The Big Read at Kansas City Public Library

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Chronological List

1923 Three Stories and Ten Poems (Short Stories)

1925 In Our Time (Short Stories)

1926 The Torrents of Spring (Novel)

1926 The Sun Also Rises (Novel)

1927 Men Without Women (Short Stories)

1929 A Farewell to Arms (Novel)

1930 The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (Short Stories)

1932 Death in the Afternoon (Novel)

1933 Winner take Nothing (Short Stories)

1935 Green Hills of Africa (Novel)

1937 To Have and Have Not (Novel)

1940 For Whom the Bell Tolls (Novel)

1942 Men at War (Edited Anthology)

1950 Across the River and into the Trees (Novel)

1952 The Old Man and the Sea (Novel)

The books listed below were published posthumously

1962 The Wild Years (Compilation)

1964 A Moveable Feast (Novel)

1967 By-Lines (Journalism for the Toronto Star)

1970 Islands in the Stream (Novel)

1972 The Nick Adams Stories

1979 88 Poems

1981 Selected Letters

Books About Hemingway

The Lousy Racket: Hemingway, Scribners, and the Business of Literature
Robert W. Trogdon
813 H48ZT
This first critical study of Hemingway’s professional collaboration with Scribners also details the editing, promotion, and sales of the books he published with the firm from 1926 to 1952 and provides a fascinating look into the American publishing industry in the early twentieth century.

Hemingway in Africa: The Last Safari
Christopher Ondaatje
813 H48ZO
This book follows the trail of Hemingway’s two major African safaris through Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, and analyzes Hemingway’s writings to uncover a startling amount of new material—documentary, literary, and photographic—on this rarely discussed, vitally important aspect of Hemingway’s life and work.

Hemingway Goes to War
Charles Whiting
813 H48ZWH
Examines, in depth, Hemingway’s bloody trail through war-torn Europe, chronicling the brave, yet troubled, personal life of that most famous of American novelists, and assessing the impact of World War Two on his physical, emotional, and mental condition. Hemingway Goes To War reads like a thriller and is a must for all Hemingway fans and those fascinated in the latter stages of World War Two.

Hemingway in Cuba
Hilary Hemingway
813 H48ZHH-2
A richly illustrated collection of stories about Ernest Hemingway and his love affair with Cuba as narrated by his niece Hilary Hemingway, featuring unpublished photos and never before seen material.

Portrait of War: The U. S. Army’s First Combat Artists and the Doughboy’s Experience in WWI
Peter Krass
940.412 K89P
A searing account of war through the eyes of artists commissioned by the U.S. Army to depict the trials and triumphs of the soldiers. Long before today’s “embedded journalists,” eight brave soldier-artists risked their lives in the trenches and battlefields to bring the reality of World War I back home.

Malaga Burning: An American Woman’s Eyewitness Account of the Spanish Civil War
Gamel Woolsey
946.081 W91Z
Gamel Woolsey, a poet from Charleston, South Carolina, was living near the coastal city of Malaga at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Through her vivid character sketches & her powerful first-person account, a reader comes away with a feeling of having attained a grasp of the Spanish war—as great, perhaps, as if one had plowed through some multi-tomed work heavy with statistics.

African Americans in the Spanish Civil War: This Ain’t Ethiopia, but It’ll Do
Danny D. Collum
946.081 A258
African-American participation in the Spanish Civil War marks a turning point in American military history. Two decades before the official end of segregation in the U.S. armed forces, black volunteers in Spain fought side by side with white compatriots in the first fully integrated American fighting unit.

Madrid, 1937: Letters of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade from the Spanish Civil War
Cary Nelson
946.081 M183
These letters will lift your spirit and break your heart. They will take you back to a time when 2,800 Americans took up arms and confronted Hitler’s Condor Legion, Mussolini’s Black Shirts, and Franco’s fascist cavalry on the battlefields of Spain.