Why do top academics become top academics? How do top academics study? What books do top academics read? Regarding the third question, I really found an answer - not long ago, Tsinghua University and Peking University The favorite reading lists of school students were announced respectively. It is worth noting that this is not a "wild list". For example, Tsinghua University's book list is obtained through three stages of book list recommendation, expert review and student voting, while Peking University's book list is compiled by the library. Based on the statistics of borrowing and reservation status. Let’s take a look:

1. "Three-Body Problem"

Liu Cixin (author) is an epic masterpiece. This series of works consists of "Three-Body Problem", "Three-Body Problem II? Darkness" It consists of three novels: "Forest" and "Three-Body III? Death Eternal Life". They tell the story of the rise and fall of Earth civilization and Trisolaran civilization in the universe. The work covers human history, physics, astronomy, sociology and philosophy, and conducts an in-depth discussion of human nature from the perspective of science fiction. The book has a grand layout and lofty intentions. It is known as the most outstanding contemporary science fiction novel in China so far. It is a milestone work in Chinese science fiction literature and has pushed Chinese science fiction to the heights of the world.

2. "The Worry-Relief Grocery Store"

What Keigo Higashino chose this time is the most ordinary part of life: athletes who have a difficult choice between career and love, divorced A musician who works hard at home but suffers repeated setbacks, a waitress who wants to make money to repay her relatives... They wrote letters sincerely and anxiously, hoping to find new possibilities for their future. People who don't know each other come together because of a grocery store where they can talk about their worries. Although they have never met, their hearts are sincere to each other. This is the power that Keigo Higashino wants to show: what is lost in the hearts of modern people, this grocery store The store can help you find it.

3. "The Moon and Sixpence"

William Somerset Maugham (author) The spirit is superior to material, the individual is superior to society - this is explained in the book The anti-secular and anti-traditional stance has made generations of readers cry. The moon and sixpence. The moon symbolizes the pursuit of lofty ideals and the wonderful spiritual realm. It also symbolizes the poverty that Strickland left London and Abraham who went to Egypt. The small denomination coin of sixpence represents Worldly gains and losses and petty profits also represent the luxury that Carmichael is proud of.

4. "The Three of Us"

Yang Jiang (author), a 92-year-old man, carefully described the ups and downs of their special family for 63 years, bit by bit, and finally achieved a happy ending. The book is a memoir "The Three of Us". The style of the whole book is sad but not sad. It is heart-warming to read and always brings laughter to tears. It shows readers the family's rigorous academic spirit, tear-jerking family stories and life attitude that is indifferent to fame and wealth.

5. "Walden"

Henry David Thoreau (author) Severe pollution caused people to lose the tranquility of the countryside, so Thoreau's works were completely The world read and missed. The lines are filled with strong romanticism and idealism. Whenever you feel irritable and anxious at work or study, you might as well open "Walden Pond", immerse yourself in Thoreau's world, break out of the shackles of steel and concrete, and let your thoughts and soul wander among the mountains and rivers.

6. "The Crowd"

Among Gustave Le Bon's existing works in the field of social psychology, this is the most influential one. A very thick version of "The Crowd". Gustave Le Bon's exquisite description of the collective mentality in his book has had a huge influence on people's understanding of the role of collective behavior and thinking on social psychology.

7. "A Brief History of Humanity"

Uwar Noah Harari (author) Human beings are both narrow, selfish, ruthless and ambitious creatures, but they are also generous, Foolish, fair, capricious creatures. We are a complex mixture of good and evil, and a miracle in evolution. The social and cultural miracles shaped by modern man are the most fascinating stories that Professor Harari describes in his book.

8. "The Republic"

Plato (author) is the pioneering work on the issue of human justice, and has eternal echoes in the history of the human mind.

It is a very representative work of the Western political thought tradition and the first work in the West to systematically discuss utopian thought. It is called the "doctrine of justice" and it laid the foundation for the Western theory of justice. Like a genius, he planned a blueprint for the future ideal society, shining with the brilliance of human wisdom and rationality. This book teaches you how to think about the world, society, and life. Without ideals, there is no future. Every utopia will cultivate the beautiful hope of peace, justice and fraternity in your mind.

9. "A Brief History of Chinese Philosophy"

Feng Youlan (author) is a world-recognized modern Chinese philosopher and has no equal in the history of Chinese philosophy. From 1946 to 1947, when he was in his prime, he was hired to teach the history of Chinese philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. His English lecture notes were compiled into "A Brief History of Chinese Philosophy", which was published by Macmillan Company in the United States in 1948. For more than half a century, "A Brief History of Chinese Philosophy" has not only been a common textbook on Chinese philosophy in many universities around the world, but has also become an introductory book for many Westerners to understand Chinese thought and culture.

10. "Das Kapital"

Marx (author) unified a high degree of scientificity and revolutionary nature

It is a systematic and logically An economic work. It critically inherits the scientific elements of bourgeois classical political economics

Profoundly demonstrates the historical inevitability of the emergence, development and demise of capitalism

Affirms it Its historical status

reveals its internal insurmountable contradictions and the objective laws that inevitably lead to its replacement by socialism. It is not only a major work on economics

but also a A major work on philosophy and a major work on scientific socialism

It is an encyclopedia of Marxism

It is the "Bible of the working class".