还记得自己上学时念过哪些英语教材吗？或许那时候的你，曾经很想烧掉那些英语书吧。不过，我们之所以不喜欢按照英语书上说的那样来学英语，想必更多是因为书上的学习内容和方法枯燥无味。
所以，相比看书，更多的人喜欢看视频、听音乐来学习英语。但是看书学习一定会那么无聊吗？如果我们改变一下通过阅读来学习英语的内容和方法会怎样呢？比如通过一个个钓人胃口的奇幻、灵异、惊悚的故事，以及它们各自被翻拍的电影版，来让你的英语学习更加“扣人心弦、疑窦丛生”怎么样？
如果我们能在愉快的阅读中增进对文字的理解，积累了相当经验后就可以迅速读懂英语的，感觉一定不错吧。所以，让我们一起丢掉那些乏味的教科书，来看看让你更加有阅读欲望的6本英语小说吧。
1. “How to Train Your Dragon” by Cressida Cowell
作品简介：A children’s book series. This was recently made into two animated movies. The books talk about different kinds of dragons and what they can do. This makes it an easy and fun read for beginners.
剧情简介：The story is about Vikings and a small boy named Hiccup, who becomes friends with dragons even though they are supposed to be dangerous. He tames his dragon, named Toothless, and helps end the fighting between dragons and humans.
适合等级：初级
2. “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins
作品简介：This is a trilogy of Young Adult fiction novels (“YA Novels”) which is very popular recently because the movies have been coming out in the past few years. You will find action, romance and political issues discussed in these books.
剧情简介：The Capitol hosts an annual “Hunger Games” competition for entertainment and political reasons, where two children from each district (area of land) have to fight to the death. The heroine, Katniss, enters in place of her sister and is teamed up with the baker’s son, Peeta.
适合等级：中级
3. “The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green
作品简介：This novel takes place in current times and is another YA novel with romance, comedy and a serious story. There is a large fan base for this book and movie so many people know about it. Because it is not fantasy, there are many everyday phrases used in it.
剧情简介：Two teenagers have both been diagnosed with cancer and meet at a support group. After they fall in love, they fight their illnesses together.
适合等级：中级
4. “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker
作品简介：The movie based off of this book was directed by Stephen Spielberg and has won lots of awards. It is suited best for mature readers because of the serious plot. The English in this book is older and Southern because of the time and place it was written about.
剧情简介：The story focuses on the life of Celie and the struggles she goes through while living in the American South. It has themes of racism and abuse in it, and it is also considered a classic American novel.
适合等级：高级
5. “The Shining” by Stephen King
作品简介：If you are more interested in horror/thriller books and movies this is a popular choice. The book is very long, like most of the novels that King has written, but you will be happy to read this book for a long time.
This may be the most famous of all the novels by this well-known author. It is very entertaining and, for many, it is a very scary story.
剧情简介：A family moves into a hotel as the father tries to get over his writer’s block (when a writer has no new ideas). However, he slowly goes crazy in the mysterious hotel.
适合等级：高级
6. “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen
作品简介：This is considered to be one of the most beautiful love stories of all time. Because it was written in 1813, the language is very old and sophisticated.
There are always several adaptations to watch when you read something by Austen. Everyone tries to make these classic books into movies!
There are even very modern movie versions of this particular story, like “Bridget Jones’ Diary.”
剧情简介：Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr. Darcy and his friends when they move into town. Although Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy are attracted to each other, they first need to deal with issues like class, manners, family, society and money in order to be together.
适合等级：高级
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