7 Best classics books like The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemmingway

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The Old Man and The Sea

By: Ernest Hemmingway

4.05

Format: 80 pages, Kindle Edition

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If you liked the classics plot in The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemmingway , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. The Elementary Particles

By: Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–pa… read more

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"He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"J'aurais pu adhérer au Front National, mais à quoi bon manger de la choucroute avec des cons?"

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

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2. The Wall

By: Shaun Whiteside , Marlen Haushofer

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

First published to acclaim in Germany, The Wall chronicles the life of the last surviving human on … read more

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"Even now I’m nothing but a thin skin covering a mountain of memories."

-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall

"My only teacher is as ignorant and untrained as I am, for my only teacher is myself."

-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall

"Never again shall I sit above the alpine roses in the midday sun, listening to the great silence."

-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall

"External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom."

-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall

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3. On the Road

By: Jack Kerouac

3.61

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

A quintessential novel of America & the Beat Generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years… read more

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"We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301)."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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4. The Old Man and the Sea

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.80

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here This short novel, already a moder… read more

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"My big fish must be somewhere."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

"I shouldn’t have gone out so far, fish,"

-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

"The setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

"Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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5. It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy

By: D. Michael Abrashoff

4.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The story of Captain D. Michael Abrashoff and his command of USS Benfold has become legendary insid… read more

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6. The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance

By: W. Timothy Gallwey , Zach Kleinman , Pete Carroll

3.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Inner Game of Tennis is a revolutionary program for overcoming the self-doubt, nervousness, and… read more

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7. Ham on Rye

By: Charles Bukowski

3.40

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely … read more

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8. A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

By: Norman Maclean

3.99

Format: None pages, Paperback

From its first magnificent sentence, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and f… read more

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9. Atlas Shrugged

By: Ayn Rand , Leonard Peikoff

4.14

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world and did. Was he a des… read more

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10. For Whom the Bell Tolls

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.76

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found  In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Sp… read more

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11. A Farewell to Arms

By: Ernest Hemingway , نجف دریابندری

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the war to end all wars. He volunteered for ambulance serv… read more

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12. Empire of the Summer Moon

By: S.C. Gwynne

4.23

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the for… read more

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"Buffalo Hump had one of those Comanche names - there were a large number of them - that the prudish whites could not quite bring themselves to translate. His Nermernuh name, properly transliterated, …"

-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon

"For years after the American Revolution, the public opposed to the creation of police departments, fearing that they would become forces of repression... Only in the mid 19th century, after the growt…"

-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon

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13. Stoner

By: John Williams , John McGahern

4.34

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming famil… read more

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"Annesi, hayatını sabırla kabullenmişti, katlanmak zorunda olduğu uzun bir anmışçasına."

-John Williams, Stoner

"Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure; within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve."

-John Williams, Stoner

"But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before."

-John Williams, Stoner

"While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time."

-John Williams, Stoner

14. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

By: Jung Chang

3.68

Format: 113 pages,

The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and th… read more

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15. The Republic

By: Plato , Desmond Lee

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more

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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."

-Plato, The Republic

"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."

-Plato, The Republic

"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."

-Plato, The Republic

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

-Plato, The Republic

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16. The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.79

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemin… read more

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"Never be daunted"

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"I am always in love."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"You'll lose it, if you talk about it"

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"Oh, darling, I've been so miserable."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

17. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

By: Douglas Adams

3.00

Format: 9 pages,

At last in paperback in one complete volume, here are the five novels from Douglas Adams's Hitchhik… read more

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18. Jeg anerkender ikke længere jeres autoritet

By: Glenn Bech

4.30

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

JEG ANERKENDER IKKE LÆNGERE JERES AUTORITET er et indigneret, selvudleverende og ømt manifest om kl… read more

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19. Hard Land

By: Benedict Wells

4.29

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

Missouri, 1985: Um vor den Problemen zu Hause zu fliehen, nimmt der fünfzehnjährige Sam einen Ferie… read more

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Cover of The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783 by Joseph J. Ellis

20. The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783

By: Joseph J. Ellis

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In one of the most “exciting and engaging” (Gordon S. Wood) histories of the American founding in d… read more

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21. The Old Man and The Sea

By: Ernest Hemmingway

4.05

Format: 80 pages, Kindle Edition

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16 Best fiction books like The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

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The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

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The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , Richard Howard , Dom Marcos Barbosa , None

4.33

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Lord of the Flies

William Golding

4.20

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J.D. Salinger

3.80

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