除了埋头苦学别忘读书！

每年美国各大院校都会发布自家的推荐书单，如MIT的“Summer Reads”、普林斯顿的“Common-reading Programs”等。这不，哈佛大学、普林斯顿大学、麻省理工学院、斯坦福大学、芝加哥大学、加州大学伯克利分校等在内的不少Top 30名校近期都公布了阅读书单！

不同学校列出的书单风格迥然不同，往往都是紧跟社会时事的同时，又体现出学校的独特风格，同学们可以根据自己的专业方向和兴趣选择阅读。让我们一起来看看美国名校选中的书都有哪些吧！

MIT

书名：“The Study of Human Life” (Penguin, 2022)

作者：By Joshua Bennett, visiting professor of literature

书名：“Pomegranate” (Atria Books, 2023)

作者：By Helen Elaine Lee, professor in comparative media studies/writing

书名：“Responding to the Climate Threat: Essays on Humanity’s Greatest Challenge” (Springer Cham, 2023)

作者：By Henry Jacoby, the William F. Pounds Professor Emeritus in management; Gary Yohe; Richard Richels; and Benjamin Santer

书名：“The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science” (Pantheon, 2023)

作者：By Alan Lightman, professor of the practice in humanities

书名：“Climate Future: Averting and Adapting to Climate Change” (Oxford University Press, 2022)

作者：By Robert S. Pindyck, the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd Professor in Finance and Economics

书名：“Spoken Word: A Cultural History” (Knopf, 2023)

作者：By Joshua Bennett, visiting professor of literature

书名：“A Thousand Steps to Parliament: Constructing Electable Women in Mongolia” (University of Chicago, 2022)

作者：By Manduhai Buyandelger, professor of anthropology

书名：“Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life” (Duke University Press, 2023)

作者：By Michael M. J. Fischer, professor of anthropology and of science and technology studies

普林斯顿大学

推荐人：Janet Currie 经济学与公共事务学教授

书架必备书：“Don Quixote” by Miguel Cervantes

与工作相关的两本书：

“Writing with Pleasure” (2023) by Helen Sword

“Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness” (2019) by Anne Harrington

未来将会阅读的两本书：

“The Wife of Bath: A Biography” (2023) by Marion Turner

“Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships” (2022) by Nina Totenberg

推荐人：Gene Jarrett  学院院长兼英语教授

书架必备书：“The Souls of Black Folk” (1903) by W.E.B. Du Bois

暑期推荐书单：

“The Library: A Fragile History” (2021), co-written by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen

“The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder” (2023) by David Grann

“Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race” (2022), edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Andrew S. Curran

“How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future” (2022) by Maria Ressa

推荐人：Casey Lew-Williams

书架必备书：“A Dynamic Systems Approach to the Development of Cognition and Action” (1994) by Esther Thelen and Linda Smith

暑期推荐书单：

“Liberation Day” (2022) by George Saunders

“The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World” (2022) by Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater

“‘John Doe Chinaman’: Race and Law in the American West,” by Beth Lew-Williams

“Recitatif” by Toni Morrison

“Childhood by Design: Toys and the Material Culture of Childhood, 1700-Present” (2018) edited by Megan Brandow-Faller

加州大学伯克利分校

推荐书籍有：

1.  “The Bead workers: Stories”——by Beth Piatote 

2.  “Detransition, Baby: A Novel ”——by Torrey Peters 

3.  “Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore”——by Dan Ozzi 

4.  “The Swimmers”——by Julie Otsuka

5.  “Twenty-Five Chickens and a Pig for a Bride”——by Evangeline Canonizado Buell

6.  “American ah: A Novel”——by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

7.  “Pachinko”——by Min Jin Lee

8.  “Ender’s Game”——by Orson Scott Card

芝加哥大学

推荐书籍有：

1.  “If/Then: How the Simulations Corporation Invented the Future”——by Jill Lepore

2.  “WTF, Evolution?!: A Theory of Unintelligible Design”——by Mara Grunbaum

3.  “The Years” by Annie Ernaux and “Not Written Words”——by Xi Xi, translated by Jennifer Feeley

4.  “Democracy in America”——by Alexis de Tocqueville, translated by Arthur Goldhammer, and “G-Man” by Beverly Gage

5.  “Multi directional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization”——by Michael Rothberg

6.  “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”——by Carol Dweck 

7.   “Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success”——by Adam Grant

8.  “Mimesis”——by Erich Auerbach 

哈佛大学

哈佛大学历史上在任时间最长的校长查尔斯·威廉·埃利奥特，在一次演讲中提出：“若每天用15分钟来阅读经典，四年毕业后所读的书就可以摆满一个五英尺长的书架。”

哈佛大学在校报上发布了暑假推荐阅读的书籍，涵盖悬疑、超自然、自传、漫画等等元素，具体包括以下几本。

1.  The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

2.  Kingdom of the Wicked(series) by Kerri Maniscalco

3.  The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.KJemisin

4.  Legend born by Tracy Deonn

5.  Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker by Cisco Bradley

6.  Tastes Like War by Grace M.Cho

7.  Dr. Greta Helsing

8.  Mort (Discworld series) by Terry Pratchett

斯坦福大学

斯坦福今年的暑期书单来自不同领域的教职工、研究员和校友，书目体裁包括有当代小说、神秘幻想故事，也有历史、社科读物。感兴趣的同学们不妨收藏起来，暑期找来读一读~

书名：Such a Fun Age

作者：by Kiley Reid, G.P. Putnam’s Sons (2019)

书名：The Violin Conspiracy: A Novel

作者：by Brendan Slocumb, Anchor (2022)

书名：Sea Change

作者：by Gina Chung, Vintage (2023)

书名：You Don’t Have a Shot

作者：by Racquel Marie, Feiwel & Friends (2023)

书名：The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

作者：by Honorée Fannone Jeffers, Harper Perennial (2021)

书名：In the Distance

作者：by Hernan Diaz, Coffee House Press (2017)

书名：Trust

作者：by Hernan Diaz, Riverhead Books (2022)

书名：Selfless: The Social Creation of “You”

作者：by Brian Lowery, professor at the Graduate School of Business, Harper (2023)

书名：The Deeper the Roots

作者：by Michael Tubbs, ’12, MA ’12, Flatiron Books (2021)

书名：Black Food: Stories, Art & Recipes Across the African Diaspora

作者：edited and curated by Bryant Terry, 4 Color Books (2021).

通过阅读名校推出的书单，对于提升大家的英语水平，增加英文原著的积累，以及未来的留学融入都是非常有好处的！希望每位同学都能按需阅读，享受读书带来的快乐，同时提升自己的批判性阅读能力，提高爬藤实力！