Books like The Old Man and the Sea

This short novel, already a modern classic, is the superbly told, tragic story of a Cuban fisherman in the Gulf Stream and the giant Marlin he kills and loses — specifically referred to in the citation accompanying the author's Nobel Prize for literature in 1954.

Liked The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway? Here's what readers who loved it picked up next.

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (1915) · 3.78★
Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville (1851) · 3.46★
The Stranger by Albert Camus (1942) · 3.96★
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939) · 3.92★
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937) · 3.84★
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899) · 3.42★
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (1922) · 3.99★
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1866) · 4.18★
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (1876) · 3.89★
1984 by George Orwell (1949) · 4.14★
Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945) · 3.87★
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967) · 4.04★