If you were running away from home, what books would you take with you?

Question

Would it be poetry? Comics? Your favorite books to read over and over again, or ones you've never read but that look good?

Answer 1

I would bring the Gemma Doyle trilogy, (cause it's a great read)

And The otherwordlies, which I'm reading righ now and is pretty good so far,

And my Cousins Boy-Scout handbook.

Cause I'm pretty certain if I'm running away from home, I need to know how to start a fire with twigs.

Answer 2

My Bible, Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit, All the Narnia Books, All the Dune books by Frank and Brian Herbert, The Robot Series by Isaac Asimov, The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, and all the Cat Who books by Lillian Jackson Braun, and the Lord Peter Wimsey mystery series by Dorothy Sayers.  

Answer 3

I'd take my favourites (so basically anything by Jodi Picoult) so that I'd always have something to entertain me, and also and a poem that one of my friends wrote for me a few years ago. It's something that means a lot to me and really uplifts me so I think I'd need it if I was doing something like leaving home.

Answer 4

My trusty Bible

Answer 5

A book surviving and first aid lol

Answer 6

You can heal your life by Louise Hay...it is about how we create our life though our thinking. it has a chart that shows what different dis-eases mean so if we have something we can look it up & know we need to change our thinking to be well again.

Answer 7

i wod take the twilight saga and hp books 5,6 and 7 and if i cod just get my hands on the mediator books i wod take them 2 but i havent read thm yet. CAN SUM1 PLEASE TELL ME WHERE I CAN READ THE MEDIATOR SERIES ONLINE?!

Answer 8

None...

I'd take my laptop... Pen and Paper too! I need to write! Not read.

Answer 9

atlas,accomodation handbook and my 'bank' book.

Answer 10

The alchemist by Khalil Gibran.

The Transmetropolitan series by Warren Ellis.

Fences and Windows by Naomi Klein.

1984 by George Orwell.

and most importantly, an empty notebook and a pen.

Answer 11

Virginia Andrew books and the Twilight series.

Answer 12

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, My Favourite Goodbye by June Tate and Sheila O'Flanagan books (Isobel's Wedding). I love my books and reading!

Answer 13

anne frank

Answer 14

I'd take my favorite books with me. If I could carry them all, I'd take all the Harry Potter books, and a few books I have by Anne Rice.

Answer 15

pillars of the earth

great expectations

i would take my very favourites and also some new ones

Answer 16

If I can't take all of them, then...

I'd take HP and The Chamber of Secrets because I need a book with a happy ending to uplift me.

I'd take a classic, too, like Pride and Prejudice, maybe, to keep myself sane while I'm on my own.

My third choice would be... hmm... the Princess Bride, because it's one of those books with lots of minor details so you can read it over and over without getting bored.

Interesting question, by the way! Have a star, on me!

Answer 17

well id bring a book on survival in the wild, or bush tucker for practical reasons but thats it they would be too heavy to lug around.

Answer 18

The Bible.

Answer 19

Catcher in the Rye, and if you've read it you'll know why.

Answer 20

Don't tell me you're planning to run away coz that is sooooooooo not cool. If it's just a Q then I would take Survival book........

Answer 21

the twilight series, even tho they'd be really heavy. the goose girl sicne its my fave book other than twilight, my mangas, Double Fudge because it never fails to make me laugh, and my archie comics.  

Answer 22

Heaven By Virginia Andrews, because the main character is emotionally strong and she lived through all the hard times in her life.  

Answer 23

probably a magazine about electronics, or motorcycles, technology, or a magazine filled with dirty secrets from celebrities :)

Answer 24

Any books by Ernest Hemingway and the book I´ve just finished by Fred Forsyth - The Afghan. Amazing book, has taught me so much about muslim culture that I didn´t know before. Highly recommended!

Terry Pratchetts Discworld series amuses me too. And Memoirs of a Geisha. Beautiful book. Ooooh Neil Gaiman too. He´s pretty funny.

Answer 25

That's a good question.

How many can I take? I'll limit it to three.

I'd take the complete works of Shakespeare. No one can like everything Shakespeare did, but anyone who says such things as 'I don't like Shakespeare' just haven't read enough. You can always find something special in Shakespeare, if you look hard enough.

I'd also take a guide to wild foods. Because if I was to take off I'd be inclined to rough it and live in the wild and a book like that would help me find wild food to eat.

The last one I'd take would be a book of blank pages for me to write in.

Answer 26

painted devils, or echos from the macabre which ever was handy :-)

Answer 27

My journal because it has good memories in it that I can reread and remember