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The best Ernest Hemingway books

The top 3 according to 43 votes from people: The Old Man and the Sea · For Whom the Bell Tolls · A Moveable Feast. (Updated Nov 3, 2023.)

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.

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Top 14

  1. 1

    The Old Man and the Sea

    The old Cuban fisherman against the great fish; Pulitzer Prize.

    ▲ 4 ▼ 0

    4
  2. 2

    For Whom the Bell Tolls

    A dynamiter in the Spanish Civil War.

    ▲ 4 ▼ 0

    4
  3. 3

    A Moveable Feast

    Posthumous memoirs of his Paris years.

    ▲ 4 ▼ 0

    4
  4. 4

    The Sun Also Rises

    His debut novel: expatriates between Paris and the Pamplona bull runs.

    ▲ 3 ▼ 0

    3
  5. 5

    A Farewell to Arms

    An ambulance driver and a doomed love affair in the First World War.

    ▲ 3 ▼ 0

    3
  6. 6

    To Have and Have Not

    A smuggler in Key West.

    ▲ 3 ▼ 0

    3
  7. 7

    Death in the Afternoon

    His great book on bullfighting.

    ▲ 3 ▼ 0

    3
  8. 8

    Men Without Women

    Spare, precise stories.

    ▲ 3 ▼ 1

    2
  9. 9

    The Snows of Kilimanjaro

    His most famous short story.

    ▲ 3 ▼ 1

    2
  10. 10

    Green Hills of Africa

    A safari told in the first person.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 0

    2
  11. 11

    Islands in the Stream

    Posthumous novel about a painter in the Caribbean.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 0

    2
  12. 12

    Across the River and into the Trees

    A colonel in Venice.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 0

    2
  13. 13

    In Our Time

    The stories in which he found his style.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 1

    1
  14. 14

    The Garden of Eden

    Posthumous novel about a love triangle.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 1

    0

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