Ernest Hemingway’s reading list for a young writer, including:
- Madame Bovary (Flaubert)
- Dubliners (Joyce)
- Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
- The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevsky)
- The Enormous Room (E. E. Cummings)
- Wuthering Heights (Brönte)
Complement with Hemingway on writing and wisdom from his 1954 Nobel Prize acceptance speech.
Also see Carl Sagan’s reading list and David Foster Wallace’s syllabus.