Every so often, we come across someone’s list of books that would so clearly belong on their ideal bookshelf if we had been able to hop into a time machine and ask them ourselves! In this 1935 piece for Esquire magazine, Ernest Hemingway names 18 books that he would rather read over and over again for the rest of his life than to receive an annual income of a million dollars a year. They are as follows:
Anna Karenina
Far Away and Long Ago
Buddenbrooks
Wuthering Heights
Madame Bovary
War and Peace
A Sportsman’s Sketches
The Brothers Karamazov
Hail and Farewell
Huckleberry Finn
Winesburg, Ohio
La Reine Margot
La Maison Tellier
Le Rouge et le Noire
La Chartreuse de Parme
Dubliners
Yeats’s Autobiographies
plus “a few others” and maybe Andre Malraux’s Man’s Fate.
via Kottke.org