There are always friends who ask what's the use of reading so many books. What I want to say is that the usefulness of reading will only be revealed inadvertently in the future. Reading is not to force X, not to follow the trend, but to expand one's knowledge, improve one's self-cultivation and sublimate oneself.
Today, I recommend ten books that are most suitable for college students to read.
1, a hundred years of loneliness
Author: Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude is a novel by Colombian writer Garcia Marquez, and it is also a representative work of Latin American magical realism literature. Known as "a masterpiece that reproduces the historical and social picture of Latin America."
The work describes the legendary story of seven generations of Buendia family and the centenary rise and fall of Macondo, a small town on the Caribbean coast, and reflects the changeable history of Latin America in the past hundred years. The works are mixed with myths and legends, folk stories, religious allusions and other mysterious factors. , skillfully combines reality and illusion, shows a magnificent imaginary world, and becomes one of the important classic literary masterpieces in the 20th century.
2. "Words on Earth"
Author: Wang Guowei
Thorns on Earth is a literary criticism work of Wang Guowei. The thorn in the world was written in 1908 ~ 1909, and was first published in the Journal of China National Cuisine. This work is the author's criticism of China's old literature with a brand-new eye after the baptism of western aesthetic thought.
3. Ordinary world
Author: Lu Yao
Ordinary World is a million-word novel by China writer Lu Yao. This is a novel with a panoramic view of China's contemporary urban and rural social life, consisting of three books. First published in February, 1986.
The book is set in China in the ten years from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, centering on two brothers, Sun Shaoan and Sun Shaoping, and depicts the images of many ordinary people in all walks of life at that time. Labor and love, frustration and pursuit, pain and joy, daily life and huge social conflicts are intertwined, which profoundly shows the difficult and tortuous road that ordinary people have gone through in the historical process of the great era. 1991March, Ordinary World won the third Mao Dun Literature Prize in China. 2065438+On September 23rd, 2009, this novel was selected into the collection of 70 novels in 70 years in New China.
4. Zeng Guofan's letter
Author: Zeng Guofan
Zeng Guofan was born in an ordinary peasant family. He studied hard since childhood and entered school at the age of 6. At the age of 8, he can read four books and recite five classics. At the age of 14, he can read Zhou Li and Historical Records. In the 18th year of Daoguang (1838), he entered imperial academy and studied under the military minister Zhang Mu. Reluctantly moved to a bachelor's degree in cabinet, assistant minister of does, assistant minister of military, industrial, criminal and official departments. We are close friends with university students such as Woren, Huining Road and Guizhen, and strive for "practical learning". During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, Zeng Guofan formed the Xiang Army. After years of fighting, he turned the tide and wiped out the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Throughout his life, he pursued patience as the first priority, and advocated that everything should be frugal and not proud of being an official. He cultivated self-discipline, sought officials by virtue, put courtesy first, and sought politics by loyalty, and achieved great success in officialdom.
5. Fortress Besieged
Author: Qian Zhongshu
Fortress Besieged is a novel by Qian Zhongshu and a satirical novel with unique style in the history of modern literature in China. Known as the "new scholar". The first edition was published by Shanghai Chen Guang Publishing Company on 1947. This story is mainly about a group of intellectuals in the early days of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.
6. Pride and prejudice
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, a British female novelist.
The novel describes the daughter of Bennett, a young squire among five waitresses, and the protagonist is Elizabeth, the second daughter. She met Darcy at the dance, but she heard that he was arrogant and always refused him. After some twists and turns, Elizabeth lifted her prejudice against Darcy, and Darcy also put down her arrogance. Everything will be fine. All shall be well, jack shall have Jill.
7. Gone with the Wind
Author: margaret mitchell
Gone with the Wind tells the love story between Scarlett and Rhett during the American Civil War. Scarlett has always loved Ashley, but she can't get him. She met Rhett the day the war broke out. After all the hardships, Rhett never left her, but it was not until he finally left that Scarlett found out that she actually loved Rhett.
8. Caigen Tan
Author: Hong Yingming
Caigen Tan is a collection of quotations on self-cultivation, social life, socialization and fertility compiled by Taoist Hong Yingming in the early Ming Dynasty. It was a rare and precious training for the past. It has an incredible subtle influence on people's cultivation and moral cultivation.
Its text is concise and clear, and it adopts both refined and popular tastes. I like quotations, but I have fun that quotations don't have; Arrange in order, whoever seems to be an essay will have an essay that is not easy to achieve; It seems to be exhortation, but there is an awakening that exhortation lacks; And there is rain and mountains, the night is quiet and the bell rings, the words are clear and delicious, and the wind and moon are boundless.
9. Muslim funerals
Author: Huo Da
The Muslim Funeral is a novel written by Huo Da. The novel takes the rise and fall of the jade workshop of Liang Yiqing, a Hui craftsman, as the main line, describes the different fate changes of Liang's three generations under the historical background, and shows the endless fatalism of the protagonist in pursuit of ideals and careers and in order to improve his own quality.
The catcher in the rye 10
Author: Jerome David Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye is the only novel by American writer Jerome David Salinger, which was first published in 195 1. Salinger limited the story to three days when Holden Caulfield, a 65,438+06-year-old middle school student, left school and wandered in new york, and used the unconstrained conscious writing method for reference to fully explore the inner world of a teenager.
Anger and anxiety are the two main themes of this book, and the hero's experience and ideas have aroused strong repercussions among teenagers and been warmly welcomed by readers.