Place of writing and date are from Arnold Samuelson's account of receiving the list from Hemingway in his With Hemingway: a Year in Key West and Cuba.
Hemingway's list of books an aspiring author should read includes Stephen Crane's "The Blue Hotel" and "The Open Boat"; Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary; James Joyce's Dubliners; Stendhal's The Red and the Black; Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage; Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and War and Peace; Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks; George Moore's Hail and Farewell; Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov; the Oxford Book of English Verse; E.E. Cummings' The Enormous Room; Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights; W.H. Hudson's Far Away and Long Ago; and Henry James' The American.