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A list of the works of Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, from best to least best.
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The Sound and the Fury
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3.86 avg rating — 193,635 ratings
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As I Lay Dying
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3.72 avg rating — 184,109 ratings
score: 492,
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The Sun Also Rises
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3.79 avg rating — 486,427 ratings
score: 296,
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A Farewell to Arms
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3.82 avg rating — 347,753 ratings
score: 198,
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Absalom, Absalom!
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3.99 avg rating — 47,408 ratings
score: 168,
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The Portable Faulkner
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4.30 avg rating — 891 ratings
score: 100,
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The Essential Hemingway
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3.79 avg rating — 472 ratings
score: 99,
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Every Day by the Sun: A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi
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3.80 avg rating — 506 ratings
score: 99,
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Snopes
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4.36 avg rating — 819 ratings
score: 98,
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As I Lay Dying
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3.72 avg rating — 184,109 ratings
score: 98,
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Meesterwerken van Hemingway : En de zon gaat op ~ Afscheid van de wapenen ~ Hebben en niet hebben
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score: 97,
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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3.99 avg rating — 313,885 ratings
score: 97,
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The Garden of Eden
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3.70 avg rating — 23,424 ratings
score: 96,
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The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
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4.16 avg rating — 11,413 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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Requiem for a Nun
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3.55 avg rating — 1,329 ratings
score: 95,
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The Hemingway Reader
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4.04 avg rating — 56 ratings
score: 95,
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William Faulkner: Stories (LOA #375): Knight's Gambit / Collected Stories / Big Woods / Other Works (Library of America, 375)
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4.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
score: 94,
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Big Woods
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3.96 avg rating — 553 ratings
score: 93,
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The Wild Palms
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3.86 avg rating — 5,805 ratings
score: 92,
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Novels, 1926-1929
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4.40 avg rating — 215 ratings
score: 91,
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Novels 1930-1935: As I Lay Dying / Sanctuary / Light in August / Pylon
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4.35 avg rating — 1,126 ratings
score: 90,
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Light in August
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3.94 avg rating — 65,913 ratings
score: 89,
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Go Down, Moses
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3.93 avg rating — 10,500 ratings
score: 88,
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Novels 1936–1940: Absalom, Absalom! / The Unvanquished / If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem / The Hamlet
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4.47 avg rating — 367 ratings
score: 87,
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Collected Stories
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4.24 avg rating — 7,850 ratings
score: 85,
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Sanctuary
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3.63 avg rating — 14,582 ratings
score: 84,
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The Unvanquished: The Corrected Text
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3.77 avg rating — 6,547 ratings
score: 83,
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The Reivers
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3.77 avg rating — 8,030 ratings
score: 82,
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The Hamlet (The Snopes Trilogy, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 5,885 ratings
score: 81,
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The William Faulkner Audio Collection
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3.78 avg rating — 58 ratings
score: 80,
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A Fable
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3.50 avg rating — 4,323 ratings
score: 79,
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Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner
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Joseph Blotner (Editor)
4.15 avg rating — 348 ratings
score: 78,
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Flags in the Dust
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3.90 avg rating — 1,413 ratings
score: 77,
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The Bear
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3.46 avg rating — 1,336 ratings
score: 76,
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The Town (The Snopes Trilogy, #2)
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4.09 avg rating — 1,912 ratings
score: 75,
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Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner
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4.15 avg rating — 348 ratings
score: 74,
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William Faulkner Reads
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4.77 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 73,
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Requiem for a Nun
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3.55 avg rating — 1,329 ratings
score: 72,
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Mosquitoes
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3.11 avg rating — 1,365 ratings
score: 71,
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Knight's Gambit
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3.50 avg rating — 1,058 ratings
score: 70,
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Ghosts of Rowan Oak
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3.20 avg rating — 60 ratings
score: 69,
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Sartoris
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3.82 avg rating — 1,580 ratings
score: 67,
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To Have and Have Not
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3.51 avg rating — 36,136 ratings
score: 66,
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A Farewell to Arms
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3.82 avg rating — 347,753 ratings
score: 65,
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The Old Man and the Sea
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3.81 avg rating — 1,281,980 ratings
score: 64,
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The Old Man and the Sea
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3.81 avg rating — 1,281,980 ratings
score: 63,
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The Hemingway Stories
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4.09 avg rating — 1,138 ratings
score: 62,
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The Sun Also Rises
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3.79 avg rating — 486,427 ratings
score: 61,
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The Viking Portable Library: Hemingway
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4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 60,
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By-Line: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades
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3.96 avg rating — 736 ratings
score: 59,
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Essays, Speeches & Public Letters
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4.04 avg rating — 108 ratings
score: 58,
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New Orleans Sketches
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3.52 avg rating — 469 ratings
score: 57,
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Out Came the Sun: Overcoming the Legacy of Mental Illness, Addiction, and Suicide in My Family
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3.45 avg rating — 1,653 ratings
score: 56,
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Lion in the Garden: Interviews with William Faulkner, 1926-1962
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4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
score: 55,
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Conversations With William Faulkner (Literary Conversations Series)
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M. Thomas Inge (Editor )
3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings
score: 54,
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The Best of Bad Faulkner: choice entries from the faux faulkner contest
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4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings
score: 53,
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list created March 10th, 2014
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