Books to Read

The Art of Manliness released a list of 100 Books Every Man Should Read. Many of the books on here are from that list, with a few additions of my own.

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Books I Want:

Book Author
Ender’s Game Orson Scott Card
The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli
1984 George Orwell
The Brothers Karamazonv Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
How To Win Friends & Influence People Dale Carnegie
The Call of the Wild Jack London
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt Edmund Morris
The Swiss Family Robinson Johann Wyss
The Dharma Bums Jack Kerouac
The Iliad and The Odyssey Homer
Walden Henry, David Thoreau
The Master and the Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov
Bluebeard Kurt Vonnegut
Another Roadside Attraction Tom Robbins
White Noise Don DeLillo
Ulysses James Joyce
Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy
Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond Denis Johnson
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Steppenwolf Hermann Hesse
The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry Christine de Pizan
The Art of Warfare Sun Tzu
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes
Into The Wild Jon Krakauer
The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri
Rough Riders Theodore Roosevelt
East of Eden John Steinbeck
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes
The Thin Red Line James Jones
Politics Aristotle
Boy Scouts Handbook: Orig. Edition Boy Scouts of America
Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand
Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller
The Crisis Winston Churchill
The Naked and the Dead Norman Miller
Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Animal Farm George Orwell
Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Nietzsche
The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton
Essential Manners for Men: What to Do, When to Do It, and Why Peter Post
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
Hamlet (or any Shakespeare) William Shakespeare
The Boys of Summer Roger Kahn
A Separate Peace John Knowles
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
The Stranger Albert Camus
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
The Pearl John Steinbeck
On The Road Jack Kerouac
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
Foucault’s Pendulum Umberto Eco
The Great Railway Bazaar Paul Theroux
Fear and Trembling Soren Kierkegaard
Undaunted Courage Stephen Ambrose
Paradise Lost John Milton
Cannery Row John Steinbeck
The American Boys Handy Book Daniel Carter Beard
Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer
King Solomon’s Mines H. Rider Haggard
The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky
A River Runs Through It Norman McLean
The Island of Doctor Moreau H.G. Wells
The Autobiography of Malcolm X <– =)
Theodore Rex Edmund Morris
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch
The Strenuous Life:Essays and Addresses Theodore Roosevelt
Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry
The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett
The Long Goodbye Raymond Chandler
The Dangerous Book for Boys Conn Iggulden
The Killer Angels Michael Shaara
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Hmm…Washington?
The Histories Herodotus
From Here to Eternity James Jones
The Frontier In American History Frederick Jackson
Self-Reliance and Other Essays Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books I Have:

Book Author
Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand
Slaughter-house Five Kurt Vonnegut
The Republic of Plato Plato
Catch-22: A Novel Joseph Heller
The Catcher In The Rye J.D. Salinger
The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas pere

2 Comments to “Books to Read”

#1 Posted by Hayden Tompkins (11.07.08 at 13:21 )

Hi, Lee! I would HIGHLY RECOMMEND reading “Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card. Highly.

It you don’t think it’s awesome, I’ll send you some cookies. ;)

#2 Posted by Lee McKusick (11.07.08 at 13:35 )

Actually, that was one of the next books I was going to look for at the library. I’ve heard from many sources that it’s great, and sci-fi is my favorite genre, so I’m sure I will love it.

But you could always send cookies anyway. ^_^