Desert Island Books etc?

diane drizzy

I know we've done the island decks, but are there tarot books or accessories you would take?
I'm trying to pare down for the new year but would like a book. Oddly I don't have much of a tarot library, so I'd really like some options.
Right now I live by Eden Gray. (Hmmmm..perhaps I've answered my own question.)
 

northsea

I like the Game of Life by Leary but it's kind of weird so maybe just for my own desert island.
 

Ambrosia

I'd probably take "Tarot for yourself" by Mary Greer.
Excellent for helping to find your own intuitive meanings in the cards.
 

Greg Stanton

Tarot:

A Wicked Pack of Cards
History of the Occult Tarot
Mystical Origins of the Tarot
The Authentic Tarot
Meditations on the Tarot
Little, Big (not strictly on tarot, but a fine fiction involving tarot cards of a sort...)
Promethea, Vols 1-5

Non-Tarot:
The Complete Short Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Vols 1-11
More than Human & Some of Your Blood
Dhalgren & The Einstein Intersection
Boy's Life (McCammon)
The Complete Illustrated Dickens
The Monk
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Uncle Silas
Everything I have by Thomas Ligotti
Everything I have by MFK Fisher
Good Omens
Book of the New Sun, Vols 1-4
Palomar
Locas
The Contented Poacher (will come in handy)
The Woman in White & The Moonstone
Watchmen
Sandman, Absolute Edition Vols 1-4
From Hell
Selected Stories by Phillip K. Dick
Everything I have by Ray Bradbury
Everything by China Miéville
The Chronicles of Narnia
Four Books of Occult Philosophy
Shirtmaking
Tha Art of Memory
Blackwater 1-6 (McDowell)
Fine Machine Sewing
The Essential Ellison
The Anubis Gates
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Titus Groan, Gormanghast & Titus Alone
Lost Horizon
Stuck Rubber Baby
Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass (I've read them 8 times already)
Sylvie & Bruno (as long as I've got the time)
Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn
H.P. Lovecraft (especially the longer stories)
The Neverending Story

Lately I've found the books of Francis Latham to be entertaining, though they are certainly not essential.

I also really enjoyed Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell when it came out, and I would love to read it again if I had the time.

These are books that I love and want to have around. If I'm going to be on that island for 10+ years, I'll take whatever's in the Western Canon, some Ross D. McDonald, Heinlein, Gaiman, Poppy Z, Carrie Vaughn (I LOVE WEREWOLVES, don't laugh), Tolkein, Clive Barker, Quentin Crisp, plus all my books on tatting and sewing.

FIREWOOD: anything by L. Ron Hubbard, Terry Brooks, or A. Crowley.
 

diane drizzy

Greg-A continent for you indeed!
 

Greg Stanton

Or at least a comfortable library for me to enjoy while I wait to be rescued. Though I might not want to be rescued with all these books!
 

Grizabella

No wonder your ship capsized, Greg! It couldn't carry the weight of all those books!
 

Greg Stanton

All hardcover, no paperbacks!
 

firefrost

I'd take my Christine Feehan collection - all 30 of them - all paperbacks, no hardbacks! (I'm just re-reading her GhostWalker series).


I'd also take a different ship to Greg! :laugh:
 

Lleminawc

Magical World of the Tarot - Gareth Knight
Mystical Qabalah - Dion Fortune
Promethea - Alan Moore

plus a scrying ball, handy for starting fires.