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THE LIST: 101 Essential Books of the Man’s Library
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald - Finished on 18 January 2010
The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka - Finished on 27 October 2009
The Prince – Niccolo Machiavelli
Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
1984 – George Orwell – Finished on 28 August 2009
The Republic – Plato
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Catcher and the Rye – J.D. Salinger
The Wealth of Nations – Adam Smith
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie - Finished in Summer 2009
Call of the Wild – Jack London
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt – Edmund Morris
Swiss Family Robinson – Johann David Wyss
The Dharma Bums – Jake Kerouac - Finished on 9 September 2009
The Iliad – Homer – Reading Now
The Odyssey – Homer
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
Walden – Henry David Thoreau – Finished on 16 January 2010
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
Bluebeard – Kurt Vonnegut
Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
American Boys’ Handy Book
Into Thin Air – John Krakauer
King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
A River Runs Through It – Norman F. Maclean
The Island of Dr. Moreau – H. G. Wells
Malcom X: The Autobiography
Theodore Rex – Edmund Morris
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
All Quiet on The Western Front – Erich Maria Remarq
The Red Badge of Courage – Stephan Crane - Finished in Spring 2009
Lives of Noble Greeks and Romans – Plutarch
The Strenuous Life – Theodore Roosevelt
The Bible
Lonesome Dove – Larry McMurty
The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammet
The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
The Dangerous book for Boys – Conn and Hal Iggulden
The Killer Angels – Michael Shaara
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Histories – Herodotus
From Here to Eternity – James Jones
The Frontier in American History – Frederick Jackson Turner
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig
Self Reliance – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Another Roadside Attraction – Tom Robbins
White Noise – Don Delillo
Ulysses – James Joyce
The Young Man’s Guide – William Alcott
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West – Cormac McCarthy
Seek: Reports from the Edges of American & Beyond – Denis Johnson
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry – Christine De Pizan
The Art of War – Sun Tzu – Finished on 13 December 2009
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer
The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri
The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
The Rough Riders – Theodore Roosevelt
East of Eden – John Steinbeck
Leviathan – Thomas Hobbes
The Thin Red Line – James Jones
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
The Politics – Aristotle
First Edition of The Boy Scout Handbook
Cyrano de Bergerac – Edmond Rostand
Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
The Crisis – Winston Churchill
The Naked and The Dead – Norman Mailer
Hatchet – Gary Paulsen
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
Beyond Good and Evil – Freidrich Nietzsche
The Federalist Papers – Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison
Moby Dick – Herman Melville
Essential Manners for Men – Peter Post
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly
Hamlet – 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 Dafoe
The Pearl – John Steinbeck
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson - Finished on 9 November 2009
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
[Books shown in green are already on my bookshelf]
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Swap out something for the Jungle. It’s a damn good Book.
I think that I may do that. I just have to find a book to take off the list.