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So Esquire put out a list of the 75 books every man should read. Here is where I go into my obligatory rant: Who are they to tell me what I should or should not read? What pray tell, will happen if I don't read them? They think they're so friggin' great that they know what books people SHOULD be reading? Okay, now with that out of the way, here's the list:



- The Adventures of Augie March, by Saul Bellow
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
- Affliction, by Russell Banks
- All the King’s Men, by Robert Penn Warren
- American Pastoral, by Philip Roth
- American Tabloid, by James Ellroy
- Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner
- As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text, by William Faulkner
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- Blood Meridian, Or, the Evening Redness in the West, by Cormac McCarthy
- The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Call of the Wild, White Fang, & To Build a Fire, by Jack London
- Civilwarland in Bad Decline: Stories and a Novella, by George - Saunders
- A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
- The Continental Op, by Dashiell Hammett
- The Crack-Up, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Deliverance, by James Dickey
- Dharma Bums, by Jack Kerouac
- Dispatches, by Michael Herr
- Dog Soldiers, Robert Stone
- Dubliners, by James Joyce
- A Fan’s Notes: A Fictional Memoir, by Frederick Exley
- For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
- Going Native, by Stephen Wright
- A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories, by Flannery O'Connor
- The Good War: An Oral History of World War II, by Studs Terkel
- The Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck Centennial Edition (1902-2002), by John Steinbeck
- Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
- Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga, by Hunter S. Thompson
- Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
- The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara
- The Known World, by Edward P. Jones
- Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings, by Jorge Luis Borges
- Legends of the Fall, Jim Harrison
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families, by James Agee
- Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
- Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry
- Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis
- Master and Commander, by Patrick O'Brian
- Midnight’s Children, by Salman Rushdie
- Moby Dick, by Herman Melville
- The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer
- Native Son, by Richard Wright
- One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey
- Plainsong, by Kent Haruf
- The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain
- The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene
- The Professional, by W. C. Heinz
- Rabbit Run, by John Updike
- Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
- The Right Stuff, by Tom Wolfe
- A Sense of Where You Are: A Profile of William Warren Bradley, by John McPhee
- The Shining, by Stephen King
- Slaughterhouse-five, by Kurt Vonnegut
- So Long, See You Tomorrow, William Maxwell
- Sophie’s Choice, by William Styron
- A Sport And a Pastime, James Salter
- The Sportswriter, by Richard Ford
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, by John Le Carré
- The Stories of John Cheever, by John Cheever
- The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction, Tim O'Brien
- This Boy’s Life: A Memoir, by Tobias Wolff
- Time’s Arrow: Or the Nature of the Offense, by Martin Amis
- Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller
- Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
- Underworld, by Don DeLillo
- War And Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
- What It Takes: The Way to the White House, by Richard Ben Cramer
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories, by Raymond Carver
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami
- Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson
- Winter’s Bone: A Novel, Daniel Woodrell
- Winter’s Tale, by Mark Helprin
- Women, by Charles Bukowski


Not surprisingly. I've only read two of the books on that list, and Huck Finn was for high school and Heart of Darkness was for a college class. I did see both movie versions of Lolita, and the original Shining movie with Jack Nicholson though! Alas, I did not see the made for TV version with Brian from Wings. But that does remind me of Toptenz's (a website focused on top 10 lists, bloody brilliant!) list of their top 10 movie trailer recuts. They have the Shining one at number one, but they don't have Brokeback to the Future, which I think is funnier than some of the other ones on that list.