100 Must Read Books
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
3. Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose
4. The Republic by Plato
5. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
6. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
7. Theodore Roosevelt Trilogy by Edmund Morris
8. 1984 by George Orwell
9. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
10. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale
Carnegie
11. Roman Honor by Carlin Barton
12. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
13. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
14. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
15. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
16. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
17. Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
18. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
19. The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
20. The Iliad & The Odyssey by Homer
21. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
22. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
23. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
24. The Boy Scout Handbook (1st Edition)
25. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
26. King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
27. A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
28. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
29. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
30. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria
Remarque
31. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
32. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
33. Lives by Plutarch
34. The Bible
35. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
36. After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre
37. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
38. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
39. The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
40. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
41. The Histories by Herodotus
42. From Here to Eternity by James Jones
43. The Thin Red Line by James Jones
44. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by
Robert Pirsig
45. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
46. Self-Reliance & Other Essays by Ralph Waldo
Emerson
47. Ulysses by James Joyce
48. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
49. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
50. Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
51. The Book of Deeds of Arms and Chivalry by Christine
de Pizan
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53. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
54. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
55. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
56. Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
57. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
58. The Last Lion Trilogy by William Manchester
59. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
60. This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff
61. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
62. Resilience by Eric Greitens
63. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
64. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
65. The Federalist Papers
66. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
67. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
68. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
69. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
70. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
71. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
72. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
73. The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
74. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
75. The Stranger by Albert Camus
76. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
77. The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People by Stephen
Covey
78. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
79. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
80. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
81. Native Son by Richard Wright
82. The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
83. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore
Cooper
84. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
85. Education of a Wandering Man by Louis L’Amour
86. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
87. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
88. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
89. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia
Marquez
90. Gates of Fire by Stephen Pressfield
91. Paradise Lost by John Milton
92. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
93. Oil! by Upton Sinclair
94. Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
95. The Code of Man by Waller Newell
96. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
97. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
98. The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
99. With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge
100. Self-Control: Its Kingship and Majesty by William
George Jordan