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<h1>If I could only own Twenty-five books</h1>

<p>If you could only own twenty-five books, which ones would you choose? These aren't necessarily your favorite books, or the greatest books of all time, but the volumes you would always want at hand for your personal enjoyment and edification. Though I reserve the right to revise it (often), here's my list <em>in no particular order</em>:</p>

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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/039305800X?ie=UTF8&tag=whatspaulread-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=039305800X"><img title="New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels edited by Leslie S. Klinger" border="0" src="img/41893AAQ5XL._SL160_.jpg" /></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=whatspaulread-20&l=as2&o=1&a=039305800X" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393059162?ie=UTF8&tag=whatspaulread-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0393059162"><img border="0" src="img/5174CXRE67L._SL160_.jpg" title="The New Annotated Sherlock Holes" /></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=whatspaulread-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0393059162" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1931082723?ie=UTF8&tag=whatspaulread-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1931082723"><img border="0" src="img/41M5P80PA7L._SL160_.jpg" alt="" title="Lovecraft: Tales" /></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=whatspaulread-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1931082723" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0141000589?ie=UTF8&tag=whatspaulread-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0141000589"><img border="0" src="img/51Z9YTRBTQL._SL160_.jpg" title="The Complete Pelican Shakespeare" /></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=whatspaulread-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0141000589" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393019551?ie=UTF8&tag=whatspaulread-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0393019551"><img border="0" src="img/51ufpp2PrWL._SL160_.jpg" title="The Five Books of Moses (Alter)" /></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=whatspaulread-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0393019551" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140286802?ie=UTF8&tag=whatspaulread-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0140286802"><img border="0" src="img/51YPXJWRBGL._SL160_.jpg" title="Jorge Luis Borges Collected Fictions" /></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=whatspaulread-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0140286802" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/039306493X?ie=UTF8&tag=whatspaulread-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=039306493X"><img border="0" src="img/51WfPYS-R-L._SL160_.jpg" title="The Restored New TEstament (Barnstone)" /></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=whatspaulread-20&l=as2&o=1&a=039306493X" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684800012?ie=UTF8&tag=whatspaulread-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0684800012"><img border="0" src="img/51K2FNA72QL._SL160_.jpg" title="On Food and Cooking (McGee)" /></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=whatspaulread-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0684800012" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199233241?ie=UTF8&tag=whatspaulread-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0199233241"><img border="0" src="img/51WDtnf9vWL._SL160_.jpg" title="The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary" /></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=whatspaulread-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0199233241" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060540427?ie=UTF8&tag=whatspaulread-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0060540427"><img border="0" src="img/41Ujja4mGpL._SL160_.jpg" title="The Best Poems of the English Language (Bloom)" /></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=whatspaulread-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0060540427" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140513639?ie=UTF8&tag=whatspaulread-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0140513639"><img border="0" src="img/21NnaSjLk6L._SL160_.jpg" title="The Penguin Diction of Literary Terms and Literary Theory" /></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=whatspaulread-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0140513639" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067945120X?ie=UTF8&tag=whatspaulread-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=067945120X"><img border="0" src="img/41MJWZ3XAHL._SL160_.jpg" title="The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America" /></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=whatspaulread-20&l=as2&o=1&a=067945120X" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/039392808X?ie=UTF8&tag=whatspaulread-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=039392808X"><img border="0" src="img/51N-nvICvQL._SL160_.jpg" title="The Arabian Nights (Haddawy)" /></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=whatspaulread-20&l=as2&o=1&a=039392808X" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307336794?ie=UTF8&tag=whatspaulread-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307336794"><img border="0" src="img/41cZuqeFB1L._SL160_.jpg" title="The Art of Simple Food (Waters)" /></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=whatspaulread-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307336794" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226104036?ie=UTF8&tag=whatspaulread-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0226104036"><img border="0" src="img/41HK2P13K8L._SL160_.jpg" title="The Chicago Manual of Style" /></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=whatspaulread-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0226104036" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061227986?ie=UTF8&tag=whatspaulread-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0061227986"><img border="0" src="img/41Dz9IeBOML._SL160_.jpg" title="The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates" /></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=whatspaulread-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0061227986" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316118400?ie=UTF8&tag=whatspaulread-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0316118400"><img border="0" src="img/51pd3xrWYqL._SL160_.jpg" title="The Flavor Bible" /></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=whatspaulread-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0316118400" width="1" height="1" border="0" title="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140268863?ie=UTF8&tag=whatspaulread-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0140268863"><img border="0" src="img/51GcVu9AkfL._SL160_.jpg" title="The Odyssey (Fagles)" /></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=whatspaulread-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0140268863" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140275363?ie=UTF8&tag=whatspaulread-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0140275363"><img border="0" src="img/51wPCJGT0yL._SL160_.jpg" title="The Iliad (Fagles)" /></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=whatspaulread-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0140275363" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/039332642X?ie=UTF8&tag=whatspaulread-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=039332642X"><img border="0" src="img/41ZYVBTNFNL._SL160_.jpg" title="Ovid's Metamorphoses (Martin)" /></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=whatspaulread-20&l=as2&o=1&a=039332642X" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0760755213?ie=UTF8&tag=whatspaulread-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0760755213"><img border="0" src="img/51kDOh4iAwL._SL160_.jpg" title="Le Morte D'Arthur" /></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=whatspaulread-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0760755213" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/014042234X?ie=UTF8&tag=whatspaulread-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=014042234X"><img border="0" src="img/51plQuSoebL._SL160_.jpg" title="The Canterbury Tales" /></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=whatspaulread-20&l=as2&o=1&a=014042234X" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />

<p>And also possibly <i>The Complete Notebooks of Henry James</i>, which is out of print and scarce.</p>

<p>Those twenty-five books don't include a handful of volumes I find very useful in my professional life, such as <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321492668?ie=UTF8&tag=whatspaulread-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0321492668">The Practice of System and Network Administration</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=whatspaulread-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0321492668" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />.</p>

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