What good novels do you recommend?

And:

blaspheme

Zhu xian

Zichuan

mercenary

Chinese fairy tale

Daily line

wukong zhuan

Strange stories of urban demons

Legend of Xiao Bing

Shenglong i.

An ethereal journey

Magic apprentice

The New York Times selected the top ten books in 2005.

Xinhuanet Beijing 65438+February 6th According to a report on the US The New York Times website on the 5th, The New York Times selected the top ten books in 2005, including five novels and five non-fiction books, with brief comments. Introduction is as follows:

First, the novel category:

Kafka by the Sea by Haruki Murakami

1, Kafka by the sea. Author: Haruki Murakami. Comments: This elegant and wise novel tells two stories, one is about the prediction of a little boy escaping from Oedipus complex, and the other is the story of an old man who can talk to cats. It can be seen that the author is very confident.

2. About beauty. Author: Zadi Smith. Comments: This is a novel that gives consideration to both culture and politics. The author puts everything on the table: lively wisdom, wonderful humor and infinite sympathy for men, women and children in the novel. (no picture)

Curtis Sidon Field, preppie.

3. "preppie". Curtis Sittenfield. Comments: This novel, with gentle but profound words, tells the story of a girl who goes to a famous preparatory school in the east with a scholarship. This story has a lasting charm and tells a lot about the classroom, gender and personality.

Saturday in ian mcewan

4. Saturday Author: ian mcewan. Comment: This sharp novel tells the story of a cruel and violent day faced by a British neurosurgeon. The novel inherits McEwan's consistent style, which is both gripping and ingenious.

Veronica by Mary Gatsby.

5. Veronica Author: Mary Gatsby. Comments: This melancholy novel was written by the authors of Bad Behavior and One Fat and One Thin Girl. The author of this novel used to be a model in Paris, but now she is poor and ill. Her thinking about beauty and cruelty hit home.

Second, non-fiction.

George Parker's Black Boy's Gate: American Policy towards Iraq

1, Black Gate: US policy toward Iraq. Author: George Parker. Comment: This book comprehensively reviews the biggest foreign policy gamble of this generation. The writer is a reporter for The New Yorker. He followed the whole war, from the pre-war debate to the real military action.

De Cunin: The American Master by mark stevens and Annalyn Swan.

2. De Kunin: American master. Authors: mark stevens and Annalyn Swan. Comment: This is a comprehensive description of a charming immigrant. This man is the core figure of American art in the mid-20th century. This book is rich and fascinating.

3. The lost painting. Author: Jonathan Hal. Comments: This gripping work records the search for Caravaggio's famous painting The Arrest of Christ. This painting was rediscovered in 1602 and 1990. (no picture)

Tony Ute, The History of Europe after World War II: 1945.

4. After World War II: European history after 1945. Author: Tony Ute. Comments: Otto gave a comprehensive and detailed description of the history of the post-war European Renaissance. He showed the whole continent in the form of a panorama, and almost every page had the author's unique views.

The Year of Strange Thinking by John Didion.

5. The year of whimsy. Author: Joan Didion. Comments: A painful but exciting memoir of a prose master describes her experiences and feelings in the year when her husband died suddenly and her only son was terminally ill.