Lists of Bests: Esquire's 75 Books Every Man Should Read http://www.listsofbests.com/list/59342 "An unranked, incomplete, utterly biased list of the greatest works of literature ever published." http://www.esquire.com/the-side/feature/75-books?src=rss Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:51:14 GMT en-us 0 50 75 50 0 What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18656 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18656"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679723056.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Raymond Carver</div> Collected Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/155469 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/155469"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099748304.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Cheever</div> Deliverance http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1434679 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Dickey</div> The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/466410 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/466410"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039431.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> Blood Meridian (Picador Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/63367 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/63367"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0330312561.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cormac McCarthy</div> The Brothers Karamazov http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8646 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8646"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374528373.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoevsky</div> The Known World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/341251 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/341251"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061159174.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward P. Jones</div> The Good War: An Oral History of World War II http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/30445 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/30445"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1565843436.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1085762609_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Studs Terkel</div> American Pastoral http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9027 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9027"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375701427.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1123891143_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Roth</div> A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/372748 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/372748"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0151365040.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Flannery O'Connor</div> The Things They Carried http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22615 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22615"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0767902890.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tim O'Brien</div> A Sport and a Pastime: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1432935 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1432935"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374530505.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Salter</div> The Call of the Wild (Nextext Coursebook) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1195256 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1195256"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618003738.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack London</div> Time's Arrow http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2339262 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Amis</div> A Sense of Where You Are http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/690925 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/690925"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0374260990.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438053_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John A. McPhee</div> Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/77134 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/77134"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/067960331X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hunter S. Thompson</div> Invisible Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18757 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18757"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679732764.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464902_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Ellison</div> Joyce, James-Dubliners http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3539723 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Updike, John-Rabbit, Run http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3542399 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Postman Always Rings Twice http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970594 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970594"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000023VWR.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056652869_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Mallahan Cain</div> Dog Soldiers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66383 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66383"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0395860253.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1077689097_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Stone</div> Winter's Bone: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2769757 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2769757"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316066419.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Woodrell</div> Legends of the Fall http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/105814 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/105814"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385285965.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44914902_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jim Harrison</div> Under the Volcano http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619561 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Malcolm Lowry</div> The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5989 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5989"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312265050.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Norman Mailer</div> The Professional http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65841 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65841"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0306810581.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by W. C. Heinz</div> For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/86125 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/86125"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684830485.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> Dispatches http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/175405 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/175405"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0330255738.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Herr</div> Tropic of Cancer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24058 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24058"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802131786.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1126634353_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Miller</div> Revolutionary road http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4396538 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Yates</div> As I Lay Dying http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71423 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> The Killer Angels http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1657983 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Shaara</div> Slaughter-House Five http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2937772 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.</div> All The King's Men http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3542429 <div id="position">34</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Penn Warren</div> One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/622751 <div id="position">35</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ken Kesey</div> SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619871 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> A Fan's Notes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18622 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18622"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679720766.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114009736_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frederick Exley</div> Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2787 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2787"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140186301.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1067538032_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kingsley Amis</div> The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19092 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19092"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679775439.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Haruki Murakami</div> Master and Commander (Movie Tie-In Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10994 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10994"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393325172.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patrick O'Brian</div> Plainsong http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9119 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9119"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375705856.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438428_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kent Haruf</div> A Confederacy of Dunces http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/973714 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/973714"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0807126063.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Kennedy Toole</div> Affliction http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1203 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1203"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060920076.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056414471_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Russell Banks</div> This Boy’s Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65001 <div id="position">44</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tobias Wolfe</div> Winter's Tale http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/112513 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/112513"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156031191.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Helprin</div> The Adventures of Augie March http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1740666 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Women http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2283824 <div id="position">47</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Bukowski</div> Going Native http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/750148 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/750148"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/140007942X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Wright</div> Heart of Darkness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/48561 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/48561"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1580495753.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> The Spy That Came In From The Cold http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1352045 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John le Carré</div>