Want to know the kinds of books best suited for a man? If yes, explore this article to get to know the best books for men.

Best Books For Men

Attention guys! Gun-toting bravado movies and eye-grabbing chick flicks are out-of-date and it’s now time to turn back to Tolstoy, Dickens and Steinbeck. In this era of e-readers and e-books, where the sheer delight of reading is being seized into compact and digital devices, there is no reason why you should stay unaware of the greatest works of writing ever published. Now, only if you thought that reading novels was uh-so-girly, know that books are any day a man’s best friend. A good book is worth every buck, and reading it is an even bigger delight. Whether you are stuck in the airport between flights or just craving for something interesting to read, a good book can just bail you out of boredom and leave your brain with some food for thought. Apart from stimulating the imagination, a good book serves as a repository for inspirational thoughts. Here is an unbiased compilation of the greatest works of literature best suited for a man’s verve. Trail down the list and find out how many of these books you have read and how many you have missed.
 
List Of Best Books For Men 
  • ‘1984’ by George Orwell
  • ‘A Good Walk Spoiled’ by John Feinstein
  • ‘Atlas Shrugged’ by Ayn Rand
  • ‘American Psycho’ by Bret Easton Ellis
  • ‘Aztec’ by Gary Jennings
  • ‘Brave New World’ by Aldous Huxley
  • ‘Brothers Karamazov’ by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • ‘Call of the Wild’ by Jack London
  • ‘Catch-22’ by Joseph Heller
  • ‘Crime & Punishment’ by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • ‘Choke’ by Chuck Palahniuk
  • ‘Desperation’ by Stephen King
  • ‘Fight Club’ by Chuck Palahniuk
  • ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ by Ernest Hemingway
  • ‘Fever Pitch’ by Nick Hornby
  • ‘Genius’ by James Gleick
  • ‘Germinal’ by Emile Zola
  • ‘Hamlet’ by William Shakespeare
  • ‘Humboldt’s Gift’ by Saul Bellow
  • ‘Hunter Killer’ by Patrick Robinson
  • ‘Intercept’ by Patrick Robinson
  • ‘Jaguars Ripped My Flesh’ by Tim Cahill
  • ‘Kangaroo’ by D.H Lawrence
  • ‘Legend’ (Drenai Tales, Book 1) by David Gemmell
  • ‘Lolita’ by Vladimir Nabokov
  • ‘Lonesome Dove’ by Larry McMurtry
  • ‘Lord of the Flies’ by William Golding
  • ‘Meditations’ by Marcus Aurelius
  • ‘Money’ by Martin Amis
  • ‘My Losing Season: A Memoir’ by Pat Conroy
  • ‘Of Mice and Men’ by John Steinbeck
  • ‘On The Road’ by Jack Kerouac
  • ‘Personal Injuries’ by Scott Turow
  • ‘Power without Glory’ by Frank Hardy
  • ‘Rich Kids’ by Paul Barry
  • ‘Recollections of a Bleeding Heart’ by Don Watson
  • ‘Sharpe's Rifles’ by Bernard Cornwell
  • ‘Shogun’ by James Clavell
  • ‘Slaughterhouse Five’ by Kurt Vonnegut
  • ‘Swiss Family Robinson’ by Johann David Wyss
  • ‘The Biggest Game’ in Town by Al Alvarez
  • ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ by J.D. Salinger
  • ‘The Cunning Man’ by Robertson Davies
  • ‘The Da Vinci Code’ by Dan Brown
  • ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ by John Steinbeck
  • ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • ‘The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy’ by Douglas Adams
  • ‘The Home of the Blizzard’ by Douglas Mawson
  • ‘The Iliad and Odyssey’ of Homer
  • ‘The Kill Artist’ (Gabriel Allon Novels) by Daniel Silva
  • ‘The Man Who Ate Everything’ by Jeffrey Steingarten
  • ‘The Master and Margarita’ by Mikhail Bulgakov
  • ‘The Metamorphosis’ by Franz Kafka
  • ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde
  • ‘The Prince’ by Niccolo Machiavelli
  • ‘The Rembrandt Affair’ (Gabriel Allon) by Daniel Silva
  • ‘The Republic’ by Plato
  • ‘The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt’ by Edmund Morris
  • ‘The Road’ by Cormac McCarthy
  • ‘The Sportswriter’ by Richard Ford
  • ‘The Wealth of Nations’ by Adam Smith
  • ‘The New York Trilogy’ by Paul Auster
  • ‘Treasure Island’ by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • ‘Ulysses’ by James Joyce
  • ‘Under the Volcano’ by Malcolm Lowry
  • ‘Walden’ by Henry David Thoreau  
These all time best books for men won’t just make extremely interesting reading, but will also leave your manly brain begging for some more.

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