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Esquire 75 Books Every Man Should Read

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
1
The Stories of John Cheever
The Stories of John Cheever
2
Deliverance (James Dickey)
Deliverance
3
James Dickey
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
4
John Steinbeck
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
Blood Meridian
5
Cormac McCarthy
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
6
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Known World (Edward P. Jones)
The Known World
7
Edward P. Jones
The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two by Studs Terkel
The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two by Studs Terkel
8
American Pastoral (Philip Roth)
American Pastoral
9
Philip Roth
A Good Man Is Hard to Find (Flannery O'Connor)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
10
Flannery O'Connor
The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)
The Things They Carried
11
Tim O'Brien
A Sport and a Pastime
A Sport and a Pastime
12
The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
The Call of the Wild
13
Jack London
Time's Arrow
Time's Arrow
14
A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton
A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton
15
Hell's Angels
Hell's Angels
16
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
17
Ralph Ellison
Dubliners (James Joyce)
Dubliners
18
James Joyce
Rabbit, Run (John Updike)
Rabbit, Run
19
John Updike
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Postman Always Rings Twice
20
Dog Soldiers
Dog Soldiers
21
Winter's Bone
Winter's Bone
22
Jim Harrison: Legends of the Fall
Jim Harrison: Legends of the Fall
23
Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry)
Under the Volcano
24
Malcolm Lowry
The Naked and the Dead (Norman Mailer)
The Naked and the Dead
25
Norman Mailer
The Professional W.C. Heinz
The Professional W.C. Heinz
26
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
27
Ernest Hemingway
Dispatches
Dispatches
28
Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller)
Tropic of Cancer
29
Henry Miller
Revolutionary Road (Richard Yates)
Revolutionary Road
30
Richard Yates
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying
31
William Faulkner
The Killer Angels (Michael Shaara)
The Killer Angels
32
Michael Shaara
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse-Five
33
Kurt Vonnegut
All the King's Men (Robert Penn Warren)
All the King's Men
34
Robert Penn Warren
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
35
Ken Kesey
Sophie's Choice (William Styron)
Sophie's Choice
36
William Styron
A Fan's Notes
A Fan's Notes
37
Lucky Jim (Kingsley Amis)
Lucky Jim
38
Kingsley Amis
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
39
Haruki Murakami
Master and Commander
Master and Commander
40
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