Library for the Ages.

[tha_real_cheez]

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/