BOOKS EVERY MAN MUST READ

Offered by Neil Chethik, writer-in-residence
Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning
August 23, 2007

Top Five:

1) The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark, by William Shakespeare
2) Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
3) Black Like Me, by John Howard Griffin
4) To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
5) Fire in the Belly, by Sam Keen

Others (in no particular order):

6) I Know This Much is True, by Wally Lamb
7) The Great Santini, by Pat Conroy
8) Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
9) Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
10) Young Men and Fire, by Norman MacLean
11) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
12) The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, by Alan Sillitoe
13) Working, by Studs Terkel
14) Small is Beautiful, by E.F. Schumacher
15) Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane
16) All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque
17) Ball Four, by Jim Bouton
18) Notes of a Native Son, by James Baldwin
19) The Natural, by Bernard Malamud
20) The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan
21) Backlash, by Susan Faludi
22) Ordinary People, by Judith Guest
23) A River Runs Through It, by Norman MacLean
24) Dave Barry’s Complete Guide to Guys, by Dave Barry
25) The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart, edited by Robert Bly, Michael Meade and James Hillman

FROM OTHERS AT THE AUGUST 24 MEETING OF THE “FIVE BOOKS” DISCUSSION GROUP:
Way of the Peaceful Warrior, by Dan Millman
FatherLoss, by Neil Chethik
Hackers, by Steven Levy
Man's Search for Meaning, by Victor Frankl
Sometimes a Great Notion, by Ken Kesey
Memory of Old Jack, by Wendell Berry
Accidental Tourist, by Ann Tyler
The Good Earth, by Pearl Buck
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren
Iron John, by Robert Bly

Join us Monday, October 1 from 7:00-8:30 pm, when Crystal Wilkinson (Blackberries, Blackberries and Water Street) will lead a FREE discussion of Five Books Every Black Woman Must Read.