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The union of "100 Books Every Man Should Read" and "100 Must Read Books: The Man's Essential Library" by Art of Manliness

100 Must Read Books

Title Author Rating
1984 George Orwell
7 Habits of Highly Successful People, The Stephen Covey
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Mark Twain
After Virtue Alasdair MacIntyre
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
American Boys’ Handy Book Daniel Carter Beard
Animal Farm George Orwell 8
Another Roadside Attraction Tom Robbins
Art of War, The Sun Tzu
Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The Benjamin Franklin
Autobiography of Malcolm X, The Malcolm X
Band of Brothers Stephen Ambrose
Beyond Good and Evil Freidrich Nietzsche
Bible, The
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West Cormac McCarthy
Bluebeard Kurt Vonnegut
Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry, The Christine De Pizan
Boys of Summer, The Roger Kahn
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky
Call of the Wild Jack London
Cannery Row John Steinbeck 5
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
Catcher in the Rye, The J.D. Salinger
Code of Man, The Waller Newell
Confederacy of Dunces, A John Kennedy Toole
Count of Monte Cristo, The Alexandre Dumas 8
Crime And Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky 7
Crisis, The Winston Churchill
Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand
Dangerous Book for Boys, The Conn and Hal Iggulden
Dharma Bums Jack Kerouac
Divine Comedy, The Dante Alighieri
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
East of Eden John Steinbeck
Education of a Wandering Man Louis L’Amour
Essential Manners for Men Peter Post
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Farewell To Arms, A Ernest Hemingway
Fear and Trembling Soren Kierkegaard
Federalist Papers, The Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison
First Edition of the The Boy Scout Handbook
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway
Foucault’s Pendulum Umberto Eco
Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
From Here to Eternity James Jones
Frontier in American History, The Frederick Jackson Turner
Gates of Fire Stephen Pressfield
Godfather, The Mario Puzo
Grapes of Wrath, The John Steinbeck
Great Gatsby, The F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great Railway Bazaar, The Paul Theroux
Hamlet William Shakespeare
Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
Histories, The Herodotus
Hobbit, The J.R.R. Tolkien 8
How To Win Friends And Influence People Dale Carnegie 7
Idiot, The Fyodor Dostoevsky
Iliad, The Homer
Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer
Into the Wild Jon Krakauer
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
Island of Dr. Moreau, The H.G. Wells
Killer Angels, The Michael Shaara
King Solomon’s Mines H. Rider Haggard
Last Lion Trilogy, The William Manchester
Last of the Mohicans, The James Fenimore Cooper
Les Miserables Victor Hugo
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes
Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Plutarch
Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry
Long Goodbye, The Raymond Chandler
Lord of the Flies William Golding
Lord of the Rings, The J.R.R. Tolkien 9.33
Maltese Falcon, The Dashiell Hammett
Man’s Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl
Master and Margarita, The Mikhail Bulgakov
Meditations Marcus Aurelius
Metamorphosis, The Franz Kafka
Moby Dick Herman Melville
Naked and the Dead, The Norman Mailer
Native Son Richard Wright
Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle
Odyssey, The Homer
Oil! Upton Sinclair
On the Road Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Outsiders, The S. E. Hinton
Paradise Lost John Milton
Pearl, The John Steinbeck
Picture of Dorian Gray, The Oscar Wilde
Politics, The Aristotle
Pride & Prejudice Jane Austen
Prince, The Niccolo Machiavelli
Red Badge of Courage, The Stephen Crane
Republic, The Plato
Resilience Eric Greitens
Revolutionary Road Richard Yates
River Runs Through It, A Norman F. Maclean
Road, The Cormac McCarthy
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
Roman Honor Carlin Barton
Rough Riders, The Theodore Roosevelt
Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond Denis Johnson
Self Reliance Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Control: Its Kingship and Majesty William George Jordan
Separate Peace, A John Knowles
Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
Steppenwolf Herman Hesse
Stranger, The Albert Camus
Strenuous Life, The Theodore Roosevelt
Sun Also Rises, The Ernest Hemingway
Swiss Family Robinson Johann David Wyss 9
Tale of Two Cities, A Charles Dickens 4*
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 4
Theodore Roosevelt Trilogy Edmund Morris
Thin Red Line, The James Jones
This Boy’s Life Tobias Wolff
Thus Spoke Zarathustra Friedrich Nietzsche
To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller
Ulysses James Joyce
Undaunted Courage Stephen Ambrose
Walden Henry David Thoreau
Wealth of Nations, The Adam Smith
White Noise Don Delillo
With the Old Breed Eugene Sledge
Young Man’s Guide, The William Alcott
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert Pirsig

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