Yesterday it was a World Book Day. Books make our life more interesting, learn us and bring our souls to new places, worlds and situations.
A long time ago I found that sci-fi books were the best way to start reading in English. Sci-fi authors usually use quite understandable language, good sci-fi books are full of new ideas and you read them not "for learning", but for pleasure. So, here are my TOP-3 books you can read in English:
1. "READY PLAYER ONE" by Ernest Cline. Obviously, you have already heard somewhere this title. Maybe, you have already watched the movie, made by Steven Spielberg. But if even so, you must read it. If you like culture of 80`s and 90`s, you like movies and games, and from time to time you want to become a teenager again - stop reading this post and download "Ready Player One" on your device.
2. "SLEEPING GIANTS" by Sylvian Neuvel. This is more "mature" reading. Sylvian Neuvel decided to write a book in two genres: science fiction and a political thriller. Much less action than in the previous book, but still very interesting. Secret technologies, aliens, politicians...
3. "OLD MAN`S WAR" by John Scalzi. If I am not mistaken, it was the first book in English I have ever read. Space ships, hostile planets, angry aliens and interstellar wars, humor - you can find here everything you need. John Scalzi is an author that never get a Pulitzer Prise, but still some of his books are really worth reading.
This is not my TOP-3 sci-fi books at all - some of my favorites sometimes difficult to read even in my native language, but the list above includes books, that are easy to read and have fun for non-native speakers of English.
If you have some favorite books in English - please, share your list in comments!
Comments
Thank you for your list! I have to admit that your list is much more complicated than mine. )
Still once:
When I started reading English books, I read books, written for kids.
Like: The Secret Garden (by Frances Hodgson Burnett)
or: Ann of Green Gable (by Lucy Maud Montgomery)
Reading English books, a good way to improve English.
I don't have any favorite Genres. I've read a few books in the English language.
Here are a few of them:
The Woman In White (Author: Wilkie Collins)
The Woman in White is a novel, published in 1860. The book is considered the first work in the genre of the typical English "Mystery Novel".
The Stranger (Author: Norman Whitney)
Theme: It's about a stranger who comes in a small village and very strange things happen since he is there.
The Citadel (Author: A. J. Cronin)
In Cronin's novel, the idealistic young physician Andrew Manson, with autobiographical features, exposes the flaws of the British health system of the time. On each of his four stages, he gets into new confrontations and entanglements.
A Kiss Before Dying (Author: Ira Levin)
Levin's story centers on a charming, intelligent man who will stop at nothing, even murder, to get where he wants to go. His problem is a pregnant woman who loves him. The solution involves desperate measures.
The woman in Black (Autor: Susan Hill)
The young lawyer Arthur Kipps travels to a godforsaken area to arrange the estate of a deceased client. In the house in the middle of the moor, he encounters long-kept secrets and meets, again and again, a mysterious woman in black. ..
-
1
-
2
of 2 Next