16 Works That Ernest Hemingway Thought A Young Writer Should Read

    A curated list of must-reads from Papa himself.

    In 1934, a young writer tramped across the country to talk to Ernest Hemingway at his Key West, FL home. Along with the advice on writing he received from Hemingway, he also got a list of essential reading comprised of two short stories and 14 books.

    Here's the whole list of works:

    1. Blue Hotel - Stephen Crane

    2. The Open Boat - Stephen Crane

    3. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

    4. Dubliners - James Joyce

    5. The Red And The Black - Stendhal

    6. Of Human Bondage - Somerset Maugham

    7. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

    8. War And Peace - Leo Tolstoy

    9. Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann

    10. Hail And Farewell! - George Moore

    11. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky

    12. The Oxford Book Of English Verse

    13. The Enormous Room - E.E. Cummings

    14. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

    15. Far Away And Long Ago - W.H. Hudson

    16. The American - Henry James