The Sun Also Rises
American novelist, 1899–1961. Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953.
The Sun Also Rises is a 1926 novel by Ernest Hemingway.
On 5 of the 16 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Ernest Hemingway
- First published
- 1926
- Length
- 252 pages (UK paperback)
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Autobiographical
Is The Sun Also Rises worth reading?
5 of the 16 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them 100 Best Novels (board's list) (Modern Library) and All-Time 100 Novels.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 Best Novels (board's list) (Modern Library, 1998) | No. 45 | See the list |
| All-Time 100 Novels (Time, 2005) | Listed | See the list |
| Readers' top 100 novels (The Guardian, 2026) | No. 75 | See the list |
| The 100 best novels written in English (The Guardian / Observer, 2015) | Listed | See the list |
| The Great American Read (PBS, 2018) | Listed | See the list |
Best edition of The Sun Also Rises
The edition we link to is the Warbler Classics paperback (2022), 252 pages.
- Publisher
- Warbler Classics (paperback, 2022)
- Pages
- 252
- ISBN
- 9781957240466
How critics, prizes and readers rate The Sun Also Rises
Readers and critics rate it about equally: it earned 31% on readers' and booksellers' lists and 28% on critics' lists, against 0% on prize lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like The Sun Also Rises
If you liked The Sun Also Rises, try The Old Man and the Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls or A Farewell to Arms.
