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Esquire's 75 Books Every Man Should Read

"An unranked, incomplete, utterly biased list of the greatest works of literature ever published."
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1. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories
by Raymond Carver
 
2. Collected Stories
by John Cheever
 
3.
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Deliverance
by James Dickey
 
4. The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics)
by John Steinbeck
 
5. Blood Meridian (Picador Books)
by Cormac McCarthy
 
6. The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
 
7. The Known World
by Edward P. Jones
 
8. The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
by Studs Terkel
 
9. American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
 
10. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
by Flannery O'Connor
 
11. The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
 
12. A Sport and a Pastime: A Novel
by James Salter
 
13. The Call of the Wild (Nextext Coursebook)
by Jack London
 
14.
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Time's Arrow
by Martin Amis
 
15. A Sense of Where You Are
by John A. McPhee
 
16. Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga (Modern Library)
by Hunter S. Thompson
 
17. Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
 
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Joyce, James-Dubliners  
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Updike, John-Rabbit, Run  
20. The Postman Always Rings Twice
by James Mallahan Cain
 
21. Dog Soldiers
by Robert Stone
 
22. Winter's Bone: A Novel
by Daniel Woodrell
 
23. Legends of the Fall
by Jim Harrison
 
24.
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Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry
 
25. The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition
by Norman Mailer
 
26. The Professional
by W. C. Heinz
 
27. For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
by Ernest Hemingway
 
28. Dispatches
by Michael Herr
 
29. Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller
 
30.
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Revolutionary road
by Richard Yates
 
31.
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As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
 
32.
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The Killer Angels
by Michael Shaara
 
33.
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Slaughter-House Five
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
 
34.
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All The King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
 
35.
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One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
 
36.
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SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron  
37. A Fan's Notes
by Frederick Exley
 
38. Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics)
by Kingsley Amis
 
39. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
by Haruki Murakami
 
40. Master and Commander (Movie Tie-In Edition)
by Patrick O'Brian
 
41. Plainsong
by Kent Haruf
 
42. A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
 
43. Affliction
by Russell Banks
 
44.
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This Boy’s Life
by Tobias Wolfe
 
45. Winter's Tale
by Mark Helprin
 
46.
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The Adventures of Augie March  
47.
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Women
by Charles Bukowski
 
48. Going Native
by Stephen Wright
 
49. Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
 
50.
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The Spy That Came In From The Cold
by John le Carré
 
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