100 must read books:

#2
#2
That is a heavy-duty reading list. I may have read 10-12 of those. A couple of others, I have tried to read but never made it through. Can anyone on here say (honestly) that they've read them all? If so . . . .:worship:
 
#3
#3
I've read twenty out of this list and wish I had never read Lord Of The Flies. Very gratified to see Lonesome Dove on the list. Surprised to not see anything by Ian Fleming. Also wonder why Huckleberry Finn and not Tom Sawyer, why Atlas Shrugged and not The Fountainhead?
 
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#4
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#5
About 15-16 for me with another 7-8 started but not finished.

The multiples from Steinbeck helped me get my numbers up!
 
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#6
I have read at least 16 of these. I honestly think I have read Robinson Crusoe, but it has been so long and I forgot so much of it, I didn't count it.

I'm sorry, but I could not get through Atlas Shrugged. I got a bit more than halfway through it when she started on the utopia where all the great men were tending gardens and what not that I just lost interest.
 
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#7
Surprised to see a current author like Krakauer on there with 2 books. Were these ranked? If so, he messed up putting Into the Wild ahead of Into Thin Air.
 
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#8
I always thought The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins was a manly yarn.

I can understand why submarine stories aren't on a manly man's book list. My wife loves books and films about subs....I tell her it's because she is fixated on long things full of seamen.
 
#9
#9
I've got 28, one more if you count the Bible but I definitely haven't read it cover to cover so I didn't know how to decide on the one, but as someone else mentioned there are a few I wish I could un-read. "Metamorphosis" by Kafka almost killed me trying to get through.
 
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#11
I have about twelve on the list. Good to see The Killer Angels included.
 
#12
#12
I have about 15 on that list. Pretty good list but some of those books I could not force myself to read.
 
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Lexvol said:
I have about twelve on the list. Good to see The Killer Angels included.
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Easily the best war novel I've read. Spent half a semester in college evaluating the book, Shaara's interpretation and leadership communication. Very interesting stuff.
 
#16
#16
Pretty good list. I'd put Great Gatsby on the top of it. Good to see Catch 22 on there. I'd definitely recommend it, as well.
 
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#17
I can say that I've read most of those books and I would expect that anyone who went to an even halfway decent high school would've been required to read about a third or more of them at one point. The list is completely flawed however, seeing as how no legitimate "manly top 100" would've omitted Rudyard Kipling.
 
#20
#20
"Co. Aytch" by Sam R Watkins Accounts from the Civil War from a Confederate perspective.
 
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