美国学生高强度阅读，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。而在大学申请时，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。现在小编为大家介绍一下被常春藤、牛津、剑桥联合推荐的一份书单，这30本书，涵盖了STEM、经济、商科、哲学、生化医药等多门学科的通识书籍，为学生的通识教育打下基础，帮助学生建立起一套完整的知识体系和框架。
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
