You're stuck on a desert island for an unknown period of time.

the power and the glory - graham greene

rookery blues - john hassler

maus I & II- art spiegelman (okay, not really fiction and in comic form, but it's a keeper)

beowolf - seamus heaney's translation

amphigorey - edward gorey

amphigorey also - edward gorey

the dream songs - john berryman (poetry, vaguely autobiographical, but it's also a keeper)

the sound and the fury - william faulkner (though I'd have a hard time picking it up again!)

suite francais - irene nemirovsky (because I haven't finished it yet, and it's good)

godel, escher, bach - douglas hofstadter (I've been trying to finish this one for DECADES)