50 Books to (Re-)Read at 50
Your essential short list of novels, nonfiction and biographies Mike Hammer has covered pop culture for three decades for national publications including Rolling Stone, TV Guide, Maxim, Men's Journal, and has interviewed countless personalities, from Al Gore to Paul McCartney and Evander Holyfield. Sadly, he's lost touch with all of them.
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The Odyssey
Homer · -800 · 21 lists
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Hamlet
William Shakespeare · 1623 · 8 lists
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Frankenstein
Malvina G. Vogel, Mary Shelley · 1818 · 2 lists
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas · 1844 · 14 lists
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David Copperfield
Charles Dickens · 1850 · 19 lists
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville · 1851 · 34 lists
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Les Misérables
Victor Hugo · 1862 · 16 lists
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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy · 1869 · 29 lists
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain · 1885 · 25 lists
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Dracula
Bram Stoker · 1897 · 16 lists
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The Jungle
Kristina Gehrmann, Upton Sinclair · 1905 · 3 lists
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 · 43 lists
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As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner · 1915 · 18 lists
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Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell · 1936 · 22 lists
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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck · 1939 · 32 lists
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway · 1940 · 13 lists
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The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank · 1947 · 10 lists
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The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand · 1943 · 6 lists
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Animal Farm
George Orwell · 1945 · 15 lists
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The Naked and the Dead
Norman Mailer · 1948 · 8 lists
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell · 1948 · 36 lists
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The Natural
Bernard Malamud · 1952 · 1 list
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Night
Elie Wiesel · 1958 · 3 lists
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Lolita
Craig Raine, Vladimir Nabokov · 1955 · 1 list
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Profiles in Courage
John F. Kennedy · 1955 · 2 lists
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Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak · 1958 · 6 lists
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 1960 · 33 lists
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Green Eggs and Ham
Dr. Seuss · 1960 · 1 list
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Catch-22
Joseph Heller · 1961 · 29 lists
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Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller · 1934 · 12 lists
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The Making of the President, 1960
Theodore White · 1961 · 2 lists
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Ken Kesey · 1962 · 13 lists
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In Cold Blood
Truman Capote · 1965 · 16 lists
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut · 1969 · 19 lists
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson · 1971 · 5 lists
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Burr
Gore Vidal · 1973 · 1 list
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All the President's Men
Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein · 1974 · 1 list
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig · 1974 · 3 lists
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Ragtime
E.L. Doctorow · 1974 · 10 lists
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The Tao of Physics
Fritjof Capra · 1975 · 1 list
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Roots
Alex Haley · 1861 · 7 lists
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Beloved
Toni Morrison · 1987 · 31 lists
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The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie · 1988 · 7 lists
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American Pastoral
Philip Roth · 1997 · 10 lists
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The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen · 2001 · 16 lists
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John Adams
David McCullough · 2001 · 3 lists
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What Is the What
Dave Eggers · 2006 · 1 list
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Infidel
Ayaan Hirsi Ali · 2006 · 1 list
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My Life in France
Julia Child · 2006 · 1 list
