The Greatest Books of All Time on Masculinity

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
60 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe 1958 Nigerian English
63 The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway 1926 American English
655 Stories of Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway 1987 American English
688 The Time of the Hero Mario Vargas Llosa 1963 Peruvian Spanish
825 In Our Time Ernest Hemingway 1925 American English
911 Deliverance James Dickey 1970 American English
2085 Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk 1996 American English
2116 Querelle of Brest Jean Genet 1947 French French
2671 This Boy's Life Tobias Wolff 1989 American English
2703 Close Range Annie Proulx 1999 American English
3618 The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe 1979 American English
5988 The Homecoming Harold Pinter 1965 British English
6136 Iron John Robert Bly 1990 American English
7216 Manhood Michel Leiris 1939 French French
8145 Society Without The Father Unknown 1998 Unknown German
8735 The End Of Eddy Édouard Louis 2014 French French
8925 The End Of Men Hanna Rosin 2012 American English
9743 My Life As A Man Philip Roth 1974 American English
10108 A Fan's Notes Frederick Exley 1968 American English
10457 The Topeka School Ben Lerner 2019 American English
11400 Poor Caleb Femi 2020 British English
11587 Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway 1927 American English
12160 Drown Junot Diaz 1996 American English
13339 Brief Interviews With Hideous Men David Foster Wallace 1999 American English
13619 Sang Et Lumières Joseph Peyre French French
13619 L'epervier De Maheux Jean Carrière 1972 French French
13619 Houris Kamel Daoud 2024 French French
13814 Turnaround Don Carpenter 1981 American English
14137 Eyes Bottle Dark With A Mouthful Of Flowers Jake Skeets 2019 American English
14275 Topdog Underdog Suzan-Lori Parks 2001 American English
14275 This Is How You Lose Her Junot Diaz 2012 American English
14160 Love And Death In The American Novel Leslie Fiedler 1960 American English
14632 Our Story Begins Tobias Wolff 2008 American English
14876 The Playboy Of The Western World John Millington Synge 1907 Irish English
15010 Of Boys And Men Richard Reeves 2022 Unknown English
14160 Going All The Way Dan Wakefield 1970 American English
14160 The New Centurions Joseph Wambaugh 1970 American English
15897 The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber Ernest Hemingway 1936 American English
17113 The Barracks Thief Tobias Wolff 1984 American English
17113 Airships Barry Hannah 1978 American English
17113 A Feast of Snakes Harry Crews 1976 American English
17113 War Dances Sherman Alexie 2009 American English
17113 Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching Mychal Denzel Smith 2016 American English
17113 Black Macho And The Myth Of The Black Superwoman Michele Wallace 1979 American English
17113 The Throwback Special Chris Bachelder 2016 American English
17113 Young Mungo Douglas Stuart 2022 British English
17113 The Man Game Lee Henderson 2008 Canadian English
17113 Bronze Age Mindset Bronze Age Pervert 2018 Unknown English
17113 The Tender Bar J.R. Moehringer 2005 American English
17113 The Male Gazed Manuel Betancourt 2023 Unknown English
17113 The Men Can't Be Saved Ben Purkert 2023 Unknown English
17113 Townie Andre Dubus 2011 American English
17113 The Way Of The Superior An David Deida 1997 American English
17113 Another Day In The Death Of America Gary Younge 2016 British English
17113 The Blade Artist Irvine Welsh 2016 British English
17113 Popular Hits Of The Showa Era Ryū Murakami 1994 Japanese Japanese
17113 Men In Love Irvine Welsh 2025 Scottish English
17113 Porno Irvine Welsh 2002 Scottish English
17113 Dead Men's Trousers Irvine Welsh 2018 Scottish English
17113 What Napoleon Could Not Do DK Nnuro 2023 British English
17113 Under The Bright Lights Daniel Woodrell 1986 American English
17113 Muscle For The Wing Daniel Woodrell 1988 American English
17113 The Sarah Book Scott McClanahan 2015 American English
17113 The Lost Love Songs Of Boysie Singh Ingrid Persaud 2024 Trinidadian English
17113 Loner Teddy Wayne 2016 American English
17113 All That Man Is Szalay, David 2016 British English
17113 The Last Go Round Ken Ksey American English