Recommended books by famous American schools
Many top universities in the United States will recommend or select some reading books for freshmen and ask them to read in their spare time. On the one hand, freshmen can enjoy reading, on the other hand, more importantly, most universities expect students to discuss and analyze this book with their new classmates when they arrive at school. If the following 14 top universities have your Goddess School, if you haven't read these books, you can make time to read them. You can also collect these books to increase your knowledge in your spare time.
1. Princeton University
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and Our Actions
Title: Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do, by Claude Steele.
By Claude Steele
Christopher Esgruber, president of Princeton University, said: Vivaldi's Whistling is one of the most important social science works in the last quarter of last century. This book directly touches on topics that have important influence on our country and campus. Professor Steele described a series of innovative experiments, some of which involved students from Princeton University.
Through these experiments, Professor Steele can develop and prove his hypothesis, that is, how negative stereotypes under pressure will affect us. All of us, regardless of our background, can find ourselves in Professor Steele's example.
2. Duke University
Happy House: Family Tragedy and Comedy
English title: "Interesting Home: A Tragedy and Comedy of a Family", by Alison Bechtel.
Author: Alison bechtel
Ibanka Anand, a member of Duke University's Summer Reading Committee, said: The House of Joy is a unique book. The author tells a story in the form of pictures and expounds some very important issues, such as mental health, interpersonal relationship and human rights, which will be familiar to freshmen.
This book can be read quickly, but it is difficult to read, which makes me uncomfortable sometimes. I think this is one of the reasons why it is so important for students to read this book.
3. Stanford University
Innovators: How a group of hackers, geniuses and geeks started a digital revolution.
English title: "Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution" by Walter Isaacson.
Author: Walter Isaacson
Boys Life
English title: The boy's life.
By tobias Woolf
Recommendation list: Kane River
English title: Sugarcane River
Author: Lerita Tademi
John hennessy, president of Stanford University, said: When I was invited to take charge of this project (summer reading) this year, I spent a long time thinking about what kind of books to choose. Finally, I chose three books about people: a biography (actually a short anthology of biographies), a memoir and a book we can call a biographical novel. These are all stories about people, the challenges they face and how they deal with them.
4. Tufts University
The act of faith: a story about American Muslims fighting for the soul of a generation
English title: "The Act of Belief: The Story of an American Film, Fighting for the Soul of a Generation", by Ebou Patel.
Author: Abel Patel
Anthony Monaque, President of Tufts University, said: "This year's unified reading list is Abel Patel's famous memoir, The Act of Faith: A Story about American Muslims, Fighting for the Thought of a Generation.
Abel Patel was born in India and grew up in the United States. He is a non-profit organization "Interfaith Youth Core" in Chicago. The organization is committed to promoting understanding and respect between different believers and non-believers, and encouraging young people to participate in community service to bridge the separation and conflict between the world and society. "
5. Northwest University
Inconvenient Indians: Interesting Notes of Indians in the Northern United States
English title: "Inconvenient India: Curious Reports of Native Americans in North America" by Thomas King.
Author: Thomas King
Lauren Giulioni, chairman of Northwest University, said: "This is a history book that subverts traditional wisdom, but it is told by a storyteller in a humorous and elegant tone. Inconvenient Indians can reduce the ignorance of most of us and help us pay attention to some important problems that have not appeared in the mass media.
6. Cornell University
No.5 slaughterhouse
English name: Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr..
Author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Excerpt from Cornell University Yearbook: Written in vonnegut's signature dialogue style, Slaughterhouse Five is regarded as a classic of American literature. Cornell alumni's famous anti-war books (1class 944) are, to some extent, memoirs of his experiences in World War II, especially1the allied bombing of delaisse in February 1945.
7. University of California, Los Angeles
Bad feminist
English title: "Bad Feminist" by Roxane Gay.
Author: roxanne Guy
Jean Brock, president of UCLA, said: This year's author Roxanne Gay is famous for her writing and social media image in the field of pop culture. The collection of Bad Feminist will provide a platform for the university community, through which universities can participate in critical dialogues and discussions on various topics, including politics, American culture, race, gender, sexual orientation and views on feminism.
8. University of Pennsylvania
sea
English title: The Sea, by langston hughes.
Langston Hughes
News from Pennsylvania: The Sea was published in 1940, when Hughes was 38 years old and was already one of the famous American poets. This is a memoir composed of short essays, which mainly tells Hughes' early experiences and is also a chronicle of Hughes' self-realization and creation. Hughes took advantage of his early experience of growing up in an African-American family in the Midwest. Later, he went to many places, Mexico, France and Africa, where his sense of identity would be questioned, shaped and redefined.
9. Brown University
New Jim Crow: Mass Imprisonment in the Age of Color Blindness
English title: "The New Jim Crow: Group Acceleration in the Age of Color Blindness" by Michelle Alexander.
Author: Michelle Alexander
The First Reading: The New Jim Crow from Brown University tells the story of the rebirth of the Indian caste system in the United States. The caste system also led to the imprisonment of millions of African-Americans. Since then, their social status has been inferior, which is equivalent to denying everyone the equal rights they should have in the civil rights movement.
10. Columbia University
Iliad
English title: Homer's Iliad
Author: Homer
As one of the most important achievements of western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the darkest passage in the Trojan War. At the center of the epic is King Achilles, the greatest warrior in Greece, and the story of refusing to fight again after being humiliated by his commander Agamemnon.
Note: For more than ten years, it has been a tradition of Columbia University that freshmen read the Iliad one week before class.
1 1. Our Lady of Vanderbilt University Echo Park
English title: The Madonna in Echo Park
Author: Blando Skyhouse
This novel depicts such a community, mainly depicting the characters in this community. They are both the edge of the community and the center of the story. At the same time, it also discusses the problem that one's lifestyle will have obvious or subtle influence on others when people live nearby.
12 Johns Hopkins university
Beautiful struggle: one father, two sons, and the impossible road to growth
Beautiful struggle: one father, two sons, an unlikely road to adulthood.
Beautiful struggle is especially suitable for this year's reading plan. Narcisse Coates grew up in Baltimore, and his book is his experience of growing up as a boy in our city.
13. Smith College
The Collapse of Western Civilization: A Future Perspective
English Title: The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future, by Naomi orace and Eric Conway.
Authors: Naomi orace and Eric Conway.
The story told in this book took place in 2393, when the world was almost unrecognizable. For decades, the striking warning of climate disaster has been ignored, resulting in soaring temperatures, rising sea levels and widespread drought. Finally, when the rupture of the ice sheet in the west of Antarctica led to mass migration and the global order was completely chaotic-catastrophe came, which was what we called the 1993 crash.
14. University of Washington, St. Louis
Citizen: an American lyric poem
English name: Citizen: An American Lyrics, by Claudia Rankin.
Author: Claudia Rankin
In this excellent and timely book, Claudia Rankin, a famous writer and professor at Pomona College, explores what it means to be an American in a post-racial society in the form of poetry, prose, cultural criticism and visual impression. In her book, Claudia Rankin boldly describes the increasingly fierce racial violations that daily life and the media have been encountering in the 2 1 century. Some show contempt (seemingly a slip of the tongue), some are in class or shopping in the supermarket. In short, any place can be deliberately attacked.