Recommended by Meigao Summer Book List： 7 classic books that Meigao students must read!

　　Reading is one of the most cost-effective ways to achieve self-improvement.

　　Especially for students who are interested in going abroad in the future, we must use the full time of the holiday to read more good books. After all, both American high school and American school attach great importance to students' reading and writing ability, and constantly improving their English strength can also lay a good foundation for their future study career.

　　Returned to the United States has compiled seven classic books that American high school students must read, hoping to help you in choosing a bibliography!

　　(1) Title: The White Tiger

　　White tiger

　　Author: Aravind Adiga

　　The novel White Tiger, which won the Booker Prize in 2008, constructs a "confession narrative" which combines the narrator's "self-accusation" and "self-exoneration". The author Aravind Adiga tries to inspire readers to make ethical judgments through the narrator's "confession narrative", and then gradually guide them to discover and understand the implied ethical value orientation.

　　The author hopes that readers can have a deep insight into the Indian society behind these ethical problems, including its hierarchical system, abnormal capitalist economic system, government corruption and so on.

　　(2) In the book "Riptide Boy", the author tells the story of eight American rowers who took part in rowing events in the 1936 Olympic Games under the leadership of a coach.

　　The eight young people in the Great Depression were students of the University of Washington. They were not traditional rowers, and their poor families did not bring them any material support, but they came together with the help of an unconventional coach.

　　Riptide Boy was once listed as one of the 13 most sought-after books on Wall Street in 2014.

　　(3) Title: All the Light We Cannot See

　　All the light we can't see

　　Author:

　　Anthony Doerr (October 27th, 1973-) is an American novelist and short story writer, whose works include The Shell Collector, About Grace, Four Seasons in Rome, Memory Wall and other books. Dole won the O 'Henry Novel Award three times, the National Magazine Award and the Handcart Award for his short stories.

　　Introduction:

　　A French girl, Marilol, lived in Paris. After her childhood blindness, her father protected her, trained her and encouraged her to live bravely. In 1940, when Germany invaded, she was forced to leave home, and soon separated from her father's flesh and blood, resisting Nazi tyranny with thin shoulders. Werner, a German teenager, lost his parents since he was a child and lived alone with his sister in an orphanage in a mining area. He wanted to get rid of the fate of the bottom, and he entered the Nazi elite school with his radio talent. He thought it was a turning point of fate, but he fell into another hell. The war crushed their hopes, and the life trajectories of two strangers unexpectedly met. When a quiet life becomes an unattainable dark light, do they have the courage to live a life before they die?

　　(4) Title: A Very Long Engagement

　　Long engagement

　　Author:

　　Sé bastien Sébastien Japrisot, 1931—2003) is an outstanding contemporary French writer, screenwriter and director, and is known as "graham greene of France". Almost all of his works have been put on the screen and translated into many languages, and he is regarded as one of the most popular French writers among foreign readers.

　　Introduction:

　　In January 1917, five wounded French soldiers were taken to picardie with their hands tied behind their backs, and left to die in the no-man's land between French and German troops. Their cruel punishment has been covered up for more than two years. At that time, Mathilde Donnay was unable to walk since she was a child, and she began to look for her fiance who died in the official announcement, perhaps still alive. Clever, ironic and imaginative, mathilde searched the whole country for information about these people. When she was in the last stage of her search, she found an elaborate web of deception and coincidence, and Mathilde also learned about the horror and kindness brought by the war.

　　(5) Title: Cities of the Plain

　　City on the Plain

　　Author:

　　Cormac McCarthy, born in Rhode Island in 1933, is a novelist and playwright. The "Frontier Trilogy" caused a sensation in the book industry and won the National Book Award and the National Book Award. The film of the same name adapted from No Country for Old Men won four heavyweight awards, including the Oscar for Best Picture.

　　Introduction:

　　This book is the last part of the "Border Trilogy". In 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham worked as ranchers in New Mexico, not far from the proving grounds of Alamogordo, El Paso and Juarez. Their lives consist of stories told by cross-country express trains, harness auctions and bonfire lights. They cherish life more because they know that life will change at any time. When John Grady fell in love with a beautiful, morbid Mexican prostitute and triggered a series of unstoppable violence, change came. City on the Plain is full of sadness, humor and awe, and it is a true American epic.

　　(6) Title: Dune

　　Dune

　　Author:

　　Franklin Patrick Herbert (Jr., 1920-1986) is an American science fiction writer. Represented as two sets of dune trilogy. The first book Dune was very popular as soon as it was published, winning the nebula award that year and the Hugo award next year. Dune series has been adapted into movies, TV series and many computer games, as well as a series of prequels, co-authored by the author's sons Brian Herbert and Kevin J anderson. Dune is regarded as one of the greatest science fiction novels in history and is generally regarded as the best-selling science fiction novel.

　　Introduction:

　　The story is set in a huge feudal interstellar empire in the distant future, and the whole planetary dynasty is controlled by nobles loyal to the royal family of Corrino. Dune tells the story of young Paul Atreides (successor of Duke Leto Art Reddes and successor of Art Reddes in the House of Representatives). His family took control of the desert planet Arrakis, which is the only source of "spice" mixture, which is the most important and valuable substance in the universe. With various forces in the empire confronting each other to control Araqis, this story explores the complex multi-level interaction of politics, religion, ecology, technology and human emotions.

　　(7) Title: Franny and Zooey

　　Frannie and Zoe

　　Author:

　　Jerome David Salinger (J. D. Salinger, 1919-2010), a famous contemporary American writer, was born in new york City, USA in 1919. His father was a Jewish businessman who imported cheese and ham, and his family was well-off. Franny and Zoe is Salinger's third work after The Catcher in the Rye (introduced in our AX reading list) and Nine Stories. It consists of two interrelated short stories, Franny and Zoe, both of which were published in The New Yorker magazine and published in 1961.

　　Introduction:

　　Franny, a short story, takes place in a nameless university town and tells the story of an undergraduate who becomes selfish and hypocritical about everything around her.

　　The novella Zooey is named after Zooey Glass, the second youngest member of the glass family. When his sister Franny suffered mental and existential torture in her parents' Manhattan living room-leaving her mother Bessie in great concern-Zooey lent a helping hand and offered what he thought was brotherly love, understanding and wise words.

　　The above are seven classic books suitable for American high school students, and I hope they can help you improve your reading!

　　If you have any good books to recommend, you are welcome to leave a message in the background or in the comments section below ~