Desert Island Discs
BBC Radio 4
Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: what would you take to a desert island? Guests share the soundtrack of their lives.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Desert Island Discs podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Bible
Various Authors
#2 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
#3 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov
#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Portrait Of A Lady
Henry James
#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
In Search of Lost Time
Swann's Way
Stephane Heuet
Marcel Proust
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Man Without Qualities
Robert Musil
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Rewire Your Anxious Brain
Stop Overthinking, Find Calm, and Be Present
Nick Trenton
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Saracen blade
Frank Yerby
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Chimp Paradox
Steven Peters
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Oliver Twist
The 1838 Theatrical Adaptation
George Almar
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Germinal
Émile Zola
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Life of Pi
Yann Martel
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The complete poems of W.H. Auden
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W.H. Auden
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Wisden cricketers' almanack
John Woodcock
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The better angels of our nature
Why Violence Has Declined
Steven Pinker
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The complete works of Jeeves and Worcester
The complete set of Jeeves & Wooster novels
P. G. Wodehouse
