Let's compile a completely useless desert-island library

Just to rub in that your stranded on a desert island…Dune

The Good Beer Guide 2006

1000 Places to See Before You Die

I thought of posting that, but no. Too much entertainment value to qualify.

The Compleat Ann Coulter

Basic VCR Repair

Employee Safety Manual for Philip Morris, Inc.

“Engrish” Instructions for putting together a computer desk

The Complete Collection of Frosted Flakes Cereal Box Designs

Ixnay. See post #24. (Remember, the book does not have to be intentionally entertaining.)

The Handbook of Cross-Country Skiing

Chilton’s Guide to Automatic Transmission Repair

Miss Manners’ Guide to Excrutiatingly Correct Behavior

Contract Bridge for Beginners

The 2006 tax codes
Medicinal Plants of the Amazon Rainforest
The Laws of Etiquette by A Gentleman
Ballroom dancing for beginners and bronze medallists
The Ultimate Ice Cream Book

Hah. Ouch.

Somebody else’s (who is not on the island) high school yearbook.

Pretty much any book written in a language I don’t read. To make it extra annoying they all have intriguing cover illustrations.

HTML For The Worldwide Web

Face Language 2000 - The E-Z 10 Second Personality Speed Reading System

The Secrets Of Successful Low-Budget Advertising

Just about any book on my bookshelf right now.

TCP/IP for Novell Networks
CCNA Cisco Routing and Switching
CCNP Routing Study Guide
ATM Theory and Application

Those might come in useful if you ever get rescued so for the totally useless catagory I woudl go with;

Febuary 2001 TV Guide for Bahgdad
Farmers Almanac 1974
Sears catalog 1986

-Otanx

Anything by Kafka.

All books in electronic format, assuming “no lights” mean no electricity and not just no light-bulbs.

Fracture and Size Effect in Concrete and Other Quasibrittle Materials (New Directions in Civil Engineering)

The Art of Programming the ZX Spectrum

Toad Sexing For Fun and Profit.

Scott Joplin Complete Piano Works