Here is a list of The Essential Man's Library: 100 Must-Read Books. I thought that everyone would enjoy this.

The Essential Man's Library: 100 Must-Read Books

1. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
3. Slaughter-house Five - Kurt Vonnegut
4. 1984 - George Orwell
5. The Republic - Plato
6. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
7. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
8. The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
9. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
10. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
11. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
12. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
13. How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
14. The Call of the Wild - Jack London
15. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt - Edmund Morris
16. The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann D. Wyss
17. The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
18. The Iliad and The Odyssey - Homer
19. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
20. Walden - Henry David Thoreau
21. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
22. The Master and the Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
23. Bluebeard - Kurt Vonnegut
24. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
25. The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
26. Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins
27. White Noise - Don DeLillo
28. Ulysses - James Joyce
29. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
30. Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond - Denis Johnson
31. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
32. Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
33. The Book of Deeds, of Arms, and of Chivalry - Christine de Pizan
34. The Art of Warfare - Sun Tzu
35. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
36. Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
37. The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
38. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
39. Rough Riders - Theodore Roosevelt
40. East of Eden - John Steinbeck
41. Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
42. The Thin Red Line - James Jones
43. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
44. Politics - Aristotle
45. Boy Scouts Handbook (Original Edition) - Boy Scouts of America
46. Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand
47. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
48. The Crisis - Winston Churchill
49. The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer
50. Hatchet - Gary Paulsen
51. Animal Farm - George Orwell
52. Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
53. The Federalist Papers - Alexander Hamilton
54. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
55. Essential Manners for Men - Peter Post
56. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
57. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
58. The Boys of Summer - Roger Kahn
59. A Separate Peace - John Knowles
60. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
61. The Stranger - Albert Camus
62. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
63. The Pearl - John Steinback
64. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
65. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
66. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
67. Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
68. The Great Railway Bazaar - Paul Theroux
69. Fear and Trembling - Soren Kierkegaard
70. Undaunted Courage - Stephen Ambrose
71. Paradise Lost - John Milton
72. Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
73. The American Boy's Handy Book - Daniel Carter
74. Into Thin Air - John Krakauer
75. King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard
76. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
77. A River Runs Through It - Norman Maclean
78. The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells
79. The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X
80. Theodore Rex - Edmun Morris
81. The Counte of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
82. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
83. The Red Bage of Courage - Stephen Crane
84. Lives - Plutarch
85. The Strenuous Life - Theodore Roosevelt
86. The Holy Bible - Various
87. The Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
88. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
89. The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
90. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
91. The Dangerous Book for Boys - Conn Iggulden
92. The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
93. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin
94. The Histories - Herodotus
95. From Here to Eternity - James Jones
96. The Frontier in American History
97. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
98. Self-Reliance and Other Essays - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You forgot two.;)

What two did he forget?

Such a great list. I was surprised to see The Master and Margarita up there. I didn't think too many people knew about that book but it is

Faucults Pendulum?  Really?  Really?

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