Want to become a better reader? Here are some of the best novels for you to read.

Scrooge was an old man who was mean and only thought about himself. He lived a lonely life. One Christmas Eve， the spirit of his dead business partner came and told Scrooge that he had done lots of bad things. Then three other spirits showed him his past, now and future. He realized that he was wrong. So he made himself be kind to others and lived a happy life.

The young hero, a good-hearted boy, gets away from his family and meets Tim, a black man in his adventure to the north. They have a lot of difficulties trying to be free. At last, he understands the meaning of life and hopes to live freely like Indians, so he decides to go to the far land.

The story centers on a young girl who follows the white rabbit down into a strange hidden world. She has many funny adventures with very strange animals. However, she finally realizes that all the characters are only a set of cards， and she then awakes from her dream.

The Victorian gentleman Phileas Fogg makes a bet at his club: He will travel around the world in eighty days with his servant Passepartout. They meet many difficulties. When they finally return to London，it is five minutes later. But the servant tells Mr. Fogg that they forgot to add one more day when crossing the Internation Date Line (国际日期变更线). So Mr. Fogg wins the bet at last.

The hero Santiago is a "bad luck" for the elderly. For 84 hard days he did not catch a fish. On the eighty- fifth day, he caught the big marlin more than 1, 500 pounds. However, the weather was unpredictable. On the journey home, repeatedly attacked(攻击)by a shark, the old man finally pulled home only the remaining of the fish. He is a tough guy, a hero who has failed.

—No, for pleasure.