Ernest Hemingway Reading Order

17 books (1930–2020)

This sixteen-book anthology series features Ernest Hemingway's work alongside selections from other authors across literary fiction and non-fiction genres. Published between 1930 and 2018, the collection spans various themed compilations including war stories, short story masterpieces, Paris Review interviews, and fishing-focused narratives. The series is complete and should be read in publication order, beginning with Great First World War Stories.

Start with Great First World War Stories, the first of 16 books in the Anthologies series.

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1	Great First World War Stories 1930Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	50 Great Short Stories 1952Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century 1954Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews 1957Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	50 Great American Short Stories 1963Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	War: An Anthology 1969Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Autumn Light: Illuminations of Age 1978Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Florida Stories 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Life Stories 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The Best American Short Stories of the Century 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	100 Years Of Fishing: The Ultimate Tribute To Our Fishing Tradition 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	The Lost Generation Reader: Expatriate American Writers in Europe, 1900 - 1950 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Writers: Their Lives and Works 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	The Ultimate Short Story Bundle 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

97 books (1969–2023)

The Literary Conversations series comprises 97 volumes of interviews and discussions with major literary figures, spanning from 1969 to 2023. Though attributed to Ernest Hemingway, this is actually a broad collection featuring conversations with diverse authors and playwrights including Jorge Luis Borges, Czeslaw Milosz, Graham Greene, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Eudora Welty, Walker Percy, William Styron, Lillian Hellman, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Flannery O'Connor, and many others. The series should be read in publication order, beginning with Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges. The series appears to be complete as of 2023.

Start with Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges, the first of 97 books in the Literary Conversations series.

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1	Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges 1969Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Conversations with Graham Greene 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Conversations with Eudora Welty 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Conversations with Walker Percy 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Conversations with William Styron 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Conversations with Ernest Hemingway 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Conversations with Lillian Hellman 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Conversations with Malcolm Cowley 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Conversations with Tennessee Williams 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Conversations with Arthur Miller 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Conversations with Flannery O'Connor 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Conversations with Peter Taylor 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Truman Capote: Conversations 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Conversations with Edward Albee 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Conversations with Erskine Caldwell 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Conversations with Norman Mailer 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Conversations with James Baldwin 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Conversations with Robert Graves 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Conversations with Robertson Davies 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Conversations with Shelby Foote 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Conversations with Eugene O'Neill 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Conversations with John Gardner 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	Conversations with Raymond Carver 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	Conversations with Richard Wilbur 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	Conversations with Tom Wolfe 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	Conversations with Bernard Malamud 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	Conversations with Reynolds Price 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	Conversations With Thornton Wilder 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	Conversations with Nikki Giovanni 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	Conversations with Robert Coles 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	Conversations with Paul Bowles 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	Conversations with Richard Wright 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	More Conversations with Walker Percy 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	Conversations with Amiri Baraka 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42	Conversations with Henry Miller 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
43	Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
44	Conversations with Saul Bellow 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
45	Conversations with Toni Morrison 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
46	Conversations With S.J. Perelman 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
47	Conversations with Chester Himes 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
48	Conversations with Ernest Gaines 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
49	Conversations with Ishmael Reed 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
50	Conversations with Ralph Ellison 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
51	Conversations with Susan Sontag 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
52	Conversations with Derek Walcott 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
53	Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
54	Conversations with Pauline Kael 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
55	More Conversations with Eudora Welty 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
56	Conversations with Chinua Achebe 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
57	Conversations with N. Scott Momaday 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
58	Conversations with V. S. Naipaul 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
59	Conversations with Denise Levertov 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
60	Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
61	Conversations With John Fowles 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
62	Conversations With William Faulkner 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
63	Conversations with E. L. Doctorow 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
64	Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
65	Conversations with Salman Rushdie 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
66	Conversations with William S. Burroughs 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
67	Conversations with Chaim Potok 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
68	Conversations with Christopher Isherwood 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
69	Conversations with Richard Ford 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
70	Conversations with Clarence Major 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
71	Conversations with Erica Jong 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
72	Conversations with Jim Harrison 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
73	Conversations with Margaret Walker 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
74	Conversations with Mary Gordon 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
75	Elie Wiesel: Conversations 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
76	Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
77	Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
78	Conversations with Rita Dove 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
79	Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
80	Joseph Brodsky: Conversations 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
81	Conversations With John le Carré 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
82	Conversations with Audre Lorde 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
83	Conversations with Gloria Naylor 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
84	Conversations with Ray Bradbury 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
85	Conversations with Don DeLillo 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
86	Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
87	Conversations with Gore Vidal 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
88	Conversations with Isaac Asimov 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
89	Conversations with Jack Kerouac 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
90	Conversations with Robert Penn Warren 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
91	Conversations with Thomas McGuane 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
92	Conversations with Larry Brown 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
93	Conversations with Leon Forrest 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
94	Conversations with Sonia Sanchez 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
95	Conversations with Wendell Berry 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
96	Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
97	Conversations with Jimmy Carter 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

14 books (1932–2008)

Ernest Hemingway's non-fiction works span 14 volumes published between 1932 and 2008, offering insights into the author's life, interests, and craft. This complete series should be read in publication order, beginning with Death in the Afternoon, and includes essays on bullfighting and sport, collections of letters and selected writings, reflections on the writing process, and accounts of his experiences in places like Paris, Africa, and during wartime. The series captures Hemingway's perspectives across journalism, memoir, and instructional writing alongside curated excerpts from his correspondence and earlier periodical contributions.

Start with Death in the Afternoon, the first of 14 books in the Non-Fiction series.

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1	Death in the Afternoon 1932Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Green Hills of Africa 1935Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber & Other Stories 1936Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Articles for The Kansas City Star 1970Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Bullfighting, Sport & Industry 1974Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Selected Letters 1917-1961 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Ernest Hemingway on Writing 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Dateline Toronto 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	On Writing 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Hemingway at Oak Park High 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Hemingway on Fishing 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Hemingway on War 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Under Kilimanjaro 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	On Paris 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

8 books (1920–1965)

Ernest Hemingway's collection of short stories and novellas spans from 1920 to 1965 and comprises eight works that should be read in publication order. This complete series showcases the author's distinctive literary style across four and a half decades of his writing career. The collection includes pieces such as Camping Out, Cross Country Snow, Big Two-Hearted River, A Clean Well Lighted Place, An Alpine Idyll, Hills Like White Elephants, The Old Man at the Bridge, and The Undefeated. Beginning with Camping Out provides readers with the foundation for following Hemingway's evolution as a short fiction writer.

Start with Camping Out, the first of 8 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

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1	Camping Out 1920Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Cross Country Snow 1924Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Big Two-Hearted River 1925Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	A Clean Well Lighted Place 1926Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	An Alpine Idyll 1927Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Hills Like White Elephants 1927Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Old Man at the Bridge 1938Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Undefeated 1965Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

10 books (1923–1982)

Ernest Hemingway's Short Story Collections spans ten volumes published between 1923 and 1982, presenting his complete body of short fiction and poetry across literary compilations. The series should be read in publication order, beginning with 3 Short Stories and 10 Poems and progressing through various thematic and retrospective collections that showcase Hemingway's evolution as a writer. The series is complete, with notable volumes including In Our Time, Men Without Women, Winner Take Nothing, and The First Forty-Nine Stories, alongside specialized collections focused on the Spanish Civil War and recurring character cycles like the Nick Adams stories. Readers seeking a comprehensive survey of Hemingway's short work will find the complete series traces the development of his distinctive literary voice across nearly six decades.

Start with 3 Short Stories and 10 Poems, the first of 10 books in the Short Story Collections series.

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1	3 Short Stories and 10 Poems 1923Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	In Our Time 1925Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Complete Short Stories 1925Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Men Without Women 1927Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Winner Take Nothing 1933Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories 1936Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War 1938Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The First Forty-Nine Stories 1938Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Nick Adams Stories 1966Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Killers and Other Short Stories. 1982Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

13 books (1926–1999)

Ernest Hemingway's twelve standalone novels span from 1926 to 1999 and should be read in publication order beginning with The Sun Also Rises. These literary works, which include both fiction and non-fiction, form a complete collection that showcases Hemingway's distinctive prose style and thematic concerns across several decades of his career. The series encompasses some of his most celebrated works alongside lesser-known titles, offering readers a comprehensive view of his novelistic output.

Start with The Sun Also Rises, the first of 12 books in the Standalone Novels series.

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1	The Sun Also Rises 1926Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Sun Also Rises / Fiesta 1926Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Torrents of Spring 1926Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	A Farewell To Arms 1929Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	To Have and Have Not 1937Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	For Whom the Bell Tolls 1940Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Across the River and into the Trees 1950Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Old Man and the Sea 1952Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	A Moveable Feast 1964Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Islands in the Stream 1970Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Dangerous Summer 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	The Garden of Eden 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	True At First Light 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

42 books (2005–2023)

The Last Interview is a collection series spanning 41 books published between 2005 and 2023, featuring final or selected interviews with acclaimed writers, musicians, artists, and intellectuals from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Each volume focuses on a different figure, including Ernest Hemingway, David Foster Wallace, James Baldwin, David Bowie, and Gabriel García Márquez, among many others. The series should be read in publication order, beginning with Jacques Derrida's Learning To Live Finally. The series appears to be complete as of 2023.

Start with Learning To Live Finally(By: Jacques Derrida), the first of 41 books in the The Last Interview series.

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1	Learning To Live Finally(By: Jacques Derrida) 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Roberto Bolaño(By: Roberto Bolaño) 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Kurt Vonnegut(By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Jorge Luis Borges(By: Jorge Luis Borges) 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Hannah Arendt(By: Hannah Arendt) 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	David Foster Wallace: In His Own Words(By: David Foster Wallace) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	James Baldwin(By: James Baldwin,Quincy Troupe) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Ray Bradbury(By: Ray Bradbury,Sam Weller) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Ernest Hemingway 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Gabriel García Márquez(By: Gabriel García Márquez) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Lou Reed(By: Lou Reed) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Nora Ephron(By: Nora Ephron) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Philip K. Dick(By: Philip K. Dick) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	David Bowie(By: David Bowie) 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	J. D. Salinger(By: J.D. Salinger) 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Jane Jacobs(By: Jane Jacobs) 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Oliver Sacks(By: Oliver Sacks) 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Christopher Hitchens(By: Christopher Hitchens) 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Martin Luther King, Jr.(By: Martin Luther King Jr.) 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Hunter S. Thompson(By: Hunter S. Thompson) 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Julia Child(By: Julia Child) 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Kathy Acker(By: Kathy Acker) 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Anthony Bourdain(By: Anthony Bourdain,Helen Rosner) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Anthony Bourdain(By: Melville House,Helen Rosner) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Billie Holiday(By: Billie Holiday) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Graham Greene(By: Graham Greene) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Prince(By: Prince) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	Ursula K. Le Guin(By: Ursula K. Le Guin) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	Frida Kahlo(By: Frida Kahlo) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	Marilyn Monroe(By: Melville House,Sady Doyle) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	Ruth Bader Ginsburg(By: Melville House) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	Toni Morrison(By: Toni Morrison) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	Fred Rogers(By: Fred Rogers) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	John Lewis(By: Melville House) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	Johnny Cash(By: Johnny Cash) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	Shirley Chisholm(By: Shirley Chisholm) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	The Last Interview(By: Fred Rogers) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	Diego Maradona(By: Melville House) 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	Janet Malcolm(By: Melville House) 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	Kurt Cobain(By: Melville House) 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	Bell Hooks(By: bell hooks) 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42	Octavia E. Butler(By: Melville House) 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

5 books (2011–2020)

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway is a five-volume scholarly collection of the celebrated author's correspondence, published between 2011 and 2020. Edited by Sandra Spanier and various collaborators, the series chronologically spans from 1907 through 1934 across four decades of Hemingway's life and career. Read the volumes in publication order to follow the chronological progression of his letters from youth through his early major works. The series is now complete.

Start with The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 1, 1907–1922(With: Sandra Spanier,Robert W. Trogdon), the first of 5 books in the The Letters of Ernest Hemingway series.

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1	The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 1, 1907–1922(With: Sandra Spanier,Robert W. Trogdon) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 2, 1923-1925(With: Sandra Spanier,Albert J. DeFazio III,Robert W Trogdon) 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 3, 1926-1929(With: Sandra Spanier,Robert W. Trogdon,Rena Sanderson) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 4, 1929–1931 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 5, 1932–1934(With: Sandra Spanier,Miriam B. Mandel) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible