11 must-read literature books like In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway

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In Our Time

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.74

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

First published in 1925, earning Hemingway praise as a promising American writer. Contains several …

"Isn't love any fun? Marjorie said. "No," Nick said."

-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

"Isn't love any fun? Marjorie said. "No," Nick said."

-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

"I'm going to stay with you. If you go to jail, we might as well both go."

-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

"I'm going to stay with you. If you go to jail, we might as well both go."

-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

If you liked the literature plot in In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. The Professor's House

By: Willa Cather , A.S. Byatt

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

On the eve of his move to a new, more desirable residence, Professor Godfrey St. Peter finds himsel… read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • school
  • literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
"He knew that he was terribly selfish about personal pleasures, fought for them. if a thing gave him delight, he got it, if he sold his shirt for it. By doing without many so-called necessities he had…"

-Willa Cather, The Professor's House

"To people off alone, as we were, there is something stirring about finding evidence of human labour and care in the soil of an empty country. It comes to you as a sort of message, makes you feel diff…"

-Willa Cather, The Professor's House

"It struck him that the seasons sometimes gain by being brought into the house, just as they gain by being brought into painting, and into poetry. The hand, fastidious and bold which selected and plac…"

-Willa Cather, The Professor's House

"I had no plans, I wanted nothing but to get back to the mesa and live a free life and breathe free air, and never, never again to see hundreds of little black-coated men pouring out of white building…"

-Willa Cather, The Professor's House

Cover of Cane by Jean Toomer, Darwin Turner

2. Cane

By: Jean Toomer , Darwin Turner

3.83

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evo… read more

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  • american
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  • short stories
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"Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream."

-Jean Toomer, Cane

"Her own glowing is too rich a thing to let her feel the slimness of his diluted passion."

-Jean Toomer, Cane

"There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them."

-Jean Toomer, Cane

"I like to feel that something deep in me responded to the trees, the young trees that whinnied like colts impatient to be let free…"

-Jean Toomer, Cane

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3. Nightfall

By: Bill Pronzini , David Goodis

3.87

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

“An almost perfect book, spare, balanced, and inexplicably moving.”—Geoffrey O’Brien Jim Vanning… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
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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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  • american
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  • classic literature
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  • 20th century
"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. Ernest Hemingway: A Biography

By: Mary V. Dearborn

3.67

Format: 230 pages,

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  • literature
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6. Nothing More Than Murder

By: Jim Thompson

3.61

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Joe Wilmot can't stand his wife Elizabeth. But he sure loves her movie theater. It's a modest estab… read more

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  • american
  • fiction
Cover of Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises by Lesley M.M. Blume

7. Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises

By: Lesley M.M. Blume

4.09

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

The making of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, the outsize personalities who inspired it, and… read more

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8. Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems

By: William Carlos Williams

3.94

Format: None pages, Paperback

This collection makes available work of one of our greatest American poets in the last decade of hi… read more

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  • literature
  • american
  • 20th century
  • school
Cover of Big Country Volume One: Ride, You Tonto Raiders and War Party by Louis L'Amour

9. Big Country Volume One: Ride, You Tonto Raiders and War Party

By: Louis L'Amour

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Audio

Louis LAmour said the West was no place for the frightened or the mean. It was a big country needin… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
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10. Tales of the Jazz Age

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

4.27

Format: 359 pages, Paperback

"The Jelly-Bean" "The Camel's Back" "May Day" "Porcelain and Pink" "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz … read more

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11. Spring and All

By: William Carlos Williams

3.80

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

Valerie Rouzeau, translator. Spring and All is a manifesto of the imagination -- a hybrid of altern… read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • school
  • college
  • 20th century
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12. Hemingway: The Paris Years

By: Michael S. Reynolds

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

These are the heady times of the Nick Adams short stories, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and the w… read more

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13. Yonnondio: From the Thirties

By: Tillie Olsen , Linda Ray Pratt

4.83

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

Yonnondiofollows the heartbreaking path of the Holbrook family in the late 1920s and the Great Depr… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • school
  • read for school
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14. In the Cage

By: Henry James

3.80

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It had occurred to her early that in her position - that of a young person spending, in framed and … read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • american

15. Absalom, Absalom!

By: William Faulkner

3.51

Format: None pages, Paperback

Published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is considered by many to be William Faulkner's masterpiece. Al… read more

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16. 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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  • american
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  • 20th century
"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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17. 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

18. Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961

By: Paul Hendrickson

4.67

Format: 87 pages, Hardcover

From a National Book Critics Circle Award winner, a brilliantly conceived and illuminating reconsid… read more

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19. Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

4.19

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was cond… read more

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20. Winesburg, Ohio

By: Sherwood Anderson

2.96

Format: 7 pages, Paperback

Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life… read more

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21. In Our Time

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.74

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

First published in 1925, earning Hemingway praise as a promising American writer. Contains several … read more

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  • classic literature
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  • fiction
  • 20th century
"Isn't love any fun? Marjorie said. "No," Nick said."

-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

"I'm going to stay with you. If you go to jail, we might as well both go."

-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

"All right, said Nick. Let's get drunk. All right, Bill said. Let's get really drunk."

-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

"In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die."

-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

22. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

By: Anita Loos

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

If any American fictional character of the twentieth century seems likely to be immortal, it is Lor… read more

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23. Nightwood

By: T.S. Eliot , Jeanette Winterson , Djuna Barnes

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books t… read more

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24. 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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  • classic literature
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  • 20th century
"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

25. North of Boston

By: Robert Frost

3.00

Format: None pages,

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26. Dubliners

By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more

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27. Selected Short Stories

By: William Faulkner

3.75

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner-… read more

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28. King Arthur

By: Joseph Comyns Carr

3.16

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain… read more

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  • classics

29. The Art of Conversation: Twelve Golden Rules

By: Josephine Turck Baker

2.88

Format: 62 pages, Hardcover

This self-help novel comes in the form of fiction, or more specifically, a drama between two charac… read more

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30. Franz Kafka: Short Stories (Fifty & More Stories)

By: Franz Kafka

3.89

Format: 113 pages, Kindle Edition

This collection has Kafka's more than fifty best short stories. This is the most comprehensive and … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother by Gabriel García Márquez

31. The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother

By: Gabriel García Márquez

4.13

Format: 1 pages, Audio CD

MP3 CD Format This collection of fiction includes six of Gabriel García Márquez's short stories and… read more

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3.83

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3.87

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4.20

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