The 11th book I want to keep on my overseas bookcase is... Zhang Ailing's "Love in a Fallen City"

When I go back to Taiwan almost every year, I bring back a few books, and bring a few books back, some are lent to friends indefinitely, and some are always on the shelf. The ones written here are the first eleven books that I want to keep by my side now.

"Love in a Fallen City" is a book that I have bought for more than ten years, but I haven't finished reading it yet. To put it in one sentence, it is very hard to read. When will it be turned up? Either it is extremely depressed, or it is extremely bearish about everything. It is always difficult to digest the bitter love in it at one time, but some words are beautiful, and the beauty in bitterness and resentment, I regard it as the spice of life, only when I have a whim, I turn over the words that used to be difficult to appreciate. It is also difficult to identify with love and affection.

Every time I think about it, I want to put this book in my suitcase and take it home, but I leave it behind because of the lightness. Where can I get the mood to read this book on a brisk little trip? I can't finish reading it, and I can't take it with me. Although it's not in the top ten of my favorite books on the shelf, I haven't been able to make it into the list. I want to leave the eleventh book for this embarrassing classic.

As for the other ten books, they are all books that I like very much and want to read again and again. There is no ranking, only roughly divided into two categories. They are about nature, history, people. In these stories, I can find several new windows, some of which are my understanding of the world, some of which are answers to life, and some of which are my imagination of my own future.

Read six books that bring nature and history closer to the world

"Song of the Tree" is a book to read slowly and enjoy every time. Each chapter tells the stories of different tree species, including the laws of survival, primitive ecology, and the influence and reflection caused by human activities. Turning over and over, thinking that human beings are so small, but small human beings have been extremely active for hundreds of years, and are rapidly changing the nature that these trees rely on.

"Wallace Mermaid" is an interesting science fiction novel of mermaid. In addition to deciphering the species of mermaid layer by layer, what attracted me most was Shunji Iwai's description of the marine world after the mermaid returned to the deep sea.

"One Child: China's Most Radical Social Engineering Experiment" describes the impact of China's one-child birth policy from all aspects, how a policy in such a populous country affects the related fertility industries in other countries around the world, and even affects the flow of human trafficking Educational culture shock with foreign adoption/surrogacy families. This book not only made me understand China better, but also the world.

"Death in the Cornfield" is also almost ten years old, and only recently started watching. The short stories in the book are all written by Pinglu in the years before I was born. Nostalgia for the hometown, loss of the future, compromise with reality, sprinting toward ideals, and choices in life, all kinds of small people's documentary writing, telling the overseas encounters of Taiwanese and Hong Kong people in those days, plain and simple, but especially vivid in these chapters.

The memory between "Taiwan Revisit" and the place. I have never read it in one go, but it is unexpectedly suitable to take out and flip through at will, especially Zheng Zaidong's paintings do not have detailed and real brushstrokes, but they just paint the protagonist with a slightly vague memory, which evokes some local memories of Taiwan.

"The Three Tribes of Formosa" is a wonderful Taiwanese historical novel, how the Dutch, the aborigines, and the Han people of the Ming and Qing Dynasties interact, compete and coexist with each other. The history of Taiwan has always been a subject of interest to me after I met the aborigines while working in Taitung. In fact, my favorite aboriginal novels are witch stories from different eras written by Beinan ethnic writer Badai, but they are too heavy, so I had to stay in Taiwan.

My life is about journeys and encounters, four healing novels on the theme of my favorite encounters

During the summer vacation of a university, I found my love book "Song of a Sad Coffee Shop" in the library while enjoying the shade. Zhu Shaolin's three books were very interesting, but I still love many of the scenes described in the song of a sad coffee shop. There is a sense of freedom to explore yourself in the warmth surrounded by the stratosphere, presumptuous and safe.

"84 Charing Cross Road" describes the caring feelings that exist among the book lovers across the Atlantic, collecting books, searching for books, mailing supplies, and even more touching in the difficult post-war period. Thin thin is a book composed of letters, but it expresses the most sincere and pure, trust and love between people.

"The Elegance of the Hedgehog" is about a story of class, cultural literacy, and ideological encounter. One is a concierge aunt who has rich experience in art and literature, and the other is a little girl from a wealthy family who loves to think about philosophy. The intertwined ideological monologues are quite attractive. After they meet the newly moved middle-aged Japanese man, it is another climax, when the concierge aunt finally faces the shame brought by the past and is determined to overcome the class barrier, but is still severely blocked by fate.

"Dedicated to Fried Cabbage" revolves around the daily cooking, friendship and love among the elderly, a book that makes people smile after reading. When I think about it when I'm old, I probably think like this too. Be brave to meet people, learn to let go of your attachments, and finally choose to reconcile with yourself.

Thanks @Battlefield IslanderKMnese for the invitation, otherwise I wouldn't have had a chance to make this list. In fact, after reading thousands of words, I really can't fit in this short article. There are many good books, but I really can't fit in the overseas bookcases. Every time I move, it is very troublesome to clean up the room. Other books are also welcome to exchange and share.