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Over at The Art of Manliness, there is a list of 100 books that should be part of every man’s library – “books that have shaped the lives of individual men while also helping define broader cultural ideas of what it means to be a man”.

Now, that doesn’t mean the book is irrelevant for female readers, but it just may have special import for the males. I’m not necessarily in agreement with each choice, but its a fairly diverse list which makes for a good source of new reading material.

Go check out the article for specific commentary on each book. I’m going to use this blog entry to track which ones I have read and give me a place to refer back to what should be next on my reading list. Bold indicates it needs to enter the queue.

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald – Read – but along time ago.
• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli – Unread – bits and pieces here and there but not cover to cover.
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut – Read
• 1984 by George Orwell – Read
• The Republic by Plato – Unread – bits and pieces here and there but not cover to cover.
• Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

(the other 90 after the jump)

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• How To Win Friends And Influence People by Dale Carnegie – Unread – Not entirely sure if this is still relevant
• Call of the Wild by Jack London – Unread
• The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris – Unread
• Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
• Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
• The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau – Unread
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• The Master and Margarita by by Mikhail Bulgakov – Unread
• Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut – Unread
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand – Unread
• The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
• Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins – Unread
• White Noise by Don Delillo – Unread
• Ulysses by James Joyce
• The Young Man’s Guide by William Alcott – Unread
• Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy – Unread
• Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond by Denis Johnson – Unread
• Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
• The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry by Christine De Pizan – Unread
• The Art of Warfare by Sun Tzu
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer – Unread
• The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
• The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
• The Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt – Unread
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck – Unread
• Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes – Unread
• The Thin Red Line by James Jones – Unread
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• The Politics by Aristotle – Unread
• First Edition of the The Boy Scout Handbook
• Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand – Unread – Kinda surprised me, although I have seen Roxanne with Steve Martin.
• Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller – Unread
• The Crisis by Winston Churchill – Unread
• The Naked and The Dead by Norman Mailer – Unread
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen – Unread
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Beyond Good and Evil by Freidrich Nietzsche
• The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• Essential Manners for Men by Peter Post – Unread (Can’t you tell?)
• Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly
• Hamlet by Shakespeare
• The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
• A Separate Peace by John Knowles – Unread
• A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe
• The Pearl by John Steinbeck
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
• The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux – Unread
• Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard – Unread
• Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose – Unread
• Paradise Lost by John Milton – Unread? – Feels like I have but not sure
• Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
• American Boys’ Handy Book – Unread – But I do have Backyard Ballistics which is kind of a modern take on it.
• Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer – Unread
• King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
• The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky – Unread? – Again, feels like I have but not sure.
• A River Runs Through It by Norman F. Maclean – Unread
• The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
• Malcolm X: The Autobiography
• Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris – Unread
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• All Quiet on The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarq
• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
• Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans by Plutarch – Unread
• The Strenuous Life by Theodore Roosevelt – Unread
• The Bible
• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry – Unread
• The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
• The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn and Hal Iggulden – Unread
• The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara – Unread
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin – Unread? Maybe bits and pieces
• The Histories by Herodotus
• From Here to Eternity by James Jones – Unread
• The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner – Unread
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
• Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson – Unread

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