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Ernest Hemingway Recommended Books

Ernest Hemingway has recommended 31 books. Browse the complete reading list with quotes and sources below.

Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman.

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31 Books Recommended

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War And Peace

by Leo Tolstoy
Ernest Hemingway recommended this book in the "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" book. (Source)

Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy
Ernest Hemingway recommended this book in the "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" book. (Source)

Mr. Midshipman Easy

by Frederick Marryat
Ernest Hemingway recommended this book in the "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" book. (Source)

Frank Mildmay

by Frederick Marryat
Ernest Hemingway recommended this book in the "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" book. (Source)

Peter Simple

by Frederick Marryat
Ernest Hemingway recommended this book in the "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" book. (Source)

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert
Ernest Hemingway recommended this book in the "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" book. (Source)

L'Éducation Sentimentale

by Gustave Flaubert
Ernest Hemingway recommended this book in the "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" book. (Source)

Buddenbrooks

The Decline of a Family

by Thomas Mann
Ernest Hemingway recommended this book in the "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" book. (Source)

Dubliners

by James Joyce
Ernest Hemingway recommended this book in the "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" book. (Source)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce
Ernest Hemingway recommended this book in the "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" book. (Source)

Also recommended by:

Jim Carrey

Ulysses

by James Joyce
Ernest Hemingway recommended this book in the "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" book. (Source)

Tom Jones

by Henry Fielding
Ernest Hemingway recommended this book in the "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" book. (Source)

Joseph Andrews and Shamela

by Henry Fielding
Ernest Hemingway recommended this book in the "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" book. (Source)

Le Rouge et le Noir

by Stendhal
Ernest Hemingway recommended this book in the "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" book. (Source)

La Chartreuse de Parme

by Stendhal
Ernest Hemingway recommended this book in the "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" book. (Source)

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ernest Hemingway recommended this book in the "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" book. (Source)

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ernest Hemingway recommended this book in the "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" book. (Source)

Demons

by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ernest Hemingway recommended this book in the "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" book. (Source)

Also recommended by:

Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, Book 3

by Mark Twain
Ernest Hemingway recommended this book in the "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" book. (Source)

The Open Boat and Other Stories

by Stephen Crane
Ernest Hemingway recommended this book in the "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" book. (Source)

The Blue Hotel

by Stephen Crane
Ernest Hemingway recommended this book in the "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" book. (Source)

Hail and Farewell

Ave, Salve, Vale

by George Moore
Ernest Hemingway recommended this book in the "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" book. (Source)

The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III

Autobiographies

by William Butler Yeats
Ernest Hemingway recommended this book in the "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" book. (Source)

The Best Short Stories

by Guy de Maupassant
Ernest Hemingway recommended this book in the "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" book. (Source)

The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling

by Rudyard Kipling
Ernest Hemingway recommended this book in the "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" book. (Source)

Essential Turgenev

by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Ernest Hemingway recommended this book in the "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" book. (Source)

Far Away and Long Ago

by W. H. Hudson
Ernest Hemingway recommended this book in the "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" book. (Source)

Collected Stories Volume 1

by Henry James
Ernest Hemingway recommended this book in the "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" book. (Source)

The Portrait of a Lady

by Henry James
Ernest Hemingway recommended this book in the "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" book. (Source)

The American

by Henry James
Ernest Hemingway recommended this book in the "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" book. (Source)

The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James
Ernest Hemingway recommended this book in the "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" book. (Source)

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