Hello!Dear friends!
I‘m an English learner and interested in reading classics.
Before I start to ask any question, the circumtance should be clarified.
I'm chinese and have read several books in english, this is the list of these books:
1、Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
2、Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets
3、Learning English as a Foreign Language For Dummies
4、Power sleep
5、Godfather
6、Small Prince
7、How to read a book
However,I have an ambitious plan and these books will not satisfy me at all. Here is my plan:
1、
Holy Bible(NKJV I'm reading it right now.)
Sherlock Holmes(four novel)
The Crowd-A Study of the Popular Mind(2 months)
2、
1984
Lolita
Merriam Webster's vocabulary builder(1 month)
3、
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Great Gatsby
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
A Short History of Nearly Everything (1 month)
4、
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The lord of the rings
A Study of History(3 months)
5、
Word Power Made Easy
works of Shakespeare
Paradise lost (1 month)
6、
Dubliners
Ulysses
Treatise of Human(1 month)
I want you my friends to help me determine which one is worth for reading and which one isn't. I also hope someone recommend me some books(just the books written in English but not a translation in English) and erase some of them with an explanation.Can I finish it on time? I really need your help.
Thank you for your recommendation! Stani! And I'll read these two books in a leisure way.
I can recommend the one called 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' by Mark Haddon. It's a pretty good modern detective novel and written in rather simple English as well. Not strictly speaking a classic though, but you might enjoy if you liked Sherlock Holmes books...
Of those you mentioned The Great Gatsby and Ben Franklin's Autobiography are relatively easy reads I think
I also have already finished the reading of Animal farm.