I recently came across an article on The Art of Manliness website that lists 100 books every guy should read. Needless to say I think it’s time I buckled down and read some of the classics. This post will be my running list of what I have read, re-read, and still need to read on that list of 100.
The Books:
- 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 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 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
- 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
- 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
Looks like I have some reading to do…
So little to say and so much time… Here goes something….
My name is Andrew to everyone who knows me and nothing to the people who don’t. I rarely feel inclined to write about myself and this small text blurb is no exception. I’m a film maker, of sorts. A designer, of sorts. A musician, of sorts. A photographer, of sorts. An armada of etceteras march behind these four generals.
The point I’m trying to make is that I enjoy art in all of it’s forms, and try my best to creatively express myself in every medium I take a liking towards. As always, things like life get in the way of being a non-stop idea factory, but that life is something that I’m thoroughly enjoying at the moment.
It consists of my beautiful girlfriend who I am very much in love with, a job that pays me well to do work that I would otherwise be doing for free, and a family and friends that I wouldn’t trade the world for. It’s safe to assume that I’m walking on air/over water/atop mountain peaks (pick one… hell, pick all three).
May 15th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Does going to church count towards #88?