One Island, Three Books

Ok here we go with the old stranded on a deserted island chestnut.

Now suppose you were stranded on a deserted island (not “desert island” as so many improperly say), and you could only bring three books with you, all fiction, all novels. Which do you choose?

I choose:

1. Herman Melville, Moby Dick (1851)
2. James Joyce, Ulysses (1922)
3. Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow (1973)

Now have at it, mavens.