Ernest Hemingway Reading Order

16 books (1930–2018)

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

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

97 books (1969–2023)

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

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

14 books (1932–2008)

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

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

8 books (1920–1965)

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

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

10 books (1923–1982)

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

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

12 books (1926–1999)

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

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

41 books (2005–2023)

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

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

5 books (2011–2020)

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.

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