10 fiction books to rebuild culture
Plantgirl asks:
What 10 works of fiction would you want after the apocalypse when these are going to be the only (fiction) books available to your surviving population of 1000 people until new ones start getting written?
The idea is "to explore what fictional works deserve to be the foundation of a new culture." (You can count a Complete Works Of X volume as a single book if you like, though ideally X would be someone whose complete works would fit in one volume.) So the point isn't to list Practical Useful Books like Robinson Crusoe. You can put together a separate nonfiction list if you like, for books to use in rebuilding civilization and/or forming the basis of a future science, but I think that list would be highly dependent on the specifics of the physical environment of the survivors, and for that matter on who the survivors are.
You can make lists of music or other kinds of art if you prefer.
While you're thinking about the relationship between art and the personal, you might consider the experiment of choosing a work of art (if you need a more specific category, make it a painting) which best represents you. Name the work and the artist, link to a photo of it online if possible, and explain why you picked it.