Ernest Hemingway’s reading list for a young writer: 1. Stephen Crane – The Blue Hotel – The Open Boat 2. Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary 3. James Joyce – Dubliners 4. Stendhal – The Red and the Black 5. Somerset Maugham – Of Human Bondage 6. Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina – War and Peace 7. Thomas Mann – Buddenbrooks 8. George Moore – Hail and Farewell 9. Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Brothers Karamazov 10. The Oxford Book of English Verse 11. E. E. Cummings – The Enormous Room 12. Emily Brontë – Wuthering Heights 13. W. H. Hudson – Far Away and Long Ago 14. Henry James – The American

