Withm, I have read the 2 Hemingway books you noted, though long, long ago. I do like his books, even though I'm not much of a classics person. I think most people here would think what I read is fluff, but at least it's not 50 Shades of Gray!
My intellectual reading is getting through the New Yorker every week, religiously, no matter how much work I have. I learn a lot from the non-fiction articles, but I do admit some of the fiction is hard for me to get through and I regularly skip the longer story if I don't get into it fairly quickly. I always told my students it was OK to "abandon" a book that you are reading for pleasure, so that's my mantra, now that I don't "have" to read anything.