Books That Hemingway Says Every Writer Should Read

From Brain Pickings:

1. The Blue Hotel (public library) by Stephen Crane
2. The Open Boat (public library) by Stephen Crane
3. Madame Bovary (free ebook | public library) by Gustave Flaubert
4. Dubliners (public library) by James Joyce
5. The Red and the Black (public library) by Stendhal
6. Of Human Bondage (free ebook | public library) by Somerset Maugham
7. Anna Karenina (free ebook | public library) by Leo Tolstoy
8. War and Peace (free ebook | public library) by Leo Tolstoy
9. Buddenbrooks (public library) by Thomas Mann
10. Hail and Farewell (public library) by George Moore
11. The Brothers Karamazov (public library) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
12. The Oxford Book of English Verse (public library)
13. The Enormous Room (public library) by E. Cummings
14. Wuthering Heights (free ebook | public library) by Emily Brontë
15. Far Away and Long Ago (free ebook | public library) by H. Hudson
16. The American (free ebook | public library) by Henry James

Not on the handwritten list but offered in the conversation surrounding the exchange is what Hemingway considered “the best book an American ever wrote,” the one that “marks the beginning of American literature” — Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (public library).

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