Ten for men - or for those who want to understand them

A Listmania! list by Zahid Khan
 
Boy A
1.  Boy A by Jonathan Trigell
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  "You will never understand life until you see it from the view of a lifer."
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To Have & Have Not
2.  To Have & Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
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  "The hardest of all Hemingway, the book that added 'cojones' into the English language."
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The Black Dahlia
3.  The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
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  "The original hard boiled detective story, not for reading over lunch."
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American Psycho (Film Tie-In)
4.  American Psycho (Film Tie-In) by Bret Easton Ellis
The list author says:
  "The 80's through a lens, let's just pray we never go back there."
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Girls
5.  Girls by Nic Kelman
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  "Do not let your girlfriend see it and expect to be in the right ever again."
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The Long Firm
6.  The Long Firm by Jake Arnott
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  "It gets a bit samey after, but this is the one that made him."
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (International Writers)
7.  Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (International Writers) by Patrick Suskind
The list author says:
  "No one is really sure why, apart from the murders maybe, but despite being about, well... perfume, this is still a man's book."
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Don Juan (Penguin Classics)
8.  Don Juan (Penguin Classics) by Lord George Gordon Byron
The list author says:
  "Just in case you thought poetry was for poofs, he lived wilder than his most famous character, killed more men than small pox and did more birds than chinese chicken flu. Ok, and  some blokes too."
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Dead Babies
9.  Dead Babies by Martin Amis
The list author says:
  "Like gothic novels would have been, if people were as nasty as this in those days."
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About a Boy
10.  About a Boy by Nick Hornby
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  "That's a joke, get lost wuss."
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