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

oohh good question. assuming i'm leaving TODAY.. these are the books i'd bring. And I am taking this question very literally, that I'm actually going to an island, so I have selected these books for stranded-island compatibility, there are not just plain favorites.

Run With the Hunted by Charles Bukowski (it's a compiliation thing, and I just started reading it and would like to finishhh)

The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie (YES THAT HUGH LAURIE) Again, cuz I am currently reading it and would like something to remind me of him in my time of abandonment.

the complete hitchhikers guide series (I have it in one book-form, so it counts as one) by Douglas Adams

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Man Who Turned Into Himself by David Ambrose (just finished, hella good)

The Beach by Alex Garland (cuz i can read it over and over plus, it will remind me not to be silly and form a desert island society with the other stranded, b/'c it will definitely turn into a dystopia and all dyspotias end the same (not great))

The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel by Amy Hempel

Fup by Jim Dodge

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, in case I get really desperate and want to literally bore myself to death.