It is often said that there are not many good novels in contemporary literature except Ordinary World. As a literary lover who has read literary works for more than 2 years, I am deeply disappointed with this statement.
Contemporary people have a kind of "disease", which I will call "the exclusion of Ordinary World". When it comes to contemporary literature, everyone says Ordinary World is good, and besides, few people can say and evaluate other good works. But I can name thirty or fifty books casually.
among those works that won the Mao Dun Literature Award, I don't want to say more about those good ones, such as Ordinary World by Lu Yao, furong town by Gu Hua, Muslim Funeral by Huo Da, Young Emperor by Ling Li, Bell and Drum Tower by Liu Xinwu and White Deer Plain by Chen Zhongshi. Other novels are also very good.
For example,
Zhang Jie's Love Can't Be Forgotten and Emerald were expensive in Luoyang!
Chen Rong's "Man to Middle Age" has never been so concerned about the fate of intellectuals. It's shocking!
Liu Shaotang's "Pu Liu Ren Jia" is an idyllic song on the Grand Canal.
Ye Weilin's On a River Without Navigation Signs, Turgenev-style landscape poems and human feelings in the catastrophe.
Li Cunbao's "A Garland under the Mountain", a leader in military literature, moved a generation.
In Life written by Lu Yao, the most important thing in the journey of life is just a few steps.
Jiang Zilong's Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue and Purple, life is like a kaleidoscope, hehe.
Lu Wenfu's Gourmet and The Wall, have you never seen Suzhou cuisine? Haven't you seen the discussion on wall repair? Come and have a look.
Zhang Xian's Corner Forgotten by Love is another epoch-making work to analyze women's liberation after Lu Xun's Mourning for the Past.
Liang Xiaosheng's Blizzard Tonight and Syracuse are solemn and stirring monuments of educated youth.
It's shocking to see how the vested interests of small groups hinder the development of Shui Yun-xian's "Disaster Begins a Little Wall"!
King of Chess by Acheng is a wonderful work in the series of "Three Kings".
Zhou Meisen's "Military Song" is one of the earliest works involving the "national army".
Ye Zhaoyan's series of "Sleeping at Qinhuai at Night" is the amorous feelings of the Republic of China, among which "Top Scholar's Land" and "Chasing the Moon Building" are worth reading.
Wang Xiaoying's "All the Way to the Dust" and "Introduction to Dan Qing", if you want to know what academic corruption is and its harm, please see the above two works.
Ye Xin's Time Wasted and Debt, another monument to the existence of educated youth.
Liu Xinwu's "Ruyi" and "Interchange Bridge" show that humanitarianism is shining.
Deng Youmei's "Na Wu", Ye Guangqin's "Picking Mulberry Seeds", the sad songs of the children of the declining Eight Banners.
When Sunset Disappears by Liping, "The pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty is the whole content of human spiritual life" (the original words in the book were discussed and debated by the whole people at that time)!
In Dai Houying's "Man, Man", what did the man-made "struggle" bring us? Please read the analysis in the book.
Shi Tiesheng's Reportage on Pastor Zhan and My Distant Qingping Bay seek their roots.
Zhang Wei's Ancient Boat, why do we kill, and how can we avoid killing?
Feng Jicai's "The Whip of God" and "Three-inch Golden Lotus" are historical novels full of Beijing flavor.
Cong Weixi's White Sail Far Away, The Yellow River is Silent with Snow, The Fugitive, The Great Wall Literature.
In Zhang Xianliang's Greening Tree, people need struggle, support and spiritual pursuit in adversity.
Cao Guilin's Peking Man in new york, "If you love her, send her to new york, if you hate her, send her to new york", this sentence is firmly remembered by many people.
Wang Xufeng's "Ten Scenes of the West Lake" series of cultural novels (eight of which have been written) turns out that the folklore and unofficial history of the West Lake can be so touching, and Autumn Moon in Pinghu also reflects the persistence and watchfulness of contemporary intellectuals on culture.
there are many bibliographies, so I won't enumerate them one by one.
I plan to read Princess Deling by Xu Xiaobin, Act 2 by Zhou Daxin, Beauty in the North by Ling Li, Tea Man Trilogy by Wang Xufeng, Song of Eternal Sorrow by Wang Anyi and other books this year. These books are very good. I personally recommend them. I hope you have the energy to read them.
In addition, there are many bad works in Hong Kong and Taiwan literature. For example, the Secret History of Xiaozhuang (a good historical novel) by Taiwan Province woman writer Yang Haiwei; Qiong Yao's My Story (an insurmountable reference autobiographical novel to study Qiong Yao's phenomenon); Jin Yong's the legendary swordsman and Eight Dragons (excellent works in martial arts novels); Liang Fengyi, a Hong Kong woman writer, "Sprinkled with Gold Notes" (a novel with commercial war and romance, which also has merits in drawing materials); Taiwan Province writer Liu Yichang's The Drunken, Longxu Sugar and Hot Sugarcane (realistic masterpieces reflecting the life of the bottom people).
These books are enough for you to read for a long time. They are all novels based on traditional books, and there are no online novels. It is worth noting that these works do not necessarily have singles, and some of them can only be seen by looking for contemporary anthologies or anthologies of writers.
Of course, I didn't recommend the works of writers such as San Mao, Jia Pingwa and Wang Xiaobo, because I haven't read them carefully, so it's not easy to comment, but time and history will tell whether their works are good or not.
Personally, I think the novels of this period from 1978 to 1989 are the best. A hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend. Both the selection of materials and the writing techniques are diversified, and every time the new works are published, they can bring about a strong debate. Until today, when I revisit these works, I am still ignited by their passion to face the problem and still closely bound by the fate of the characters in the book. Now the works are getting worse every year.