10 Libros para leer en inglés. Nivel B2
¿Te estas preparando para el certificado B2 (FCE)?, si es así este listado de recomendaciones te servirá de gran utilidad y te ayudará a mejorar tu vocabulario, grammar y writing. Este listado de 10 libros en inglés para nivel B2 podría haber sido más extenso, hay muchos más libros que te podría recomendar pero he preferido dejarlo para otro post.
Este es el listado que suelo recomendar a mis alumnos de First (B2) en la academia Let’s Talk en Valencia, mis favoritos los he puesto en las primeras posiciones, espero que disfrutes de estos títulos y mejores tu inglés.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime
Autor: Mark Haddon
Libro muy recomendable por su originalidad, al ser narrado por un joven de 15 años, el vocabulario no es demasiado complicado, perfecto para un nivel b2 sin dejar de ser una historia muy interesante para jóvenes y adultos.
“The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger’s Syndrome. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour’s dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down.”
A Long Way Down
Autor: Nick Hornby
Es uno de los libros más entretenidos de este famoso autor. Recomendaría este libro en particular porque es la historia de varias personas que viven una situación en común y todos ellos hablan de situaciones cotidianas por lo que es muy útil para aprender inglés y el lector se puede sentir identificado.
“Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Four people who come together on New Year’s Eve: a former TV talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother. Three are British, one is American. They encounter one another on the roof of Topper’s House, a London destination famous as the last stop for those ready to end their lives.
In four distinct and riveting first-person voices, Nick Hornby tells a story of four individuals confronting the limits of choice, circumstance, and their own mortality…“
The Great Automatic Grammatizator and Other Stories
Autor: Roald Dahl
Famoso por libros para niños como Matilda o Charlie y la Fábrica de Chocolate, para mi Dahl es uno de los mejores escritores de relatos cortos para adultos. Sea cual sea el género que te guste, en esta pequeña lista de libros de R. Dahl encontrarás algo que te llame la atención.
“A collection of thirteen short stories written by British author Roald Dahl. The stories were selected for teenagers from Dahl’s adult works. All the stories included were published elsewhere originally; their sources are noted below. The stories, with the exception of the war story «Katina», possess a deadpan, ironic, bizarre, or even macabre sense of humor. They generally end with unexpected plot twists.”
Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life
Autor: Roald Dahl
«Roald Dahl brings to life stories of everyday country folk and their strange passions. Whether it is taking a troublesome cow to be mated with a prime bull, dealing with a rat-infested hayrick, learning the ways and means of maggot farming, or describing the fine art of poaching pheasants using nothing but raisins and sleeping pills.»
Kiss, Kiss
Autor: Roald Dahl
«A collection of short stories for adults, Kiss Kiss serves up the unexpected. Eleven disturbing, sinister tales from the master of the twist in the tale. These classic tales from Roald Dahl, explore desire, deceit and the macabre with shocking results.»
Over to You
Autor: Roald Dahl
«It brings together 10 of Roald Dahl’s earliest stories, many of them set during the Second World War and drawing on his own experiences as a fighter pilot. It includes his first paid piece of writing, the short story A Piece of Cake, which was originally published in 1942 in American magazine The Saturday Evening Post under the title Shot Down Over Libya. «
Animal Farm
Autor: George Orwell. «All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.»
Después de la sobredosis de títulos de Roal Dahl, seguimos con G. Orwell. ¡No te puedes perder este clásico!. Historia de una revolución que no salió como se esperaba, una sátira brillante sobre cómo la fuerza de corrupción del poder. Es un libro corto, entretenido y muy sarcástico. Sin duda una de las obras maestras de la historia de la literatura. Si te ha gustado gusta este, no te puedes perder “1984”, del mismo autor, ambos libros perfectamente asequibles para un nivel B2.
«Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Snowball leads to the animals taking over the farm. Vowing to eliminate the terrible inequities of the farmyard, the renamed Animal Farm is organised to benefit all who walk on four legs. But as time passes, the ideals of the rebellion are corrupted, then forgotten. And something new and unexpected emerges. . .»
GRADED READERS (Oxford Bookworms)
Para terminar con la lista de lecturas recomendadas en inglés para nivel B2, aquí van algunas recomendaciones de «readers», perfectos para estudiantes de B2 porque están adaptados al nivel B2 y puedes descargar el audio y así mejorar tu pronunciación de forma considerable a la vez que amplias tu vocabulario. Existe una amplia colección de la editorial Oxford, algunos de mis preferidos que puedes encontrar en la librería inglesa especializada de Let’s Talk English Centre son:
Thirty nine steps (level 4)
I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my blood turn cold. Scudder was lying on his back. There was a long knife through his heart, pinning him to the floor.’ Soon Richard Hannay is running for his life across the hills of Scotland. The police are chasing him for a murder he did not do, and another, more dangerous enemy is chasing him as well – the mysterious ‘Black Stone’. Who are these people? And why do they want Hannay dead?
The Great Gatsby (level 5)
Gatsby’s mansion on Long Island blazes with light, and the beautiful, the wealthy, and the famous drive out from New York to drink Gatsby’s champagne and to party all night long. But Jay Gatsby, the owner of all this wealth, wants only one thing – to find again the woman of his dreams, the woman he has held in his heart and his memory for five long years. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, is one of the great American novels of the twentieth century. It captures perfectly the Jazz Age of the 1920s, and goes deep into the hollow heart of the American Dream
This Rough Magic (level 5)
The Greek island of Corfu lies like a jewel, green and gold, in the Ionian sea, where dolphins swim in the sparkling blue water. What better place for an out-ofwork actress to relax for a few weeks? But the island is full of danger and mysteries, and Lucy Waring’s holiday is far from peaceful. She meets a rude young man, who seems to have something to hide. Then there is a death by drowning, and then another…
