Hemingway's Recommended Reading List

Hemingway reading , Finca Vigia, Cuba

Here is Hemingway's Recommended Reading List (in his own words, from By-Line: Ernest Hemingway).

• War and Peace and Anna Karenina by Tolstoi
• Midshipman Easy, Frank Midmay and Peter Simple by Captain Marryat
• Madame Bovary and L'Education Sentimentale by Flaubert
• Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
• Joyce's Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist and Ulysses 
• Tom Jones and Joseph Andrews by Fielding
• Le Rouge et Le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme by Stendhal
• The Brothers Karamazov and any two other Dostoevskis
• Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• The Open Boat and The Blue Hotel by Stephen Crane
• Hail and Farewell by George Moore
• Yeats's Autobiographies
• All the good De Maupassant
• All the good Kipling
• All of Turgenev
• Far Away and Long Ago by W.H. Hudson
• Henry James's short stories, especially "Madame de Mauves;" also The Turn of the Screw, The Portrait of a Lady, The American

List courtesy of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park which maintains Hemingway's boyhood home and Hemingway museum in Oak Park. Illinois, just outside Chicago.