One book I’d want on a desert island.
Besides a book about how to get myself off of a deserted island, it would almost certainly be something by Alice Walker. Like Irving, I've read a lot of her work. One book that I don't think got it's props was The Temple of My Familiar. This was a beautiful story that continued the blood line of Celie from The Color Purple. It's been a while since I've read it, but I got a first edition, hardcover for ten bucks off of one of those tables with the books that a bookstore is trying to get rid of. Great investment.