Desert Island Packing List

The stuff we (almost) can’t live without. The stuff we’d be packing—would even be willing to pay airline excess baggage charges for—if we were about to board Oceanic Flight 815.

I mean, where would Sawyer have been without Watership Down, or Desmond without Our Mutual Friend?

• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
• Barry Lyndon (1975)
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (2004)