainment value. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589/43 "2009-10-06T03:46:24Z")
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 64. Koran (Why just the Bible?) 65. the Bhagavad Gita 66. Ulysses - James Joyce 67. the Iliad - Homer 68. the Odyssey - Homer 69. Hero with 1000 Faces - Joseph Campbell 70. The Eye of Argon - Jim Theis 71. The Zombie Survival Guide, Max Brooks 72. On the Beach, Nevil Shute 73. The Kama Sutra Notes: 71. All that radiation might raise the dead; better safe than sorry 72. The survivors get to see whether or not the novel was accurate 73. Those nights are gonna get long and lonely ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589/44 "2009-10-06T04:14:37Z")
> [@42fish](#): > > 1. Those nights are gonna get long and lonely and…limber. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589/45 "2009-10-06T12:47:33Z")
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 64. Koran (Why just the Bible?) 65. the Bhagavad Gita 66. Ulysses - James Joyce 67. the Iliad - Homer 68. the Odyssey - Homer 69. Hero with 1000 Faces - Joseph Campbell 70. The Eye of Argon - Jim Theis 71. The Zombie Survival Guide, Max Brooks 72. On the Beach, Nevil Shute 73. The Kama Sutra 74. The Art of War - Sun Tzu The undisputed last word on war tactics for hundreds of years. Even today, its lessons are still useful. And I figure, if we survive a nuclear war, we’ll probably have to fight a bunch of mutants at some point. ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589/46 "2009-10-06T13:19:16Z")
Look, **Curtis Lemay** , update the list once or twice per page, not every single post. You’re making the hampsters clock in overtime - if not now, especially when each post runs to 900+ lines of text. Gukumatz, Game Room Moderator. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589/47 "2009-10-06T13:46:30Z")
I’d hate to see the page if the list made it to 1000. 1. Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut ---
**Author:** ![Hawkeyeop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/958977/32.png) [@Hawkeyeop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hawkeyeop)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589/48 "2009-10-06T13:59:16Z")
1. Your Favorite Seuss: A Baker’s Dozen by the One and Only Dr. Seuss Unless we want to teach kids to read with the kama sutra… ---
**Author:** ![robz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac8455/32.png) [@robz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robz)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589/49 "2009-10-06T14:16:00Z")
1. The Second World War Winston Churchill ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589/50 "2009-10-06T14:38:03Z")
1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone 2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. 3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ---
**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, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589/51 "2009-10-06T17:33:38Z")
> [@Hawkeyeop](#): > > 1. Your Favorite Seuss: A Baker’s Dozen by the One and Only Dr. Seuss > > Unless we want to teach kids to read with the kama sutra… That’s true, we need more kids books. 1. Oh, the Places You’ll Go, Dr. Seuss 2. The Westing Game, Ellin Raskin 3. The House with a Clock in Its Walls, John Bellairs 4. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl 5. Matilda, Roald Dahl 6. How to Eat Fried Worms, Thomas Rockwell ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589/52 "2009-10-06T19:10:36Z")
Can’t believe nobody before me has added these: 1. _The Straight Dope_, Cecil Adams 2. _Return of the Straight Dope_, Cecil Adams 3. _More of the Straight Dope_, Cecil Adams 4. _Triumph of the Straight Dope_, Cecil Adams 5. _The Straight Dope Tells All_, Cecil Adams 6. _Know It All!_, Ed Zotti ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589/53 "2009-10-07T01:11:16Z")
1. 1421, Gavin Menzies 2. Holy Bible, King James Version 3. The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman 4. The Subtle Knife, Philip Pullman 5. The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589/54 "2009-10-07T01:21:20Z")
1. Bleak House, Charles Dickens 2. Winter’s Tale, Mark Helprin 3. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen ---
**Author:** ![foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9a140/32.png) [@foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolscap)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589/55 "2009-10-07T02:10:47Z")
We were asked to keep adding to the list in long format, but, this is getting hard to read 1. Bleak House, Charles Dickens 2. Winter’s Tale, Mark Helprin 3. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 4. The Art Of War By Jomini Notes on 105 everybody knows about Sun Tzu, But I prefer this work by a russian general instead Sun Tzu is about the philosophy of war, Jommini is about the mechanics. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589/56 "2009-10-07T02:21:08Z")
1. Bleak House, Charles Dickens 2. Winter’s Tale, Mark Helprin 3. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 4. The Art Of War By Jomini 5. _Catch-22_, Joseph Heller\* 6. _Midnight’s Children_, Salman Rushdie 7. _Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin_, P.G. Wodehouse \*how did this not get nominated already? ---
**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 7, 2009, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589/57 "2009-10-07T11:51:38Z")
1. Lord of the Flies, William Golding 2. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley 3. The Princess Bride, William Goldman ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589/58 "2009-10-07T12:10:45Z")
1. The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis 2. Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis 3. Voyage of the Dawn Treader C.S. Lewis 4. The Silver Chair, C.S. Lewis 5. The Horse and His Boy, C.S. Lewis 6. The Magician’s Nephew, C.S. Lewis 7. The Last Battle, C.S. Lewis 8. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman I’m counting His Dark Materials as one book, which might be cheating. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589/59 "2009-10-07T13:05:52Z")
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 13-17. Bloom County Complete Library Volumes 1-5 13. On The Road - Kerouac 14. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson 15. Billions and Billions - Carl Sagan 16. Happy Endings - Jim Norton 17. Notes From Underground - Dostoevsky 18. Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand 19. The Collected Works of William Shakespeare, Annotated 20. A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens 21. The collected works of Lope de Vega. 22. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations 23. US Army Field Manual: Wilderness Survival 24. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein 25. Henley’s Formulas For Home And Workshop 1927 ed 26. The Bible, in the original Hebrew 27. The Influence of Seapower upon History, Alfred Thayer Mahan 28. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck 30. An Transition to Advanced Mathematics, Smith, Eggen, St. Andre 31. Euclid’s Elements 32. Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury 33. Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner 34. The Waste Land, TS Eliot 35. Principia Mathematica, Newton 36. War and Peace, Tolstoy 37. Night, Elie Wiesel 38. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry 39. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway 40. Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy 41. Desolation Island (Master and Commander #5), Patrick O’Brian 42. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth 43. Moby Dick, Herman Melville 44. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 45. 1984, George Orwell 46. Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett 47. HP Lovecraft: The Fiction, H.P. Lovecraft 48. The Oxford History of the American People, Samuel Eliot Morison 49. Almanac of American History, James Miller and John Thompson 50. Essais, by Michel de Montaigne 51. Oxford English Dictionary 52. The Complete Far Side 53. Watchmen, Alan Moore 54. A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking (1996 expanded edition) 55. Animal Farm, George Orwell 56. Encyclopaedia Britanica, 1958 edition. 57. American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition 58. Origin of Species, Charles Darwin 59. Koran (Why just the Bible?) 60. the Bhagavad Gita 61. Ulysses - James Joyce 62. the Iliad - Homer 63. the Odyssey - Homer 64. Hero with 1000 Faces - Joseph Campbell 65. The Eye of Argon - Jim Theis 66. The Zombie Survival Guide, Max Brooks 67. On the Beach, Nevil Shute 68. The Kama Sutra 69. The Art of War - Sun Tzu 70. Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut 71. Your Favorite Seuss: A Baker’s Dozen by the One and Only Dr. Seuss 72. The Second World War Winston Churchill 78-84. The Harry Potter series, J. K. Rowling 73. Oh, the Places You’ll Go, Dr. Seuss 74. The Westing Game, Ellin Raskin 75. The House with a Clock in Its Walls, John Bellairs 76. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl 77. Matilda, Roald Dahl 78. How to Eat Fried Worms, Thomas Rockwell 91-95. _The Straight Dope_ collection, Cecil Adams 79. _Know It All!_, Ed Zotti 80. 1421, Gavin Menzies 81. Holy Bible, King James Version 82. His Dark Materials, Phillip Pullman 83. Bleak House, Charles Dickens 84. Winter’s Tale, Mark Helprin 85. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 86. The Art Of War By Jomini 87. _Catch-22_, Joseph Heller 88. _Midnight’s Children_, Salman Rushdie 89. _Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin_, P.G. Wodehouse 90. Lord of the Flies, William Golding 91. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley 92. The Princess Bride, William Goldman 110-116. The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis 117-119. Dante’s Divine Comedy ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589/60 "2009-10-07T14:46:17Z")
A couple of practical ones… 1. First Aid, The American Red Cross 2. Victory Gardens, US Dept. of Agriculture [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1000-books-you-would-save/512589.md?page=4)