The Things They Carried...to the 23rd Floor?

Okay, I know I'm being too cute here, but I couldn't resist.  As of next Friday, I will be leaving my 5th floor office and moving to a cubicle on the 23rd floor.  Change is hard, especially when you're used to having a huge bookshelf and a door that closes.  And so, yesterday I went through my sizable book collection, and chose which books to give away and which to take with me to my new cube.  I won't reveal the titles I tossed, but here's a sampling of my cubicle must-haves:

Bonjour Tristesse, Francoise Sagan
Blue Angel, Francine Prose
The Pleasures of the Damned, Charles Bukowski
My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead, edited by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon
The Ballad of West Tenth Street, Marjorie Kernan
Five Quarters of the Orange, Joanne Harris
My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge, Paul Guest

What do you think? If you only had room for 8 titles, what would they be?   

Comments

[Lauren]

I agree with the Chabon, however I haven't read the others. Awful, I know. I don't think I'd be able to pick just eight books to take with me, in all honesty. I'd have to grab my old copy of The Great Gatsby...just because...but other than that, ugh. Way too hard!

[Ti]

Moving IS hard. I don't know how I would feel about losing my bookshelf or even my office for that matter. For over a year I have been told that I will be moving to a cube as well but it hasn't happened yet so I continue to add books to the shelf.

I haven't read any of the titles that you decided to keep. Perhaps I should.

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