Surprise dad with a post-Father's Day gift. Does he have any of these 100 books from the Essential Man's Library?
Images via The Art of Manliness.
Earlier this month, Publisher's Weekly set out to find "The Great American Novel".
The results are in and here is a snippet of what they found:
5. The case can be made for The New Literary Canon to include Kavalier & Clay(2000), Infinite Jest (1996), and Beloved (1987)–they were the only books written in the last 30 years to secure more than 2% of the vote.
7. Were the books that received the most votes also the most read? Here are the number of ratings the top seven books have on Goodreads:
To Kill a Mockingbird: 1,356,936 The Great Gatsby: 1,077,481
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: 677,916
The Grapes of Wrath: 256,087
Moby-Dick: 249,884
Gone with the Wind: 436,591
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: 86,148
The book with the fewest ratings on Goodreads? That would be Play It as It Lays (7,246).
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