IELTS Speaking Part 2: IELTS Cue Card/ Candidate Task Card

Describe a famous book you would like to read

: You should say

what it is
who is the author of this book
how you know about this book
and explain why you want to read this book

: Sample Answer

Thank you a lot for this nice cue card topic. I have a list of books that I want to read and one of the famous books in this list is ‘Moby Dick’ or ‘The Whale’. This novel was written by an American writer ‘Herman Melville’. As far as I can recall this book was first published in 1851 by ‘Harper & Brothers’ publication

Without any doubt, ‘Moby Dick’ is one of the most acclaimed and popular novels of all time. This is basically an epic adventure fiction that had made its place in several lists of ‘The best books ever’. Herman Melville, the writer created a fine classic that will be read beyond centuries
I have heard about this book from different sources. In my school days, one of the teachers recommended this book and this is the first time I heard about this book. During my college days, one of my friends, who was a bookworm, also told me the story of this book and told me that I should read it. After I opened an account on ‘Goodreads’, which is a kind of social networking websites for the book lovers, I read different citation and review of this book. Another time a daily newspaper published a feature article on this book and I learned more details about this book from this article

I am very fond of reading and I love to read novels, fictions, classics, biographies and history. I always wanted to read Moby Dick and hopefully, I will finish reading it soon. I have a digital copy of this book in my Kindle Voyage eBook reader, but I wanted to read it the paperback version. This is probably the only reason I am yet to read this book

As far as I know, this book was first published during the period of the American Renaissance and is considered as the finest American Literary work. The opening line ‘Call me Ismael” is among the world literature’s greatest opening line in a novel. A great British novelist and poet once claimed this book ‘one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world and the greatest book of the sea ever written

This is a widely recommended book around the world and I would like to read it to be able to enjoy the finest piece of literary work and to complete my ‘to-read’ list