Ernest Hemingway's Reading List
The 5 books that shaped Ernest Hemingway — novelist & journalist.
Master of spare, muscular prose who redefined American fiction and won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Influential Books
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway(1952)
Hemingway's final masterwork — an aging fisherman's epic battle that won him the Pulitzer and the Nobel.
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway(1929)
War, love, and loss told with the spare precision that became Hemingway's signature.
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy(1869)
Hemingway measured himself against Tolstoy and considered War and Peace the standard for the war novel.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain(1884)
"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain" — Hemingway's most famous literary pronouncement.
A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway(1964)
Hemingway's posthumous memoir of 1920s Paris — the cafés, the poverty, and the birth of modernism.