The Top 20 Books Every Man Must Read

A couple of years ago, Playboy magazine published an interesting recommended reading list, and I’m passing it along to you tonight. It’s called “The Top 20 Books Every Man Must Read.”
Without further ado, here’s the list:
1. American Tabloid by James Ellroy
2. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
3. The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
4. Dispatches by Michael Herr
5. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
6. Drown by Junot Diaz
7. A Fan’s Notes by Frederick Exley
8. The Fermata by Nicholson Baker
9. The Fight by Norman Mailer
10. Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
11. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
12. Hell’s Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
13. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
14. Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
15. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
16. Miles: The Autobiography by Miles Davis
17. Pastoralia by George Saunders
18. The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
19. Sabbath’s Theater by Philip Roth
20. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
By my count, I’ve read a number of these, including “Blood Meridian,” “Hamlet,” “Hell’s Angels,” “Invisible Man” and “The Sun Also Rises.” They’re all excellent, and I’d recommend them to anyone. In the end, let me know if you’ve read any of the books on the above list and what you thought about them.