Hemingway’s reading list
In 1934 a young man named Arnold Samuelson hitchhiked to Key West to ask Ernest Hemingway about writing, and Hemingway wrote him a list of two stories and fourteen books, among them War and Peace, Madame Bovary, Dubliners and The Brothers Karamazov; Samuelson told the story in With Hemingway (1984). A longer version of the list goes round online, adding books Hemingway named on other occasions — Marryat, Fielding, Turgenev, Proust. This wall follows the longer list, one cover each.
The Common Reader
Virginia Woolf
Ulysses
James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
Sentimental Education
Gustave Flaubert
Anna Karenina
Лев Толстой
Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann
The American
Henry James
The Red and the Black
Stendhal
Dubliners
James Joyce
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Autobiographies
William Butler Yeats
Fathers and Sons
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Winesburg, Ohio
Sherwood Anderson
The Republic
Charles Austin Beard
Collected Poems
T. S. Eliot
African Hunting
William Charles Baldwin
King Lear
William Shakespeare
The Open Boat and Other Stories
Stephen Crane
House Divided
Ben Ames Williams
Peter Simple
Frederick Marryat
The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
Of Human Bondage
William Somerset Maugham
War and Peace
Лев Толстой
The Brothers Karamazov
Fiódor Dostoievski
The Enormous Room
E. E. Cummings
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
Far Away and Long Ago
W. H. Hudson
Hail and Farewell
George Moore
Mr. Midshipman Easy
Frederick Marryat
Frank Mildmay
Frederick Marryat
Tom Jones
Henry Fielding
Joseph Andrews
Henry Fielding
A Sportsman's Sketches
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Queen Margot
Alexandre Dumas
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust
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