Sayid notes a familiar work on Ben's bookshelf. ("The Economist")
The following books have been identified on Ben's bookshelf. ("Not in Portland") ("The Man from Tallahassee") ("The Economist") ("Eggtown") ("The Other Woman") ("Dead Is Dead")
- The Holy Qur'ān: Text, Translation & Commentary
- by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
- ISBN of 1987 ed: 0940368323
- This fully indexed edition contains the full Arabic text of the Qur'ān, with an English translation and commentary by Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872-1953). Ali's English translation of the Qur'ān is one of the two most widely read ones.
- Red Man's Religion: Beliefs and Practices of the Indians North of Mexico
- by Ruth Murray Underhill
- published by: University of Chicago, 1965
- ISBN: 0226841669
- Kings of Love: The Poetry and History of the Ni'Matullahi Sufi Order
- by Nasrollah Pourjavady & Peter Lamborn Wilson (translators)
- published by: Great Eastern Book Co, 1985
- ISBN: 0877737339
Disinherited by Dale Van Every
- Disinherited: The Lost Birthright of the American Indian
- by Dale Van Every
- published by: Avon, 1980
- ISBN: unknown
- VALIS
- by Philip K. Dick
- published by: Vintage, July 2, 1991 (240 pages)
- ISBN: 978-0679734468
- unidentified book
- The Sheltering Sky
- by Paul Bowles
- published by: Vintage, March 17, 1991 (335 pages)
- ISBN: 0679729798
- Caravan of Dreams
- by Idries Shah
- published by: Octagon Press, June, 1988 (207 pages)
- ISBN: 0900860146
- Fahrenheit 451
- by Ray Bradbury
- published by: HarperVoyager, August 2, 2004 (192 pages)
- ISBN: 0007181701
- (originally published 1953)
- Roots
- by Alex Haley
See also[]
- Literary works
- Lost Book Club - ABC website feature which also lists books, including those visible on shelves
- Books on Jack's shelf
- Sawyer's Books
- LOST Book club - LBC