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What is the best Ernest Hemingway novel?

By YPB Team

Spare war elegies, sunbaked expatriate wanderings and posthumous curiosities all sit side by side. Which one is his best?

  1. The Sun Also Rises — ranked #11
    The Sun Also Rises
    The 1926 debut that defined the Lost Generation through expatriates in Paris and Pamplona.
    1000pts
  2. To Have and Have Not — ranked #22
    To Have and Have Not
    The 1937 Depression-era story of a Key West boat captain drawn into smuggling.
    787pts
  3. For Whom the Bell Tolls — ranked #33
    For Whom the Bell Tolls
    The 1940 Spanish Civil War epic following an American dynamiter behind enemy lines.
    440pts
  4. Islands in the Stream — ranked #44
    Islands in the Stream
    The posthumous 1970 novel following a painter across the Gulf Stream and wartime Cuba.
    440pts
  5. The Old Man and the Sea — ranked #55
    The Old Man and the Sea
    The 1952 tale of an aging Cuban fisherman's epic struggle with a marlin, which won the Pulitzer Prize.
    440pts
  6. Across the River and into the Trees — ranked #66
    Across the River and into the Trees
    The 1950 novel about an aging American colonel's last days in Venice.
    440pts
  7. The Torrents of Spring — ranked #77
    The Torrents of Spring
    The 1926 satirical short novel parodying the style of Sherwood Anderson.
    440pts
  8. The Garden of Eden — ranked #88
    The Garden of Eden
    The posthumous 1986 novel exploring a writer's marriage and shifting identities on the Riviera.
    323pts
  9. A Farewell to Arms — ranked #99
    A Farewell to Arms
    The 1929 World War I novel about an ambulance driver's doomed romance with a nurse.
    323pts

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