recommend an English book

[Dayspring]

Hello, everyone

Which English book would you recommend for a non-English-native reader? My mother language is Mandarin, and I'm searching for the books in English language, both to improve my English and to have fun. I don't mind if it is written in British English, American English, or the other types of English language. Once I can read it would be fine.

I am now reading "Jane Eyre," It is so much fun to read in old British language although my head goes a little dizzy with the book because I've crammed too many newly learned words into it. A book with a reading level similar to Jane Eyre would be good with me. Otherwise, I can be drowned in a deluge of new words that I can't enjoy the book.

thanks a lot

 

[Proofreader]

Where to start!

Cranford by Mrs Gaskell

I captured the Castle by Dodie Smith

 

[Gilgamesh]

The Cricket in Times Square ~ George Selden
About a cricket and a boy, who visits a Chinese man who gives the boy a cricket cage. It's a children's book. But I would recommend it for an English learner. It is a very interesting book.

 

[LoeMa]

my head goes a little dizzy with the book because I've crammed too many newly learned words into it.

English isn't also my first language so I know very well how are you feeling.

I like to read Charles Dickens in English, though these books are usually very voluminous.
At the moment I read Jerome K. Jerome, Three Man In A Boat - very funny and not so difficult to understand.

Sometimes I read books first in my first language and then in the original language - this way of reading eases certainly the understanding and also helps me a lot to improve my English (or other language).

 

[Dayspring]

Thank you for the recommendations, it is really helpful for me to have these suggestions.

I think I am going to look for some of these books in the bookstores.

 

[The waveguide]

"The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame

Oscar Wilde's fairy tales... All of them! And any other books by Oscar Wilde- he is my favorite writer!

Rudyard Kipling - a book called "Kim" is supreme! His English is weird, with imitation if indian English - for this very reason I had so much fun reading it!