For his bookshop and website One Grand Books, the editor Aaron Hicklin asked people to name the 10 books they’d take with them if they were marooned on a desert island. The next in the series is the poet Eileen Myles, who shares her list exclusively with T.

“The Master & Margarita," Mikhail Bulgakov

Bulgakov’s suffering under censorship yielded this sparkling novel in which Pontius Pilate shares space with a giant floating black cat, and elsewhere a man confined to a mental hospital for political reasons probably dreamed up the whole thing.

“Under the Glacier,” Halldor Laxness

It’s like Iceland’s great novelist won a Nobel prize and went to Hollywood and then came home and wrote about how weird Iceland is, having really seen the world. Laxness always writes about nature like a visionary.