Essentials

"The Little Prince"

For more than 60 years, The Little Prince has been hailed as the best-selling book in the world second only to the Bible, and has been translated into more than 150 foreign languages ??and Dialect, with at least 400 versions around the world

Douban score: 9.4

"Charlotte's Web?"

Reason for recommendation: A story about a spider and a piglet , written for children as well as adults.

In the barn of the Zuckerman family, a group of animals live happily, among which Wilbur the pig and Charlotte the spider have established the most sincere friendship. However, the ugliest news broke the tranquility of the barn: Wilbur's future destiny was to become bacon and ham. As a pig, the grieving and desperate Wilbur seemed to have no choice but to accept the fate of being slaughtered. However, the seemingly insignificant Charlotte said: "I will save you." So Charlotte used her silk to tie the pigsty. Weaving online text, which is considered a miracle by humans, completely reversed Wilbur's fate, and finally allowed him to win a special prize in the market competition and a future where he would enjoy his destiny. However, at this time, Spider Charlotte's life came to an end

Douban score: 8.8

"The Remains of" the Day》

Douban score: 8.7

"The old Man and Sea?"

Reason for recommendation: "The Old Man and the Sea" is the best work of the American writer Hemingway and a treasure in the treasure house of world literature. This novel won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 - because she created an invincible tough guy in the history of world literature!

Douban score: 8.8

Reason for recommendation: For those who have read the book, you must understand that this is really not just a story about first love.

This should be a story about growth, like the most touching and warm textbook, teaching people kindness and beauty.

I once fantasized about angels. I think Judy Anna is an angel. Although she may not think so, the light she emits can save souls.

Douban score: 9.1

"The House on Mango street"

Reason for recommendation: "The House on Mango Street" is a beautiful and pure little book , a "poetic novel". It consists of dozens of short stories. Each short story tells about a person, an event, a dream, a few clouds, a few trees, and several feelings. The language is as clear as flowing water, dotted with scattered rhymes and novel metaphors, like a poem. The long song and the short tune each have their own rhymes and are connected to each other, bringing together a clear world and the various chaos of life. All the narratives are centered on one narrative center: Esperanza, a girl living on Mango Street in Chicago's Latin American immigrant community (Esperanza, meaning hope in Spanish).

Born with sympathy for the weak and a sense of beauty, she looks at the world around her with clear eyes, and talks about growth and vicissitudes in beautiful and tender language, about the beauty and difficulty of life, about young aspirations and dreams, and dreams. Having a house of my own, dreaming of writing.

Douban score: 7.8

Reason for recommendation: It tells the friendship and subtle competition between two genius scholars. Through this book, you can not only review the behavioral decision-making of Nobel Prize winners or theories related to behavioral economics that different teachers have taught in Guanghua classes, but also see the differences in wisdom among the world's top genius scholars. How to compensate and stimulate each other. The Chinese version of "The Discovery of Thinking: The Discipline of Decision-Making and Judgment", although the translated title is quite hard-core, it lacks some of the sincerity and elegance that a translation should have.

Douban score: 8.3

"The Grapes of Wrath?"

Reason for recommendation: The whole book presents a sense of boundless desolation, but it can also be read The author is full of sympathy for the farmers. Grapes and farmers form a metaphor for each other, and this apt description makes people feel more and more sympathetic: "Their eyes showed great frustration, and their eyes shot out with more and more fierce anger. In their hearts, the grapes of wrath began to grow. , becoming more and more lush. The grapes of wrath are about to spread across the land, like wildfire. Grapes are weak and incompetent. They are left to fend for themselves after being left in excess, and they rot wantonly. Wandering to California in search of an unrealistic dream, I was bullied and homeless along the way. I suffered the same hardships as others for three lifetimes, but I could only suppress the fire of ignorance in my heart and continue to wander.

Douban score: 9.2

"Number the Stars?"

Reason for recommendation: This is a story about love and courage, responsibility and justice. Annemarie, a Danish girl who is inexperienced in the world. During the years when the Nazis were rampant, she assisted her family again and again to help her good friend Ellen's family escape from the Nazis; her parents, uncle and countless ordinary Danish people consciously and proactively united to save the lives of many Jews. What is bravery? After reading this book, readers may be able to understand what love and courage are, and what is responsibility and justice.

Douban score: 8.6

"Pride and Prejudice" ?》

Recommended reason: "Pride and Prejudice" is the representative work of the famous British female novelist Jane Austen. This work mainly focuses on the marriage and life of women from squire families, with women's unique and meticulous details The observational and lively and humorous writing truly depicts the world around her, especially the marriage and love affairs between gentlemen and ladies.

Douban score: 9.0

"The Strategy of". conflict?》

Reason for recommendation: This book is by far the most classic work on the politics of conflict. The language of this book is clear and easy to understand, and it is practical and authoritative and highly readable.

Douban score: 9.2

"Gone With The Wind"

Reason for recommendation: The novel takes Atlanta and a nearby plantation as the story setting, depicting the American Southerners before and after the Civil War. life. The work depicts the images of many southerners of that era, with Scarlett, Rhett, Ashley, Melanie and others in the center being typical representatives.

Their customs and etiquette, words and deeds, spiritual concepts, and political attitudes, through the love entanglement of Scarlett and Rhett Butler as the main line, successfully reproduced the Civil War led by Lincoln and the social life of the southern United States.

Douban score: 9.3

"To Kill a Mockingbird"

Reason for recommendation: "To Kill a Mockingbird" won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 . The most borrowed book in American libraries and one of the most popular novels among British teenagers. Recommended extracurricular readings for American middle schools. The film adapted from the novel won three Oscars at the 25th Academy Awards.

Douban score: 9.2

"The Giver?"

Reason for recommendation: The Giver is translated as "the giver", "the giver" or "the memory imparter" ", is Lois Lowry's most famous and controversial work. In The Giver, the author describes an imaginary utopian world. In this society, people's lives are well arranged. People don't have to decide on jobs or choose spouses. The social management makes decisions for individuals on these issues.

Douban score: 8.3

"Moment In Peking"

Recommendation: "The Smoke and Clouds of Beijing" was written by Lin Yutang from August 1938 to 1939 when he was living in Paris. A novel written in English in August 2001. The English title is Moment in Peking. "The Smoke and Clouds of Beijing" is the title after he translated it into Chinese. There is also a translation of this book as "Moment in Peking", which was released in 1939. First English edition. "Beijing Smoke and Clouds" tells the story of the joys and sorrows, grievances, and grievances of the three families of Zeng, Yao, and Niu in Peking from the Boxer Rebellion in 1901 to the Anti-Japanese War for more than 30 years, and embeds Yuan Shikai's usurpation of the country, Zhang Xun's restoration, and the Zhifeng War. , warlord separatism, the May 4th Movement, the March 18th Massacre, the writing war between the "Yusi School" and the "Modern Criticism School", the "left deviation" of young people, and the outbreak of World War II. It panoramically shows the changing historical features of modern Chinese society and is known as A modern version of "A Dream of Red Mansions".

Douban score: 9.2

"North And? South"

Reason for recommendation: This novel has been adapted into TV series three times so far, including 2004 The BBC version is the most classic and is known as comparable to "Pride and Prejudice"

Douban score: 9.2

"A Winkle In Time"

Reasons for recommendation: 1 This is an adventure story that combines science, fantasy, and mysticism. It tells the thrilling journey of two children who, with the help of a mysterious friend, enter another planet through a "wrinkle in time" and rescue their trapped father. In this novel, you can feel an extraordinary concept of time and space.

Douban score: 7.2

"ORFEO?"

Reason for recommendation: "This is a story about music and genetics in the context of contemporary fear and surveillance. , a strange interpretation of the myth of Orpheus. An old avant-garde composer felt that he had reached the ultimate in music, so he returned to his first love-like passion for biology, intending to write the score on the mutated DNA of bacteria.

"But his actions are mistaken for an act of bioterrorism, and he flees to the "underworld" of contemporary America, back into the arms of the Eurydices.

An amazing book - there's so much to learn from it, about music, science, politics...even about life! "

"The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian"

Reason for recommendation: It tells the story of a boy who is a cartoonist who grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school behind on Reitz Avenue to attend an all-white farm high school where the only Indian is the school mascot. And the beautiful "True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with acclaimed artist Ellen Forney's acerbic paintings that reflect the character's art and chronicle a Native American Contemporary adolescence as a boy tries to escape the life he is destined to live.

Douban score: 8.7

"A Theory of The Drone?"

Reasons for recommendation: Drone warfare raises deep ethical and constitutional questions in the halls of Congress and among the American public, and this book is a brilliantly intelligent assessment of drone warfare, talking about its implications for just war theory and the concept of military courage. < /p>

"Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life?"

Reason for recommendation: Given the resurgence of racial issues in American society, everyone should read this book

"Brave New World"

Reason for recommendation: "Brave New World" - one of the most classic dystopian literatures of the 20th century - depicts for us the fictional Ford Era 632 AD. The society of 2532. This is a society where people are controlled from birth to death. In this "brave new world", due to the development of social and biological control technology, human beings have fallen into the hands of monopoly genetic companies and politicians. doll.

"Thirteen Reasons Why?"

Reason for recommendation: "Thirteen Reasons" is not only Hannah's last confession and cry, but also her kind reminder to the world. . Young Ke Lei's wandering in the middle of the night, accompanied by Hannah's sometimes affectionate and sometimes sarcastic narration, gripped people's hearts. To end life, you may need many desperate reasons; but to fall in love with life again, only a glimmer of hope is enough.