Esquire's 75 Books Every Man Should Read

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A list compiled in 2008 of the 75 books that Esquire contributers consider to be essential reading for men.
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1939) af James Agee
Lucky Jim (1954) af Kingsley Amis
Time's Arrow, or The Nature of the Offence (1991) af Martin Amis
En by i Ohio (1919) af Sherwood Anderson
Affliction (1989) af Russell Banks
En ung amerikaners eventyr (1953) af Saul Bellow
Labyrinths (1962) af Jorge Luis Borges
Kvinder (1978) af Charles Bukowski
Postbudet ringer altid to gange (1934) af James M. Cain
Hvad vi taler om, når vi taler om kærlighed : noveller (1981) af Raymond Carver
The Stories of John Cheever (1978) af John Cheever
Mørkets hjerte (1899) af Joseph Conrad
What It Takes: The Way to the White House (1992) af Richard Ben Cramer
Underverden : roman (1997) af Don DeLillo
Forløsning (1970) af James Dickey
Brødrene Karamasov (1880) af Fyodor Dostoevsky
Usynlig mand (1952) af Ralph Ellison
American Tabloid (1995) af James Ellroy
A Fan's Notes (1968) af Frederick Exley
As I Lay Dying (1930) af William Faulkner
The Crack-Up (1945) af F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sportsjournalisten : roman (1986) af Richard Ford
Magten og æren (1940) af Graham Greene
En sag for Continental (1945) af Dashiell Hammett
Legends of the Fall (1979) af Jim Harrison
Plainsong (1999) af Kent Haruf
The Professional (2001) af W. C. Heinz
Winter's Tale (1983) af Mark Helprin
Hvem ringer klokkerne for (1940) af Ernest Hemingway
Dispatches (1977) af Michael Herr
The Known World (2003) af Edward P. Jones
Dublinfolk (1914) af James Joyce
Dharma bums : roman (1958) af Jack Kerouac
Gøgereden (1962) af Ken Kesey
Ondskabens hotel (1977) af Stephen King
Spionen der kom ind fra kulden (1963) af John le Carré
Når naturen kalder (1903) af Jack London
Under vulkanen (1947) af Malcolm Lowry
De nøgne og de døde (1948) af Norman Mailer
So Long, See You Tomorrow (1979) af William Maxwell
Blodets meridian eller Aftenrøden i Vesten (1985) af Cormac McCarthy
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (1972) af David McCullough
Lonesome Dove (1985) af Larry McMurtry
A Sense of Where You Are (1965) af John McPhee
Moby-Dick eller Hvalen (1851) af Herman Melville
Krebsens vendekreds (1934) af Henry Miller
Lolita (1955) af Vladimir Nabokov
Den første kommando : roman (1969) af Patrick O'Brian
The Things They Carried (1990) af Tim O'Brien
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (1955) af Flannery O'Connor
American Pastoral (1997) af Philip Roth
Midnatsbørn (1981) af Salman Rushdie
A Sport and a Pastime (1967) af James Salter
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (1996) af George Saunders
The Killer Angels (1974) af Michael Shaara
Angle of Repose (1971) af Wallace Stegner
Vredens druer (1939) af John Steinbeck
Dog Soldiers (1974) af Robert Stone
Sophies valg (1979) af William Styron
'Den gode krig' (1984) af Studs Terkel
Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (1966) af Hunter S. Thompson
Krig og fred (1869) af Leo Tolstoy
Fjolsernes forbund : roman (1980) af John Kennedy Toole
Huckleberry Finn (1884) af Mark Twain
Hare hop (1960) af John Updike
Slagtehal fem eller børnekorstoget (1969) af Kurt Vonnegut
All the King's Men (1946) af Robert Penn Warren
Kold marv (1979) af Tom Wolfe
This Boy's Life (1989) af Tobias Wolff
Winter's Bone (2006) af Daniel Woodrell
Native Son (1940) af Richard Wright
Going Native (1994) af Stephen Wright
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) af Malcolm X
Revolutionary Road (1961) af Richard Yates

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