A nice library list

[conman89]

I have frequented a sight called the art of manliness and read the book the art of manliness on that website there is a list of great books that everyone should read. Not just for men but woman too (although there are a few woman may not like) I think these books would be great additions to any reading list. I have read a few and am currently reading The rise of Theodore Roosevelt (weather you like him as a president or not he was a great man) and the picture of dorian gray.

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

[Vota]

No top 100 list will ever be perfect, but I think that is a nice list overall. It's obviously lacking. I couldn't create a top 100 list without The Origin of Species or one of Stephen Hawkings books.

There's also not a single Charles Dickens novel in that list. The Once and Future King would trump several books in that list, for me. Also, while it has The Iliad and The Odyssey, it is missing the Aeneid, which for me is like having only 2 out of 3 parts of the holy trinity of epic poems.

Every list is going to be influenced by whoever created it. I would have the essays of Michel De Montaigne in mine, Gargantua and Pantagruel, and others.

There are a ton of great books in that list though.

[ennison]

Great men are notable historical figures. Genghis Khan, Saddam Hussain etc et-bleeding-cetera. I suppose being a notable bear-killer and border-stretcher gets the cove into the club. Seonaidh Neill mor 'an Neill now was not a great man but I would prefer his company.

[maxphisher]

Odd that Rand is the only female author on the list. Where are Toni Morrison, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, Shelley, etc.?

[kasie]

Mary Shelley and Harper Lee are on the list too......

Four Steinbecks, two Hemingways, two Orwells, two Kerouacs, two Vonneguts, two Krakauers - but only one Shakespeare. Hmm - so that's what it takes to be manly?

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Nice list.
A few additional that should be considered
Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls
The RA Expeditions Thor Heyerdahl
Flags of Our Fathers James Bradley
The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe
Kill It and Grill It Ted Nugent http://www.amazon.com/Kill-Grill-Gui.../dp/0895260360

[qimissung]

"Kill it and Grill it" I think we need a womanly list! Let me get a pen and paper...

[chrisvia]

An admirable and admittedly skewed list, but I'd applaud anyone for reading any of these books--male, female, or otherwise.