Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Torrents of Spring | 1926 | Ernest Hemingway | Buy |
| 2 | The Sun Also Rises | 1926 | Ernest Hemingway | Buy |
| 3 | A Farewell To Arms | 1929 | Ernest Hemingway | Buy |
| 4 | To Have and Have Not | 1937 | Ernest Hemingway | Buy |
| 5 | For Whom the Bell Tolls | 1940 | Ernest Hemingway | Buy |
| 6 | Across the River and into the Trees | 1950 | Ernest Hemingway | Buy |
| 7 | The Old Man and the Sea | 1952 | Ernest Hemingway | Buy |
| 8 | A Moveable Feast | 1964 | Ernest Hemingway | Buy |
| 9 | Islands in the Stream | 1970 | Ernest Hemingway | Buy |
| 10 | The Garden of Eden | 1985 | Ernest Hemingway | Buy |
| 11 | The Dangerous Summer | 1985 | Ernest Hemingway | Buy |
| 12 | True At First Light | 1999 | Ernest Hemingway | Buy |
Ernest Hemingway’s novels are some of the most widely read American fiction of the twentieth century. His first major novel, The Sun Also Rises (1926), follows a group of expatriates through Spain and France in the aftermath of World War I. A Farewell to Arms (1929) tells a love story set on the Italian front during that same war. Both books introduced readers to a spare, understated writing style that would become one of the most imitated in English.
His later novels covered different ground while keeping that same directness. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) is set during the Spanish Civil War and follows an American dynamiter working with guerrilla fighters. The Old Man and the Sea (1952), about a fisherman’s struggle with a marlin in the Gulf Stream, won the Pulitzer Prize and remains his most widely assigned work in schools. Other novels like To Have and Have Not and Across the River and into the Trees received more mixed reviews but are still read today.
Several of Hemingway’s novels were published after his death in 1961, edited from manuscripts he left behind. A Moveable Feast (1964) is a memoir of his years in 1920s Paris, while Islands in the Stream (1970) and The Garden of Eden (1985) were assembled from drafts by his literary executors. True at First Light (1999), drawn from an unfinished African manuscript, was the last of these posthumous publications.