Eight books recommended for reading before college entrance.

I am about to enter the university in September, and suddenly I have a summer vacation without tutoring and nagging. Isn't it cool? College freshmen, before entering the university, I prepared 8 recommended books for you! Don't forget to read when you play!

Use time to read and understand life;

1. "Ok, touch your head"

Big Ice, published by Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House.

The author of this book, Da Bing, is a new generation of young people. They are writers, TV hosts, folk singers, backpackers and hotel owners. This book records 12' s legendary story about Da Bing's travelling in Jianghu for more than ten years, and the love and warmth between him and his friends. Maybe it will show you the life you will never experience and meet people you may never make friends with. 12 stories and 12 kinds of goodwill show the thoughts and feelings of a new generation of young people. This book was selected as "50 popular books" in 20 14.

Step 2 cross your world

Zhang Jiajia, Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House.

This is a collection of bedtime stories that can make people laugh and cry. Zhang Jiajia, the "best storyteller", recalled the emotional experience that happened to several little people. His sword is humorous and conveys a true, warm and unpretentious world view belonging to young people. Just like a friend telling you about the thousands of waters in Qian Shan that he walked through in Qian Shan in the middle of the night, maybe you will be moved and see yourself in the story. Since its publication, this book has been in the forefront of the bestseller list for a long time, and was selected as "20 14 China's Best Books".

Know something about philosophy:

3. A brief history of Chinese philosophy

Feng Youlan, Peking University Publishing House.

A Brief History of Chinese Philosophy is only 200,000 words, but it is a masterpiece of China's philosophy with world influence. This paper systematically expounds the spirit and background of China's philosophy, as well as the representatives and main viewpoints of various schools in the history of philosophy, which incorporates Mr. Feng Youlan's understanding of China's traditional thought, culture and wisdom, as well as the wisdom crystallization of history and thinking, and is full of wisdom and philosophers' insights, especially the author's concern for practical problems, and has the demeanor of "saving the country by reading". Li Xiaohong, president of Wuhan University, once thought that this book was helpful to improve the humanistic quality and philosophical thinking of China university students.

4. History of Western Philosophy

Russell in English, Beijing Publishing House.

Russell's History of Western Philosophy is a very distinctive work on the history of western philosophy, and its narrative time has been from the rise of Greek civilization to modern logical analysis philosophy. Reading this book can not only have a general understanding of the major western philosophers and their thoughts, but also understand some important events, figures, development stages and their relationship with specific philosophy in western history.

Understanding the world and science:

5. The era of big data

English Viktor Mayer-Sch?nberger English Kenneth Cookeye.

"Big Data Era" is a pioneering work of big data research abroad, and the author Viktor Mayer-Sch?nberger is known as "the first person in the commercial application of big data". Qin Huang, president of China University of Political Science and Law, believes that big data has enabled us to enter the information society more deeply. It has not only changed our way of life, but also changed our way of thinking, profoundly affecting the transformation of our society and the innovation of our system.

6. A brief history of time

Stephen Hawking, UK, Hunan Science and Technology Press.

A Brief History of Time is a classic book written by stephen hawking about exploring the essence of time and the frontier of the universe, and it is also a physics book for ordinary readers. It expounds the mysterious, magical and profound principles of the universe in simple, concise and simple language. When you open this book and walk into it, you are presented with the vast universe, mysterious earth, black hole, space and time ... He Jianguo, president of Ningxia University, believes that this book can not only stimulate people's curiosity, but also cultivate people's scientific thinking, enlighten people's wisdom and even teach us how to look at the world correctly. A Brief History of Time is worth reading, especially for contemporary youth. It is a must-read classic.

Remember dreams and struggles:

7. Ordinary world

Lu Yao, Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House.

Lu Yao's masterpiece Ordinary World is set in China from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Through complicated contradictions and entanglements, it centers on two brothers, Sun Shaoan and Sun Shaoping, and depicts the images of many ordinary people at that time. Labor and love, frustration and pursuit, pain and joy, daily life and huge social conflicts are intertwined, which profoundly shows the difficult and tortuous road that ordinary people have gone through in the historical process of the great era. Dong Qi, president of Beijing Normal University, once recommended this book and wrote: "Once, in that era of material scarcity, Ordinary World was the spiritual food of countless people; Nowadays, there are still many people who love this rich and happy era. The indomitable spirit of struggle is what young people need, no matter past, present or future. "

Whenever, remember the starting point:

8. Don't forget why you started just because you walked too far.

He is the teacher mentioned in Chai Jing's Seeing, and the spiritual leader of celebrities such as Cui Yongyuan and Bai. At the same time, he is also known as the "father of oriental time and space", and this person is Chen Yu.

"Don't forget why you set out because you have gone too far" is the only collection of thoughts in Chen Yu's life, edited by Hong Xu. As Bai said, "Commemoration is a fresh start". The douban score of this book is 8.9, and the reader's favorable rate is 90%.

The following are recommended books for fiction and non-fiction:

Fictional class:

The king's city is like the sea.

Author: Xu

Xu Ji, a post-1970s writer, launched a new novel after "Jerusalem". Starting with the return of artists living abroad, it tells the process of the characters going to the future and seeking inner peace in the smog-shrouded new Beijing: Yu Songpo, a pioneer drama director of returnees, directed the new drama "Revelation from the City", and his lines offended young people. A cultural event unexpectedly turned into a social event, and Yu Songpo became the focus of public opinion. One day, he met his cousin who had been in prison for 15 years because of reporting. In the smog that covers the sky, his unconscious cousin looks like a wandering brother, selling fresh air and haze-removing artifacts, so Yu Songpo's sleepwalking happens frequently ... The title of the novel is taken from Su Dongpo's poem: "Only the king city is the most secluded, and ten thousand people are hidden like the sea." The king's city is deep and crowded with people. Your loneliness doesn't respond, but when you think you are just you, everyone appears in your life. Everyone is you, and you are everyone.

The last sigh of the moors

Author: (English) Saman Roussidi

Translator: Lu Dapeng

Lu Dapeng, known as a "little translator", has expressed his appreciation for the British Indian writer saman rashid more than once. This year, his translation of The Last Sigh of the Moors was Rushdie's first novel after The Devil's Poem, which brought him great controversy. The book combines postmodern narrative tradition and Indian oral narrative tradition, and depicts the story of four generations of a family engaged in spice trade in southern India. The author presents the conflict and integration of Indian society, religion and culture with beautiful words, and completes a gorgeous tapestry of Indian history.

Watch your heart.

Author: (America) harper lee

The book is scheduled to be published in February, which may have aroused readers' eager anticipation. It is the second novel published by Ha Bai Ji Li after the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird for more than 50 years, and it is also the second novel published by this woman writer in her life. After the publication of 20 15 in the United States, it caused a sensation and created a miracle of daily sales of 654.38+10,000 copies. At the same time, "To Kill a Mockingbird" will also be reprinted with a new cover, which will be released simultaneously with "Watching Heart". He has only two novels in his life, but he is famous all over the world. The legend of harper lee is not easy to copy.

There is no Chinese cover for the code collection at present.

Author: (America) neal stephenson

This is the masterpiece of neal stephenson, a famous American science fiction writer in Cyberpunk. This book was mentioned in the famous bestseller "From 0 to 1" when talking about employees' world outlook, saying that it is a science fiction novel that employees like very much. This book focuses on deciphering data passwords, combining elements of historical novels and sci-tech thrillers, and tells a complex and interlocking story between cryptographers and geeks in 1997 during World War II. This book has landed on various sci-fi lists all the year round, and the Chinese version has been expected by sci-fi fans for many years. The launch of this Chinese version is bound to become a hot event in the 20 17 science fiction circle.

Non-fiction:

Life through the Storm: Feng Qiyong's Oral Autobiography

Author: Feng Qiyong

The book was dictated by Feng Qiyong, a famous literary historian, recorded by China Memory Engineering Center of the National Library and translated into Chinese. It was revised and finalized by the master five times, with a large number of color, black and white pictures attached. This book has vivid words, simple explanations and illustrations. It is an enduring oral autobiography, and it is also a historical picture that truly reproduces the social changes in China in the past century. When the book was about to be published, Mr. Feng Qiyong sailed the crane westward at the age of 95, leaving a meaningful oral autobiography summarizing his life, which made people feel deeply.

Firearms and books

Author: Li Bozhong

Professor Li Bozhong's new book, published in Tsinghua University on June+10 in 5438, describes the great changes that China and East Asia faced in the early stage of economic globalization from the end of 15 to the end of 17 from a brand-new perspective of "global history". Guns represent the new violence caused by the military revolution, while account books mean the active pursuit of commercial interests. This book, together with Wu Hong's Ancient Art of China in the Global Landscape and Christeva's Psychoanalysis of Intertextuality of Themes, are three supplements to the lecture series of Guanghua Outstanding Scholars of Fudan University.

Lecture notes of the three kingdoms

Author: Dai Yan

Professor Dai Yan of Fudan University compiled and narrated The History of the Three Kingdoms with ten biographies as the center on the basis of the Lecture Notes on General Education. What is special is that the three countries pay more attention to culture, gender, nationality and other issues besides politics and military affairs.

Mosque in Munich

Author: (America) Ian Johnson

This book explores the history of contemporary terrorism. The author Ian Johnson (Chinese name zhangyan) found through a large number of declassified files and field interviews that as early as World War II, Nazi Germany consciously supported Islamic radical organizations and ideas as a weapon against the Soviet Union. Later, the United States accepted this strategy as a tool of the Cold War. This book traces the stories of several key figures in this historical background and reveals the growth process of Islamic radical organizations and the mistakes made by western society. 20xx In February, 65438+20xx, I interviewed zhangyan, the author of this book. In this report entitled "A Mosque, a History of Three Stages of Struggle", he and Zhang Yan deeply discussed the background and process of his writing this book, and how we should face the history and reality written in the book today.

Zizek's joke

Author: (Slovenian) Slavoj Zizek

Translator: Yu Dongxing

Slavoj Zizek is the most important thinker in Europe in recent years, a left-wing star scholar and a master of "Deep Light". A good joke is an excellent philosophy in itself. In this compact collection of jokes, Zizek takes out his best language assembly form and easily introduces readers into his philosophical space. By analyzing those "obscene" jokes, the structure and logic behind them are revealed. Simple exposition provides the best guidance for readers to enter Zizek's theory.

Drunk botanist

Author: (America) Amy Stewart

Translator: Liu Su

Sake starts with rice, scotch comes from barley, tequila comes from tequila, rum comes from sugarcane, bourbon comes from corn … Are you thirsty? Amy Stewart, who is good at writing best-selling natural history books, investigated many plants, trees, fruits and fungi that can make people dizzy in his book The Drunk Botanist. For thousands of years, human beings have turned these plants into alcohol with their talents and enthusiasm. This fascinating book, which combines biology, chemistry, history, etymology and bartending-including more than 50 bartending formulas and gardening techniques, is full of temptation.