tha_real_cheez Posted September 19, 2014 Report Share Posted September 19, 2014 Using this thread I am going to be creating a list of books that I want to gather for my library. It will be a mix of classic books, reference texts, and philosophical tomes. Any suggestions are welcome. This list will also serve as a guiding point in the years to come. I will be re reading some of these titles. Some are new to me. 1. The Book of Five Rings by Musashi Miyamoto 2. The Art of Warfare by Sun Tzu 3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 4. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carol 5. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 6. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein 7. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 8. The Republic by Plato 9. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 10. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 11. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 12. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie 13. Call of the Wild by Jack London 14. The Iliad by Homer 15. The Odyssey by Homer 16. Walden by Henry David Thoreau 17. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 18. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 19. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 20. East of Eden by John Steinbeck 21. The Thin Red Line by James Jones 22. Adventured of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 23. First Edition of The Boy Scout Handbook 24. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Rostand 25. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller 26. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen 27. Animal Farm by George Orwell 28. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs 29. Moby Dick by Herman Melville 30. Essential Manners for Men by Peter Post 31. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecroft Shelley 32. Hamlet by William Shakespeare 33. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 34 A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare 35. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway 36. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 37. The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux 38. Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose 39. Paradise Lost by John Milton 40. The American Boys' Handy Book 41. King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard 42. A River Runs Through It by Norman F. Maclean 43. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 44. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas 45. Holy Bible 46. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty 47. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett 48. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler 49. The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn and Hal Iggulden 50. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Persig 51. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier 52. The Art of Expressing the Human Body by Bruce Lee I will be adding more titles to this list as I go and will also be keeping this thread up to date on what I;ve read and collected. This list is heavily inspired by The Art of Manliness's article titled "100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s Library"Link here -> http://www.artofmanliness.com/2008/05/14/100-must-read-books-the-essential-mans-library/ 1 Quote Level 0 Human Assassin Strength - 0 Dexterity - 0 Stamina - 0Constitution - 0 Wisdom - 0 Charisma - 0 "Sometimes the lines get blurred. Sometimes the only thing between you and them is the mask." Current Challenge - http://rebellion.nerdfitness.com/index.php?/topic/62940-port-idles-an-assassins-birth/Story - http://rebellion.nerdfitness.com/index.php?/topic/62939-port-idles-an-assassins-birth-book-one-chapter-one/ /r/bodyweightfitness - http://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/ Link to comment
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