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Huge thanks to @jeremyanderberg from the Art of Manliness who wrote an exceptional post on the library of Ernest Hemingway which inspired the illustration above:
“What follows below isn’t a compilation of every book he ever mentioned, but these are the ones that came up again and again in multiple sources. You’ll notice there’s isn’t much non-fiction, nor much in the way of “classical” literature from ancient Greece and Rome. I note that only because our previous instalments of this series all featured works from antiquity.” — Jeremy Anderberg
Hemingway stuck largely with what was considered to be great literature (even today you’ll recognize most of these titles) so that, in his own words from 1958 “he knows what he has to beat.”
1. Ulysses by James Joyce
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2. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
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3. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
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4. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
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5. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
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6. Collected Poems — T.S. Eliot
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7. War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy
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8. Complete Works — Rudyard Kipling
9. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man — James Joyce
10. Queen Margot — Alexandre Dumas
11. King Lear — Shakespeare
12. The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky
13. Dubliners — James Joyce
14. Sentimental Education — Gustave Flaubert
15. The Common Reader — Virginia Woolf
16. House Divided — Ben Ames Williams
17. The Republic — Charles Beard
18. Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia — Eugene Tarle
19. How Young You Look — Peggy Wood
20. African Hunting — William Charles Baldwin
21. The Open Boat and Other Stories — Stephen Crane
22. The Red Badge of Courage — Stephen Crane
23. The Red and the Black — Stendahl
24. Of Human Bondage — W. Somerset Maugham
25. Buddenbrooks — Thomas Mann
26. Hail and Farewell — George Moore
27. The Enormous Room — E.E. Cummings
28. Far Away and Long Ago — W. H. Hudson
29. Complete Short Stories — Henry James
30. Mr. Midshipman Easy — Frederick Marryat
31. Frank Mildmay — Frederick Marryat
32. Peter Simple — Frederick Marryat
33. Tom Jones — Henry Fielding
34. Joseph Andrews — Henry Fielding
35. Autobiographies — W. B. Yeats
36. A Sportsman’s Sketches — Ivan Turgenev
37. Fathers and Sons — Ivan Turgenev
38. Winesburg, Ohio — Sherwood Anderson
39. In Search of Lost Time — Marcel Proust
40. The American — Henry James
Bonus: The Sun Also Rises — by Papa himself!
Hemingway once said:
‘There is no friend as loyal as a book.’
Find more of his t-shirt, tote bag and poster designs here, perhaps as a gift for one of your good friends.
