[SamAdams76]

This sounds like a weak excuse to me. There is enough "masculine" literature out there to provide several lifetimes of "non-girly" reading. Just off the top of my head, here are some books I read when I was a boy:

Red Badge of Courage
Call Of The Wild
Treasure Island
Adventures of Tom Sawyer (and then Huckleberry Finn
Lord of the Flies

And that's just scratching the surface of what's out there for boys to read.

[Starstruck]

Read all the books you mentioned, plus there was a series of novels about a baseball team. Then I found science fiction.

[wardaddy]

I think they are referring to what is pushed by schools and culture and those books you and I grew up on are no longer pushed

Its the PC crap

BTW...I only allow Xbox and pswhatever to be up on weekends

No..I don’t play...a middle aged man

I find it silly

I have spare time I prefer adult time

[willyd]

Anything by Hemingway
Isaac Asimov
Hardy Boys
The Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia Brown

[GailA]

I have all the Tarzan, Venus and Martian series, Edgar Rice Burroughs books, Man from Uncle, Richard Blade series Jeffery Lord, time travel, fights, the whole boy works not for under Teens, series. Plus my romantic historical ones, for a girl I had a wide reading range. Dr Kildare, Superman, Iron-man, Avengers, X Men, were myn comic book reading. Dragon Riders of Pern, Anne McCaffery, Clan of the Cave Bear, MM Auell, I’ve read Anne’s other series too, Both these female writers tell very detailed stories boys would love.

I was not Nancy Drew fan to say the least. I liked reading about Pasteur, Madame Curie, Florence Nightingale, etc as a teen.