1. Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual
2. Practical Endgame Play by Glenn Flear
3. Polgar's 5000+ puzzle book
4. Sharpen Your Tactics
5-10 - The thickest master game collections I can find.

And I can't believe I'm the first one to pick Ginger.

--Fromper

In no particular order:
My System (Nimzovich)
My 60 Memorable Games (Fischer)
Chess Fundamentals (Capablanca)
Last Lectures (Capablanca)
My Chess Career (Capablanca)
The Middlegame, Book 1 (Euwe)
How To Open A Chess Game (7 GMs)
100 Selected Games (Botvinnik)
Soviet Chess (Wade)
Soviet School of Chess (Kotov)

Mary-Ann - she won't have a diva complex and her skills at farming and irrigation will come in handy.

I went through a number of books already.

But the ten I would take would be:

1) Chess Informant's Best 1000 games.

2) Pal Benko: My Life Games and Compositions

3) Fundamental Chess Endings

4) Anthology of Chess Beauty

5) New York 1924

6) Nottingham 1936

7) Baden Baden 1925

9) Chess Champions from Steinitz to Fischer

10) Perlo's Endgame Tactics.

and a real set of books that I would not mind taking as well as the five volume set by Kasparov on Great Predecessors and his books on Modern Chess. Forcing Chess Moves by Herten is also very interesting.