Recommended Reading List for Students (China 2020)

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Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, 99 Books

This is the official recommended reading list of books for Students from the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China (2020)

This list was originally published in 2020 and was added to this site about 2 years ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
327 Household Tales Brothers Grimm 1812 German German
17008 Franz Series Christine Nöstlinger 1979 Austrian German
17008 The Water Hole Graeme Base 2001 Australian English
15786 The Radium Woman Eleanor Doorly 1939 British English
17008 What's The Big Idea? Oscar Brenifier 2001 French English
17008 Pensa Hi Brigitte Labbé 2002 Unknown Unknown
15786 Adventures Of Sanmao The Orphan Zhang Leping 1935 Chinese Chinese
4372 Heart Edmondo de Amicis 1886 Italian Italian
107 Charlotte's Web E. B. White 1952 American English
17008 Totto Chan, The Little Girl At The Window Tetsuko Kuroyanagi 1981 Japanese Japanese
8956 A Short History Of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson 2003 American English
14701 The Chemical History Of A Candle Michael Faraday 1861 British English
14784 Father And Son E. O. Plauen 1934 German German
786 Quotations from Chairman Mao Mao 1964 Chinese Chinese
17008 What About Anne-Sophie Chilard 2023 French Unknown
17008 Les Goûters Philo Brigitte Labbé 1996 French French
2591 Tales Of Hulan River Xiao Hong 1942 Chinese Chinese
11993 Memories Of Peking Lin Hai-yin 1960 Chinese Chinese
224 Fairy Tales and Stories Hans Christian Andersen 1835 Danish Danish
241 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain 1876 American English
15786 Three Days To See Helen Keller 1933 American English
44 The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1943 French French
1133 The Neverending Story Michael Ende 1979 German German
236 Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone J. K. Rowling 1997 British English
162 Silent Spring Rachel Carson 1962 American English
17008 Storia Del Dove Tommaso Maccacaro, Claudio M. Tartari 2017 Italian Unknown
17008 Earth Iain Stewart, John Lynch 2008 British English
17008 Oceans Paul Rose, Anne Laking 2008 British English
17008 Life Martha Holmes, Michael Gunton 2009 British English
15786 Fabre's Book Of Insects Jean Henri Fabre 1921 French French
14692 The Peony Pavilion Tang Xianzu 1598 Chinese Chinese
15786 Red Star Over China Edgar Snow 1937 American English
7019 Records of the Grand Historian Sima Qian 91 Chinese Classical chinese
2138 The Book of Songs China -600 Chinese Classical chinese
14701 The Three Hundred Tang Poems China 1763 Chinese Chinese
1150 The Water Margin Shi Naian 1370 Chinese Chinese
365 Journey to the West Wu Cheng'en 1592 Chinese Chinese
7069 The Scholars Wu Ching-tzu 1750 Chinese Chinese
15786 Dawn Blossoms Plucked At Dusk Lu Xun 1928 Chinese Chinese
817 Rickshaw Boy Lao She 1936 Chinese Chinese
13519 The Young Newcomer In The Organizational Department Wang Meng 1980 Chinese Chinese
570 Aesop's Fables Aesop -560 Greek Ancient greek
2747 Gods And Heroes Gustav Schwab 1838 German German
65 Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1726 British English
28 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë 1847 British English
110 Walden Henry David Thoreau 1854 American English
671 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne 1870 French French
15786 The Crescent Moon Rabindranath Tagore 1913 Indian Bengali
15786 Stray Birds Rabindranath Tagore 1916 Indian Bengali
1731 My Childhood Maxim Gorky 1913 Russian Russian
15786 Black On White M. Ilin 1932 Russian Russian
15786 How The Steel Was Tempered Nikolai Ostrovsky 1932 Russian Russian
17008 Advice To A Young Scientist Peter B. Medawar 1979 British English
15786 The Social Function Of Science J. D. Bernal 1939 British English
863 Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems Galileo 1632 Italian Italian
17008 Pseudoscience And The Paranormal Terence Hines 1988 American English
15786 Physics For Entertainment Yakov Perelman 1913 Russian Russian
10518 The Character Of Physical Law Richard P. Feynman 1965 American English
1050 Treatise on Radioactivity Marie Curie 1910 French French
15786 Elements Of Chemistry Antoine Lavoisier 1789 French French
17008 A History Of Molecular Biology Michel Morange 1998 French French
4969 The First Three Minutes Steven Weinberg 1977 American English
14701 The Origin Of Continents And Oceans Alfred Wegener 1915 German German
17008 Design John Heskett 2005 British English
323 Communist Manifesto Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels 1848 German German
17008 Being Logical D. Q. McInerny 2004 American English
1911 Mencius Mencius -300 Chinese Classical chinese
801 Romance of the Three Kingdoms Guanzhong Luo 1400 Chinese Chinese
484 Dream of the Red Chamber Cao Xueqin 1754 Chinese Chinese
873 Call to Arms Lu Xun 1922 Chinese Chinese
15786 Chu Yuan Guo Moruo 1942 Chinese Chinese
11032 Midnight Mao Dun 1933 Chinese Chinese
2889 Teahouse Lao She 1957 Chinese Chinese
2620 Border Town Shen Congwen 1934 Chinese Chinese
11058 Family Ba Jin 1931 Chinese Chinese
1619 Fortress Besieged Qian Zhongshu 1947 Chinese Chinese
1804 A Hero Born Jin Yong 1957 Chinese Chinese
2320 The Three-Body Problem Cixin Liu 2006 Chinese Chinese
8 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes 1605 Spanish Spanish
72 Hamlet William Shakespeare 1600 British English
1666 The Poetry of Alexander Pushkin Alexander Pushkin 1836 Russian Russian
40 Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1862 French French
47 David Copperfield Charles Dickens 1849 British English
13 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869 Russian Russian
591 Stories of Guy de Maupassant Guy de Maupassant 1880 French French
127 The Stories of Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov 1900 Russian Russian
54 The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway 1952 American English
414 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Thomas Kuhn 1962 American English
15786 The Geometry Rene Descartes 1637 French French
1015 Principia Mathematica Isaac Newton 1687 British Latin
315 Relativity Albert Einstein 1916 German German
15786 The Nature Of The Chemical Bond Linus Pauling 1939 American English
180 On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin 1859 British English
15786 The Theory Of The Gene Thomas Hunt Morgan 1926 American English
3279 What Is Life? Erwin Schrödinger 1944 Austrian English
2025 On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres Nicolaus Copernicus 1543 Polish Latin
15786 The Computer And The Brain John Von Neumann 1958 American English
17008 From Being To Becoming Ilya Prigogine 1980 Belgian English
805 The Story of Art Ernest H. Gombrich 1950 British English