1926 — Quickly approaching its centennial anniversary in 2026, The Sun Also Rises follows a group of American and British expatriates as they travel from Paris to Pamplona for the Festival of San Fermín, where they witness the running of the bulls. An early modernist classic, the novel received mixed reviews upon release, but over time it has become one of the defining works of 20th-century literature. Hemingway biographer Jeffrey Meyers calls it “Hemingway’s greatest work.”

1926, The Torrents of Spring is Ernest Hemingway’s first long-form work and a sharp, satirical novella that mocks the romanticism and pretension of literary contemporaries like Sherwood Anderson. Set in northern Michigan, the story follows two factory workers—Scripps O’Neill and Yogi Johnson—as they navigate love, loneliness, and absurdity in postwar America.

1927 - Men Without Women is Ernest Hemingway’s second collection of short stories, exploring the emotional lives of men grappling with love, loss, violence, and isolation. Through lean, powerful prose, Hemingway captures the quiet anguish of characters facing the consequences of war, heartbreak, and masculinity.

1929 — Ernest Hemingway’s powerful and semi-autobiographical account of love and survival set against the harrowing backdrop of World War I. The story follows an American ambulance driver serving on the Italian front, and a British nurse whose paths cross amidst the turmoil of war.

1932 — Death in the Afternoon is Hemingway’s deep dive into the ritual and symbolism of Spanish bullfighting, exploring it as a metaphor for life, death, and artistic integrity. Combining reportage with personal philosophy, the book offers insight into Hemingway’s values—honor, courage, and grace under pressure.

1933 - Winner Take Nothing is Hemingway’s third and most somber collection of short stories. These fourteen pieces confront themes of failure, alienation, and moral ambiguity, capturing lives marked by quiet devastation and emotional isolation with Hemingway’s trademark economy of language.

1935 — Green Hills of Africa is an account of a month on safari he and his wife, Pauline Marie Pfeiffer, took in East Africa during December 1933. It is divided into four parts: "Pursuit and Conversation", "Pursuit Remembered", "Pursuit and Failure", and "Pursuit as Happiness", each of which plays a different role in the story.

1936 — The Snows of Kilimanjaro is a stark, introspective story of a dying writer reflecting on a life of lost potential and compromised artistic ambition. Set against the harsh African landscape, it explores themes of regret, mortality, and the purity of unrealized greatness.

1937 — To Have and Have Not is a dark, Depression-era tale of a smuggler caught between survival and morality in a world divided by class. Set in Key West and Cuba, the novel explores how economic desperation pushes ordinary people into dangerous choices, exposing the harsh realities of inequality and human resilience.

1940 — Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from “the good fight” and one of the foremost classics of war literature. It tells of loyalty, courage, love, and the death of an ideal.

1950 — Across the River and Into the Trees follows a dying American colonel in postwar Venice as he reflects on love, loss, and the scars of war during a final weekend with a young countess. Lyrical and melancholic, the novel explores aging, vulnerability, and the search for dignity at the end of life.

1952 — One of Hemingway's most enduring works told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal — a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.

1964 — A Moveable Feast is a memoir by Ernest Hemingway about his years as a struggling expatriate journalist and writer in Paris during the 1920s. It was published posthumously in 1964. The book chronicles Hemingway's first marriage to Hadley Richardson and his relationships with other cultural figures of the Lost Generation in interwar France.

1970 — Islands in the Stream follows artist Thomas Hudson through personal loss, artistic solitude, and wartime duty, capturing his emotional evolution across three distinct phases of life. Set in the Caribbean and Atlantic, the novel explores grief, masculinity, and redemption with Hemingway’s signature depth and restraint.

1972 - The Nick Adams Stories brings together Ernest Hemingway’s most personal character sketches, chronicling the life of Nick Adams from childhood in rural Michigan to the trauma of war and the disillusionment of adulthood. These interconnected stories offer a rare window into Hemingway’s own formative experiences.

The Collected Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway spans his career, capturing themes of war, love, masculinity, and existential struggle through his signature spare, powerful prose. With iconic stories like The Killers and Hills Like White Elephants, the collection showcases Hemingway’s mastery of subtext and emotional depth.

1999 - True at First Light blends memoir and fiction, chronicling Hemingway’s final African safari while exploring themes of identity, aging, colonialism, and creative legacy. Posthumously published, the novel reveals the author’s meditative, late-life voice—both reflective and raw.

2005 - Under Kilimanjaro is Hemingway’s most complete posthumous work, offering a vivid account of his final African safari. Based on his personal journals, the novel captures the grandeur of the Kenyan landscape while exploring themes of adventure, colonial tension, and Hemingway’s ongoing search for meaning and identity.