deserted island

I felt kinda bad just having a hall of shame, so I thought I’d better have a corresponding list of books I actually did like. Listed in alphabetical order by author, these are the books I would take with me to a deserted island. If you’re wondering what you should read next, wonder no more.

  1. Fangs – Sarah Andersen
  2. Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
  3. Odder – Katherine Applegate
  4. The Bear and the Nightingale – Katherine Arden
  5. The Travelling Cat Chronicles – Hiro Arikawa
  6. Life After Life – Kate Atkinson
  7. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
  8. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
  9. Hag-Seed – Margaret Atwood
  10. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
  11. Bookshops & Bonedust – Travis Baldree
  12. Goblins & Greatcoats – Travis Baldree
  13. Legends & Lattes – Travis Baldree
  14. Senlin Ascends – Josiah Bancroft
  15. When Women Were Dragons – Kelly Barnhill
  16. Mirror Lake – Juneau Black
  17. Twilight Falls – Juneau Black
  18. Summers End – Juneau Black
  19. The Curse of Chalion – Lois McMaster Bujold
  20. My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-Wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me – Caleb Carr
  21. The Fox Wife – Yangsze Choo
  22. Catherine, Called Birdy – Karen Cushman
  23. Matilda – Roald Dahl
  24. All Who Go Do Not Return – Shulem Deen
  25. Woman World – Aminder Dhaliwal
  26. The Office of Historical Corrections – Danielle Evans
  27. Neverwhere (The Author’s Preferred Text) – Neil Gaiman
  28. Last Violent Call – Chloe Gong
  29. The Hill We Climb – Amanda Gorman
  30. Chocolat – Joanne Harris
  31. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman
  32. M. Butterfly – David Henry Hwang
  33. The Long Patrol – Brian Jacques
  34. Lord Brocktree – Brian Jacques
  35. Triss – Brian Jacques
  36. The Map of Salt and Stars – Zeyn Joukhadar
  37. The Thirty Names of Night – Zeyn Joukhadar
  38. Three Plays: Once in a Lifetime/You Can’t Take It With You/The Man Who Came to Dinner – George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
  39. Curiosity Thrilled the Cat – Sofie Kelly
  40. The Book of Longings – Sue Monk Kidd
  41. Swordheart – T. Kingfisher
  42. The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts – Maxine Hong Kingston
  43. Just So Stories – Rudyard Kipling
  44. Build Your House Around My Body – Violet Kupersmith
  45. Ella Enchanted – Gail Carson Levine
  46. Circe – Madeline Miller
  47. The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller
  48. The Great Passage – Shion Miura
  49. Gideon the Ninth – Tamsyn Muir
  50. Nona the Ninth – Tamsyn Muir
  51. The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich – Deya Muniz
  52. Macbeth – Jo Nesbø
  53. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees – Aimee Nezhukumatathil
  54. World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments – Aimee Nezhukumatathil
  55. Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell
  56. The Marriage Portrait – Maggie O’Farrell
  57. The Bullet That Missed – Richard Osman
  58. The League of Lady Poisoners: Illustrated True Stories of Dangerous Women – Lisa Perrin
  59. Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why – Alexandra Petri
  60. Alexandra Petri’s US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up) – Alexandra Petri
  61. The Cartographers – Peng Shepherd
  62. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
  63. And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges – Amber Sparks
  64. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk
  65. Book Love – Debbie Tung
  66. The Toss of a Lemon – Padma Viswanathan
  67. Sharks in the Time of Saviors – Kawai Strong Washburn
  68. The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
  69. The Enchanted Forest Chronicles – Patricia C. Wrede
  70. How Much of These Hills Is Gold – C Pam Zhang