Sunday, November 02, 2008

100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s Library

100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s Library
The Art of Manliness

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Written by: Jason Lankow, Ross Crooks, Joshua Ritchie, and Brett McKay








  1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  2. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
  3. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  4. 1984 by George Orwell
  5. The Republic by Plato

  6. Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  7. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

  8. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

  9. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
  10. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  11. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  12. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  13. How To Win Friends And Influence People by Dale Carnegie
  14. Call of the Wild by Jack London
  15. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
  16. Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
  17. Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
  18. The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer
  19. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  20. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  21. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  22. The Master and Margarita by by Mikhail Bulgakov
  23. Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
  24. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  25. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

  26. Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins
  27. White Noise by Don Delillo
  28. Ulysses by James Joyce
  29. The Young Man’s Guide by William Alcott
  30. Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
  31. Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond by Denis Johnson
  32. Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  33. Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
  34. The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry by Christine De Pizan
  35. The Art of Warfare by Sun Tzu
  36. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  37. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
  38. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
  39. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
  40. The Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt
  41. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
  42. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
  43. The Thin Red Line by James Jones
  44. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  45. The Politics by Aristotle
  46. First Edition of the The Boy Scout Handbook
  47. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
  48. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
  49. The Crisis by Winston Churchill

  50. The Naked and The Dead by Norman Mailer

  51. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

  52. Animal Farm by George Orwell

  53. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs



  54. Beyond Good and Evil by Freidrich Nietzsche

  55. The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison

  56. Moby Dick by Herman Melville

  57. Essential Manners for Men by Peter Post

  58. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly

  59. Hamlet by Shakespeare

  60. The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn

  61. A Separate Peace by John Knowles

  62. A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway

  63. The Stranger by Albert Camus

  64. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe

  65. The Pearl by John Steinbeck

  66. On the Road by Jack Kerouac

  67. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

  68. Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

  69. Foucault’s Pendulum - Umberto Eco

  70. The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux

  71. Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard

  72. Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose

  73. Paradise Lost by John Milton

  74. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

  75. American Boys’ Handy Book

  76. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

  77. King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard

  78. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  79. A River Runs Through It by Norman F. Maclean

  80. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells

  81. Malcolm X: The Autobiography

  82. Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris

  83. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

  84. All Quiet on The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarq

  85. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

  86. Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans by Plutarch

  87. The Strenuous Life by Theodore Roosevelt

  88. The Bible

  89. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

  90. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

  91. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

  92. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

  93. The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn and Hal Iggulden

  94. The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

  95. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

  96. The Histories by Herodotus

  97. From Here to Eternity by James Jones

  98. The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner

  99. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig

  100. Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson