#15 My 20-ish? Favorite Books

Some Books are candy others are chili with lots of lard.

Below is a list of some of my favorite books. They are not in any particular order. Furthermore, just because a book is on this list does not mean I agree with everything in the book. These books are all chili. They make me think, some I have read once others 10+ times. Books like “Jurassic Park“ I might read twice a year but they don’t impact my life the same way these books do so they are not included on this list. Furthermore the Bible is not on the list as its not really a book.

This is a list of the best books. By what metric are these the best books? Sometimes the answer is in the question. For me the question is, what does it mean to be alive, to be a man? I don’t know the answer to that question but if you ask me this is part of the answer. 

• "A Moveable Feast" by Ernest Hemingway

• "Down and Out in Paris and London" by George Orwell

• "A Tramp Abroad" by Mark Twain

• "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville

• "To Build a Fire" by Jack London

• "Pilgrim's Progress" by John Bunyan

• "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque

• "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau

• "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius

• "The Way to Wealth" by Benjamin Franklin

• "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" by David Hume

• “The Social Contract" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

• "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu

• "Politics" by Aristotle

• "How to Grow Old" by Marcus Tullius Cicero

• "How Much Land Does a Man Need" by Leo Tolstoy

• "An Autobiography" by Mahatma Gandhi