20th Century Novels Every Man Should Own & Have Read

Discover the must-read 20th century novels every man should own. From classics to hidden gems, explore the books that shaped literature and masculinity.

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The Executioner's Song

by Norman Mailer

Re-creates the crime, trial and events leading to the execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore, who requested the death sentence.
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Nineteen Eighty-four

by George Orwell

Eternal warfare is the price of bleak prosperity in this satire of totalitarian barbarism.
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To Kill a Mockingbird 40th

by Harper Lee

The explosion of racial hate and violence in a small Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a Black man accused …
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The Catcher in the Rye

by J.D. Salinger

Anyone who has read J. D. Salinger's New Yorker stories - particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and …
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For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the …
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Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov

The famous novel about a European intellectual in America, whose obsessive desire to possess his step-daughter destroys the lives of those around him.