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I am a college student in Taiwan ,and my english is poor .
I want to read short novels to increase my vocabulary.
Could you recommend any short novels for me ? Thanks.

Good idea -- reading in English improves all your English skills.

Here's an easy novel that a lot of my students liked:

http://eslfreepress.typepad.com/the_esl ... index.html

It may be too easy -- but the company publishes higher level books, too. Good luck.

Here are three short novels that are of very high quality -- we use them to prepare Korean high school students to study at top American universities -- and they are sometimes used to prepare for the college-level Advanced Placement exam.

Animal Farm -- George Orwell

Of Mice and Men -- John Steinbeck

The Pearl -- John Steinbeck

If you find these too difficult, you might try some children's classics -- shorter novels written for young people (10-14)