Works Recommended By 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, and The Turn of the Screw, The Portrait of a Lady, The American

(In his own words from By-Line: Ernest Hemingway)