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国学生高强度阅读，大家早有耳闻，同样普通家庭，美国学生的阅读量却是中国学生的6倍。要知道，一名美国高中学生既有 Required reading（必读书目，每门课2-8本，取决于不同的课程），还有 Leisure reading（业余阅读，取决这位学生自己的兴趣和对自身的要求）要求。
在大学申请时，学校也经常问申请者最喜欢/值得分享的几本书籍是什么，或者最近阅读的书名，你所阅读的书单能反映出个人激情、主动性，也能展现出自己的学术兴趣。常春藤、牛津剑桥给不同专业学生推荐了哪些不同书单？这个暑假读起来吧！
申请 STEM 方向
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - R Skloot
- Other Minds - P Godfrey-Smith
- Mutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body - AM Leroi
- The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets - S Singh
- Fermat's Last Theorem - S Singh
- The Man Who Knew Infinity - R Kanigel
- Hidden Unity in Nature's Law - JC Taylor
- The Cosmic Onion - F Close
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman - Richard Feynman
- Computational Fairy Tales - Jeremy Kubica
- Out of Their Minds - D Shasha and Cathy Lazere
申请 经济学 & 商科 方向
- 23 Things They Don't Teach You about Capitalism - Ha-Joon Chang
- Predictably Irrational - D Ariely
- Nudge - C Susstein and R Thaler
- The White Man's Burden - W Easterly
- The Bottom Billion - P Collier
- The End of Alchemy - M King
- Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
- Nudge - Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler
- Freakonomics - Dubner and Levitt
- Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
- Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World - Anand Giridharadas
- End This Depression Now!
- This Changes Everything Capitalism vs the Climate
- Monetary Policy and International Capital Flows
- The Finance Curse - Nicholas Shaxson
- Nine Crises: Fifty Years of Covering the British Economy from Devaluation to Brexit
- Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life
申请 哲学 方向
- Introduction to Political Philosophy - R Wolff
- Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong - JL Mackie
- Utilitarianism: For and Against - JC Smart
- On Liberty - JS Mill
- Think by Simon Blackburn
- The Rise of Consciousness - Oliver Sacks. Or literally any other book by Oliver Sacks.
- To Float in the Space Between - Terrance Hayes
- Problems of Philosophy, Bertrand Russell
- The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; A Treatise of Human Nature - David Hume
- Meditations - Descartes
- Existentialism is a Humanism - Sartre
- The Republic - Plato
- The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
- The Female Persuasion - Meg Wolitzer
- Bluets - Maggie Nelson
- Behold, America: The Entangled History of America First and the American Dream - Sarah Churchwell
- Concepts of Consciousness - Ned Block
申请 医学 &生物医学 方向
- Being Mortal - A Gawunde
- This is Going to Hurt - A Kay
- When Breath Becomes Air - P Kalanithi
- Unnatural Causes - R Shepherd
- The Medici Effect -Frans Johansson
- Life at the Extremes - F Ashcroft
- The Man who mistook his Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks
- The Rise of Consciousness - Oliver Sacks
申请 法学 方向
- Landmarks in the Law - A Denning
- The Discipline of Law - A Denning
- Five Ideas to Fight For - A Lester
- Invitation to Law - AW Simpson
- Whiteness as Property - C Harris
- Eve was Framed - H Kennedy
- Letters to a Law Student - Nicholas J. McBride
- The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court - Jeffrey Toobin
- Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism - Mahmood Mamdani
申请 社会科学 方向
- AI Superpowers – Kai-Fu Lee
- The Everything Store – Brad Stone
- Originals: How Non-Conformists Move The World - Adam Grant
- American Like Me - America Ferrera
- On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
- The Welfare of Nations
- The Great Transformation
申请 工程 & 物理学 方向
- How Do Wings Work? - Holger Babinsky
- Structures – or Why Things Don't Fall Down - J.E. Gordon
- The Gecko's Foot: How Scientists are Taking a Leaf from Nature's Book - Peter Forbes
- Feynman Lectures on Physics
申请 数学 & 统计学 方向
- A Russian Childhood - S. Kovalevskaya
- The Man Who Loved Only Sumbers - Paul Hoffman
- An Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning: Numbers, Sets and Functions
申请 化学 方向
- The elements of murder - John Emsley
- The fats of life (sic) by Pond - Caroline M.
- Elegant Solutions : Ten bBautiful Experiments in Chemistry - Philip Ball
- The science of chocolate - S. T. Beckett
- Oxygen: The Molecule that Changed the World - N Lane
申请 生物 方向
- The Demon-Haunted World - Carl Sagan
- Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion - Year History of the Human Body - Neil Shubin
- A Natural History of the Senses - Diane Ackerman
- What it is like to be a Bat - Thomas Nagel
