Quartz, a new American media, recently published a set of charts, which listed the works that were taught the most in the classroom of the top universities in the United States 10 in the past five years, and their appearances.

The data shows that the works of Plato, Hobbes, Machiavelli and Aristotle occupy an overwhelming position in the required reading books of American college students, especially top universities. Let's take a look at the top ten must-read books of top American college students.

Specific to each school, the book list is different, let's take a look:

Princeton University

Harvard University

Yale University

Columbia University

Stanford University

University of Chicago

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Duke University

University of Pennsylvania

Brown University

Compulsory books tend to be humanities, less science and engineering, and most of them are western classics.

In the field of science fiction, Shelley's Frankenstein is the most taught in the class, and Jeffrey's Canterbury Tales 6 1 Chaucer ranks second.

Among the history books, George 6 1 Brown 6 1 Tingdahl and David 6 1 emory 6 1 Shi co-authored American History and Anne 6 1 Moody Growing up on the Mississippi River. Second, this book is an autobiographical novel, telling the life experiences of African-American women in the United States. Marx's Manifesto of the Productive Party ranks third in the historical category and first in the social science field.