14 Best school books like The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

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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…

"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

If you liked the school plot in The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of The Stranger by Albert Camus, 
Matthew    Ward
, Stuart Gilbert, None

1. The Stranger

By: Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

Published in 1942 by French author Albert Camus, The Stranger has long been considered a classic of… read more

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"It is better to burn than to disappear."

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

"Everything is true, and nothing is true!"

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

"After awhile you could get used to anything."

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

"To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing."

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

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2. The Little Prince

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

4.33

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A pilot stranded in the desert awakes one morning to see, standing before him, the most extraordina… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • school
"I wonder,"

-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

"Where are the people?"

-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

"No one is ever satisfied where he is."

-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

"Words are the source of misunderstandings."

-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Cover of Lord of the Flies by William Golding

3. Lord of the Flies

By: William Golding

4.20

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

When a plane crashes on a remote island, a small group of schoolboys are the sole survivors. From t… read more

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  • literature
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4. The Catcher in the Rye

By: J.D. Salinger

3.80

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school... Fleei… read more

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  • american
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"Sleep tight, ya morons!"

-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

"People never notice anything."

-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

"Mothers are all slightly insane."

-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

"But I'm Crazy. I swear to God I am."

-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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5. Animal Farm

By: George Orwell , Russell Baker , C.M. Woodhouse

3.99

Format: 141 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here. A farm… read more

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"Four legs good, two legs bad."

-George Orwell, Animal Farm

"The only good human being is a dead one."

-George Orwell, Animal Farm

"Surely, comrades, you don't want Jones back?"

-George Orwell, Animal Farm

"Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers."

-George Orwell, Animal Farm

6. The Great Gatsby

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

THE GREAT GATSBY, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career… read more

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  • literature
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  • school
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7. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

By: Mark Twain , John Seelye , Guy Cardwell

3.92

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer revolves around the youthful adventures of the novel's schoolboy prota… read more

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  • adventure
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"Tom!"

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

"Company would be a palpable improvement"

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

"But old fools is the biggest fools there is."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

"Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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8. 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

Cover of Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Richard Andrews, Rex Gibson

9. Hamlet

By: William Shakespeare , Richard Andrews , Rex Gibson

4.02

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

Among Shakespeare's plays, "Hamlet" is considered by many his masterpiece. Among actors, the role o… read more

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"Therein lies the rub."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Cover of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

10. Fahrenheit 451

By: Ray Bradbury

3.96

Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition

Sixty years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenhe… read more

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"Are you happy?"

-Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

"It was a pleasure to burn."

-Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

"Those who don't build must burn."

-Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

"The sun burnt every day. It burnt time."

-Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

11. To Kill a Mockingbird

By: Harper Lee

3.95

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that … read more

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12. Of Mice and Men

By: John Steinbeck

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

The compelling story of two outsiders striving to find their place in an unforgiving world. Drifter… read more

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13. Siddhartha

By: Hermann Hesse , Hilda Rosner

3.17

Format: 319 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Siddhartha Este libro electronico tiene una mesa activa de los contenidos Siddhartha es una novela … read more

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14. The Metamorphosis

By: Franz Kafka , Stanley Corngold

3.88

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 0553213695 / 9780553213690 "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning fr… read more

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"Oh, God"

-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

"I only fear danger where I want to fear it."

-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

"What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream."

-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

"It was half past six and the hands were quietly moving forwards."

-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

Cover of Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, David McDuff

15. Crime and Punishment

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , David McDuff

4.27

Format: 671 pages, Paperback

Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg a… read more

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"Life [had] replaced logic."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

"I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

"The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

"It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

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16. Brave New World

By: Aldous Huxley

3.99

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vi… read more

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"Pain was a fascinating horror"

-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

"Ending is better than mending."

-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

"The more stitches, the less riches."

-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

"If one's different, one's bound to be lonely."

-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

17. The Grapes of Wrath

By: John Steinbeck

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles… read more

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18. One Hundred Years of Solitude

By: Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa

4.12

Format: 417 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel that tells the story of the Buendia family, and chronicl… read more

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  • literary fiction
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"Cease, cows, life is short."

-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

"There is always something left to love."

-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

"Children inherit their parents' madness."

-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

"بدأ يدرك كم يحب فى الواقع الأشخاص الذين كرههم أكثر من سواهم ."

-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

19. The Odyssey

By: Homer , Robert Fagles , Bernard Knox , E.V. Rieu , None

3.53

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

Literature's grandest evocation of life's journey, at once an ageless human story and an individual… read more

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20. The Picture of Dorian Gray

By: Oscar Wilde

4.13

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Oscar Wilde’s only novel is the dreamlike story of a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth… read more

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"To define is to limit."

-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"All art is quite useless."

-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"What fire does not destroy, it hardens"

-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."

-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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21. 1984

By: George Orwell

4.19

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A masterpiece of rebellion and imprisonment where war is peace freedom is slavery and Big Brother i… read more

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"Power is not a means; it is an end."

-George Orwell, 1984

"To die hating them, that was freedom."

-George Orwell, 1984

"In the face of pain there are no heroes."

-George Orwell, 1984

"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."

-George Orwell, 1984

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

Transform Your Habits

The Little Prince

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

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Lord of the Flies

William Golding

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

3.80

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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

L.M. Montgomery

4.31

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The Little Prince

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

4.33

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The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne , Nina Baym , Thomas E. Connolly

3.50

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Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens , George Cruikshank , Philip Horne

3.88

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