I've read three of them.

However, I've read 105 Louis L'Amour novels, and I believe that trumps this list as far as manly books goes!

How a magazine overlooks Salinger is beyond me.

Should we be concerned that right now, the poster that has read the most of these books is a female?!? In fact, second place is ALSO a woman.

Have we men dropped the ball?!? Or are the women about to launch a take-over????

10, maybe 11. I believe I read Huckleberry Finn back in my high school days, but not certain of that.

I used to really enjoy reading Martin Amis, but I wouldn't have put Time's Arrow on such a list.

I almost never read fiction, & haven't for 20 years or so. I have three collections of Philip Dick novels that I've been working through for a year or so, interspersing them into my reading when I want something a little lighter, but otherwise I never look at novels.

RodeoSchro said:

Should we be concerned that right now, the poster that has read the most of these books is a female?!? In fact, second place is ALSO a woman.

Have we men dropped the ball?!? Or are the women about to launch a take-over????

I guess that was the whole point of this article...trying to get guys to read something other than the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition.

JustErin said:

Not a single female author?

JustErin said:

Not a single female author?

The implication seems to be that a real man either wouldn't or doesn't need to read books by women, which is ridiculous. George Eliot, Emily Bronte, Willa Cather, and Jane Austen all belong on this list, and I can think of several modern female authors who do too.

Hell if this article was just to get men to read what women are reading just hand out fifty shades of grey.