Top 10 books for men

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	#1:Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman Richard Mayhew’s life has become stable, content and more or less routine. He’s an average young Londoner with a decent office job and a bossy fiancé. Then one evening, he helps a young girl named Lady Door who’s bleeding on the sidewalk...[read more]
	#2: Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones In the early 1990s on an island off the coast of New Zealand, civil war rages. All the whites have fled except one: Mr. Watts, who’s married to a local woman. He offers to reopen the village school and expose the children to life outside of the war; to do this, he reads aloud from Great Expectations.
	#3: Into the Wild by John Krakauer In April 1992, a young man named Christopher Johnson McCandless hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness. He gave $25,000 to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all his cash, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter.
	#4: *No Country for Old Men* by Cormac McCarthy One day, Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck containing heroin and $2 million in cash. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law can contain. But worst of all, he must evade his pursuers, particularly a mysterious psychopath who flips coins for human lives.
	#5: Subterranean by James Rollins Beneath the Earth’s ice is a magnificent subterranean labyrinth, a place of breathtaking wonders—and terrors beyond imagining. A team of specialists led by archaeologist Ashley Carter has been hand-picked to explore this secret place and to uncover the riches it holds. But they’re not the first to venture here—and those they follow did not return.
	#6: The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin Late-night radio storyteller Gabriel Noone suffers from the loss of his ten-year relationship. Gabriel develops a father-son relationship with thirteen-year old listener, Peter Lomax. The boy sympathizes with Gabriel, having had a horrific childhood. But as their relationship grows, so does Gabriel’s doubt that Peter really exists.
	#7: Angels and Demons by Dan Brown Symbologist Robert Langdon is needed to help relocate the destructive antimatter stolen from CERN by Illuminati assassinators and positioned somewhere inside Vatican City. Alongside the beautiful Vittoria Vetra, Langdon ventures through Rome’s acclaimed venues—ancient crypts, dangerous catacombs, and deserted cathedrals—in search of the hidden time bomb.
	#8: Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz Odd Thomas has an unusual and dangerous gift—he sees dead people. A mysterious man arrives in Odd’s small town with a filing cabinet filled with research on the world's worst killers. With the help of a few lost souls, Odd attempts to prevent the man’s murderous rampage before it happens.
	#9: The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham When biologist Bill Masen is hospitalized, he misses a spectacular meteorite shower. The next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the destroyed city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight. Together they escape the city and fight for their lives against the Triffids, a deadly and multiplying plant species.
	#10: Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 16-year-old Holden Caulfield has been expelled from yet another prep school. Procrastinating his shameful return home, Holden spends three days in New York calling upon old friends. Written with edgy, but dated slang, this story shows how easily someone with no ambition can let their life fall apart.
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