Bookseller One Grand Books has asked celebrities to name the ten titles they’d take to a desert island, and they’ve shared the results with Vulture. Below is American artist William Wegman’s list. His current exhibit is showing at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont until October 20.
This was Dickens’s favorite book, and mine, too. Charles and I have a lot in common.
So funny in the beginning but not in the end. Do not read the back copy. It is a 600-page book with all the major plot points given away in this one paragraph.
A perfect book from beginning to end. The characters, the story, the shape of it all. Perfect.
I have read and reread this book many times. I will read it again. And then I will read it again. I forget what it’s about, but the next time I read it I will know.
It’s funny and strange. Before reading Dead Souls, I read Nabokov’s Nikolai Gogol. I found it essential.
The description of a tennis game is my favorite of these brilliant stories.Â
Nature described in sumptuous detail. The most boring book ever written. A masterpiece
A son’s memoir of his father unwittingly more revealing about the son than the father. I love the cover of the edition. A painting by Eakins.
An epic saga of the end of a great civilization. You never want it to end.
Much weirder than I remembered from high school.
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