Classic Literature: Nobel Prize and Mao Dun Literature Prize Winners

1 四 Romance of the Four Beauties The Eunuch MasterHistorical104k WordsCompleted 108Reads8.7Score—Shelves

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Make reading a habit, and good luck will come quietly along with wisdom.

3 平 Plain Background Move to a Cooler PlaceUrban116k WordsOngoing 1.3kReads—Score205Shelves

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Highly recommended, a realistic novel with the potential to win the Contradictory Literature Award! The novel is written from the beginning of the 21st century. It takes Fang Lizhu, a child born in the 1980s in the rural area of ​​Jianghan Plain in the central region, as the perspective. By describing the various people and events Fang Lizhu encounters during his studies and work, it reflects on the one hand the changes in the overall life of the people in the plain after entering the new century. On the other hand, it also reflects the various life patterns of small people in the face of great changes in the trend of the times and in the context of the big era and the big background, such as active or passive choices, active persistence or passive escape.

4 中 Ancient Chinese Magic Skills Yang JunHistorical194k WordsCompleted 10.8kReads9.5Score1.8kShelves

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After reading these books, my mind feels heavy.

5 你 You Broke Your Promise Shi QingyaoModern Romance138k WordsCompleted 72.1kReads9.5Score13kShelves

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I am interested in literature, so don't recommend random books to me. I like Shi Tiesheng's writing style, and I can have a crush on be!

8 我 My Elders Lion PierModern Romance335k WordsCompleted 262Reads5.8Score—Shelves

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Nobel Prize level book

9 东 Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Dynasties Feng MenglongHistorical677k WordsCompleted 141Reads9.1Score—Shelves

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It's so hard to choose. Let's not talk about the world, but how many famous books there are in China!

12 何 Why Not Cross the River Together? Xian YukeAncient Romance483k WordsCompleted 187.6kReads9.7Score30.7kShelves

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These books are so classic, not abusive, not sweet, no cheating, and written in a down-to-earth style. They are highly recommended by me, a thirty-year-old bookworm.

18 沉 The Years of Precipitation Li XinxinModern Romance560k WordsCompleted 446Reads5.8Score—Shelves

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Different campus life, ups and downs of life experience, different friendship and love.

19 村 In and Around the Village A DaoUrban1.9M WordsCompleted 129.8kReads9.6Score14.5kShelves

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Tomato Literary Classics

20 妖 Monster Code: Journey to the West Bai ZeEastern Fantasy333k WordsCompleted 168Reads9.3Score—Shelves

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📚 Open the classics and meet a better version of yourself!

21 十 Social Arts of the Ten Gods Philosopher CatUrban130k WordsCompleted 44Reads5.8Score—Shelves

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Very useful book! Very practical in life!

23 莽 The Story of Wild Cong Wang HuHistorical386k WordsCompleted 473Reads9.4Score—Shelves

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This book inherits the writing style of Water Margin, but also improves it, and the narrative is not broken. The structure is majestic, like a dragon entering the sea and cascading thousands of miles. It makes up for the shortcomings of Water Margin and inherits the legacy of Red Mansion. There is a story on the outside and a story on the inside.

24 大 Biography of the Mirror Master of the Tang Dynasty Hu RenzhiMartial Arts756k WordsCompleted 55Reads8.9Score—Shelves

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I recommend a few books that are suitable for middle-aged or demanding readers, especially the first one, a crime-solving book, which is very good-looking. These books are neither sweet nor sadistic nor bloody, with good writing and compact plots. I also recommend a book called "The Great Stew of the Southern and Northern Dynasties". The writing style of this book is vivid and interesting, even women who don't like to read historical wars can also read it with gusto.

30 曾 Zeng Guofan's Academic Methods Vu ChifuHistorical77k WordsCompleted 376Reads9.0Score196Shelves

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Knowledge is always something you have in your own hands, which is better than someone else having it handed to you. When it comes to a book, it is better to be able to talk about it yourself than to listen to someone else say something that you don't know.

31 宋 History of the Song Dynasty·the Anthology of Taizu TuotuoHistorical21k WordsCompleted 144Reads8.3Score—Shelves

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They are all books full of useful information.

32 撷 Jiejunxing Always Stay TogetherEastern Fantasy201k WordsOngoing 60Reads—Score—Shelves

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"I hope you can pick more, this is the most lovesick thing.": The novel "Xie Picking the King": It starts with the absurdity of the half-Tang Dynasty, and takes the Six Heroes of Traditional Chinese Medicine to exorcise evil spirits as the main line. At the same time, Tang Banzong, Wei Xiaozheng, Tang Xiaozang, Hou Yi, Sun Ashi, Song Yixian, Wang Xiaoshun, Zhan Le and other descendants of historical figures all appear. Tao reflects all kinds of things in the world, but also adds modern elements. It's simple but has new interest, it's a super humorous work! @Moyan

33 黄 Deep in the Loess Is the Human World Lei Yu NaoModern Romance256k WordsCompleted 280Reads5.8Score—Shelves

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Written by a new author, the writing style is not very skillful. But the story is true, the style of writing is honest, there is no technique, but it suits my taste. If you like a slow pace, you can read this for a change of taste after reading the classics.

35 水 Watery Poplar Feng YuqiHistorical74k WordsCompleted 271Reads8.6Score—Shelves

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Classic chants are spread, and they will continue to be spread from me

36 张 Zhang Juzheng (All Four Volumes) Xiong ZhaozhengHistorical1.1M WordsCompleted 6.8kReads9.6Score1.5kShelves

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All of them are of high quality, with good writing and content. I couldn't stop reading them once I read them. When I found the sixth book, I had been reading for dozens of days. I had already read 53 chapters. It really saved me. I hope these books can also save bookworms from the book shortage.

40 一 A History of China That Is Addictive Once You Read It Yan'an in JulyHistorical892k WordsCompleted 35.5kReads9.5Score5.5kShelves

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Super pretty! If it doesn't look good, I'll be punished by watching it ten more times!

43 从 Start by Killing Brother Long of Kunshan CEO7k WordsCompleted —Reads5.8Score—Shelves

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[Adapted from the case of Brother Long from Kunshan] The great master of China Garden starts by killing Brother Long from Kunshan! It made me tremble all over! 🔥Core highlights: Real case background + low-level survival records + hard-core counter-killing + warmth from marginalized people, four critical strikes! 💡Reading Guide: The author's writing is cold and the images are explosive! A must-read for those who like realistic themes such as "I'm Not the God of Medicine" and "Shoplifters"! The early stage is tense and exciting, the middle stage is heart-wrenching, and the later stage is warm and healing! The full text is complete, you can read it in one go without feeling bored! ❤️Personal comment: The most unique realistic theme I have seen this year. The protagonist ranges from a murderer to "beating the worker's eyes". The heroine, a woman who lives in a bridge cave, uses the money collected from rags to treat him to eat noodles - I cried so much that snot bubbles came out of my nose. ---! ! ! ! ! !

44 人 Shocking Guest in the World Wang LeiHistorical91k WordsCompleted 17.9kReads9.5Score4kShelves

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Do you believe it? Some poems are alive.

45 瓦 Romance of Wagangzhai Liang LangchuanHistorical74k WordsCompleted 821Reads9.5Score—Shelves

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Must-read literary classics [laughing]

48 此 Here in Chang'an Gu YanqingAncient Romance353k WordsOngoing 36Reads—Score—Shelves

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Chang'an here - the Chang'an in this book is the Chang'an they lived in - with temperature, smell, sound and light,

49 恒 Hengji Fengjie Xuanyuan DomineeringModern Romance1.2M WordsOngoing 8Reads5.8Score—Shelves

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A mediocre man seeks a way. During the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a small village outside Bianjing City, and a young man named Zhou Yong lived in the village. Zhou Yong was in his early twenties, with strong body and nimble hands and feet, but his life was in a mess, his family was in ruins, and he had no food to eat. When people in the village mentioned him, they just shook their heads and lamented that he was a man with "empty body and no real heart." Zhou Yong had a problem since he was a child. He never looked for reasons from himself for everything, he only knew how to be demanding from others. When he was young, his teacher taught him to study hard, but he always felt that the books were obscure and the homework was difficult. He often failed in exams. He never blamed himself for being lazy and playful, but blamed his teacher for not teaching well, his classmates for stealing his attention, his family being poor and not having good pens, ink, paper, and inkstones, and even the wrong weather, which kept him from having the good luck to study. His classmates studied hard day and night, and there were many who achieved academic success. But he was the only one who wasted several years and failed to read even the most basic poems and books. In the end, he had no choice but to give up his studies and return to his hometown to make a living. After returning to his hometown, Zhou Yong looked at the villagers around him. Some of them farmed diligently, sowing in spring and harvesting in autumn. They had bumper crops every year and their families had full granaries. Some of them studied crafts, learned to be carpenters and bricklayers, and relied on their skills to support their families, and their days became more and more prosperous. Some of them walked the streets and alleys, doing small businesses, getting up early and working late at night, and they were able to save a lot of savings. Zhou Yong saw this and was filled with envy, but he never wanted to learn a craft or cultivate an acre of land in a down-to-earth manner. He always felt that farming was too hard, facing the loess and facing the sky, with the wind and sun blowing, and it was too slow to get a harvest all year round; to do a craft, you had to learn from scratch, study under a teacher, and wait for several years to become a master, which was too torturous; doing a small business required capital and worry, which was too trivial. He was obsessed with taking shortcuts, always looking forward to living a prosperous and stable life without any effort. So Zhou Yong began to "wait" and "beg" day after day. He sat under the old locust tree at the entrance of the village every day, either complaining about the bad weather or the injustice of the world, complaining that he was born at the wrong time, that he did not meet a good era, that he was not born into a wealthy family, and that he did not have the help of powerful relatives. He always felt that the reason why he was not living well was all the fault of the outside world, that the environment was dragging him down, and that others owed him. He never thought that it was because he was unwilling to pay or work hard. He is waiting for pie to fall from the sky, waiting for sudden opportunities to hit him, waiting for noble people to take the initiative to help him, waiting for endless resources to be obtained out of thin air one day. When he saw someone in the village making a fortune by raising silkworms, he immediately followed suit. Others planted mulberries and he also raised silkworms. However, he only learned a superficial knowledge and refused to study the skills of raising silkworms and take care of the silkworms carefully. Before long, the mulberry leaves turned yellow and most of the silkworms died, and he lost all his money. He saw some people making money as traders, but they hurriedly followed the trend, but they did not understand the market conditions and how to operate. The goods they bought were either unsalable or sold at a loss, and in the end they were penniless. After hitting the wall one after another, Zhou Yong not only did not wake up, but became more and more desperate. He stopped doing things in a down-to-earth manner. Instead, he began to rack his brains and inquired about the so-called "secrets of success" and "shortcut theories." He heard from a wandering Taoist priest that there was a "way to get rich quickly", so he followed him and asked for advice, spending all his family's savings in exchange for a bunch of illusory truths that could not be put into practice. When he heard that Mr. Shu told the success stories of famous people from ancient and modern times, he stopped. Zhang Qiyi only learned from other people's superficial beauty, but did not learn from the ten years of sharpening their sword behind them. He thought he had mastered the true meaning of life. He used these unrealistic theories to talk and give advice all day long, but when he really asked him to do it, he achieved nothing. He always places his hope on the illusory future, praying for God's favor every day, eager to get rich overnight, eager to reach the sky in one step, and eager to have everything he wants without any hard work. He lives in the fantasy he spun, treating knowledge that seems to be a quick success but is actually useless as the most precious treasure in life. He ponders it all day long, but never takes the first step to do it. He feels that other people's success depends on luck and opportunity. As long as he waits for the right time and learns the "secret", he can easily surpass everyone. However, he does not know that the so-called shortcuts are often the farthest detours; the so-called unrealistic desires are ultimately just reflections in the mirror. Days pass by, spring goes and autumn comes, cold comes and summer comes, and ten years pass by in a blink of an eye. Among the folks who grew up with Zhou Yong, those who farmed the land became wealthy households in the village, those who did crafts became famous craftsmen, and those who did business opened shops in Bianjing City. Their families were harmonious and they had no worries about food and clothing. Only Zhou Yong was still alone and alone. He spent his youth, turned his temples white, and spent all his energy blaming others, blaming the environment, waiting for resources, and waiting for opportunities, blindly imitating, praying for the future, and delving into useless theories. He never really calmed down, examined himself, changed himself, and relied on himself. He always wants to seek from the outside, but never digs deep inward; he always wants to take shortcuts, but is unwilling to take every step in a down-to-earth manner; he always places his hope on the outside world and the future, but never grasps the present and takes action. In the end, the opportunity he was looking forward to did not come, the resources he sought did not come, the imitation he had accomplished was nothing, the theory he studied was useless, the once strong body became weak, the once great years were in vain, and in the end, it was all in vain. He didn't accumulate wealth, didn't learn skills, didn't make true friends, and didn't even have the confidence to stand in the world. He looked at the stable lives of the people around him, and then at his empty home, and finally shed tears of regret. Only then did he understand that the easiest thing in life is to shirk responsibility, just complain, wait, imitate, fantasize, and put all your hopes on others, the environment, the future, and the shortcut to nothingness. But these seemingly easy choices will only lead to nothing and nothing in the end. There are no opportunities in this world that come out of thin air, no success that comes without hard work, and no shortcuts that can bypass all the hard work. If you blindly blame others, you will only lose your true heart; if you blindly wait for resources and opportunities, you will only waste your time; if you blindly imitate others, you will only lose yourself; if you blindly pray for the future and have unrealistic desires, you will only live in fantasy; if you blindly delve into useless theories that seem to be shortcuts, you will only waste your energy. The true path of life is always walked by oneself step by step. Don't complain, don't wait, don't blindly follow, calm down, be yourself, work hard, cherish the present, and cultivate yourself deeply, this is the only right path. If you blindly demand outwards and refuse to seek inwardly, you will end up with nothingness, emptiness, and nothingness, leaving you with a lifetime of regrets and no way back. And this truth has become a warning passed down from generation to generation in the village. Later generations will take Zhou Yong as a warning and no longer be that mediocre person who blindly seeks from the outside and refuses to look inward. They always remember: it is better to rely on others than to rely on oneself, to blame others is better to be introspective, to fantasize about shortcuts than to be down-to-earth. Only by keeping one's heart and doing things in a down-to-earth way can one live up to time and oneself, and walk out a solid life path of his own.

50 昂 High Spirited Life Pomegranates Reflect the Month of MayModern Romance616k WordsCompleted 182Reads5.8Score—Shelves

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This book really wants to become a classic, but I don't know if readers will allow it? Some readers have objected before, saying that it is too arrogant, but a soldier who does not want to be a general is not a good soldier. Whether he can become a general is one thing, and whether he wants to be a general is another matter. This book just wants to win the Mao Dun Literature Award like "The Ordinary World"!