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

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The Essential Man's Library was a top 100 list compiled by Jason Lankow, Ross Crooks, Joshua Ritchie, and Brett McKay for the website artofmanliness.com in 2008. The list is meant to be of the most vis mere important books that have shaped the lives of individual men while also helping to define broader cultural ideas of what it means to be a man. vis mindre
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The Young Man's Guide (1833) af William A. Alcott
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (1996) af Stephen E. Ambrose
Statslære (4 BCE) af Aristotle
The American Boy's Handy Book: What to Do and How to Do It (1966) af Daniel Carter Beard
Boy Scouts Handbook: The First Edition, 1911 (1910) af Boy Scouts of America
Mesteren og Margarita (1966) af Mikhail Bulgakov
Tarzan, Abernes Konge (1914) af Edgar Rice Burroughs
Den fremmede (1942) af Albert Camus
How to Win Friends & Influence People (1936) af Dale Carnegie
Det lange farvel (1953) af Raymond Chandler
The Crisis (1901) af Winston Churchill
Modets røde kokarde (1894) af Stephen Crane
Dantes guddommelige komedie (1308) af Dante Alighieri
Hvid støj (1984) af Don DeLillo
Brødrene Karamasov (1880) af Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment (1866) af Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Idioten (1867) af Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Greven af Monte Christo (1844) af Alexandre Dumas père
Foucaults pendul (1988) af Umberto Eco
Self-Reliance and Other Essays (1993) af Ralph Waldo Emerson
Den store Gatsby (1925) af F. Scott Fitzgerald
Selvbiografi (1791) af Benjamin Franklin
Fluernes herre (1954) af William Golding
Kong Salomons miner (1882) af H. Rider Haggard
The Federalist Papers (1787) af Alexander Hamilton
Ridderfalken (1930) af Dashiell Hammett
Punkt 22 (1961) af Joseph Heller
Farvel til våbnene (1929) af Ernest Hemingway
Hvem ringer klokkerne for (1940) af Ernest Hemingway
Herodots Historie (420 BCE) af Herodotus
Steppeulven (1927) af Hermann Hesse
Leviathan eller Materie, form & magt i et almenvel civilt og kirkeligt (1651) af Thomas Hobbes
Iliaden & Odysseen (8 BCE) af Homer
Fagre nye verden (1932) af Aldous Huxley
The Dangerous Book for Boys (2007) af Conn Iggulden
Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond (2001) af Denis Johnson
Herfra til evigheden (1951) af James Jones
The Thin Red Line (1962) af James Jones
Ulysses (1922) af James Joyce
Forvandlingen (1912) af Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories (1915) af Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories [Dover] (1915) af Franz Kafka
The Boys of Summer (1972) af Roger Kahn
Dharma bums : roman (1958) af Jack Kerouac
Vejene (1957) af Jack Kerouac
Frygt og bæven (1843) af Søren Kierkegaard
A Separate Peace (1959) af John Knowles
Ind i vildmarken (1996) af Jon Krakauer
Op i det blå (1996) af Jon Krakauer
Dræb ikke en sangfugl (1960) af Harper Lee
Når naturen kalder (1903) af Jack London
Fyrsten (1513) af Niccolò Machiavelli
Ved floden : en fortælling om en amerikansk familie (1976) af Norman Maclean
De nøgne og de døde (1948) af Norman Mailer
Blodets meridian eller Aftenrøden i Vesten (1985) af Cormac McCarthy
Lonesome Dove (1985) af Larry McMurtry
Moby-Dick eller Hvalen (1851) af Herman Melville
Krebsens vendekreds (1934) af Henry Miller
Det tabte paradis (1667) af John Milton
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (1979) af Edmund Morris
Theodore Rex (2001) af Edmund Morris
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (1885) af Friedrich Nietzsche
1984 (1949) af George Orwell
Kammerat Napoleon (1945) af George Orwell
Hatchet (1987) af Gary Paulsen
Zen og kunsten at vedligeholde en motorcykel (1974) af Robert M. Pirsig
The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry: by Christine de Pizan (1988) af Christine de Pizan
Staten (380 BCE) af Plato
Plutarch's Lives (100) af Plutarch
Essential Manners for Men: What to Do, When to Do It, and Why (2003) af Peter Post
Og verden skælvede (1957) af Ayn Rand
Intet nyt fra vestfronten (1928) af Erich Maria Remarque
Another Roadside Attraction (1971) af Tom Robbins
The Rough Riders (1899) af Theodore Roosevelt
Strenuous Life (1992) af Theodore Roosevelt
Cyrano de Bergerac (1897) af Edmond Rostand
Forbandede ungdom (1951) af J. D. Salinger
The Killer Angels (1974) af Michael Shaara
Hamlet (1603) af William Shakespeare
Frankenstein (1818) af Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Wealth of Nations: Books 1-3 (Penguin Classics) (Bks.1-3) (1776) af Adam Smith
Perlen (1947) af John Steinbeck
Vredens druer (1939) af John Steinbeck
Øst for paradis (1952) af John Steinbeck
Skatteøen (1883) af Robert Louis Stevenson
The Great Railway Bazaar (1975) af Paul Theroux
Walden eller Livet i skovene (1854) af Henry David Thoreau
Hobbitten eller Ud og hjem igen (1937) af J. R. R. Tolkien
Fjolsernes forbund : roman (1980) af John Kennedy Toole
The Frontier in American History (1920) af Frederick Jackson Turner
Huckleberry Finn (1884) af Mark Twain
Krigskunsten (500 BCE) af Sun Tzu
Holy Bible (1) af Unknown
Bluebeard (1987) af Kurt Vonnegut
Slagtehal fem eller børnekorstoget (1969) af Kurt Vonnegut
Doktor Moreaus Ø (1896) af H. G. Wells
Dorian Grays billede (1890) af Oscar Wilde
The Swiss Family Robinson (1812) af Johann David Wyss
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) af Malcolm X

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