I recently turned 16 and will get my secondary school certificate this year. Next year I will go to high school and would like to improve my English. Since my vocabulary is, let's say, expandable.
I'm just between a 2 and 3 in English and would know if you can recommend books to me. At about my level.
So if you want to know something about my taste. I will now name my favorite series and films, because I found the books I had read so far. Not interesting.
Bird Box (Netflix), Game of Thrones (all parts), the Witcher (games and the Netflix series), Babarian (Netflix), Locke & Key (Netflix).
So I do things where something is invented with so few magic beings like in GoT and Witcher. But that's exactly how I like things in the real world. And I'm also a little interested in Grischian mythology.
I know that there are also books for a few of the films and series, but I don't know whether they are for my English level or still too difficult. Feel free to write me some recommendations.
https://www.amazon.de/...B01IVSATMQ
It's quite entertaining
Nice that you want to work on your english skills.
My suggestions from easy to demanding (the order does not say anything about the level of difficulty):
- Harry Potter
- The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Golden & Gray (An Unremarkable Boy and a Rather Remarkable Ghost) by Louise Arnold
- The Misadventures of Benjamin Bartholomew Piff by Jason Lethcoe
- Winnie-The-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne
- Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - You read that before.
- 1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- Dead Poets Society by Kleinbaum, Nancy H.
- The Wave, Morton Rhue
- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend (and the sequels)
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney
- Daddy-Long-Legs, Jean Webster
- Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery
- The Call of the Wild, Jack London
- Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
- Mutiny on the Bounty, Charles Bernard Nordhoff, James Norman Hall
- The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
- Lord of the Flies, William Golding
- Marathon Man, William Goldman
- East of Eden, John Steinbeck
- A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams
- The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
- Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie, Ellen Forney
- Watership Down, Richard Adams
- Nation, Terry Pratchett
- Bill Bryson: Notes from a small island, Notes from a big country, etc.
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, John Boyne
- The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
- When H… Ler stole Pink Rabbit, Judith Kerr
- Blandings Castle novels by P. G. Wodehouse
- Vets might fly and the complete Vet (s) series by James Herriot
- The old man and Mr. Smith, Peter Ustinov
- Miss Read
- I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg
- In This Sign by Hannah Green (= Joanne Greenberg)
This list could go on and on!
In addition, works by: Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, William Shakespeare, Emily Brontë and many more.
In addition, I can recommend:
• Learning crime stories: f. Miscellaneous. Years of study, with vocabulary and grammar exercises
• penguinreaders.de (Level Easystarts - Advanced) engl. Books for different Learning levels
• Reading A-Z.com: The online leveled reading program, with books for miscellaneous. Learning levels
• Mysteries / thrillers by Helen MacInnes, Collin Forbes, Ken Follet, Sidney Sheldon, Joy Fielding, Elizabeth George, Robert Ludlum, Agatha Christie, etc.
- The Cuckoo's Calling (1) The Silkworm (2), Career of Evil (3), Lethal White (4), Troubled Blood (5) - J. K. Rowling (under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith)
• Romance novels by Rosamunde Pilcher, Katie Fforde, Nora Roberts, Nicholas Sparks, Sherryl Woods, Susan Mallery, etc.
These are usually also available in German, so you can look there if you don't know what to do next.
Another tip for reading English books:
Don't look up and write out every new or unknown word. That quickly becomes too much and you leaf through the dictionary rather than read it. This way you quickly lose the fun of reading.
Look up, write down, and learn only words that you think are really necessary, and if otherwise the sense of a passage does not make sense to you. Many words are already explained by the context.
You can search for English books in different categories under the following link: goodreads.com/
You can find more titles, sorted by class level or level of difficulty, under the following links:
- deutsch Stunden.de/Unterricht/Englisch/Englisch-lektueren-reader-Oberstufe.html
- english-readers.de/index-Klett-English-Readers.html
- penguinreaders.com/pr/teachers/grading-of-language.html
- sprachwelt.de/h/h0eng0lcb2/index.htm
Have fun reading!
:-) AstridDerPu
