1, Baron in the Tree of Calvino
Douban score 9.0
When reading this book, I have been thinking: Maybe one day, you and I will become rebels in modern society and climb our own trees.
Cosimo grew up in an ancient aristocratic family, and his parents were strict but lacked care. Cosimo, who refused to eat snails because she opposed her sister's cruelty to animals, was angered by her father, so she climbed the tree and survived by her own cleverness. He made clothes out of animal fur from hunting and built comfortable houses in trees.
Got love.
But the story will not come to an abrupt end, as Su Tong said, "Everyone knows that Xiaozhimo got off the tree and the novel should be over. However, if Calvino does not let Cosimo come down, Cosimo will not come down. "
2. Keigo Higashino's The Dedication of Suspect X.
Douban score 9.0
It is a novel that I have never seen that combines reasoning and emotion so beautifully. It really doesn't meet the standard of Keigo Higashino's masterpiece.
Write a wonderful story in a special way. "As soon as the case happened, the reader knew who the prisoner was." But I still can't help but use the mind of the stone god and the development of the story to interpret the mystery.
This book won the Naoki Award, Japan's highest literary prize, with the comment that "he wrote the scam to the extreme." Keigo Higashino's writing style has become more and more popular since Night Walk, as he himself said, "This is the purest love and the best trick I can think of."
Ps: His Nightwalk, Worry-Free Grocery Store (not reasoning, but a warm fantasy novel, which makes people think a lot), Malicious and so on are all excellent.
3. Wang Xiaobo's Green Haired Monster
Douban score 8.9
Wang Xiaobo is a writer strongly recommended by A Xian. It is strange that I have read so many books and never read Wang Xiaobo. But it's hard to stop at first sight. The Green Hair Monster is the first book I read by Wang Xiaobo, and the manuscript of this book is also an opportunity for Wang Er and Li Yinhe to get to know each other. Absurd imagination, symbolic satire, tragic and open ending.
This is Wang Xiaobo's early work, and the language narration and structural dialogue are still a little immature, but such immaturity is as touching as it is.
"Yao Yao, you when the monster when the savage, not people. How do you know I don't want to be a monster with you? "
4. Feng Zikai's Yuan Yuan Tang Essays
Douban score 8.9
Mr. Feng Zikai may be more of a painter, but in fact his prose is very good, no, very good and excellent. This book describes the customs of his hometown, accompanied by cartoons with strong Jiangnan customs, which is very touching.
Not only words, but also an old man who has experienced many vicissitudes. He has experienced war, and he is angry and helpless about the world (see "Meat Leg" and other articles). But in the end, I wrote, "My heart has been occupied by four things recently: the gods and stars in the sky, the art and children on the earth". I am not qualified to make other judgments except admiration and respect.
5. James heriott's Everything is Spiritual and Beautiful.
Douban score 8.8
I was actually moved by the story of a veterinarian, but I can't blame it. This book is too good.
Harry, a young country vet, drives an old car with black smoke every day. Hand-to-hand combat with vicious dogs, ready to deal with the "shadowless feet" of mares ... all kinds of "painful" experiences that make people laugh and cry are endless. Here he met the most embarrassing moment in his life and enjoyed the warmest and touching truth.
I find it easy to escape from reality. As long as you run to the grassland on the top of the mountain to bask in the sun, listen to the howling wind and see Shan Lan like a green belt, then you will think you are one of the flowers and plants.
6. Bai Xianyong's Evil Son
Douban score 9.0
I have to get ready before reading this book. I just feel crushed when I look at it.
With homosexuality as the theme, this book describes a group of "evil sons" who lived in Taipei in the 1960s and 1970s and were abandoned by their families and society. In the inscription, the author wrote, "Dedicated to those children who wander the streets alone in the deepest night and have nowhere to go."
To borrow a sentence from Douban Book Club, "If all novels are so good-looking, I will never surf the Internet again."
Ps: Mr. Bai Xianyong's Taipei Man and The New Yorker are both very good books, especially an essay, Tree Like, which is extremely touching.
7. Christopher Chaub's lighthouse
Douban score 9.0
When reading this book, I have been afraid of an uncomfortable ending. Fortunately, there is a bright and warm ending. After reading it, I always feel that I should cherish the beauty of life, which is very suitable for reading slowly at home during the winter vacation.
In a lighthouse on the vast sea, there lived a monster. Because of his ugly appearance, he was locked in a tower from birth and lived in isolation for fifty years. The old dictionary left by his parents was the only window for him to know the outside world, until one day, a taciturn sailor came on the fishing boat, and in his own unique way, he gently knocked on the strange locked door. ...
8. neil brown's "Ask the Right Questions"
Douban score 8.6
This book has a Chinese translation of Learning to Ask Questions-A Guide to Critical Thinking, but it is strongly recommended that you read the English original. The vocabulary will not be very high, and the number of new words will be a little higher than Band 6.
The reading experience is very good, which is very suitable for friends who think that their logic is unclear or they can't ask questions. Critical thinking is a kind of thinking cultivated since childhood, which is highly valued abroad, but rarely paid attention to in our children's education. After reading this book in winter vacation, it is estimated that after writing the paper, the thinking will be much clearer.
9. Kelly McGonigal's The Instinct of Willpower.
Douban score 9.0
This is a book about willpower, which is absolutely as easy and enjoyable to read as the English version of Harry Potter. The writer is a famous psychologist at Stanford University. She has helped many people who think they have no willpower to achieve their goals and ideas.
This book is by no means empty, and most methods are useful. After reading it, you will find that willpower is not as terrible as we thought. Follow the method in the book step by step. Maybe if you are not careful, you will be afraid of yourself after the winter vacation.
10, Thomas Foster, How to Read a Literary Book
Douban score 8.7
As the saying goes, "it is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish." Finally, this recommended book comes from Thomas Foster, the most popular professor of open literature in America. Maybe you have silently added some books to the shopping cart after seeing the previous recommendation, but how to read a literary book may also be a problem.
This is a rare guide to reading literary works, which is both interesting and thoughtful. After reading it, I don't think this is a reference book at all. All viewpoints form a complete system, which is very helpful for our own reading. After reading it, I can't stop reading during the winter vacation.