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