Method 1: Read the classics.
1, read1classic books 600 years ago. If you want to be knowledgeable, you must first read classics. If you want to build a solid foundation for understanding books, you will inevitably read some of the earliest plays, poems and recorded legends. Remember that novels didn't become popular until18th century, so you can't find novels here. It is impossible to be truly knowledgeable without reading Homer's poems and Sophocles' plays. The following is the list of books you can read: Epic of Gilgamesh (author unknown) (BC18-17th century).
Iliad and Odyssey Homer (850-750 BC, 8th century)
Medea euripides (43 BC1)
King Sophocles of Oedipus (430 BC)
"Enid" Virgil (29- 19 BC)
Arabian nights (author unknown) (700- 1500)
Beowulf (author unknown) (975- 1025)
Genji Tale Murasaki shikibu (1 1 century)
Dante in The Divine Comedy (1265- 132 1)
Boccaccio, decameron (1349-53)
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (14th century)
2. Read the classic works of 1600- 19 13. Although there are a lot of works in this short period of 300 years, this novel began to appear in the period before the outbreak of the First World War. These works can make you know something about the works of The Romantic Period and Victorian era, and understand that realism is the prototype of the novel, which changed into modernism and abstraction after the First World War. The following are related books: Don Quixote Cervantes 1605 (part 1), 16 15 (part 2).
Othello, King Lear, Hamlet William? Shakespeare (1609, 1608, 1603)
Gulliver's travels Jonathan? Swift ( 1726)
Pride and prejudice Jane? Austin (18 13)
Faust Goethe (1832)
Balzac, Gao Laotou (1835)
Nicholas "Dead Soul"? Nicola Nikolai Gogol (1842)
Wuthering Heights Emily? Bronte (1847)
Moby Dick Herman? Melville (185 1)
Madame Bovary Gustav? Flaubert (1856)
Great expectations Charles? Dickens (186 1)
War and Peace and anna karenine Lev? Tolstoy (1869, 1877)
Black-hearted Joseph Conrad (1899)
Crime and Punishment and Brother Kara Matsov Dostoevsky (1866, 1880)
"Right" George? Eliot (187 1)
3. Read the classic works of 19 14- 1995. Modernism in this period is an attempt to novel and a resistance to tradition. Reading these works can help you understand the great changes in literature in the 20th century. Here are some bibliographies: Looking for lost time Marcel? Proust (19 13-27)
Ulysses James? Joyce (1922)
Thomas the Magic Mountain? Male (1924)
Scott, the great Gatsby? Fitzgerald (1925)
Trial of Kafka (1925)
Mrs. Dalloway and Lighthouse Virginia? Woolf (1925, 1927)
Sound and fury William? Faulkner (1929)
Stranger Albert? Camus (1942)
Source Ai Yin? Rand (1943)
/kloc-George in 0/984? Orwell (1949)
The catcher in the rye J.D. Salinger (195 1)
Ralph the Hollow Man? Ellison (1952)
The Sun Also Rises and The Old Man and the Sea Ernest? Hemingway (1926, 1952)
Lolita Vladimir? Nabokov (1955)
Pedro grassland Juan? Rulfo (1955)
"Collapse" Chinova? Achibi (1958)
Rabbit, John? Updike (1960)
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper? Plum (1960)
Doris in the golden notebook? Lessing (1962)
Bell jar Sylvia? Plath (1963)
A Hundred Years of Loneliness Marquez (1967)
Kurt from slaughterhouse five? Vonnegut (1969)
4. Read more contemporary classics from 65438 to 0980. Although these books have not experienced the baptism of the times, there are still some contemporary novels that are widely circulated, and everyone seems to have read them. In fact, reading these books may make you feel the most knowledgeable, because these authors talk about themselves the most. The following books are recommended: Midnight Children Salman? Rushdie (198 1)
The maid's story Margaret? Atwood (1984)
Ever loved Tony? Morrison (1987)
Haruki Murakami (1997)
Philip's American Pastoral? Ross (1997)
"God of micro things" Alan Dadi? Roy (1997)
"shame" cortes (1999)
"White Tooth" Zadi? Smith (2000)
Atonement, Ian. Mike Ivan (200 1)
The Adventures of Cavaller Clay Michael? Check out this book (200 1)
Jonathan the truth? Saifuer (2002)
Middlesex Eugenide Jeffery
"The Kite Runner" Khaled? Husseini (2003)
"The Known World" Edward? p？ Jones (2003)
"Ki" Marilyn? Robinson (2004)
Oscar's short and wonderful life, Juno? Diaz (2007)
Robert, 2666? Polano (2008)
"too! Karen Russell (20 1 1)
Alice Munro's short stories.
Method 2: Become a different kind of scholar.
1, read short stories. Short stories have their own unique style. If you want to be truly knowledgeable, you should read short stories by famous writers and contemporary writers. For short stories, reading an author's works is more important than reading a collection of works, so here is a list of some classic writers and contemporary writers: classic short story writers (1600- 1950): Edgar? Allen. Poe, Chekhov and Ernest? Hemingway and George? Louis? Borges, Kafka, Isaac Babel, John? Catherine Updike? Mansfield Yu? Welty and Ray? Bradbury.
Contemporary short story writer (1950 to present): flannery? O 'Connor, Raymond? Carver Tim, Donald? Besliam. O' Brien, George? Saunders, Jupa? Rush, Juno? Diaz, z? z？ Parker and Joyce? Carol. Oates and dennis johnson.
Collection of Classic Short Stories: Our Time Ernest? Hemingway (1925)
Good men are hard to find flannery? O 'Connor (1953)
Love Talk raymond carver (198 1)
"Son of Jesus" dennis johnson (1992)
The explanation of the disease, Jupa? Rush (1999)
2. watch a play. If you want to be knowledgeable, then you should also read classic drama scripts. Although you should know Shakespeare well, you have read his works. But you should also read some contemporary or previous plays, so that you can be called knowledgeable. You can look at the following works: all Shakespeare's works, including Romeo and Juliet and Much Trouble by Macbeth (1606, 1597, 1599).
Haida? Goblet and Dollhouse Henrik? Ibsen (1890, 1879)
The importance of being serious Oscar? Oscar Wilde (1895)
Gyerak Edmund, Cyrano de Boer? Rostain (1897)
Cherry orchard and Uncle Vanya Chekhov (1904, 1897)
Flower girl, George? Bernard Shaw (19 12)
"Our Town" Thornton? Wilder (1938)
The death of a salesman and the stove Arthur? Miller (1949, 1953)
Waiting for Gordo Samuel? Beckett (1949)
12 angry man Reginald Rose (1954)
A streetcar named Desire, a cat on the hot tin roof of the glass zoo, Tennessee? Williams (1947, 1944, 1955)
The road is closed, John? Paul. Sartre (1944)
"The Wind of Inheritance" Jerome? Lawrence (1955)
It's a long night, and the iceman is here. Eugene? O 'Neill (1956, 1946)
Raisin's son, Lorraine? Hansbury (1959)
Who's afraid of Virginia? Woolf? Edward Abbey (1963)
The Death of Rosen Glanz and Gierden stearns, by Tom stopa (1966).
"Betraying" Harold? Pinter (1978)
3. read poetry. Although people around you don't like to talk about poetry collections, unless you step into a knowledgeable circle, reading classic and contemporary poems can help you enter this circle more quickly. You can read the following books: Shakespeare's sonnet William. Shakespeare (1609)
Paradise Lost, John? Milton (1667)
The complete poem, John? Keats (18 15)
Leaves of grass, Walter. Whitman (1855)
Langston Hughes Poetry Langston? Hodgkiss
Robert? A poem by Robert Frost? frost/frostlike powder
Emily Dickinson's Poetry
Wilderness and other poems t? s？ Eliot (1922)
"Twenty Love Poems and Desperate Songs" Pablo? Nie Luda (1924)
《E？ e？ Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904- 1962 "E? e？ Cummings
Allen's Howl and other poems? Ginsburg (1956)
Sharon, Sylvia? Plath (1965)
The complete poems of Bishop Elizabeth, 1927- 1979.
Grounded: Selected Poems, 1966- 1996 seamus? Heaney
4. Read non-fiction. To become knowledgeable, it is not enough to just read what people have created. You must also read non-fiction works to understand politics, history, popular science and anything that happens in the world. The following is what you should pay attention to: history
politics
magazine
memoirs
biography
news
the Bible
5. Read popular novels and nonfiction. True erudition means knowing what everyone is keen to talk about, so you can't just sit and read Virgil. You must know what is happening in the real world, read books on beaches or airplanes, or talk about what Oprah Club is talking about. What should you read? Look at the books people read on the plane and on the beach, or look at The New York Times's bestsellers. The following are publications that few people have read in the last twenty years: The Lord of the Rings Series.
The wheel of time series
Harry? Porter series
Nicholas? Spock's novels
John? Grisham's novels
Susan collins's trilogy "The Hunger Games"
"The Da Vinci Code" Dan? brown
Tom Wolfe, go out for a night.
"Fear of flying" Erica? allow
Bernard? Conwill's book.
Game series of thrones
A year of whimsy, John? Didion
Dave Eggers, a heartbreaking wonder genius.
"Devil Economics" Steven? Levitt
Food, prayer, love elizabeth gilbert.
Outsider and critic Malcolm Gladwell
Stephanie. Mel's Twilight Series
Paulo coelho is an alchemist.
"With The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" series
Method 3: Make reading full of fun.
1, set the target. You may ask, how to set goals to make reading more interesting? The reason is that when you finish a task, you will feel good about yourself. Start small: for example, you want to read a book every month. Then gradually switch to reading a book every two weeks. When you are addicted to reading, you can read one book or even two books a week. Make a list of books and keep reading, then your reading speed will be faster and faster. Setting goals can prevent you from wasting your time elsewhere. For example, you plan to finish watching Ulysses before the weekend, but the Bad Girls Club series is on. Then say goodbye to the bad girl and pick up your culture.
2. Quickly read the first 100 books. Modern Library, Amazon, Time Magazine and new york Times have all listed 100 books, which will make you feel more fulfilled. If you find yourself reading along the book list and cross out all the books you have read, you will feel knowledgeable and feel good about yourself. Refer to the following book list: Modern Library 100 Modern Book List.
The best books listed by Time magazine.
Guardian 100 list of the best books.
Read the books of Nobel Prize winners. Get a list of authors here:
Village Voice lists the best books of the past decade by genre.
3. Listen to audio books. Open an account in Audible.com, or support books you borrow from the local library. When you are too tired to pick up a book to read, listening to audio books can be another way to increase your knowledge. You can also listen to books in the car, which is most suitable for long-distance commuting, or listen to books with iPod while walking. In this way, you will be full of expectations for the journey to work, not tired of it! Before you buy or borrow books, see if you can listen to sample books and make sure you like the voice of readers. If you think the reader's voice is boring, this book sounds "slow-paced".
4. Buy an e-reader. Although the price of e-reader exceeds $65,438+000, you can save money quickly by buying books at the discount it provides. You can buy many classic novels, such as the works of Henry James, and you can also buy 10% to 7.5% contemporary novels for less than one dollar. You can download the books you want to read at any time through an e-reader, instead of waiting until the right time to go to the bookstore. Through e-readers, you can also try to read a chapter before buying a book, so that you can read a little bit of the book first.
5. Reward interesting books. Learning is important, but it is also important to have fun by reading. What second-rate books, detective novels, clown romance novels or mystery novels do you like? No matter what books you really like, don't give up, just read Charles Dickens. Instead, reward yourself: for every classic novel or literary novel you read, you can read a mystery novel, a beach love novel or any kind of book you like.
6. Establish or join a book club. Being a member of the book club can not only help you make friends with knowledgeable people, but also expose you to more kinds of books, give you strict reading deadlines and give you time to think about the significance of these books to you. Reading will make you stop and think about the meaning of books, rather than reading one book at a time. In most book clubs, you have the opportunity to choose books, so you can share a book you like with others.
7. Establish a good account book. By setting up a good book account, you can list all the books you have read and want to read, review the books you have read and communicate with other book lovers. It's free to set up an account, so you can get in touch with more books and readers. More importantly, it can make you more excited about reading, so open an account today!
8. Become a senior commentator of Amazon. If you don't have an Amazon account, open one and comment on all the books you have read. When you finish commenting on a pile of books and write interesting and thoughtful comments, you can get the title of advanced reader. If you really become an advanced reader, you will get additional benefits, such as discounts and the opportunity to read the book before its official release. And even if you can't be an advanced reader, reviews of books will help you think about the books you have read.
9. associate with knowledgeable people. Associating with people who like reading, whether colleagues or book club members, can give you more reading inspiration and let you know which books are more popular. If you can't communicate with others with your knowledge, you are not knowledgeable at all.
10, listen to the podcast. You can download free podcasts, such as the New Yorker's novel podcast or KCRW's nerd weekly podcast, and listen to writers read their favorite stories or discuss their new books. You can also get news from podcasts, from Chekhov's stories to classic speeches in American history, such as the Gettysburg Address. Without reading a word, you can become knowledgeable by listening to the following podcast: The New Yorker Novel Podcast.
KCRW nerd
Selected short stories of PRI
American life in Chicago
PRI American overseas company
The best speech in the history of LearnOutLoud podcast.
New York Times Book Review Podcast
Tip: Don't be afraid to read children's books.
Reading can also increase vocabulary.
You shouldn't study for cleverness, you should study for fun.
If you want to have fun from reading, you should read some books that are equivalent to your reading level (books that you can really understand), but at the same time, if you want to improve your skills, you should try to read some difficult books.
Don't be afraid to show your reading materials to others. Books are a good resource for conversation. You need to reveal the following new knowledge.
See everything.
If you hate reading, but still want to be knowledgeable, your best way is to go to Wikipedia, Google and Spark. You don't have to read the whole book, just the overview of the book.