1. Heat and Dust

Author: [English]? Ruth Prawar Jaha Boila

Introduction: Fifty years, two generations of women, in the Indian summer heat and smoke, have different and different love and entanglements. Winners of Booker Prize, the highest prize in English literature.

2. Schindler's Ark

Author: Thomas Keneally

Introduction: Schindler's List is a novel written by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally, which tells the story of oskar schindler, a former member of the Nazi Party, who saved more than 1,2 Jews from concentration camps in Poland and Germany during World War II. Its film of the same name Schindler's List was adapted from this.

3. The Life of Pi

Author: Yann Martel

Introduction: The fantasy drifting of Pi, the fourth novel by author martel, is a strange novel about growth, adventure, hope, miracle, survival and confidence. The film "Fantasy Drifting of Pi" directed by Ang Lee is based on this.

4. Dubliners

Author: James Joyce

Introduction: A collection of short stories, which depicts the life of the middle and lower classes in Dublin in the early 2th century in a realistic and ironic way. Paralysis and death run through the book. The author of this book has a long reputation, and he also wrote Ulysses.

5. A splendid sunny suns

Author: khaled hosseini

Introduction: The novel tells the unfortunate story of two Afghan women.

khaled hosseini's The Kite Runner is his second novel.

Extended materials:

1. If you want to improve your English, there is one thing that cannot be ignored-words. No matter how hard you work on "listening, speaking, reading and writing", as long as your vocabulary is small, it will be difficult to make qualitative progress. Therefore, the first point to improve English is "memorizing words".

2. Here are three core memorization methods.

(1) Reading memory

As the name implies, reading memory refers to memorizing words by reading English articles and materials. In the process of reading, we can memorize words in the order of circling new words, studying sentences repeatedly, sketching phrases, understanding replacement words, and defining the meanings of cooked words (such as hubband nouns as husbands and verbs as thrifty places).

Advantages: You can understand the actual and specific usage of words from the article through the context; Impressed; Interesting

Disadvantages: you can't increase your vocabulary quickly in a short period of time

(2) Roots, affixes, etymology rules

About two-thirds of English words contain root affixes, and most of them can be solved by memorizing them. Usually, the prefix of a word indicates affirmation, negation, number and direction; Suffixes determine the part of speech; And the root indicates the meaning of the word. In contrast, the memory of etymology and alphabetics is more suitable for the memory of monosyllabic words.

Advantages: the number of words can be quickly broken in a short time; Effective memory

Disadvantages: it is difficult to use in your own sentences; Memory process is boring; It is easy to forget

(3) Association

Making up stories, making up formulas and using homophonic methods to help remember vocabulary. For example, thank you (three grams of oil) and twohands (stealing men), which were popular on the Internet some time ago, all belong to the category of associative memory.

advantages: avoid the dull and boring state when memorizing vocabulary

disadvantages: not all words can be memorized in this way

4. It is very important to memorize words repeatedly, and review and consolidate the words memorized before every day, otherwise it is easy to find few words that are really memorized after brushing.