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Essential Man's Library
As compiled by Lankow, Ross Crooks, Joshua Ritchie, and Brett McKay on ArtofManliness.com
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1984
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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Animal Farm
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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The Call of the Wild
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The Old Man and the Sea
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Fight Club
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The Road
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The Iliad of Homer
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The Odyssey
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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Into the Wild
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Frankenstein
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3.89 avg rating — 1,789,332 ratings
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The Prince
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3.84 avg rating — 374,652 ratings
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Robinson Crusoe
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3.68 avg rating — 326,850 ratings
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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 1,456,418 ratings
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Of Mice and Men
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3.89 avg rating — 2,772,554 ratings
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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3.83 avg rating — 1,323,930 ratings
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The Lord of the Rings
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4.54 avg rating — 720,322 ratings
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,749,344 ratings
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
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4.16 avg rating — 27,396 ratings
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The Art of War
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3.95 avg rating — 556,110 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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Great Expectations
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Lord of the Flies
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3.70 avg rating — 3,138,681 ratings
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,027,149 ratings
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
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4.30 avg rating — 321,961 ratings
score: 540,
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Treasure Island
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3.85 avg rating — 531,840 ratings
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Macbeth
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3.89 avg rating — 999,139 ratings
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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3.83 avg rating — 647,291 ratings
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The Confusions of Young Törless
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3.67 avg rating — 9,966 ratings
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,689,497 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.57 avg rating — 226,833 ratings
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The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
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4.40 avg rating — 455,989 ratings
score: 454,
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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3.56 avg rating — 606,429 ratings
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The Outsiders
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4.14 avg rating — 1,554,468 ratings
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The Great Gatsby
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3.93 avg rating — 5,778,353 ratings
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The War of the Worlds
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3.83 avg rating — 343,209 ratings
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The Power and the Glory
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3.98 avg rating — 42,863 ratings
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A Tale of Two Cities
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3.88 avg rating — 1,000,779 ratings
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The Way of Men
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Jack Donovan (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 7,260 ratings
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Heart of Darkness
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3.43 avg rating — 549,106 ratings
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Beowulf
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3.50 avg rating — 340,078 ratings
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Crime and Punishment
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4.28 avg rating — 1,039,176 ratings
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Dracula
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4.02 avg rating — 1,427,778 ratings
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Othello
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3.89 avg rating — 430,210 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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4.37 avg rating — 286,870 ratings
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The Metamorphosis
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3.90 avg rating — 1,361,501 ratings
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The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
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4.33 avg rating — 90,872 ratings
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Brave New World
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3.88 avg rating — 1,262,650 ratings
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The Three Musketeers
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4.10 avg rating — 346,415 ratings
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
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4.14 avg rating — 379,392 ratings
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White Fang
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4.05 avg rating — 281,866 ratings
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In a Sunburned Country
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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A Fan's Notes (A Fan's Notes, #1)
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Catch-22
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3.99 avg rating — 877,040 ratings
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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4.07 avg rating — 438,782 ratings
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
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4.49 avg rating — 46,444 ratings
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Oliver Twist
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3.88 avg rating — 421,759 ratings
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A Separate Peace
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3.60 avg rating — 230,225 ratings
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How to Win Friends & Influence People
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4.22 avg rating — 1,120,796 ratings
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Love in the Time of Cholera
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3.94 avg rating — 539,019 ratings
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The Conquering Sword of Conan (Conan the Cimmerian, #3)
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4.34 avg rating — 4,726 ratings
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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4.52 avg rating — 27,654 ratings
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Conan : die Original-Erzählungen aus den Jahren 1932 und 1933
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4.09 avg rating — 667 ratings
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American Psycho
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3.80 avg rating — 352,427 ratings
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The Sleepwalkers (The Sleepwalkers, #1-3)
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4.09 avg rating — 1,594 ratings
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Battle Royale
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4.26 avg rating — 83,792 ratings
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The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
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The Jungle Books
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4.01 avg rating — 88,791 ratings
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Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
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The Hero With a Thousand Faces
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Musashi
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The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 653,743 ratings
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As I Lay Dying
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3.72 avg rating — 183,736 ratings
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The Red Badge of Courage
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Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
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The Sun Also Rises
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Dead Souls
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Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
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From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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A River Runs Through It
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Under the Volcano
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Hugo Read This!
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4.32 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
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The Elephant Tree
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A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works
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The Seven Storey Mountain
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Rainbow Six (John Clark, #2; Jack Ryan Universe, #10)
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (Conan the Cimmerian, #1)
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The Rocketeer: The Complete Adventures
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The Man Who Would Be King
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Mere Christianity
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Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality
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48 friends
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where is republic by plato? it's #5 on the art of manliness
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