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 Irvine Welsh, the author of the book “Trainspotting,” which became a film in 1996. “T2 Trainspotting,” the sequel, opens in theaters today.

“Ulysses,” James Joyce

Read this book in every one of my adult decades and got something different from it each time. “Ulysses” isn’t a novel, it’s a life project, and like life itself, we embark upon it striving toward understanding it.

“1982, Janine,” Alasdair Gray

“Lanark” is widely and justifiably regarded as Gray’s masterpiece. But I love this novel and its protagonist; masturbating, alcoholic, conservative Jock. It shows the dismal outcome of a life that succumbs to fear, but is still somehow an uplifting book.

“One Hundred Years of Solitude,” Gabriel García Márquez

It’s an easy pick. Music in the form of words. It’s every western pseudo-lit-lover’s cliché of a “spiritual third world novel” that I almost hate myself for loving it, but I do.