The British physicist Stephen Hawking says the Earth is doomed but humanity will survive by moving to another planet. So the question is: If you could only take 10 books with you, what would they be? I doubt that I would want to move to Planet X, or wherever, so I would most likely perish with our home planet. But if I had to choose 10 books, here's my list:
Dante's Divine Comedy
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover or Women in Love
Twain's Huckleberry Finn
Tolstoy's War and Peace or Anna Karenina
Dicken's Pickwick Papers
The Bible
Whitman's The Leaves of Grass
Homer's Odyssey
Ovid's Metamorphoses
These books were a very tough choice, and no doubt I would revise it a few times before leaving. But my point is that I would never consider anything that was not a classic that had stood the test of time and my own enduring love. Would anyone with half a brain take a current bestseller?
This collective "Library in Space" could be the foundation of a New Culture.
Please add your own list.
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