Earlier this week, the good people at that outstanding Web site posted a very cool recommended reading list called “Fiction For Men” list. This list was compiled from suggestions made by the Web site’s readers, and the compilers took submissions for over a year before coming out with the final list.
To read more about this list and the books that made the cut, as well as a little about a few books that didn’t make the cut, visit http://www.artofmanliness.com/2013/05/21/fiction-for-men-as-suggested-by-art-of-manliness-readers/.
Without further ado, here’s the complete list of books that made The Art of Manliness’ “Fiction For Men” list.
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke*
2. Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
3. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
4. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
5. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
6. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
7. The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
8. The Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian
9. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
10. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy*
11. The Bourne Trilogy by Robert Ludlum
12. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
13. Call of the Wild by Jack London*
14. Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling*
15. The Complete Chronicles of Conan by Robert E. Howard
16. The Corps series by W.E.B. Griffin
17. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
18. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
19. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
20. Day of War by Cliff Graham
21. Deadwood by Pete Dexter
22. Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
23. Dune by Frank Herbert*
24. Early Autumn by Robert Parker
25. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card*
26. Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
27. Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik*
28. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
29. Four Feathers by A.E.W. Mason
30. From Here to Eternity by James Jones
31. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin*
32. Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
33. A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
34. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald*
35. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad*
36. Heaven Has No Favorites by Erich Maria Remarque
37. High Country by Willard Wyman
38. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
39. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
40. Hondo by Louis L’Amour
41. Independent People by Halldor Laxness
42. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
43. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison*
44. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
45. The Jack Reacher series by Lee Child
46. Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
47. Joe Ledger series by Jonathan Maberry
48. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
49. The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara*
50. King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
51. Leatherstocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper
52. Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison
53. The Leopard and the Cliff by Wallace Breem
54. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
55. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
56. The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien*
57. The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
58. Magician by Raymond E. Feist
59. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
60. Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCullough
61. Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky
62. Mitch Rapp series by Vince Flynn
63. Moby Dick by Herman Melville*
64. Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
65. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn*
66. Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
67. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
68. The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl
69. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
70. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
71. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen*
72. A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
73. The Professional by W.C. Heinz
74. Raise a Holler by Jason Stuart
75. The Rediscovery of Man by Cordwainer Smith
76. The Richard Hannay series by John Buchan
77. The Rigante series by David Gemmell
78. Robert Langdon series by Dan Brown
79. Safely Home by Randy Alcorn
80. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczt
81. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
82. Shane by Jack Shaefer
83. Southern Victory series by Harry Turtledove
84. Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis
85. The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
86. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre
87. The Stand by Stephen King*
88. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein*
89. Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy
90. Sword of Honor trilogy by Evelyn Waugh
91. The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
92. The Trilogy by Henryk Sienkiewicz
93. Water Music by T.C. Boyle
94. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
95. The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell
96. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
97. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
In the end, how many of these books have you had the chance to read? Which did you like or dislike? Which would you recommend and why? Which of the books above is your personal favorite? Are there any books that should have been included on the list but weren’t? Let us know in the comments section below.
* Books that I’ve read as of this posting.
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