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Q: which english novel is suit for ESL reader
i want to look for some English novel to read to improve my English
11 years 32 weeks ago in Teaching & Learning - China
Find something that you enjoy reading. When I started learning Chinese writing, I used comic books and books that I now use to teach my 4 year olds. The main thing is to read something that will keep your interest. If you don't like what you are reading, you won't learn as much from it.
Well............A long List....You just pick the one you like
Through the Tunnel (Doris Lessing)
The Point of Honour (W. Somerset Maugham)
The Murder (John Steinbeck)
The Verger (W. Somerset Maugham)
You Should Have Seen the Mess (Muriel Spark)
The Taipan (W. Somerset Maugham)
The Package (Kurt Vonnegut)
Princess September (W. Somerset Maugham)
The No-Talent Kid (Kurt Vonnegut)
The Romantic Young Lady (W. S. Maugham)
The Case for the Defence (Grahame Greene)
The Mother (W. Somerset Maugham)
Ricochet (Angela Noel)
The Happy Man (W. Somerset Maugham)
The Way up to Heaven (Roald Dahl)
The Poet (W. Somerset Maugham)
A Glowing Future (Ruth Rendell)
The Fountain Plays (Dorothy L. Sayers)
The Signalman (Charles Dickens)
The Haunted House (Charles Dickens)
The Trial For Murder (Charles Dickens)
Bartleby the Scrivener (Herman Melville)
Benito Cereno (Herman Melville)
The Rabbit Grows a Crop of Money (An African Tale)
The Lion and the Hare Go Hunting (An Ethiopian Tale)
The Jackal's Lawsuit (An Ethiopian Tale)
The Buffalo and the Field Mouse (A Native American Tale)
The Frogs and the Crane (A Native American Tale)
The Falcon and the Duck (A Native American Tale)
How Coyote Stole Fire (A Native Amarican Tale)
The Rocking-Horse Winner (D.H. Lawrence)
L,U,C,I,E (Nadine Gordimer)
The Companion (Agatha Christie)
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (R. L. Stevenson)
Betty Stoggs' Baby (A Cornish Tale)
The Mermaid of Zennor (A Cornish Tale)
Tattercoats (An English Tale)
Yallery Brown (An English Tale)
Three Feathers (An English Tale)
Tom Hickathrift (An English Tale)
Rushen Coatie (An English Tale)
The Stars in the Sky (An English Tale)
The Caballero's Way (O. Henry)
De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period (J.D.Salinger)
A Perfect day for Bananafish (J.D. Salinger)
Teddy (J.D. Salinger)
Lost on Dress Parade (O. Henry)
Macbeth (Edith Nesbit from W. Shakespeare)
Two Gentlemen of Verona (Edith Nesbit from W. Shakespeare)
King Lear (Edith Nesbit from W. Shakespeare)
The Merchant of Venice (Edith Nesbit from W. Shakespeare)
Hamlet (Edith Nesbit from W. Shakespeare)
Othello (Edith Nesbit from W. Shakespeare)
Romeo and Juliet (Edith Nesbit from W. Shakespeare)
Kew Gardens (Virginia Woolf)
P.s: I found them online but i have been reading some of them
mryin:
oh, so many.... thank you, could you please tell me which one is your favorite?
Maybe you'd be better off with something like The Hunger Games. If you liked the movie, then you'll enjoy the book, which by the way is pretty easy reading.
'Ham on Rye', the story of Charles Bukowski's early years before he became a famous writer, written of course by himself. He wrote for the common man so the language is not too challenging. It's also pretty funny. Also if you can get your hands on a book called 'Magical Thinking' by Augusten Burroughs, i'd recommend it. The language he uses is more challenging but it is a collection of short stories, all true, so there is not so much in any one story for the reader to digest. Very very funny indeed.
