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 2 episodes
In Search of Lost Time
Swann's Way
Stephane Heuet
Marcel Proust
#4 Mentioned in 2 episodes
1984
George Orwell
#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Odyssey
Homer
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
How to Survive on a Deserted Island
Samantha Bell
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Misery
Stephen King
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Shining
Stephen King
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Riders
Jilly Cooper
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
It
Stephen King
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Prudence
Elizabeth Bailey
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Portrait Of A Lady
Henry James
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Gerald's Game
Stephen King
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Night Shift
Stephen King
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
What Remains
Wendy Walker
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Outside
K Allado-McDowell
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Vanity Fair 1911
Doran Shoemaker
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The long walk
Christobel Mattingley
