The Art of Manliness recently posted an article listing down 100 must-read books for men.
Unfortunately, most of the books are pretty alien to me even though I’m a librarian. I tend to read more nerdy stuff like techie books on HTML, CSS, and web design as well as business and current affairs magazines.
The ones that I’ve read before are:
- Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People
(Call No.: English 158.1 CAR or here)
- Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Call No.: J English TWA)
- Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick
(Call No.: J English MEL or English MEL)
- Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
(Call No.: English DEF)
- The Bible
- Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird
(Call No.: English LEE)
Although the book is not on the list, my personal favorite book of all time is Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
So, what do you think about the listing? If you are a guy, would you have read the books listed? Maybe someone should come up with a list for women.
(via LISNews)
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I'd say the majority of the books on the list are important to you if you were born before 1930. There are plenty of great books, written after 1980, that would qualify much more.