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- TherealObadiah, on 05/14/2008, -12/+158Dugg for this: The Bible "Despite being one of the most religious Industrialized nations, America’s religious literacy is horrible. If asked to name one of the Ten Commandments or one of Jesus’ apostles, many Americans wouldn’t be able to do it. The problem is half the books on these lists make Biblical references that must be known by the reader for them to understand the message of that book. If a Western man desires to understand the culture that surrounds him, he needs to have a thorough understanding of the Book that has shaped that culture. In addition, the Bible is full of ancient counsel and advice that is applicable to today’s man, whether you’re a believer in God or not."
- mciampa1214, on 05/14/2008, -1/+109Only 1/5 of the way there. If I spent as much time reading as I did on Digg I'd probably be done by now.
- bicyclethief, on 05/14/2008, -1/+91Oscar Wilde would have a good laugh at being on a list on a website named artofmanliness.com
- Wetzilla, on 05/14/2008, -7/+97The bible is definitely worth reading, if only for the literary references alone. I don't see how you can say a book that has had so much influence on the western world isn't worth reading.
- inactive, on 05/14/2008, -3/+77Damn. Not one Dr. Seuss book. Guess I'm out of the loop.
- sofaKing812, on 05/14/2008, -2/+68I am a bit surprised that no Hunter S. Thompson book was mentioned.
- doublefelix, on 05/14/2008, -7/+62SPOILER ALERT ---- Jesus dies in the end.
- Pimpalicious316, on 05/14/2008, -7/+59no one ever includes the giver
- rlray216, on 05/14/2008, -5/+60I would have included Cat's Cradle instead of Slaughterhouse Five - to me it's a better choice from Vonnegut.
- ultra80, on 05/14/2008, -0/+43Might have missed a few but still:
100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s Library
May 14, 2008
Written by: Jason Lankow, Ross Crooks, Joshua Ritchie, and Brett McKay
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
1984 by George Orwell
The Republic by Plato
Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Catcher and 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 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
How To Win Friends And Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
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
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Master and Margarita by by Mikhail Bulgakov
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
American Boys’ Handy Book
Into Thin Air by John Krakauer
King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
A River Runs Through It by Norman F. Maclean
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
Malcolm X: The Autobiography
Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
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
The Strenuous Life by Theodore Roosevelt
The Bible
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
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
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Histories by Herodotus
From Here to Eternity by James Jones
The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins
White Noise by Don Delillo
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Young Man’s Guide by William Alcott
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond by Denis Johnson
Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry by Christine De Pizan
The Art of Warfare by Sun Tzu
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
The Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
The Thin Red Line by James Jones
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Politics by Aristotle
First Edition of the The Boy Scout Handbook
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
The Crisis by Winston Churchill
The Naked and The Dead by Norman Mailer
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
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
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly
Hamlet by Shakespeare
The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
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 - John Kennedy Toole
Foucault’s Pendulum - Umberto Eco
The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck - Aidenf77, on 05/14/2008, -10/+46#101 - The Alphabet of Manliness
http://www.alphabetofmanliness.com/ - gezgin, on 05/14/2008, -1/+34This is actually a pretty good list, and taking the time to photo the book covers brings it to life. I will avoid a 'dont judge a book by it's cover' joke at this point. Dharma Bums is great.
- inactive, on 05/14/2008, -7/+39Well I must be an elitist cause I read over 80% of that list.
Remember meeting Vonnegut in a doctors office on Long Island when he was sitting next to me, I was like 12 and then going home and my dad handed me Slaughter House Five. That was life changing. - inactive, on 05/14/2008, -16/+54surprisingly good list, although I would just add that only the Old Testament is worth reading. There are some good stories of epic battles, venomous rage, deceit and revenge in there. The New Testament should have been dropped by the editors all together. It's totally repetitive and keeps going on about a guy named Jesus who always told unfunny stories and ultimately got himself thrown in prison, which is where I stopped reading.
- ireland88, on 05/14/2008, -5/+38What no Bukowski!?!?!? This is a list for men right? What about Palahniuk.
- Hoogs, on 05/14/2008, -2/+32"Brave New World" has been my favorite book ever since I read it senior year of high school. Definitely one of the creepiest as well.
- cococooky, on 05/14/2008, -7/+47Top list, though I would have included the following:
Perfume by Patrick Süskind
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
The Lord of the Rings by Jrr Tolkien
I was going to say Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance should have been included, but there it was at the end. - nartvq, on 05/14/2008, -3/+28SPOILER ALERT #2 --- Jesus comes back and the world ends as we know it.
- chocobomog, on 05/14/2008, -1/+26Why are 4+ books about Theodore Roosevelt? He was a great man, but 4 books out of 100 devoted to him? Thats more than Shakespeare, Mark Twain, and Homer combined.
Needed a few more financial books too:
Richest Man in Babylon by George Samuel Clayson
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill - Willy99, on 05/14/2008, -7/+30SPOILER ALERT #3 - Jesus grants eternal life to those who believe in Him
- inactive, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2280%? God, I hope you're old... it would make me feel better about myself.
- xtinamo, on 05/14/2008, -1/+23This is a great list for us ladies too. Brave New World had a truly profound affect on me.
- evilunleashed, on 05/14/2008, -4/+29The list is incomplete. No one should go through life without having read "Stranger In A Strange Land" by Robert A. Heinlein.
- Tyrghast, on 05/14/2008, -2/+23I would have included The Zombie Survival Guide. I highly recommend it, it's much better to be informed and not need it than need it and not know what to do.
- Fission, on 05/14/2008, -0/+21Where the hell is Fahrenheit 451? That is one of the most well-written and thought-provoking books of the 20th century. So many movies and other books that deal with a post-apocalyptic world got their inspiration from it.
Also, where is Of Mice and Men? That book was so deep it was ridiculous. It's hard for a book to make you cry but I think everyone shed a tear when they got to the end. - ConceptualTrap, on 05/14/2008, -3/+25That's because the Giver is a ***** knock off of 1984 and Brave New World, two books which are leaps and bounds above that garbage. Hell, even Rand's Anthem is better than the Giver.
- bwa236, on 05/14/2008, -0/+19...spoken as a true literary critic.
- Iamthechamp, on 05/14/2008, -0/+19I was surprised to see Hatchet on there, one of my favorite books that I read when I was a kid.
- rlray216, on 05/14/2008, -2/+20You gotta be kidding. The book was far better than the movie, and the casting of Redford sorta missed the whole point of the character too.
- dn11, on 05/14/2008, -0/+19read both
- tradwolley, on 05/14/2008, -3/+22I only have 85 left to read.
- fakekevinrose, on 05/14/2008, -18/+37digg me down
- lovernotfighter, on 05/14/2008, -1/+20I'd probably trade that fourth Steinbeck novel for "Les Misérables." Another great insight into the human condition.
- santaliqueur, on 05/14/2008, -0/+17Do you just enjoy typing names?
- ConceptualTrap, on 05/14/2008, -2/+19You're right, Palahniuk is pop culture, but seriously, Fight Club is classic male literature no matter how you slice it.
- Fullvinyl, on 05/14/2008, -0/+16Yeah, that was pretty ***** of the blog's author.
- xkingADROCKx, on 05/14/2008, -2/+18Is a man not entitled to the sweat on his brow?
- Fuzi, on 05/14/2008, -1/+16A lot of those books are normal reading in JHS/HS... like 20 or so on that list I was forced to read in school
- erikwithaknotac, on 05/14/2008, -0/+15Flowers for Algernon
- stillasleep00, on 05/14/2008, -0/+16No Bukowski?!?
Otherwise, good list. - inactive, on 05/14/2008, -0/+14What about A Clockwork Orange
- cathars1s, on 05/14/2008, -0/+15go ahead, provide a counterexample.
influential books are exactly the type that should be read. - ConceptualTrap, on 05/14/2008, -0/+12Have you ever read Perfume? It's an amazing piece of fiction written almost entirely in olfactory narrative. Not to mention its sexy as ***** and insane. That said, I'm not sure I'd put it in the top 100 books to read either but to say it's for a 16 year old is moronic.
- ostracize, on 05/14/2008, -1/+13And just like the list says, it's essential reading *because* nobody reads it. A lot of people (*especially* Christians) *think* they know what it says but have not taken the time to actually read and understand it.
- dave122, on 05/14/2008, -3/+16I am about as anti-christian as you can get, and the bible IS an important book to read. False or not you cannot deny the impact it has had on our culture.
- employeeno5, on 05/14/2008, -0/+13Slaughterhouse Five is a masterpiece, but Cat's Cradle is an even better book in my opinion. It's fast and easy read, but don't let that deceive you. I think it's Vonnegut's greatest work and I'm always disappointed that "Slaughterhouse Five" will end up on reading lists as the "one Vonnegut book you must read". I'm not saying that "Slaughterhouse Five" isn't one of the greatest books ever written; it's just that for me personally, if you could only hand one Vonnegut book to someone to read, and you knew that they would never be able to read another, I'd give them "Cat's Cradle".
- Scottamus, on 05/14/2008, -14/+30Most people that hate Ayn Rand haven't even read her books.
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