Must Read Books The Mans Essential Library. Written by Jason Lankow, Ross Crooks, Joshua Ritchie, and Brett Mc. Kay. There are the books you read, and then there are the books that change your life. We can all look back on the books that have shaped our perspective on politics, religion, money, and love. Some will even become a source of inspiration for the rest of your life. MS Paint, the first app you used for editing images, will probably be killed off in future updates of Windows 10, replaced by the new app Paint 3D. Microsoft lists. From a seemingly infinite list of books of anecdotal or literal merit, we have narrowed down the top 1. Whether it be a book on adventure, war, or manners, there is so much to learn about lifes great questions from these gems. Let us know in the comments which of these you loved, hated, and the books that meant a lot to you and should have made the list you can even get really indignant about your favorite book. And without further ado, this is our list. To see a list of just the titles and authors names for easy printing, click here. Amazon Listmania The Essential Mans Library Part IThe Great Gatsbyby F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set on the East Coast in the roaring 2. American novel is a classic. From it we learn that often the wanting of something is better than actually having it. It is relevant to every mans life. Furthermore, one true friend is worth infinitely more than a multitude of acquaintances. He smiled understandingly much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles It faced or seemed to face the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli. Considered by most to be the authoritative text on statesmanship and power how to obtain it as well as an illustration of its trappings, although certainly a shrewd one. From this arises an argument whether it is better to be loved than feared. I reply that one should like to be both one and the other but since it is difficult to join them together, it is much safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking. Essentially, Machiavelli advocates letting your people have their property and women, but making sure that they know what you are capable of doing if they step out of line. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Through the beloved Billy Pilgrim, we see the central themes of Vonneguts humanism along with his satirical take on how disgusting it is when humans dont use their limited free will to prevent simple atrocities. Mi Upnp Installations there. 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This is the classic text for the will of the individual to maintain his privacy and free will, and how easy it is at the end of it all to just try to blend in and go with the flow to avoid making things even worse by speaking out. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother. The Republic by Plato. Since every man can use a fair portion of philosophy in his literary diet, the origin of legitimate western thought might be a good place to start. Platos most well known work breaks down topics of which you should have a fundamental understanding such as government, justice, and political theory. Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The final work of Dostoevsky commonly accepted English spelling of the name has a lot of meat to chew onit strikes at the core of who we are and what drives us. Ultimately, for all of our strength and wisdom as individuals, we are often frustrated by our failures to do what we know we must do or at least think we should do and need the power of forgiveness in our lives. Many important thinkers consider this to be one of if not the most important masterpiece of literature, including Sigmund Freud and Franz Kafka who did not think quite alike, to say the least. So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find some one to worship. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. Holden Caufield, if nothing else, should serve as a point of reference for the angst and cynicism that you perhaps once had, or ideally never had. If you thought like him when you were 1. If you still identify with him, you need to find some more joy, somehowfake it til you make it. Do something. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith. The fundamental work on free market policies It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Want an education in economicsThis book is a great start. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. Set in the Spanish Civil War, this novel explores who man becomes when faced with the prospect of his own death. It is worthwhile for all of us to consider what we would give our lives for, as this defines what and who we truly love. This is one of the great examples of how war has shaped men, past and present, and has in part defined the image of a true hero who is courageous even when it has brutal consequences. You learned the dry mouthed, fear purged purging ecstasy of battle and you fought that summer and that fall for all the poor in the world against all tyranny, for all the things you believed in and for the new world you had been educated into. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Arguably the best work from the ever quotable Wilde, this novel is a guide for how to live a life of pure decadence. It is packed with impeccable wit, clever one liners, and an excessive amount of egotistical vanity. At the very least, this book will show you the glory and the pitfalls of being the best looking chap around. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. One of the most controversial books of its time, the Joads are Okies who head west to the fertile valleys of California during the Dust Bowl era of the 1. Because of the social solutions that the book proposed, and its depiction of work camp conditions, some groups attacked the novel as communist propaganda. However, it was widely read as a result of the national attention, and is a classic example of a man doing what he had to do for his family and persevering through all plights and conditions. Fear the time when the strikes stop while the great owners live for every little beaten strike is proof that the step is being takenfear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is the foundation of Manself, and this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. With a revolutionary and controversial view of the future, Huxleys satiric take on the utopia of tomorrow has provoked readers thoughts for decades. Depictions of genetically enhanced embryos predisposed to a specific social class cast warning signs for technological interference with human life.