Forget about Hemingway the macho. He was the macho and he was the lady - an androgynous romantic.

The Hemingway-challenge
“Ever read War and Peace? That's a damned good book. You ought to read it. We'll go up to my workshop and I'll make out a list you ought to read." I have 5 years to read the favorite books of Ernest Hemingway.
Was Ernest Hemingway secretly a romantic?
"I've been wondering about Dostoevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?" (Ernest Hemingway)
When I picked up The Brothers Karamazov a couple of months ago I couldn't have been more positively biased towards it. Maybe that was what went wrong.
Louisa May Alcott's Reading List for Little and Not So Little Women: 25 Books of the Best of the Old Writers
Louisa May Alcott and my beloved grandmother had one crucial thing in common.
"Don't you want to be inspired by the zeitgeist and read Little Women?"
Why read the favorite books of Ernest Hemingway?