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1Seajack
May 22, 2007, 7:09 pm

This one has a specific island - or the word "island(s)" - in the title:

The Ghosts of Nantucket by Blue Balliett
Hokkaido Highway Blues by Will Ferguson
Viva Mallorca! by Peter Kerr
Islands: a collection of short stories by David Rees
My World of Islands by Leslie Thomas

2christiguc
May 22, 2007, 7:25 pm

Cradle of Flavor: Home Cooking from the Spice Islands of Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia by James Oseland
The Tale of the Unknown Island by Jose Saramago
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H G Wells
Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway

7LynnB
May 24, 2007, 8:34 am

These books all had island settings as a significant part of the story, even though the entire story was not based on the island:

The Life of Pi Actually, I didn't like the part on the island -- I thought it dragged on too long.

The Phantom Tollbooth Where "Conclusions" is an island that you get to by jumping; once there, it is difficult to get back.

The Raw Shark Texts where real and imaginary islands are key to the plot

Skinny Dip which is hilarious with or without the island

Monkey Beach

8jjmcgaffey
Edited: May 24, 2007, 6:28 pm

Island in the Sea of Time by S.M. Stirling
Lord of the Isles by David Drake
Dolphin Island by Arthur C. Clarke
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

All books I've read (can you see my bias towards SF?) although I only own two at the moment

10aviddiva
May 30, 2007, 10:01 pm

Island Magic by Elizabeth Goudge
Nightbirds on Nantucket by Joan Aiken
Hawaii by James Michener
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Krakatoa by Rupert Furneaux

11Jim53
May 30, 2007, 11:53 pm

The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories by Gene Wolfe
Island of the Blue Dolphins by O'Dell
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Key Largo by Maxwell Anderson
Jamaica Inn by DuMaurier

13chocolatedog
Jun 20, 2007, 5:20 pm

The Island of Crimea by Vasily Aksyonov - The Island of Mending Hearts by Tim Ashley - Passion Bay (The Moon Island Series, No. 1) by Jennifer Fulton - Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Heredity Deafness on Martha's Vineyard by Nora Ellen Groce - Lonely Planet Micronations by John Ryan

14tropics
Jul 14, 2007, 7:51 pm

Muddling Through In Madagascar - Dervla Murphy
England, England - Julian Barnes
A House In Sicily - Daphne Phelps
In Tasmania - Nicholas Shakespeare
This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons In Greenland - Gretel Ehrlich

15tropics
Jul 14, 2007, 7:55 pm

Isle Of Dogs - Patricia Cornwell
Manhattan When I Was Young - Mary Cantwell
Midnight In Sicily - Peter Robb
Kalimantaan - C.S. Godshalk
Into The Heart Of Borneo - Redmond O'Hanlon

16tropics
Jul 14, 2007, 8:00 pm

Islands - Dan Sleigh
In The South Seas - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Greek Islands - Lawrence Durrell
The Island Of Adventure - Enid Blyton
Bitter Lemons (re Cyprus) - Lawrence Durrell

18tropics
Jul 29, 2007, 12:41 am

No Man Is An Island - Thomas Merton
The Angry Island: Hunting The English - A.A. Gill
The Greenlanders - Jane Smiley
Touch The Happy Isles - Quentin Crewe
Sea And Sardinia - D.H. Lawrence

20SueDNim
Edited: Aug 2, 2007, 1:54 pm

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