- James Ellroy: American Tabloid
- Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian
- Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories
- Michael Herr: Dispatched
- George Orwell: Down and Out in Paris and London
- Junot Díaz: Drown
- Frederick Exley: A Fan's Notes
- Nicholson Baker: The Fermata
- Norman Mailer: The Fight
- David Mamet: Glengarry Glen Ross
- William Shakespeare: Hamlet
- Hunter S. Thompson: Hell's Angels
- Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
- Denis Johnson: Jesus' Son
- Raymond Chandler: The Long Goodbye
- Miles Davis: Miles: The Autobiography
- George Saunders: Pastoralia
- Joseph Campbell: The Power of Myth
- Philip Roth: Sabbath's Theater
- Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises
"there is solid underlying rationale at work here: In each of these writings
something wonderful was created from a subject that could have come off as
downright bleak. There are plenty of guy reads about war, sex and sports, but
only a handful that transcend those topics. These are books that help a man
discover and define his own masculinity. "
I'm somewhat embarrassed to say that I haven't even heard of many of these... even more so that I've read exactly zero. The closest I've come was Blood Meridian... unfortunately, I just wasn't in the mood to concentrate so I never got into it. I'll give it another go this summer.
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