daveheberer
Dave

50 books every man should read once

These books are supposed to be teaching lessons, theoretically about what it means to be a man (hopefully a good man?)

I haven't read a lot of these so I wanted to track it here.

#2

The Fellowship of the Ring

#1 of 3 in The Lord of the Rings

1954 • 4,203 Readers • 398 pages 4.4

#3

The Two Towers

#2 of 3 in The Lord of the Rings

1954 • 2,825 Readers • 725 pages 4.4

#4

The Return of the King

#3 of 3 in The Lord of the Rings

1950 • 1,859 Readers • 432 pages 4.6

#5

Dubliners

1914 • 501 Readers • 255 pages 3.9

#6

Jurassic Park

#1 of 2 in Jurassic Park

1990 • 1,864 Readers • 805 pages 4.1

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#7

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1962 • 1,262 Readers • 336 pages 4.1

#8

The Road

1974 • 2,515 Readers • 287 pages 4

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#9

1984

1949 • 7,463 Readers • 328 pages 4.2

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#10

Brave New World

1900 • 3,869 Readers • 332 pages 3.9

#11

Fahrenheit 451

1953 • 4,721 Readers • 227 pages 3.9

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#12

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

1965 • 234 Readers • 190 pages 3.9

#13

A Confederacy of Dunces

1978 • 724 Readers • 338 pages 3.9

#14

Hard Times

1854 • 164 Readers • 358 pages 3.2

#15

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

18 Calvin and Hobbes

2005 • 142 Readers • 492 pages 4.9

#16

The Plot Against America

2004 • 262 Readers • 391 pages 3.6

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#17

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Nearly Definitive Edition

7 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

2014 • 1 Reader • 832 pages

#18

Preacher, Book 1: Gone to Texas

#1 of 1 in Preacher Deluxe

2009 • 36 Readers • 352 pages 4

#19

Catch-22

#1 of 2 in Catch-22

1961 • 2,065 Readers • 466 pages 4

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#21

The Complete Maus

#1 of 2 in Maus

1980 • 918 Readers • 295 pages 4.6

#22

Candide

1738 • 676 Readers • 208 pages 3.8

#23

Two Pints

2012 • 3 Readers • 96 pages 3

#24

The Virginian

1902 • 19 Readers • 417 pages 3.2

#25

Guards! Guards!

#8 of 42 in Discworld

1989 • 1,053 Readers • 344 pages 4.2

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#28

No Matter the Wreckage

2014 • 91 Readers • 143 pages 3.8

#30

My Struggle: Book One

#1 of 6 in Min kamp

2009 • 109 Readers • 430 pages 4

#31

The Great Gatsby

1920 • 4,364 Readers • 180 pages 3.7

#32

The Catcher in the Rye

200 • 3,693 Readers 3.6

#33

The Sun Also Rises

1926 • 910 Readers • 264 pages 3.6

#34

The Things They Carried

1990 • 586 Readers • 236 pages 4.1

#35

Naked Pictures of Famous People

1998 • 26 Readers • 164 pages 3.7

#36

My Documents

2013 • 15 Readers • 241 pages 3.5

#37

To Kill a Mockingbird

10 To Kill a Mockingbird

1984 • 4 Readers • 116 pages 4.3

#38

The Táin

750 • 3 Readers • 223 pages

#39

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

2007 • 600 Readers • 360 pages 3.7

#40

The Corrections

2001 • 417 Readers • 676 pages 3.8

#41

Walden

1849 • 710 Readers • 538 pages 3.7

#42

A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

1949 • 161 Readers • 252 pages 4.2

#43

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

2000 • 645 Readers • 706 pages 4.2

#44

East of Eden

1939 • 1,682 Readers • 601 pages 4.5

#45

White Teeth

2001 • 449 Readers • 448 pages 3.8

#46

Crime and Punishment

1857 • 2,583 Readers • 602 pages 4.2

#47

Between the World and Me

2015 • 988 Readers • 166 pages 4.6

#48

Infinite Jest

1996 • 1,114 Readers • 1,079 pages 4.3

#49

Pastoralia

2000 • 147 Readers • 225 pages 3.9

#50

Dune

#1 of 9 in Dune

1965 • 5,972 Readers • 704 pages 4.3

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#51

2666

#1 in 2666

2004 • 483 Readers • 898 pages 3.9

#52

A Visit from the Goon Squad

#1 of 11 in Goon Squad

2010 • 631 Readers • 289 pages 3.8

#53

I Am Legend

1954 • 982 Readers • 312 pages 3.9