75 Books Every Person Should Read

Greg Marino/Studio D

In
celebration of our big 75 (you do know it's our anniversary, right?), Esquire
has come up with a list of 75 books every man should read.I'm sure everyone's gonna find somethingto freak out about – For Whom the Bell Tolls
instead of The Sun Also Rises, no Jesus' Son, not enough women writers...oh well.Like we gleefully admit, it's biased.We all (as in the entire office and much of
our extended staff—and I'm the one who had to type up the goddamn master list) nominated
a bunch of books that we love and want other people to read because they thrill
us in some way.Magazines always do some
sort of 'best books ever' list and there are never any surprises, so what's the
point of agreeing with everyone? And whatever, you already read and loved One
Hundred Years of Solitude in high school (or in Oprah's Book Club), so why
waste a spot with it?

Of
course the list could be five times as long (it was), and books and authors we
all suggested are missing.Amy Hempel, Barry
Hannah, Toni Morrison, Julio Cotazar...please read them too once you've exhausted
this batch.And of course, some writers could have more
than one book on the list.

Books I nominated
that did make the list were Native Son, Revolutionary Road, American Tabloid, The
works of Flannery O'Connor and John Cheever, Labyrinths, The Adventures of
Augie March, The Invisible Man.These
books always slap me out of whatever stupor I'm in, and if could personally
hand you a copy of each so you could better understand the beauties and possibilities
of language, and the closeness of the worlds being captured, I would. But since I can't, I'm sure your local independent book store will be happy to take your money. Ecstatic, even.

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