One of the better modern novels I’ve read in a long time. It’s a coming-of-age story with baseball serving as the backdrop. Kinsella’s Shoeless Joe.” I read this book earlier this year and really enjoyed it. USA Today said this about it: “ The Art of Fielding belongs in the upper echelon of anybody’s league, in this case alongside Bernard Malamud’s The Natural, Scott Lasser’s Battle Creek, and W.P. This book received a ton of accolades when it was published in 2011, including being named in the NY Times Top Ten of the Year and Amazon’s Best Book of the Year. Musashi is famous in Japan for being a master swordsman and also writing the philosophy/tactical work, The Book of Five Rings, which is still studied today. This historical novel is a fictionalized account of real-life Samurai warrior Miyamoto Musashi as he seeks to master not only the Way of the Sword, but the path to honorable, spirited manliness. This sci-fi adventure is said to have inspired some of the science fiction greats like Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, and others.
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This book is the first in the Barsoom series, consisting of ten novels, the first five of which, it should be noted, are available for free at Project Gutenberg. Readers said that the Princess of Mars is much, much better than the blockbuster movie-version flop John Carter.
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This long novel leaps between the story of a secret WWII Allied unit who try to keep the Nazis from discovering they have cracked their Enigma code, and the cryptanalysts’ grandchildren who seek to create a secure data haven in the modern age, and discover a far-reaching conspiracy in the process.Ī Princess of Marsby Edgar Rice Burroughs. Shadow Moon tries to rebuild his life after being released from prison, but gets caught up in a showdown between the old gods who came over to America with the country’s early immigrants and the new gods “of credit card and freeway, of Internet and telephone, of radio and hospital and television, gods of plastic and of beeper and of neon.” Musings about the role of technology in modern life and the meaning of death, set in the real and mythical American landscape.Ĭryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. If you have any more recommendations for books you think an AoM Man would enjoy, please share them in the comments, and we’ll add them to the master list.
I’ve added several of them to my own “to-read” list. The list has a nice mix of genres so you’re bound to find something that suits your tastes.
If you’re looking for some ideas on what to read this summer, check it out. We got a really good response, and we finally finished compiling the suggestions into a list. I asked readers to suggest their favorite pieces of manly fiction in the comments so I could create a master “AoM Fiction for Men” list. Just over a year ago, we wrote a post on why men should read more fiction.
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