About the Hemingway List

The Backstory

In 1934 an aspiring writer asked Ernest Hemingway what books to read in order to become a LITERARY GOD, and Hemingway actually wrote him a list. It contains 13 novels, 2 short stories, and 1 book of verse. Here is the actual document, straight from Papa's hand: 

Today... we are reading our way through this list, one chapter per day, and discussing the day's chapter (via our subreddit), and turning the whole thing into a DAILY PODCAST. 

But why?

Well, because this is the path to literary greatness - as prescribed by Hemingway himself.  

Contributor - If you want to be part of the daily chapter discussion, you'll need to keep up with the podcast and join us on our subreddit. It's akin to being part of a massive, world-wide, ultra-ambitious book club. Your comments and insights will then become part of the podcast.

The List

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Hail and Farewell by George Moore
• Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
• The Oxford Book of English Verse
• Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
• The Red and the Black by Stendhal
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• The American by Henry James
• Far Away and Long Ago by W.H. Hudson
• The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings
• Dubliners by James Joyce
• The Blue Hotel by Stephen Crane
• The Open Boat by Stephen Crane

If any of those strike you fancy, use the 'Completed Readings' link above to find the podcasts and listen through. Enjoy! See you on the other side, when we are all literary giants!