List byDave

50 books every man should read once

Updated 1 day ago
53 Books
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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.

Position	Details	Rating	Readers Count
#1	The Odyssey The Odyssey Homer, Emily Wilson - translator	4.5	3 reads
#2	The Fellowship of the Ring J.R.R. Tolkien	4.39	3,214 reads
#3	The Two Towers J.R.R. Tolkien	4.45	2,171 reads
#4	The Return of the King J.R.R. Tolkien	4.56	1,328 reads
#5	Dubliners James Joyce	3.88	264 reads
#6	Jurassic Park Michael Crichton	4.09	1,291 reads
#7	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey	4.07	589 reads
#8	The Road Cormac McCarthy	4.03	1,483 reads
#9	1984 George Orwell	4.21	5,188 reads
#10	Brave New World Aldous Huxley	3.88	2,455 reads
#11	Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury	3.89	3,119 reads
#12	God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Kurt Vonnegut	3.89	142 reads
#13	A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole	3.85	350 reads
#14	Hard Times Charles Dickens	3.25	80 reads
#15	The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Bill Watterson	4.91	102 reads
#16	The Plot Against America Philip Roth	3.63	105 reads
#17	The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Nearly Definitive Edition Douglas Adams	0	0 reads
#18	Preacher, Book 1: Gone to Texas Garth Ennis	3.95	26 reads
#19	Catch-22 Joseph Heller	4	914 reads
#20	All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque Arthur Wesley Wheen (Translator)	4.12	592 reads
#21	The Complete Maus Art Spiegelman	4.64	552 reads
#22	Candide Voltaire	3.79	403 reads
#23	Two Pints Roddy Doyle	3	1 read
#24	The Virginian Owen Wister	3.2	6 reads
#25	Guards! Guards! Terry Pratchett	4.23	714 reads
#26	Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal Christopher Moore	4.07	243 reads
#27	That Thing You Do With Your Mouth David Shields Samantha Matthews	0	0 reads
#28	No Matter the Wreckage Sarah Kay	3.78	33 reads
#29	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream Hunter S. Thompson	3.98	357 reads
#30	My Struggle: Book One Karl Ove Knausgård Don Bartlett (translator)	4.05	61 reads
#31	The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald	3.72	3,349 reads
#32	The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger	3.6	2,578 reads
#33	The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway	3.64	507 reads
#34	The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien	4.11	323 reads
#35	Naked Pictures of Famous People Jon Stewart	3.71	13 reads
#36	My Documents Alejandro Zambra	3.5	6 reads
#37	To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee	4.25	3 reads
#38	The Táin Anonymous Ciaran Carson (Translator)	0	3 reads
#39	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz	3.72	327 reads
#40	The Corrections Jonathan Franzen	3.85	200 reads
#41	Walden Henry David Thoreau	3.65	263 reads
#42	A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories Flannery O'Connor	4.22	63 reads
#43	The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon	4.22	327 reads
#44	East of Eden John Steinbeck	4.47	621 reads
#45	White Teeth Zadie Smith	3.83	182 reads
#46	Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky Richard Pevear (Translator) Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)	4.25	1,120 reads
#47	Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates	4.56	574 reads
#48	Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace	4.26	301 reads
#49	Pastoralia George Saunders	3.89	70 reads
#50	Dune Frank Herbert	4.29	3,677 reads
#51	2666 Roberto Bolaño Natasha Wimmer (Translator)	3.86	109 reads
#52	A Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan	3.8	322 reads
#53	I Am Legend Richard Matheson	3.94	605 reads