Hello, let me answer for you: I often hear people say that there are not many good novels in contemporary literature except "The Ordinary World". For a literature lover like me who has been reading literary works for more than 20 years, I have a deep understanding of this statement.
Feeling disappointed.
Contemporary people have a "disease", let me call it ""The Ordinary World" xenophobia". When it comes to contemporary literature, everyone says "The Ordinary World" is good. Apart from this, can you name any other good books?
There are only a few people who have reviewed their works and evaluated them.
But I can easily name thirty or fifty.
Among the winning works of the "Mao Dun Literature Award", the best ones are Lu Yao's "The Ordinary World", Gu Hua's "Furong Town", Hoda's "Muslim Funeral", Ling Li's "The Young Emperor"
, Liu Xinwu's "The Bell and Drum Tower", Chen Zhongshi's "White Deer Plain", etc. I don't want to say more, other novels are also very good.
For example: Zhang Jie's "Love Can't Be Forgotten" and "Emerald", paper was expensive in Luoyang back then!
Chen Rong's "Middle Age", there has never been a work so concerned about the fate of intellectuals, shocking!
"Puliu Family" by Liu Shaotang, a pastoral song on the Grand Canal.
Ye Weilin's "On the River Without Navigation Beacon" is a Turgenev-style landscape poetry and the human sentiments in the "catastrophe".
Li Cunbao's "Garlands Under the Mountains" is a leader in military literature and has moved a generation.
Lu Yao's "Life", the most important thing in the journey of life is just a few steps.
Jiang Zilong's "Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple", life is like a kaleidoscope, haha.
Lu Wenfu's "Gourmet" and "The Wall". Have you never seen Suzhou delicacies or seen discussions about building a wall? Let's take a look.
Zhang Xian's "The Forgotten Corner of Love" is another epoch-making work analyzing the issue of women's liberation after Mr. Lu Xun's "Sorrow".
Liang Xiaosheng's "There's a Blizzard Tonight" and "Snow City" are tragic monuments to the educated youth.
Shui Yunxian's "Misfortune Causes Xiao Qiang", how the interests of vested small groups hinder development, it is shocking to watch!
Acheng's "The King of Chess" is a wonderful work in the "Three Kings" series.
Zhou Meisen's "Military Song" is one of the earliest works involving the "national army".
Ye Zhaoyan's "Night Parking in Qinhuai" series reflects the style of the Republic of China. Two of them, "The Realm of the Number One Scholar" and "Chasing the Moon Tower", are worth reading.
Wang Xiaoying's "A Trip to the Wind" and "The Introduction to Painting". If you want to know what academic corruption is and its harm, please read the above two works.
Ye Xin's "Wasted Years" and "Debt" are monuments to the survival of educated youth on the other side.
In Liu Xinwu's "Ruyi" and "Crossover Bridge", humanism shines.
"Na Wu" by Deng Youmei and "Picking Mulberries" by Ye Guangqin are the tragic songs of the declining Eight Banners disciples.
Li Ping's "When the Sunset Glow Disappears", "The pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty is the entire content of human spiritual life" (original words in the book, which were discussed and debated by the whole people at that time)!
Dai Houying's "Human, Human", what exactly has man-made "struggle" brought to us?
Please read the analysis in the book.
Shi Tiesheng's "Reportage About Pastor Zhan" and "My Distant Qingping Bay", searching for roots.
Zhang Wei's "Ancient Ship", why do we kill and how can we avoid killing?
Feng Jicai's "The Divine Whip" and "The Three-Inch Golden Lotus" are historical novels full of Beijing flavor.
From Wei Xi's "The White Sails Fading Away", "Snow Falls on the Yellow River Silence", "The Fugitive", Daqiang Literature.
Zhang Xianliang's "Greening Tree" shows that people need struggle, support and spiritual pursuit in adversity.
Cao Guilin's "Beijingers in New York", "If you love her, send her to New York, if you hate her, also send her to New York", this sentence has been firmly remembered by many people.
Wang Xufeng's "Ten Scenes of the West Lake" series of cultural novels (eight chapters have been written). It turns out that the folk legends and unofficial history of the West Lake can be so moving. Among them, "Autumn Moon over a Flat Lake" also reflects the persistence and watchfulness of contemporary intellectuals towards culture.
There are so many books that I cannot list them all.
This year I plan to read Xu Xiaobin's "Princess De Ling", Zhou Daxin's "Act 20", Ling Li's "Northern Beauty", Wang Xufeng's "Tea Man Trilogy", Wang Anyi's "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" and other books. These are all very interesting.
Not bad, I recommend it personally, I hope you have the energy to read it.
In addition, there are also many bad works in Hong Kong and Taiwan literature.
For example, "The Secret History of Xiaozhuang" by Taiwanese female writer Yang Haiwei (a good historical novel); "My Story" by Qiong Yao (a reference autobiographical novel that studies the insurmountable phenomenon of Qiong Yao); Jin Yong's "Swordsman", "
"Dragon" (an excellent work among martial arts novels); Hong Kong female writer Liang Fengyi's "The Golden Note" (a novel about business war and romance, which has merit); Taiwanese writer Liu Yichang's "The Drunkard" and "Dragon Beard"
"Sugar and Hot Cane" (a realist masterpiece that reflects the lives of the people at the bottom).
The above books are enough for you to read for a long time. They are all novels in traditional book formats, and there are no online novels.