1, the three of us

The Three of us is a collection of essays by contemporary writer Jiang Yang, which was first published in July 2003.

The book tells a simple and warm family, which has been unknown for decades, helped each other, got together and lost each other. In simple and heavy language, the author Jiang Yang recalled his daughter Qian Yuan, her husband Qian Zhongshu and the happy and difficult days, love and pain of leaving her family of three.

2. Fortress Besieged

Fortress Besieged is a novel by Qian Zhongshu and a satirical novel with unique style in the history of modern literature in China. Known as the "new scholar".

3. The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption is a novella and masterpiece of American writer Stephen Edwin King. It is included in the novel collection "Four Seasons of Qitan" with the subtitle "Hope in Spring".

Banker Andy was taken to court for murdering his wife. The unfaithfulness of his wife, the treachery of lawyers, the misjudgment of judges, the cruelty of prison guards and the greed and meanness of the warden pushed Andy, who is in his thirties, from the peak of his life to hell on earth. And a series of things happened in the prison, forcing the unbearable Andy to finally escape from the prison and regain his freedom on a thunderous night. When the warden opened Andy's cell door the next day, he found that he had disappeared. The warden, who had a premonition that the end was coming, committed suicide for fear of committing a crime before the prosecutor received the evidence released by Andy.

4. A brief history of mankind

A Brief History of Mankind: From Animals to God is a historical work written by yuval Harari, which was first published on 20 12.

The author describes the history of human evolution from the Stone Age to 2 1 century, and divides human history into four stages: cognitive revolution, agricultural revolution, human integration and unity and scientific revolution.

5. Ordinary world

Ordinary World is a million-word novel by China writer Lu Yao, which shows the contemporary urban and rural social life in China in a panoramic way. This book has three parts. First published in February, 1986.

The book is set in China in the ten years from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, centering on two brothers, Sun Shaoan and Sun Shaoping, and depicts the images of many ordinary people in all walks of life 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.

6. Old things in the south of the city

Old Things in the South of the City is the representative work of Lin, a female writer in Taiwan Province Province. This work tells the story of Eiko's childhood through her childish eyes, reflecting the author's nostalgia for childhood and the south of Beijing.

Reading more books can change our thinking, increase our conversation resources and enhance our understanding of the world. Reading can make college life more meaningful.