1000 Books You Would Save

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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
    13-17. 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
  93. First Aid, The American Red Cross
  94. Victory Gardens, US Dept. of Agriculture
  95. The Physician’s Desk Reference - Let’s be REALLY practical here…
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Are we each adding as many books as we like, or one? Some folks are dumping a list, others a multi-book series (not sure how that ties in with the OP’s term “individual books.”

I’d nominate Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond.

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No more than 10.

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So I get 10 more?

  1. Il Principe, Niccolò Machiavelli
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  1. The Hobbit
  2. Treasure Island
  3. Beowulf, Seamus Heaney Translation
    128-131. Song of Ice and Fire series, George R.R. Martin
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  1. A Short History Of Nearly Everything- Bill Bryson
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A few post-apocolyptic novels might be nice, so as to give lessions on what to do and not. Plus, 100 years after that, people can look and say, "Wow, that turned out completely differently!

To that end:

  1. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
  2. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Phillip K. Dick
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  1. The Annotated Alice: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll, annotated by Martin Gardner
  2. The Guns of August: Barbara Tuchman
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  1. grays anatomy
  2. history of the world by H.G.Wells A little hard to find these days, but, one of his best.
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  1. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
  2. Candide, Voltaire
  3. Walden; or, Life in the Woods – Henry David Thoreau
  4. All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren
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  1. The Outline of history by H,G.Wells

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