Essentially Men - some suggested
self-help books for men

The following is a suggested reading list based on the recommendations of Rex and the Essentially Men team. This list is also available for download here (PDF).

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Title	Author	Publisher
Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man	Sam Keen	Bantam
Iron John: A Book About Men	Robert Bly	Addison / Wesley
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine	Robert Moore	Harper Collins
Men and the Water of Life: Initiation and the Tempering of Men	Micheal Meade	US Harper
The Horned God	John Rowan	Routledge
Knights Without Armour	Arron Kipnis	Tarcher
Wingspan: Inside the Men's Movement	Christopher Harding	St Martins Press
A Circle of Men: The Original Manual for Men's Support Groups	Bill Kauth	St Martins Press
To be a Man	Keith Thompson	Tarcher
The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: Poetry Anthology, A	Bly Hillman & Meade	Harper Collins
New Men New Minds	Franklin Abbot	Crossing Press
Men and Intimacy	Franklin Abbot	Crossing Press
Absent Fathers, Lost Sons: The Search for Masculine Identity	Guy Corneau	Shameala
Finding Our Fathers : How a Man's Life Is Shaped by His Relationship with His Father	Samuel Osherson	Fawcett
Wrestling with Love	Samuel Osherson	Fawcett
The Flying Boy: Healing the Wounded Man	John Lee	Health Commun
At My Father's Wedding	John Lee	Bantam
Why Men Are the Way They Are	Warren Farrell	Bantam
The Myth of Male Power	Warren Farrell	Finch
Father and Child Reunion: How to Bring the Dads We Need to the Children We Love	Warren Farrell	Finch
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say: Destroying Myths, Creating Love	Warren Farrell	Finch
Not Guilty ­ In defence of modern man	David Thomas	Woidenfeld & Nicolson
The Seasons of a Man's Life	Daniel Levison	US Ballantine
Manhood	Steve Biddulph	Finch
Raising Boys: Why Boys Are Different - And How to Help Them Become Happy and Well-Balanced Men	Steve Biddulph	Finch
Fatherless Sons	Rex McCann	HarperCollins NZ
Real Boys : Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood	William Pollock	Random House
The Wonder of Boys	Michael Gurian	Tarcher Putnam
Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love	Kent Nerburn	New World Library
Beginning Fatherhood	Warwick Pudney & Judy Cottrell	Tandem NZ
The Prodigal Father: Reuniting Fathers and Their Children	Mark Byron	Potter
Remaking Men: Jung, Spirituality and Social Change	David Tacy	Viking AUS
Secret Men's Business	John Marsden	AUS
The Heart Aroused : Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America	David Whyte	Doubleday
I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression	Terence Real	Fireside

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