Thursday, October 4, 2007

20 Books

The 50th Anniversary issue of GQ (they've been making men feel bad about themselves for 50 years?) includes their list of "20 Books that Changed Men's Lives."
What men they are talking about I can't say, but here's the list:
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs
The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
The Joy of Sex by Alex Comfort
Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald J. Trump
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Universal Baseball Association Inc. by Robert Coover
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
Roots by Alex Haley
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
The Boys on the Bus by Timothy Crouse
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

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