Best of all, I can do it all again, at any moment. The books are there. I have only to reach up to the shelves and take them down to relive the moments I have loved. I imagine myself stranded in some isolated place, knowing before hand that I would be so banished, and allowed to choose only one book. Then I add other titles, if my banishers permit it.
Some titles are on all three lists.
Some only made one edition. But if I could have only one book, it would be the Bible. Almost every time a new English version appears, I add it to my collection. My current favorite is the New Century Version. My second pick has always been any of the 63 volumes from Charles Haddon Spurgeon's The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit.