This Saturday's BOOX selected book list arrived as scheduled. What I want to share with you in this issue is , 2020, the top 10 books in Chinese literary novels selected by Douban Reading. These 10 excellent novels on the
list are not famous classics that everyone knows, but they must be popular among thousands of novels. As for what the truth is, let’s find the answer from the content together!
01 "Submarine at Night"
Author: Chen Chuncheng
Douban Rating: 8.5
Content introduction:
"Submarine at Night" is the first collection of short stories by the writer Chen Chuncheng. Nine stories, the pen moves between the old mountains and rivers and the unknown universe, and uses the strange and flying imagination and gentle brushwork to open up several secret channels between reality and fantasy: the boy wandering under the sea, the ancient monument left behind in the mountains, the words and sentences scattered into all things, the cloud pruning station, the sword making and wine making, the saxophone under the iron curtain, and the concert hall inside the blue whale... dives into the depths of the story, senses the nebula and the veins in the body; use the glimmer of words to explore the trench of memory. Regarding hiding and searching, hunting and escaping, there is a conclusive point in all kinds of impermanence, a small piece of coolness between the scorching sun and the abyss. Chen Chuncheng's novel world is a cave for hiding, a palace suspended on paper, a submarine heading towards the past, presenting a demeanor and new possibilities of Chinese novels. 02 "Autumn Garden" Author: Yang Benfen Douban Rating: 8.9
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Hearing an 80-year-old grandma tells the story of her and her mother. In 1914, the man "Qiuyuan" was found in the world. In 1918, the word "she" was mentioned in Chinese. Autumn Garden, she has been here, struggled, despair, and happiness. Today, her 80-year-old daughter tells the world the ordinary.
"I wrote the story of an ordinary Chinese woman's life, how our family struggled to survive like driftwood in the water, and the life and death of those rural figures in the hinterland of Central and Southern China. I know that the stories I wrote are like a drop of water, which will eventually flow into the long river of human history."
03 "The Fifteenth Day of the Two Capitals"
Author: Ma Boyong
Douban score: 8.2
Content introduction:
"The Fifteenth Day of the Two Beijings" is a long historical novel created by Ma Boyong. The story of this book originates from a true record about Zhu Zhanji in "History of Ming Dynasty" - "In April of the summer, Nanjing was repeatedly shaken, and he was ordered to stay in the house. On May Gengchen, Renzong was unhappy and summoned him back. On June 19, Xinchou, he returned to Liangxiang, received the will, and entered the palace to mourn." What profound meaning is hidden behind the few words in the history books? After a quick record, who is the real writer?
A thousand miles of river, galloping at night, surrounded by enemies, life hanging on a thread. The prince ran along the Grand Canal in a very fast manner, ran out of the game between imperial power and public opinion, the scheming battle between the palace and the officialdom, the complex grudges that had been entangled for decades, and the subtle hearts of people from noble to humbleness. This is a spiritual journey of a little constable, a female doctor, a sesame official and a prince of the current dynasty, a vivid picture depicting the style of the Grand Canal along the Ming Dynasty.
04 "Night Truck"
Author: Chen Yingzhen
Douban Rating: 9.3
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"Night Truck" contains 6 short and medium stories created by Chen Yingzhen from 1967 to 1982, including "Night Truck", "Office Workers' Day", "Cloud", "The Emperor of Wan Shang" and two novels reflecting the theme of the Vietnam War, focusing on the "back street" of Taiwan's full food, corruption, luxury, dazzling and happy after the two world wars, reflecting on the collapse of the environment, human scars, and cultural failure.
Through the story in the "Washington Building" in the 1980s, it tells the story of people's alienated lives, suppressed dreams, insulted dignity, and silently hurt hearts in the era of rapid economic development. Huang Jingxiong, who resigned and found a movie dream but was formatted by work, Zhang Weijie, a young man who had gone from faith to disillusionment about capitalist civilization, Wen Xiuying, a female worker who was suppressed on strike, Lin Dewang, a multinational company employee who was born in poverty and had a bad workplace, and finally became mentally insane... The stories of these office workers who "make up their minds to succeed" and these young people who cannot return home tell the prophecy of our time of survival.
05 "Xiaoyaoyou"
Author: Ban Yu
Douban Rating: 7.8
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"Xiaoyaoyou" is Ban Yu's second novel collection after "Winter Swimming". It contains seven medium and short works with different styles and story time spanning 30 years, presenting a more open and rich look. The down-and-out novelists, the men who raise ants, the sick girls, the lovers who pursue comets, the fathers who disappear in time... They are trapped in a fog, and in the crumbling light, they always think of dancing clumsyly.
These stories are immersed in the pain and imprints of people in social changes, writing between brilliance and dimness, hope and despair, our real cowardice, desire, difficulty and struggle. The drowning person wants to go ashore and breathe, while the lost person is waiting for a sunny night. The dark night will never be deep, because once we choose to raise our heads, we can see the stars accompanying us.
06 "Mandarin ducks six and seven four"
Author: Ma Jiahui
Douban score: 8.4
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In the night sky, people are longing for the last unrestrained happiness. The "Mulong Ceremony" of the leader, the leader, the boss, the boss, the "Mulong Ceremony" is about to open. Brothers, bar girls, foreigners, Hong Kong police, and political and business celebrities are all there. Faces, like characters on the stage yesterday, pushed A Bing, from "Xiao Bing" to "Brother Bing".
Wife A Bing, known as "Shantou Nine Sisters", also once blamed him for not being ambitious and hated him for having sex with flowers and plants. He had a brief lost betrayal, but he was eventually "the same life as the couple", accompanying him through one level after another in life. At this big banquet, A Bing originally wanted to announce his retreat, but he disappeared without a trace on that day. And the answer is hidden in the three cards you touch...
07 "Immortal Disease"
Author: Zheng Zhi
Douban score: 8.3
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Fantasy I think of the mentally ill who once served in a submarine, the lonely bird-repeller at Shenyang Airport, the paradise of poor ghosts, alcoholism, the night, the wandering of travelers, the long farewell between the boy and his father... In the northern city at the turn of the century, the characters are always in the midst of loss... The elements of magical stories and detective novels are mixed, the rich regional colors, and the special daily life form are told in the concise and humorous tone of spoken language, telling the escape and return of a boy to his own destiny.
book is a new work by Zheng Zhi after winning the first prize of the 2018 "Car Anonymous Writers Program" and the first "Zhongshan Star" annual Youth Excellent Work Award in 2019 for his short story "Immortality". It includes six novels such as "Immortality" praised by Su Tong for "contributing a new character image", "Monte Carlo Cannibal" published in "Harvest" in 2019 "Young Writers Novel Album", and the new novel "There is a forest in the Forest".
08 "Nanhuo Store"
Author: Zhang Ji
Douban Rating: 8.2
Content introduction:
Novel uses a clean and simple southern dialect, with the South Store as the background, outlines the 1970s The life scenes of Jiangnan towns with great fireworks from the late dynasty to the early 1990s: food and artifacts and secular daily life, worldly style and human nature light and darkness... are the echoes of the nostalgic "classical Chinese narrative" in the contemporary world.
's work unfolds with the life of Qiulin, a clerk in the South Carolina store, connecting the stories of the characters in the supply and marketing cooperative system. The business story of the master, the warmth of the old man selling tofu, the absurd love affairs between men and women, the indifferent relationship between father and son... life and death and ups and downs of fate. The times are turbulent, and people are soft and comforted, but they are weak but insist on the bottom line of value and adhere to the indispensable love and dignity.
09 "Liuxi"
Author: Lin Zhao
Douban Rating: 8.0
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This is a monologue with many doubts: it is difficult to say that the narrator is an innocent girl, a madman, a liar, or all three are. She deals with her wandering lover, her broken mother, and her violent father, and uses bubbles and dreams to build a suspicious first half of her life, and finally falls to an irreversible ending.
This debut work presents a detailed picture texture, carrying the unique taste, scenery and memory of the subtropical Lingnan, telling the astray and possible price of growth, commemorating the weak people who were randomly broken and corrupted, and the love and life they had.
10 "Asteroid Falls in the afternoon"
Author: Shen Dacheng
Douban score: 8.1
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The epidemic area with neon lights, the super-large subway station where the cuttlefish hides, the gradually mutated company employees, the great journey of building society on a new planet... This book is a selection of short stories recently created by Shen Dacheng. With his unique black humor, the author has created a group of humans who seem to live on the twin stars on the earth, and put them in an uncertain moment when the future is about to fall.
A heterogeneous and logical world that readers can see as a pleasant little revolution in their minds, and it is difficult to ignore the realist side of it. And some of the characteristics of our contemporary life are gradually revealed under the unique development method of Shen Dacheng's novels.
