Books like Across the River and into the Trees (Arrow Classic) by Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway’s classic follows an old Cuban fisherman and his young companion as they battle a massive marlin, exploring themes of endurance, solitude, and the human struggle against nature.

In the closing months of World War II, an American bomber squadron off Italy becomes the stage for humor and horror as pilot Yossarian battles absurd regulations and the threat of death.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece examines the glittering yet hollow glamour of the Roaring Twenties as the enigmatic Jay Gatsby pursues love, wealth, and identity across the social divide.

Ernest Hemingway’s Louisiana‑born narrator takes readers through the 1920s Lost Generation—expatriates on Paris’s Left Bank, bullfights in Spain, and the era’s moral and spiritual unraveling.

Set during the French Indochina War, the novel follows British journalist Thomas Fowler, his mistress Phuong, and American idealist Pyle, whose ambitions and tragic fate reshape their lives amid political turmoil.

Norman Mailer’s 1949 debut delivers a vivid, journalistic portrait of a fourteen‑man U.S. Marine platoon fighting on a Japanese‑held island in the South Pacific, exposing the brutal reality of World War II combat.

In the Hotel Gloriana on the Upper West Side, mid‑forties Tommy Wilhelm spends one pivotal day, isolated among elderly residents and his father, confronting the quiet stakes of middle‑age life.

A Thread of Grace: The story of Italian citizens who saved the lives of 43,000 Jews during World War II’s final phase

By far the world's largest river, the Amazon flows through the greatest expanse of tropical rain forest on earth. Human beings settled in Amazonia ten thousand years ago and learned to live well on its bounty. Europeans first saw it around 1500 and started settling there in the seventeenth century. By the nineteenth century, Amazonian natives had almost been destroyed by diseases and slavery. Although the rubber industry created huge fortunes, it was at a fearful cost in human misery. In the last hundred years, the Amazon has seen intrepid explorers, entrepreneurial millionaires, and political extremists; alongside them, scientists, anthropologists, and archaeologists have sought to discover its secrets. Today, the world's appetite for timber, beef, and soya is destroying this great tropical forest. Hemming explains why the Amazon is environmentally crucial and describes the passionate struggles to exploit and to protect it.

A U.S. minesweeper mutiny during World War II unravels in a tense court‑martial, exploring authority, loyalty, and moral ambiguity.

A war‑ravaged American colonel in Italy after World War II falls in love with a young Italian countess.