Top 10 best selling classic books you must read in 2022
We are talking about the top 10 best-selling classic books you must read in 2022. Books are one of the best ways for humans to absorb knowledge and expand their horizons.
The best way to improve our self-cultivation is to read books. Not only can we absorb more knowledge, but good books will also change our thinking.
Bestseller refers to the number of books sold, not the number of prints.
So, there are many best-selling famous classic books in the world and best-selling classic books of all time.
Now the question is:
- Which classic books everyone should read?
- Which ones do you know are the best sellers?
- Which books are the most classic?
- which classic books you must read?
Top 10 best-selling classic books you must read in 2022
Today, the editor of "Reading and Thinking" brings you the world’s top ten best-selling classic books. If you want to know more, let’s read it together!
1. A Tale of Two Cities
Author: Charles Dickens
Dickens is the true and purest humanist. His pen tells the ugliest crime of the Great Revolution and the greatness of the little people in the ever-changing situation. The concept of good and evil is simple, and the flat characterization is his weakness, but his stories are always so subtle and direct to people's hearts.
Sidney Carton to Lucy Manette is the love that crosses the class, crosses the ocean, unswerving and undesirable until death, so he said: Resurrection is with me, and life is with me. Those who believe in me will be resurrected even if they die. Those who live and believe in me will never die.
2. The Lord of the Rings
Author: John Ronald Riel Tolkien
Tolkien is the only author with two titles in a book. This book is sometimes sold in volume-mainly in three volumes (just like the original publication). It has been remade into a movie of the same name and has a worldwide reputation.
The design of the book cover is really tasteless. It was originally used to protect the book, but the book was folded... The translation is placed after each chapter. I also find it very troublesome.
I still like the translation of each page at the bottom of each page. . In the end, I really hope that the hardcover version will be released, and I will definitely enter the collection again
3. The Little Prince
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The author showed the loneliness of adults from the perspective of children. The manuscript was originally written in French, although the story was first published in English in 1943, and since then, it has sold 140 million copies.
I was 13 years old when I first read it, and I didn't know what it meant to express. The second time I read it I was 23 years old, and it was ten years ago. I think this book can only be read at a certain stage of life, and I can't help but burst into tears when I see the end.
This book is about love. When you meet similar people, you have a high degree of resonance in your thoughts, a consistent emotional pattern, and you don’t have the courage to be desperate, so it’s good but the ignorant impulse when you are young.
Fearless when I was young. People just want to see all the good ones, and they can't wait for him to be a character built completely according to his ideals.
4. And Then There Were None
Author: Agatha Christie
This book is a long mystery novel about A series of murders that took place on the island, various reversal and suspense plot settings are very subtle and have been adapted into many films, dramas, comics, and games.
The ten people's reactions to death were vividly portrayed, perfectly showing an atmosphere of fear and mutual doubt. Compared with impossible crimes, anyone's possible crimes are better used here.
The use of poems and props is also like a textbook. As for the island model created, it has become one of the most classic models. Even if the trick is not perfect, it is great enough.
5. A Dream of Red Mansions
Author: Cao Xueqin
6. The Hobbit
Author: John Ronald Riel Tolkien
The hobbit is not a legend. The Hobbit has a place in human archaeology. The Hobbit in Tolkien's works is obviously more plump and lovely. They are short and cute, a bunch of friendly and happy little men. They are not beautiful but have a good temper. They are somewhat conservative and timid, but they are superb at drilling holes and doing housework.
Of course, the most memorable thing is their big, furry feet. Are such a group of secular and ordinary people very similar to ourselves? ! Or they were originally the shadows of our human beings. Ordinary, conservative, timid, and even have shortcomings of one kind or another. However, it was such an ordinary Hobbit who looked like a shadow and experienced an extraordinary expedition.
A hobbit’s expedition has exhausted all the emotions and tribulations that a person has to encounter and experience in his life. There are happiness and sorrow, fear and joy, hope and despair, possession and sharing. The hobbit in the expedition is no longer a shadow.
He abandoned his homeland but had a completely different self. As you read further, you will find that you would rather that person be yourself: own a magical invisibility ring; soar on the back of a big eagle; use riddles and brain teasers to defeat unknown monsters; brandish a short sword Assassinate the poisonous spider; put the Arkenberg in your pocket
7. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Author: C·S·Lewis
"The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" is the first part of the fantasy masterpiece "The Chronicles of Narnia". In fact, it wasn't until the release of Disney's movie last year that I truly understood the ins and outs of this series of seven magical or fairy tale masterpieces and realized that the author CS Lewis is a close friend of Tolkien and the spiritual sustenance of Queen Rowling.
What I have in my head is always the story of the few children who entered into another fantasy world from the closet that I had read when I was a child. That story is in the form of a comic book so the scene of the lion king (Aslan) being beheaded by the bad witch is always lingering. No, because that was one of the few moments in the fairy tale that made me sad.
On the contrary, his resurrection is not very impressive. Now holding the new book and reading the original, it turns out that it is like this-he was resurrected "that way", naturally! There are too many question marks between the pages full of fairy tales.
What attracts me, even more, is that the book retains Paulina Baynes’ illustrations that existed in the first edition of the 1950s. The lines that are a little too cautious but not childish have always had a huge lethal effect on me. Children's magazines and books find this kind of story with original illustrations and read it over and over again until the picture is alive in the head.
And the map insert that can be opened, my goodness... this time the result is that I bought back all seven "The Chronicles of Narnia" in one go (although the cover is not very good, the old version directly uses the original illustrations! I have to use the worst cover of the British regular edition...), shrunk in the bed, grilling the fantasy fire, and read it.
8. She
Author: Henry Ryder Haggard
She, subtitled A History of Adventure, is a novel by Henry Rider Haggard, first serialized in The Graphic magazine from October 1886 to January 1887. She is one of the classics of imaginative literature, and with over 83 million copies sold in 44 different languages, one of the best-selling books of all time.
Extraordinarily popular upon its release, She has never been out of print. According to the literary historian Andrew M. Stauffer, "She has always been Rider Haggard's most popular and influential novel, challenged only by King Solomon's Mines in this regard".
The story is a first-person narrative that follows the journey of Horace Holly and his ward Leo Vincey to a lost kingdom in the African interior. There, they encounter a primitive race of natives and a mysterious white queen, Ayesha, who reigns as the all-powerful "She", or "She-who-must-be-obeyed". In this work, Rider Haggard developed the conventions of the Lost World subgenre, which many later authors emulated.
She is placed firmly in the imperialist literature of nineteenth-century England and inspired by Rider Haggard's experiences of South Africa and British colonialism. The story expresses numerous racial and evolutionary conceptions of the late Victorians, especially notions of degeneration and racial decline prominent during the fin de siècle.
In the figure of She, the novel notably explored themes of female authority and feminine behavior. It has received praise and criticism alike for its gendered representation of womanhood.
9. The Da Vinci Code
Author: Dan Brown
The book has been read for a long time, and many things described in the book are very strange to us. This may be the difference between Westerners and Easterners reading this book. When Westerners read this book, they are faced with challenges to the worldview, while Easterners seem to be able to understand what kind of worldview Westerners have when reading this book.
I think there are several reasons why this book is so successful:
- Dan Brown has long been concerned about the conflicts between Christian orthodoxy, Christian tribes, science, and atheism. I have seen his other work "Angels and Demons" as well. Focusing on a relatively large topic for a long time can make the work more powerful.
- Choose a relatively peaceful enemy. In the dark ages of Christianity, there was a habit of using people to cook barbecues, but now there are basically no such incidents. In comparison, Rushdie, the author of "Satan's Psalms," is obviously more misguided.
- The public likes novels but dislikes academic papers, likes conclusions but dislikes derivation. In terms of academic value, "Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" is obviously more worth reading than "The Da Vinci Code". However, "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" is an academic work, and it is more concerned with the objectivity of viewpoints and the comprehensiveness of evidence and does not intend to draw conclusions under the circumstances of insufficient evidence. The novel is different. The novel can describe a conjecture as a fact at will.
- The main business club of the mysterious organization was selected as the villain. Everyone knows that novels are fictitious, but everyone tends to forget this when reading. Therefore, the interlacing of reality and fiction in the novel will make readers feel more substitutions and believe in the description in the novel.
"The Da Vinci Code" does this very well. The places where the story takes place are real and well-known, and the villains in the novel also exist in reality, which gives readers a lot of attention. Psychological hints. Let readers think that they are prying on the truth of mysterious events in the real world.
10. Think and Grow Rich
Author: Napoleon Hill
I am the master of my own destiny and the helmsman of my own soul. I love myself so that I can give others greater love and more tolerance. I search hard in loneliness, searching for the road that only suits me, even if I just look at it.
When there is a glimmer of light, never hesitate to rush before, even if you hit your head and beat the blood, I believe that the door of success is there waiting for me to knock, I must give all my strength, never hesitate, move forward forever, I am full of hope,
I have no hesitation and put into infinite efforts; I must have the power to influence my subconscious, because only then can I truly be the master of my own soul. Nothing can shake my faith, stick to it, and never shrink back. Like the lion in the Wizard of Oz, I want to find my bravery and have a strong heart, so strong that when I face any death threats, I rise up to resist and give me a glimmer of hope for life;
from now on, I will only be Weeping for love, crying for joy, and never complaining, because all of this is earned by myself, perseverance, whenever facing adversity, facing failure, facing each heartache, it will only make me become stronger and more determined towards the kingdom of dreams. I am the greatest person in this world.
I will not change myself because of anyone or anything. I came to this world to endure pain, and in the end, I will achieve Unprecedented success, I believe in myself, believe in my potential, live for myself, live for the love in my heart, I swear here, I will fight for my success, I treat myself harshly, and suffer pain for the sake of Greater success, when I am old, looking back, I laughed, I have no regrets in this world;
I will always move forward, forward, forward, and one step forward.
