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  1. Outsider [French] Written by Albert Camus, Translated by Wang Changcompleted "The Stranger" is one of the masterpieces of Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus. The book tells the story of a young man who is indifferent to the outside world and has no pursuit of life. He accidentally got involved in a conflict while on vacation at the beach, committed murder, and had to go to court. He was eventually sentenced to death for not shedding tears at his mother's funeral. The whole book uses a first-person narrative technique to strongly contrast the protagonist's inner activities w —Reads9.5Score—Shelves
  2. Wuthering Heights (UK) Written by Emily Brontë; Translated by Wang Yangcompleted Emily Bronte's 200th Birthday Edition! Xu Zhimo said that "Wuthering Heights" tells the essence of love, and Maugham rated the book as one of the top ten novels in the world. Expressing extreme love with extreme hate goes straight to the essence of love. Contains "Wuthering Heights" map and character relationship diagram. "Wuthering Heights" takes love and revenge as its themes and tells the emotional entanglement between two generations in Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. This work alo —Reads9.5Score—Shelves
  3. Faust (Germany) Written by Goethe, Translated by Fan Xiuzhangcompleted There are 2 volumes in total, with more than 12,000 lines in length. Based on 16th century folklore. In order to seek the meaning of life, Dr. Faustus exchanged his soul for the help of the devil Mephisto. He experienced various stages and changes such as love, joy, pain, fugue, etc. At the last moment of his life, in the struggle with nature, he realized that the purpose of life should be to fight for life and freedom. The concept is grand, the content is complex, the structure is huge, and the —Reads9.4Score—Shelves
  4. Crime and Punishment (Selected Collections of Dostoevsky) [Russia] Written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Translated by Ru Longcompleted "Crime and Punishment" is a novel written by the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky and is also his masterpiece. The novel describes Raskolnikov, a poor college student who is poisoned by anarchist ideas and believes that he can do whatever he wants. Forced to make a living, he killed the old loan shark Alyona and her innocent sister Liza Veda, creating a murder that shocked the whole of Russia. After experiencing a painful confession, he finally surrendered under the persuasion of the Christian g —Reads9.4Score—Shelves
  5. Hell Changes (Japanese) Written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Translated by Gao Wencompleted This book contains a total of 11 short stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa. The works represented by "Hell Transformation" express the life tragedy of a lonely person "art for art's sake". To achieve the ideal of "art supremacy" through self-destruction, behind this heavy price is the painful roar of a lonely soul. Starting from a unique narrative perspective and narrative structure, the author sternly observed the Japanese social psychology of that time where "others are hell". This abnormal individ —Reads8.7Score—Shelves
  6. Demian: a Wandering Boyhood (Germany) Written by Hermann Hesse; Translated by Ding Junjun and Xie Yingyingcompleted "Demian: The Lost Boy" is one of Hesse's masterpieces. It tells the story of the young Sinclair's arduous journey of finding his own way. Sinclair, who was born and grew up in the "light world", accidentally discovered a completely different "another world" where the chaos and darkness made him anxious and confused, and fell into the disaster caused by lies. At this time, a young man named Demian appeared and took him out of the swamp. From then on, he began to walk towards loneliness and find h —Reads9.0Score—Shelves
  7. Outsider Camuscompleted Camus is a well-known French novelist, essayist and playwright, and a literary master of the philosophy of absurd existence. In 1957, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his "enthusiastic and calm elucidation of contemporary issues raised to human conscience". He was one of the youngest Nobel Prize-winning writers in history. In his novels, plays, essays and treatises, Camus profoundly revealed the loneliness of man in an alien world, the increasing alienation of individuals from themselve —Reads9.5Score—Shelves
  8. Wuthering Heights (Classic Translation) Written by Emily Bronte, Translated by Yang Yicompleted The author of "Classic Translation: Wuthering Heights" is Emily Bronte (18181848), a famous British poet and novelist in the 19th century. This female writer only spent thirty years in the world before passing away in obscurity. It should be said that she was first of all a poet and wrote some extremely profound lyric poems, including narrative poems and short poems, some of which have been selected into the anthologies of twenty-two first-rate British poets in the 19th and 20th centuries. Howev —Reads9.5Score—Shelves
  9. Moby Dick (U. S. A.) Written by Herman Melville; (Russian) Illustrated by Anton Romaev; Translated by Cao Yongcompleted "Call me Ishmael." With this famous opening sentence in the history of literature as a guide, a thrilling epic begins. Ishmael became a sailor and boarded the whaling ship "Pequod", yearning for the ocean and adventure. But he didn't know that this was a ship full of murderous revenge. Captain Ahab was bitten off a leg by the white whale Moby Dick during a whaling expedition and vowed revenge. With fanatical paranoia, Ahab sets sail again and again to find the whereabouts of Moby Dick, and final —Reads9.2Score—Shelves
  10. Don Quixote Written by Cervantes; Compiled by Yang Linglingcompleted The contents of this book include dreams come true, interesting investitures, first tests of excellence, master and servant's expedition, the battle of the windmill, the death of the shepherd lover, the absurd tryst, the battle with the sheep, the calender and the copper basin, the rescue of the criminal, the wanderer, Sancho's mission, Cardinho, Lucky's Child, The Story of Dorotai, A Man's Story, Reunion of Brothers, Pack Saddle Troubles, The Enchanted Knight, The Shepherd's Tale, Dulshinaia, T —Reads9.4Score—Shelves
  11. La Traviata [French] Written by Alexandre Dumas, Translated by Zhang Lihuicompleted "La Traviata" is a love novel written by Xiao Dumas based on his own personal experience. The protagonist of the story, Margaret, is a beautiful woman who has fallen into prostitution. "La Traviata" is just her nickname because she carries a bouquet of camellias with her. By chance, she met the young talent Armand and was moved by his sincere love, determined to give up her past luxurious life. Just as the lovers were looking forward to a bright future, Armand's father appeared and asked Margare —Reads9.6Score—Shelves
  12. Gadfly [Ireland] Written by Egel Lillian Voynich; Translated by Gu Xumancompleted This book describes the life of Gadfly, an Italian revolutionary. Gadfly participated in the revolutionary activities of the Italian Party in his youth. In a confession, he made a big mistake by leaking the secrets of the revolutionaries. His lover Gemma misunderstood that he had betrayed his comrades on his own initiative. In grief, Gadfly fled to South America and lived in exile for thirteen years. During this period, he encountered many unexpected hardships and became a lame man with scars on —Reads9.5Score—Shelves
  13. Outsider (French) Camuscompleted If you feel out of place in a crowd, be sure to read "The Outsider"! Authoritative scholar's 10,000-word introduction, original illustrations, and brand new translation! A Nobel Prize-winning work, a must-read in this lifetime and thought-provoking. Meursault, a clerk in the company, was accused by the court of murder, but because he "did not cry when his mother was buried", he was sentenced to death. —Reads9.5Score—Shelves
  14. Vegetarian (Work by 2024 Nobel Prize Winner Han Jiang) Koreahan Jiangcompleted In order to escape the violence from her husband, family, society and the crowd, she decided to become a tree. In the eyes of Yinghui's husband, Mr. Zheng, Yinghui before her illness was an ordinary woman: neither tall nor short, hair neither long nor short, plain in appearance, dressed in ordinary clothes, docile, plain and quiet. Just as he hoped, Yinghui perfectly played the role of an ordinary wife-taking care of the housework and serving her husband, just like thousands of traditional wome —Reads9.4Score—Shelves
  15. Pride and Prejudice [English] Jane Austen, Translated by Yang Haotiancompleted "It is a universally acknowledged truth that a single man with a substantial fortune must marry a wife." Successfully marrying off her five daughters is a major event in Mrs. Bennet's life! Suddenly one day, a single man with a wealthy family moved into the Netherfield Manor next door, and the story of Miss Bennet's search for love began. On this road to marriage, how should they with different personalities meet the "right person" of their own? —Reads9.6Score—Shelves
  16. Disqualified from the World (Japan) Osamu Dazaicompleted The full interpretation of "I'm sorry for being human"! Unabridged Collector's Edition! The representative work of modern literary history, the immortal pyramid of Showa literature, dissects everyone's self, loneliness and confusion. Osamu Dazai - hailed as a national-level writer by Haruki Murakami, Shunji Iwai once made a movie to pay tribute to him! The book contains four important works of Osamu Dazai in his later period of creation, which can be called the masterpiece of Osamu Dazai's later —Reads9.3Score—Shelves
  17. The Case of Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty (Six Volumes) (Dutch) Written by Gao Luopei; Translated by Zhu Yiweicompleted [Detective + Suspense + History + Tang Dynasty + Di Renjie] A classic that has been best-selling around the world for half a century! 24 Strange cases reveal the hidden corners of the society in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Based on Di Renjie, a famous Tang Dynasty prime minister and master of solving crimes, and based on and referenced by traditional Chinese public case novels, Gao Luopei created 16 novels and 8 short detective novels in English (published in 16 volumes), from the first "The Ca —Reads9.4Score—Shelves
  18. Crime and Punishment (Russian) Dostoyevskycompleted Only "Crime and Punishment" has thoroughly written about the dark side of human nature that everyone knows but dare not talk about! The New York Times named "Crime and Punishment" one of the "Top Ten Literary Classics in the World." The British "Guardian" named "Crime and Punishment" as "The 100 Must-Read Books in Life". The British BBC named "Crime and Punishment" as one of "the 100 greatest novels of all time". Yu Hua: When I was 20 years old, I read Dostoyevsky for the first time. I read "Cri —Reads9.5Score—Shelves
  19. The Count of Monte Cristo (Three Volumes) (French) Written by Alexandre Dumas, Translated by Zhou Kexicompleted You will be addicted after reading one page! Yu Hua read "The Count of Monte Cristo" like crazy without eating, drinking or sleeping! Marquez said that if he could only recommend one novel, he would recommend "The Count of Monte Cristo"! French translator Zhou Kexi's classic translation, newly revised! The complete version of all three volumes without deleting a word! The wisdom is all there! When the young sailor Edmond Dantes got married to his lover, he was framed and imprisoned. He was impri —Reads9.6Score—Shelves
  20. How Steel Is Tempered (Masterpiece of World Literature) Written by (Su) Ostrovsky, Translated by Zhou Lucompleted This book is an excellent novel written by the author based on his own personal experience. The path taken by the protagonist Paul Korchagin reflects the fearless spirit of the first generation of Soviet revolutionary youths who were not afraid of difficulties, struggled hard, and had the courage to win, and inspired generations of aspiring young people to realize their ideals. —Reads9.6Score—Shelves