Must Read Books for Young Men
I was recently reflecting with some friends about what books were, in their opinion, essential reads for young men as I was trying to find a gift for a nephew soon to be 18. Drawing on their expertise in the publishing industry, they provided me with a wonderful selection which is fit for boys and men of all ages. I hope this might be food for thought for any gift you may also want to give.
The list is exhaustive, with protagonists which serve as fantastic examples for young men as well as many with strong female characters. This is the list:
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Secret History by Donna Tartt
Brideshead revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
1984 by George Orwell
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Outliers by Malcom Gladwell
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Pleasure of Finding things out by Feynman
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
Any Jane Austen
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
Any PG Wodehouse
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming
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