What literature to read in English for language learning?

Question

Books

Please tell me some literature to read in English. You need something written in simple language to get used to and stop translating words in your head. And preferably fiction.

Answer 1

Try children's literature, it is written in simple language. I have read Harry Potter. Agatha Christie was also recommended to me, but I have not tried it.

Answer 2

1. Romance novels
2. Adapted works
3. Do not read complex steampunk literature and non-fiction
4. Developmental romance novels ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Answer 3

Check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hUIxyE2Ns8
Very simple, excellent English. School level is enough.

Answer 4

Try The Commitments by Roddy Doyle
This was the first interesting book in English that I managed to master.
If you are going to develop in this direction, then I recommend buying an e-book. Almost all have a dictionary function. It is simply indispensable for learning.
Also try listening to an audiobook and running your eyes through the text at the same time. This will be a double blow to illiteracy.

Answer 5

I used to read Sidney Sheldon, try it.

Answer 6

according to the artist ... well, it depends more on your taste. I can recommend on my own:
1) Andy Weir - The Martian - And the book is good, and the language in "The Martian" is very simple.
2) Homer Hickam - October Sky (before the release of the film of the same name, the book was published under the original name Rocket Boys, there are both versions on sale and in electronic libraries - the text does not differ) - an inspiring book that is very popular in the USA, completely unknown to us. The language is of medium complexity - the general meaning is easily understood, but there is a lot of near-mining terminology (a la a minefield structure, a trolley, a slag dump, a drift, a seam, etc.), which must be looked up in the dictionary - the events take place in a mining monotown in West Virginia. One of my favorite books.
3) John Green - Paper Towns and his Looking for Alaska and An Abundance of Katherines - very warm and lamp, but if you are not many years old, you may not come in - these are stories about teenagers told by a 40-year-old man to his peers yearning for youth . But try. The language is uncomplicated.
4) David Nicholls - Starter for Ten - not a bad story, you can watch the movie. Language of medium complexity, or even slightly higher. Or maybe I thought so.
5) John Z. Sonmez - Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual - was repeatedly mentioned on Habré. The language is uncomplicated.

Answer 7

Remember the books that you have ever read in Russian, and you liked them. Find them in English and read. If it is very difficult, then you can try to find an adapted version.
Without knowing preferences, it's hard to recommend something. For example, I like the works of Francis Scott Fitzgerald. But there may not be such a simple language.
Try Matthew Quick's The Silver Linings Playbook.

Answer 8

try comics - and there will be an associative series, and you can pick up material of interest.

Answer 9

lelang.ru/english/adaptirovannye-knigi
_ interest in the book disappears; there are many worthy works, which you have not yet read in Russian and which can be read in English.
It is also not worth starting with large-scale works; each story you read, even a small one, is your small victory, which will give you strength for further reading.

Answer 10

I started with Holes (Sachar) - a very simple language. Then there were The Chronicles of Narnia (the first book), The Secret Garden (Burnett), The Giver (Lowry) and Tunnel in the sky (the most liked, ala about the Robinsons of the future) and Time for the Stars (Highline), i.e. books for teenagers. In parallel, it is desirable to download the audio skill in order to read the words correctly. To do this, I listened to a podcast about the Civil War from VOA (read in slow motion), then read and listened to Ender's Game (Orson) the first book. When I got used to it a little, now I try to listen to audio without text - Mythology (Asprina) went well for the first three books, and then the reader changed and Aahz became no longer the same.
Tried to read "Chronicles of Amber" (Norton), overcame a couple of books and merged. The language is peculiar, very poetic (I did not feel this in the Russian translation), but because of this the narration is somehow slurred. And "On Writing" (King) is basically King's autobiography of how he got to the point of being a writer. It's a bit complicated and boring in places, but the fans should come in.
Recently finished reading The Godfather (Pyuzo). Pretty simple English, some American slang. The film is much better in my opinion (the script was written by Puzo, so it's like the second version).
Now I started reading The Name Of The Wind (Rothfuss) for trial. There doesn't seem to be much of a problem.
For reading, I use a shovel phone + Cool Reader + GoldenDict with Miller's dictionary and (required!) "dictionary" of voice acting.
PS My English level is quite so-so. At the moment I have been studying for four months, I hope to have an Intermediate level.