This challenge, from Falling Down the Book Hole, asks us to choose the 5 books we’d grab to take with us if the world were to go to Hell in a hand basket:

“Given the short amount of time you are only able to take 5 books with you. What books would you pick to take with you as you escape and prepare for the end of the world. Would you choose books that would help you survive in the post-apocalyptic world, books for pleasure that would make you happy and take you to a fantasy reality or books that you can’t live without?”

My reason for choosing the following 5 books is that these are the books I could read over and over again and never get sick of.  They are my all time favorite books:

1) Matilda by Roald Dahl

2) The Princess Bride by William Goldman

3) The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

4) The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers

5) Outlander by Diana Gabaldon