Required reading list for primary school students of the Ministry of Education.
First grade
1. "Selected Idiom Stories" (phonetic version) China Children's Publishing House
2. "Andersen's Fairy Tales"/Denmark/written by Andersen/translated by Ren Rongrong, Zhejiang Children's Publishing House
3. "Selected Chinese Fairy Tales" Peking University Press
Second Grade
1. "The Collection of Grimm's Fairy Tales" written by the Brothers Grimm* translated by Yang Wuneng* edited by Ji Xianlin* China Book Publishing House
2. "Ye Shengtao's Fairy Tales" written by Ye Shengtao People's Literature Publishing House
3. "The Complete Works of Children's Literature by Zhang Tianyi" by Zhang Tianyi, China Children's Publishing House
4. "Pippi Longstocking" written by Lindgren and translated by Li Zhiyi from China Children's Publishing House
Third grade
1. "Aesop's Fables" (Ancient Greece) Aesop's China Book Publishing House
2. "Selected Chinese Fables" compiled by Cao Wenxuan, Peking University Press
3. "Arabian Nights" translated by Wang Ruiqin, People's Literature Publishing House
4. "I Want to Be a Good Boy" by Huang Beijia, Jiangsu Juvenile Publishing House
5. "Selected Chinese Historical Stories" Peking University Press
6. "Stories of Science Knowledge in Primary Schools" (Middle Grade) edited by Cao Wenxuan and Jiangsu Literature and Art Publishing House
7. "Pinocchio" written by Collodi and translated by Ren Rongrong
Fourth grade
1. "Selected Stories of Chinese Virtues" Peking University Press
2. "For Young Readers" by Bing Xin, Hubei Children's Publishing House
3. "Niels Riding a Goose" (Sweden) written by Lagerl?f and translated by Gao Ziying and Li Zhiyi People's Literature Publishing House
4. "Krylov's Fables" (Russia) written by Krylov and translated by Pei Jiale and Lin Publishing House
5. "The Education of Love" written by Amicis, translated by Lu Jian and Mengrong, Tianjin Education Press
6. "Five Thousand Years Up and Down" written by Cao Yuzhang, Gansu Culture Publishing House
7. "Journey to the West" by Wu Chengen, Times Literature and Art Publishing House
Fifth grade
1. "Water Margin" by Shi Naian
2. "Insects" (France) written by Fabre and translated by Wang Guang Writers Publishing House
3. "Robinson Crusoe" (English) by Defoe People's Literature Publishing House
4. "Chinese Rabbit German Grass" written by Zhou Rui and Zhou Shuangning, Chunfeng Literature and Art Publishing House
5. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll
Translated by Guan Numa Chun
6. "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" by Verne, translated by Guan Jiaqi, Beijing Publishing House
7. "Thatched House" by Cao Wenxuan, Jiangsu Children's Publishing House
8. "Stories of Science Knowledge in Primary Schools" (Senior Grade) compiled by Cao Wenxuan and Jiangsu Literature and Art Publishing House
Sixth Grade
1. "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" by Luo Guanzhong
2. "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain and translated by Zhang Yousong, Fujian Children's Publishing House
3. "How Steel Was Tempered" (Russia) Translated by Ostrovsky Meiyi People's Literature Publishing House
4. "Childhood" by Gorky
5. "The Biography of Hulan River" by Xiao Hong, Fudan University Press
6. "The Little Prince" by Saint-Exupery, translated by Eco, Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing House
7. "The Good Soldier Szejk" (Czech Republic) written by J. Ha?ek and translated by Xiao Qian and Lin Publishing House
8. "Red Umbrella·Red Clogs" by Peng Yi, Jilin Publishing House
9. "The Complete Works of Bing Xin's Children's Literature" by Bing Xin, China Children's Publishing House
Literary Works
1. "Ancient Chinese Fables" written by Bei Dazhong
2. "Chinese and Foreign Myths and Legends" Selected by Tian Xinli
3. "Bible Myth Stories" Selected by Chen Jing
4. "The Wanderings of Sanmao" written by Zhang Leping
5. "Selected Fairy Tales by Yan Wenjing" by Yan Wenjing
6. "Scarecrow" by Ye Shengtao
7. "The Secret of the Treasure Gourd" by Zhang Tianyi
8. "Little Soldier Zhang Ga" by Xu Guangyao
9. "Three Letters to Little Readers" by Bing Xin
10. "The Biography of Pipilu"
Written by Zheng Yuanjie
11. "The Stopper in the Belly" by Zhou Rui
12. "This Year You Are Seven" by Liu Jianping
13. "Wonderful Traces in the Desert" written by Yan Zhen
14. "The Adventures of Wududi" by Jin Bo
15. "I Want to Be a Good Boy" by Huang Beijia
16. "Thatched House" by Cao Wenxuan
17. "The Third Army" by Zhang Zhizhi
18. "The Wreck of the Wizard" by Ban Ma
19. "The Confused Big-Headed Ghost" by Guan Jiaqi
20. "Pretty Teacher and Bad Boy" by Yang Hongying
21. "Fantasy City" by Guo Jingming
22. "Aesop's Fables"
(Greek) Aesop's
23. "The Complete Works of Krylov's Fables"
(Russia) Written by Krylov and translated by Pei Jiaqin
24. "The Fables of La Fontaine"
(France) La Fontaine, translated by Ni Haishu
25. "The Complete Collection of Grimm's Fairy Tales" (Germany) written by William Grimm and translated by Yang Wuneng and Yang Yue
26. "Selected Fairy Tales of Andersen" (Denmark) by Andersen, translated by Ye Junjian
27. "Pushkin's Fairy Tales"
(Russian) Pushkin, translated by Kang Fu and Zhengcheng
28. "Wilde's Fairy Tales"
(English) Oscar Wilde, translated by Tang Sanhui
29. "Fairy Tales by Kenji Miyazawa" (Japan) written by Kenji Miyazawa
30. "The Story of Lena Fox"
(Fama Ashi Zino)
31. "Arabian Nights" translated by Zhi Taohao and others
32. "Robinson Crusoe"
(English) Defoe, translated by Wang Quangen
33. "The Magician's Hat"
(Fen) Yang Song, translated by Ren Rongrong
34. "Treasure Island"
(English) Written by Stevenson and translated by Shan Beilei
35. "The Jungle Legend"
(English) Kipling's work translated by Xu Pu
36. "The Travels of the Bragging King"
(Germany) Translated by E. Rasper and Liu Hao
37. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (English) written by Lewis Carroll and translated by Chen Bochui
38. "Travel on a Goose" (Sweden) written by S. Lagl?f and translated by Wang Quangen
39. "Pinocchio"
(Italian) written by Carlo Collodi and translated by Yang Jianmin
40. "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
(USA) Mark Twain, edited by Zhong Lei
41. "Gulliver's Travels"
(English) written by Jonathan Swift and translated by Yang Wucheng
42. "Emil the Naughty Bag" (Sweden) written by A. Lindgren and translated by Gao Feng and Shi Hong
43. "The Diary of a Troublemaker"
(Italian) Translated by Wanba and Si Min
44. "The Little Prince" (France) written by Saint-Exupéry and translated by Ma Zhenpin
45. "Childhood" (Russia) by Gorky
46. "The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes" (English) Translated by Conan Dowlding and Jinhua
47. "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" (UK) joko Rowling
48. "The Naughty Troublemaker" (Germany) William Bush
49. "Selected Chinese Contemporary Children's Poems"
Zhang Jilou, Peng Siyuan
50. "Selected Poems for Foreign Children" edited by Wen Chengying and Li Rong
Science Fiction
51. "100 Scientist Stories" Ye Yonglie
52. "Selected Chinese and Foreign Adventure Stories" Selected by Yi Ming
53. "Selected Chinese and Foreign Animal Stories" Selected by Yi Ming
54. "Chinese and Foreign Classic Popular Science Stories" edited by Wu Pu
55. "Chinese and Foreign Internet Stories" compiled by Wu Pu
56. "One Hundred Thousand Whys" edited by Lu Jiaxi
57. "Stories in the Kingdom of Science" edited by Wang Hui and others
58. "The Code of Life" by Tan Jiazhen
59. "Colorful Spectrum of Light" by Wang Daheng
60. "The Kingdom of Spirituality" by Zhang Xiangtong
61. "The Long Years" by Jia Lanpo
62. "Magical Symbols" by Su Buqing
63. "Flying with the Birds" Zheng Zuo's new work
64. "Endless Questioning" by Wang Ganchang
65. "100 Moments When Science Changed Human Life" Editor-in-Chief Lu Yongxiang
66. "The Discovery of Science" Guo Zhengyi et al
67. "130 Scientific Games"
(Germany) written by Hans Press and compiled by Wu Hengkang
68. "Insects"
(French) Fabre, translated by Xiaoshan
69. "My Wild Animal Friends"
(French) Translated by Tippi Degre Huang Tianyuan
70. "Gao Shiqi's Popular Science Fairy Tales" Gao Shiqi
71. "The Story of the Elements"
Translated by (Su) Yi Nicha Yevten Tiping
72. "Science in Poetry" Tang Lufeng et al
73. "Amphibious Man" (Soviet Union) Alexander Belyaev Meng Qingshu, translated by Shancheng
74. "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"
(France) Jules Verne
75. "Collection of Ancient Chinese Science Fiction Stories" compiled by Yang Peng and Liu Daoyuan
Cultural Education
76. "Stories of the Kingdoms of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty" adapted by Guo Ping and Chen Yongchao
77. "Chinese Folktales" Selected by Xuan Ren
78. "Idiom Story 365" Sail Girl Ashue and others
79. "The Story of Chinese and Foreign Wars" Zhang Honghai et al
80. "Stories of Chinese and Foreign Artists" compiled by Jiang Yaohan
81. "The Story of Chinese Characters" by Mei Zihan
82. "The Story of Afanti" compiled by Zhao Shijie
83. "Five Thousand Years Up and Down" by Lin Handa and Cao Yuzhang
84. "Five Thousand Years of the World" edited by Duan Wanhan, Gu Hansong, and Chen Bixiang
85. "Being a Person and Doing Things" Lu Qin
86. "The Dream of One Hundred Chinese Children" Dong Hongyou
87. "Our Mother is Called China" Su Shuyang
88. "Ma Yan's Diary: A Modern Fairy Tale that Touched the World" (France) Han Shi
89. "Recitation of Chinese Classics" Selected by Xu Hanzhi
90. "Three Character Classic, Hundred Family Surnames, Thousand Family Poems" is edited by Xinxia
91. "Around China in 30 Days" Zheng Pingping
92. "International Questions and Answers" compiled by China Children's Publishing House
93. "Nobel Prize Winners Dialogue with Children"
94. "If You Give Me Three Days of Light" written by Helen Keller and translated by Li Hanzhao
95. "The Education of Love"
(Italian) Written by Amicis, translated by Ma Mo
96. "Flowers in a Prosperous Age" edited by Xu Dexia
97. "Be a Happy Young Man" translated by Deng Bixia
98. "Father and Son"
(Germany) Edited by E. O. Braunhorn Page
99. "Goodbye, Kelu" (Japan) Akimoto Ryohei
100. "The Great Writer Snoopy" (USA) Monte Schultz
There is also a list of books below:
Classical Chinese Literature
"The Book of Songs" and "Chu" "Ci", "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Journey to the West", "A Dream of Red Mansions", "Water Margin", "The Romance of the Yang Family", "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", "The Scholars", "Flowers in the Mirror", "Guanzhi", "Three Hundred Tang Poems", "Song Ci" "Selection", "Selected Songs of the Yuan Dynasty", "The Injustice of Dou E", "The Romance of the West Chamber", "The Peony Pavilion", "The Peach Blossom Fan"
Masterpieces of Modern Chinese Literature
"New Stories", "The Goddess" "Camel Xiangzi" "Midnight" "Besieged City" "Home" "Qu Yuan" "Selected Poems of Mao Zedong" "Thunderstorm" "Four Generations Under One Roof" "Red Rock" "Who is the Loveliest Person" "Song of Youth" "Long Live Youth" "For Young Readers", "Fu Lei's Family Letter" and "The Ordinary World"
Foreign literary masterpieces
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"One Thousand and One Nights", "Shakespeare's Four Comedies", "Paradise Lost", "Robinson Crusoe", "The Sorrows of Young Werther", "Confessions", "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", "Jane Eyre" "La Traviata", "Uncle Tom's Cabin", "Doctor Zhivago", "War and Peace", "Education of Love", "Sherlock Holmes", "Childhood", "Gone with the Wind", "Quiet on the Don" and "The Bible" "How Steel Was Tempered" and "Young Guards"
Masterpieces of Chinese Children's Literature
"Miss Alice", "San Mao's Wanderings", "Hanging Bird" and " "Wild Grapes", "Ma Liang's Magic Pen", "Scarecrow", "The Secret of the Treasure Gourd", "Ma Lanhua", "Children from Foreign Countries", "Boys in Troubled Times", "Songs of Small Streams", "Boy Jia Li", "Jin Bo's Selected Poems for Children", "China" "Mythical Stories" "The Crane Who Loves Fairy Tales" "Booker's Adventures" "The Adventures of the Fox Couple" "Our Soil Mother"
Masterpieces of Foreign Children's Literature
"Pinocchio" "The Happy Prince" "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" "The Sorcerer's Hat" "Little Thinkers in Action" "The Adventures of Bibi Young" "White Bim with Black Ears" "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" "Alice in Wonderland" ” “A Tree that Grows Upside Down”, “Mianmao”, “New York Boys”, “Greek Myths and Legends”, “The Claw King”, “The Haunted Space Suit”, “Adventures in the Land of Lies”, “Grimm’s Fairy Tales”, “Selected Fairy Tales by Andersen” "Aesop's Fables"
"The Story of Pippi Longstocking", "The Story of the Fisherman and the Goldfish", "The Adventures of Little Bear", "The Story of Mother Goose", "The Adventures of The Onion" and "Travel on the Goose" "The Wizard of Green", "Snake Gem", "Little Badger and Child"
Art Appreciation Readings
"Introduction to Art Appreciation", "Student Art Encyclopedia Dictionary", "Singing Art Talk" " National Student Music Appreciation Library Guide" "Music Masters and World Masterpieces" "Appreciation of Foreign Art and Masterpieces" "Andante Cantabile - Appreciation of Classical Art" "The Art of Space - Appreciation of Chinese and Foreign Architectural Boutiques"
"Chinese Calligraphy Art and Techniques" "Western Photography Schools and Master Works"
Historical Knowledge Readings
"Five Thousand Years of China", "Five Thousand Years of the World", "Five Thousand Years of Science and Technology" "Millennium" "Modern History of China" "From the Opium War to the "May 4th Movement"" "New China National History Education Student Readings"
Popular Science Knowledge Readings
"One Hundred Thousand Whys" "Love Science, Study Science, Cross-Century Popular Science Series", "Understanding the Universe", "The Wonderful Human Body", "The Mystery of the Human Brain", "Brain Power Multiplication Method", "Modern Medical Garden Buds", "Interesting Physics", "The Story of Invention", "Chinese Youth Intelligence" "Quiz Book"
Science Fantasy Works
"The Essence of World Science Fiction Stories" "200 New Science Fiction Stories" "200 New Science Fiction Stories" (Foreign Volume) "Asimo" Husband's Scientific Exploration Collection", "Travel to Mars", "The Sinking of Japan" and "The Story of the Future"