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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Having a love for reading is a key to language and literacy development. It doesn't really matter what you read -- fiction or nonfiction, novels or newspapers, stories or blogs. It is just essential to want to read and to read a lot. What fiction do you love? What are your favorite novels, plays, and stories? I have listed my favorite novels below. Have you read any of them? When did you last curl up with your favorite reading?
My Top Twenty Novels (in alphabetical order)
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Die Verwandlung (The Metamorphosis) by Franz Kafka
Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Faust by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
L’Etranger (The Stranger) by Albert Camus
Lord of the Rings by Tolkien
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Vocabulary
Exercise:
1. To earn money it is ___________________ to work hard.
2. She love writing on the internet and has her own __________.
3. The little girl _________________ on the couch with her favorite book.
4. He reads newspapers online all day because he likes_____________________ better than _______________.
5. When I retire, I want to write a _______________ about people from another planet.