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 3 episodes
The Bible
Various Authors
#2 Mentioned in 3 episodes
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
#3 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov
#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Riders
Jilly Cooper
#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Prudence
Elizabeth Bailey
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Portrait Of A Lady
Henry James
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
In Search of Lost Time
Swann's Way
Stephane Heuet
Marcel Proust
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Man Without Qualities
Robert Musil
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Rewire Your Anxious Brain
Stop Overthinking, Find Calm, and Be Present
Nick Trenton
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Saracen blade
Frank Yerby
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Dom Quixote
Xavier, Alberto
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Chimp Paradox
Steven Peters
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Soul of a Butterfly
Reflections on life's journey
Muhammad Ali
Hana Yasmeen Ali
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Letters
Samuel Rutherford
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Oliver Twist
The 1838 Theatrical Adaptation
George Almar
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Germinal
Émile Zola
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
History of the World in Ten and a Half Chapters
Alex Jennings
Julian Barnes
