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

Submitted by marslike on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 00:51
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  1. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  2. The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
  3. Slaughter-house Five - Kurt Vonnegut
  4. 1984 - George Orwell
  5. The Republic - Plato
  6. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  7. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
  8. The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
  9. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
  10. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
  11. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
  12. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
  13. How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
  14. The Call of the Wild - Jack London
  15. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt - Edmund Morris
  16. The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann D. Wyss
  17. The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
  18. The Iliad and The Odyssey - Homer
  19. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
  20. Walden - Henry David Thoreau
  21. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
  22. The Master and the Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
  23. Bluebeard - Kurt Vonnegut
  24. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
  25. The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
  26. Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins
  27. White Noise - Don DeLillo
  28. Ulysses - James Joyce
  29. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
  30. Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond - Denis Johnson
  31. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  32. Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
  33. The Book of Deeds, of Arms, and of Chivalry - Christine de Pizan
  34. The Art of Warfare - Sun Tzu
  35. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
  36. Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
  37. The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
  38. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
  39. Rough Riders - Theodore Roosevelt
  40. East of Eden - John Steinbeck
  41. Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
  42. The Thin Red Line - James Jones
  43. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
  44. Politics - Aristotle
  45. Boy Scouts Handbook (Original Edition) - Boy Scouts of America
  46. Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand
  47. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
  48. The Crisis - Winston Churchill
  49. The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer
  50. Hatchet - Gary Paulsen
  51. Animal Farm - George Orwell
  52. Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
  53. The Federalist Papers - Alexander Hamilton
  54. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
  55. Essential Manners for Men - Peter Post
  56. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
  57. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
  58. The Boys of Summer - Roger Kahn
  59. A Separate Peace - John Knowles
  60. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
  61. The Stranger - Albert Camus
  62. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
  63. The Pearl - John Steinback
  64. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
  65. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
  66. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
  67. Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
  68. The Great Railway Bazaar - Paul Theroux
  69. Fear and Trembling - Soren Kierkegaard
  70. Undaunted Courage - Stephen Ambrose
  71. Paradise Lost - John Milton
  72. Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
  73. The American Boy's Handy Book - Daniel Carter
  74. Into Thin Air - John Krakauer
  75. King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard
  76. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  77. A River Runs Through It - Norman Maclean
  78. The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells
  79. The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X
  80. Theodore Rex - Edmun Morris
  81. The Counte of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
  82. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
  83. The Red Bage of Courage - Stephen Crane
  84. Lives - Plutarch
  85. The Strenuous Life - Theodore Roosevelt
  86. The Holy Bible - Various
  87. The Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
  88. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
  89. The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
  90. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
  91. The Dangerous Book for Boys - Conn Iggulden
  92. The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
  93. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin
  94. The Histories - Herodotus
  95. From Here to Eternity - James Jones
  96. The Frontier in American History
  97. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
  98. Self-Reliance and Other Essays - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Author Comments: 

From here: http://artofmanliness.com/2008/05/14/100-must-read-books-the-essential-m...

Apparently Theodore Roosevelt is the most manly American historical figure; this is not too suprising. I am impressed that John Steinbeck managed to beat out Ernest Hemingway for most manly fiction writer, though. Impressed and pleased.