What books to read?

While members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference discussed changing reading habits at the two sessions in March, some of them also gave their book recommendations.

Filmmaker Feng Xiaogang, who made the satirical comedy Personal Tailor last year, suggests reading I'm not Pan Jinlian by Liu Zhenyun, for an absolutely absurd, ironic and engaging satire with a Chinese flavor.

The book covers two surreal petitioning cases: One, a farmer's calculated divorce that went wrong and led to incidental meetings with the country's top leaders; the other is about one shrewd businessman's ingenious way to get home when railway tickets were sold out.