Quartets for reading

4 books i might chose if I was on Desert Island Discs and Sue Lawley decided to chuck the format out the window after over 40 years and allow me have 5 records and 4 books - of course I might want the 8 records, but if she held me down and threatened to pummel if I don't go with the new deal... well, this is what i would probably say, given enough time to think. As it is recorded they could edit the thinking time out so you wouldn't hear the threat or the thinking

1. Euclid's Elements
2. "Life a User's Manual" by George Perec
3. The Lotus Sutra
4. "Glass Bead Game" by Herman Hesse