18 Top novels books like To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway, Will Patton

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To Have and Have Not

By: Ernest Hemingway , Will Patton

3.52

Format: 5 pages, Audio CD

From one of the best writers in American literature, a classic novel about smuggling, intrigue, and…

"He was mad and plenty brave."

-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not

"In every port in the world, at least two Estonians can be found."

-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not

"I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry."

-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not

"Love is all the dirty little tricks you taught me that you probably got out of some book."

-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not

If you liked the novels plot in To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway, Will Patton , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. The Pastures of Heaven

By: John Steinbeck

4.08

Format: 207 pages, Paperback

Each of these delightful interconnected tales is devoted to a family living in a fertile valley on … read more

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2. The Love of the Last Tycoon

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.64

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

The Last Tycoon, edited by the renowned literary critic Edmund Wilson, was first published a year a… read more

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"There’s a writer for you,"

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

"Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

"His dark eyes took me in, and I wondered what they would look like if he fell in love."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

"There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

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3. The Moon Is Down

By: John Steinbeck

3.93

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Taken by surprise, a small coastal town is overrun by an invading army with little resistance. The … read more

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"The fool supply was controlled..."

-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down

"We have taken on a job, haven’t we?"

-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down

"The flies have conquered the flypaper."

-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down

"...rose like cream to the top of milk."

-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down

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4. Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

By: John Steinbeck

4.06

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and p… read more

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"He's got a can up there,' Richard said."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"Men all do about the same thing when they wake up."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you'd shake a rug."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

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5. کیمیا خاتون

By: سعیده قدس

3.42

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

«کیمیاخاتون» رمانی تاریخی‌ست که محور قصه‌ی آن زندگی دخترخوانده‌ی مولانا جلال‌الدین بلخی است. این سر… read more

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6. The Red Pony

By: John Steinbeck

3.48

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

Young Jody Tiflin lives on his father's California ranch. He is thrilled when his father gives him … read more

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"It would be a dreadful thing to tell anyone about it, for it would destroy some fragile structure of truth. It was truth that might be shattered by division."

-John Steinbeck, The Red Pony

"On the fences the shiny blackbirds with red epaulets clicked their dry call. The meadowlarks sang like water, and the wild doves, concealed among the bursting leaves of the oaks, made a sound of rest…"

-John Steinbeck, The Red Pony

"At last he said, "Did you come out of the big mountains?" Gitano shook his head slowly. "No, I walked down the Salinas Valley." The afternoon thought would not let Joey go. "Did you ever go into the …"

-John Steinbeck, The Red Pony

"The grandfather was dresses in a black broadcloth suit and he wore kid congress gaiters and a black tie on a short, hard collar. He carried his black slouch hat in his hand. His white beard was cropp…"

-John Steinbeck, The Red Pony

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7. To Have and Have Not

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.52

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into runnin… read more

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"He was mad and plenty brave."

-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not

"In every port in the world, at least two Estonians can be found."

-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not

"I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry."

-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not

"Love is all the dirty little tricks you taught me that you probably got out of some book."

-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not

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8. Nothing Like the Sun

By: Anthony Burgess

3.77

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

A magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare’s love life, following young Will’s maturation into sex… read more

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  • classics
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  • 20th century
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9. Il taglio del bosco

By: Giorgio Bassani , Carlo Cassola , CASSOLA

3.34

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

Torino, Einaudi, 1965, 16mo brossura con copertina illustrata, pp. 110 (Letture per la scuola media… read more

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  • fiction
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10. The Sound and the Fury

By: William Faulkner

3.86

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: bea… read more

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"I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

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11. Desolation Angels

By: Jack Kerouac , Joyce Johnson

3.93

Format: 409 pages, Paperback

The classic autobiographical novel by Jack Kerouac featuring "one of the most true, comic, and griz… read more

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"So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry"

-Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels

"Meanwhile the sunsets are mad orange fools raging in the gloom...."

-Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels

"Every night I still ask the Lord, "Why?" and havent heard a decent answer yet"

-Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels

"Tutte le notti continuo a chiedere al Signore, "Perché?" E ancora non ho avuto una risposta decente."

-Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels

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12. As I Lay Dying

By: William Faulkner

3.72

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more

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"vomiting the crying"

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"But peace is my heart: I know it is."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

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13. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane

3.64

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more

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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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14. The Pearl

By: John Steinbeck

3.54

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf be… read more

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"What have I to fear but starvation?" Kino asked."

-John Steinbeck, The Pearl

"In the surface of the great pearl he could see dream forms."

-John Steinbeck, The Pearl

"It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings."

-John Steinbeck, The Pearl

"We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins."

-John Steinbeck, The Pearl

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15. Hemingway's Key West

By: Stuart B. McIver

3.60

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

This vivid portrait reveals both Hemingway, the writer, and Hemingway, the hard-drinking, woman-cha… read more

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16. Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)

By: John Steinbeck , Robert DeMott

4.11

Format: 249 pages, Paperback

In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesda… read more

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"Und keine Frau lässt sich gern vom Mittelpunkt der Bühne verdrängen, schon gar nicht durch einen Tintenfisch."

-John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)

"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."

-John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)

"The doctrine of our time is that man can't get along without a whole hell of a lot of stuff. You may not be preaching it, but you're living treason."

-John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)

"Auf dem Kopf hatte er einen Strohhut mit zwei Löchern in der Krempe, die vermuten ließen, dass der Hut ehemals die Kopfbedeckung eines Pferes gewesen war."

-John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)

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17. Tender Is the Night

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.78

Format: 430 pages, Paperback

Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young… read more

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"My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

"The price for his intactness was incompleteness."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

"But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

"New friends can often have a better time together than old friends."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

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18. This Side of Paradise

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.64

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the a… read more

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"A squalid phantasmagoria of breath"

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

"Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

"Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

"Good luck to you and bad luck to your theories."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

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19. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.16

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more

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"See the child."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

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20. Aaron's Rod

By: D.H. Lawrence

3.17

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Written in the years following World War I and set in postwar England and Italy, Aaron's Rod questi… read more

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"He sat for long hours among the cypress trees of Tuscany. And never had any trees seemed so like ghosts, like soft, strange, pregnant presences. He lay and watched tall cypresses breathing and commun…"

-D.H. Lawrence, Aaron's Rod

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21. Hong Kong Noir

By: Jason Y. Ng

3.73

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Fourteen of the city’s finest authors explore the dark heart of the Pearl of the Orient in haunting… read more

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  • crime
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19 Top fiction books like To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway, Will Patton

Transform Your Habits

The Pastures of Heaven

John Steinbeck

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Love of the Last Tycoon

F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.64

Transform Your Habits

The Moon Is Down

John Steinbeck

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

John Steinbeck

4.06

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17 Best fiction books like Nothing Like the Sun by Anthony Burgess

Transform Your Habits

The Garden of Eden

Ernest Hemingway

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Crash

J.G. Ballard

3.59

Transform Your Habits

The Lemon Table

Julian Barnes

3.67

Transform Your Habits

The End of the Road

John Barth

3.82

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