# The best Ernest Hemingway books

From "The Sun Also Rises" to "The Old Man and the Sea": the Hemingway novels, stories and memoirs that guides and reviews rank highest, and where to start.

- 43 votes · 14 items
- Nov 3, 2023 · medalloversionoriginal
- https://even.best/en/l/4038/the-best-ernest-hemingway-books

## Top 14

1. **The Old Man and the Sea** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — The old Cuban fisherman against the great fish; Pulitzer Prize.
2. **For Whom the Bell Tolls** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — A dynamiter in the Spanish Civil War.
3. **A Moveable Feast** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Posthumous memoirs of his Paris years.
4. **The Sun Also Rises** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — His debut novel: expatriates between Paris and the Pamplona bull runs.
5. **A Farewell to Arms** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — An ambulance driver and a doomed love affair in the First World War.
6. **To Have and Have Not** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — A smuggler in Key West.
7. **Death in the Afternoon** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — His great book on bullfighting.
8. **Men Without Women** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Spare, precise stories.
9. **The Snows of Kilimanjaro** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — His most famous short story.
10. **Green Hills of Africa** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — A safari told in the first person.
11. **Islands in the Stream** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Posthumous novel about a painter in the Caribbean.
12. **Across the River and into the Trees** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — A colonel in Venice.
13. **In Our Time** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — The stories in which he found his style.
14. **The Garden of Eden** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Posthumous novel about a love triangle.

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