There are so many books to choose from, over so many years. There is a BBC radio programme called “Desert Island Discs” which has been running since 1942 (!) where each week a well-known figure is invited to imagine they are on a desert island with a record player and six or seven records they can take with them. In 1951 the „castaway” was also asked what luxury and book they would like to take. Every castaway was automatically given a copy of the complete Shakespeare and the Bible – the Bible was supposed to have been left there by the Gideon Society.