Books You Should Read

How to Get Big

• Priming the Anabolic Environment: A Practical, Scientific
  Guide to the Art and Science of Building Muscles by William D. Brink
  Published by Musclemag Intl
  Publication date: December 1997
• Brawn by Stuart McRoberts
  C.S. Publishing Ltd
• Beyond Brawn by Stuart McRoberts
  C.S. Publishing Ltd
• Hardcore Bodybuilding: A Scientific Approach by Fred Hatfield & Tom Platz
  Published by NTC/Contemporary Publishing
• The Ketogenic Diet: A Complete Guide for the Dieter and Practitioner  by Lyle McDonald
• Underground Body Opus: Militant Weight Loss & Recomposition by Dan Duchaine

Bodybuilding Biographies

• West Coast Bodybuilding Scene, The Golden Era by Dick Tyler
  Publication Date: April 2004, On Target Publications
• Beyond The Universe: The Bill Pearl Story by Bill Pearl, Kim Shott
  Publication Date: August 2003, Agni Press
• Muscle: An Autobiography: The History, Business, and Soul of Modern-Day Bodybuilding by Ben Weider
  Publication Date: December 2002
• Remembering Muscle Beach: Where Hard Bodies Began
  Photographs and Memories by Harold Zinkin, Bonnie Hearn
  Publication Date: August 1999
• Muscletown USA: Bob Hoffman and the Manly Culture of York Barbell by John D Fair
  Publication Date: May 1999
• Muscle Beach by Marla Matzer Rose
  Publication Date: March 2001
• Brother Iron, Sister Steel, A Bodybuilder’s Book by Dave Draper
  Publication Date: 2001
• Bill Pearls Keys to the Inner Universe: Worlds Best Built Man by Bill Pearl
  Publication Date: 1992
• Sandow the Magnificent: Eugen Sandow and the Beginnings of Bodybuilding (Sport and Society) by David L. Chapman
  Publication date: April 1994
• Gorilla Suit: My Adventures in Bodybuilding by Bob Paris
  Publication date: September 1997
• Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder by Sam Fussell
  Publication date: August 1992
• Arnold: An Unauthorized Biography by Wendy Leigh
  Published by Congdon & Weed
  Publication date: 1990;

Bodybuilding Culture

• Chemical Pink by Katie Arnoldi
  Publication Date: March 2001
• Little Big Men: Bodybuilding Subculture and Gender Construction
  (Suny Series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations) by Alan M. Klein
  Published by State Univ of New York Pr
  Publication date: September 1993
• The Perfectible Body: The Western Ideal of Male Physical Development by Kenneth R. Dutton
  Published by Continuum Pub Group
  Publication date: April 1995
• Bodymakers: A Cultural Anatomy of Women’s Body Building by Leslie Heywood
  Published by Rutgers Univ Press
  Publication date: February 1998
• The Adonis Complex: The Secret Crisis of Male Body Obsession by Harrison G. Pope Jr. M.D., Katharine A. Phillips M.D., Roberto Olivardia Ph.D.
  Published by Free Press
  Publication date: April 2000

History of Physique Photography

• Exposed: A Celebration of the Male Nude from 90 of the World’s Greatest Photographers by Philip Braham
• Mountain Men: The Male Photography of Don Whitman by Don Whitman, David Chapman (Introduction)
• Hollywood Nudes by Fred Kovert (Photographer), David Chapman (Introduction)
• Adonis: The Male Physique Pin-Up 1870-1940 by David Chapman (Editor)

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