The Journey to the West, Water Margin, Morning Flowers, Camel Xiangzi, Stars in Spring Water, Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, Who's Who, Childhood, How Steel was Tempered, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Merchant of Venice are required reading books for junior high schools.
My favorite book is romain rolland's Who's Who, which tells about the sufferings and bumpy lives of Beethoven, Michelangelo and Tolstoy.