1, night and dawn
Any recommended list of 202 1 must have this book "Night and Dawn". Is it written by Ken? Follette's masterpiece, as the winner of Poe's Lifetime Master Award and a member of the Royal Society of Literature, has 36 novels translated into 33 languages and published in more than 80 countries, with a cumulative sales volume of over 65.438+700 million copies. In European and American publishing circles, the name ken follett is a guarantee of best selling, and this book has been rated as Amazon's best book in 2020. Goodreads was rarely recommended by 4.48 people, with a favorable rate of 98%. It topped the 10 national bestseller list and occupied the bestseller list in The New York Times for 84 days.
2. Electric Power Research Institute
A horror story fan like Meigu Bianxiao must be familiar with Stephen King's name. The Institute of Power is another masterpiece with the theme of prison break after The Shawshank Redemption. This man, praised as "the undisputed master of fiction" by Time magazine, has published more than 40 novels and more than 200 short stories. In this book, Stephen King continues his enigmatic style, except that the protagonist of the prison break has changed from an adult to a child. This book has been on the market for 65,438+0 years, and has been praised by more than 654,380+0.4 million Goodreads readers, especially Meiya, with a score of 4.7, and was nominated for Goodreads' novel of the year, Publisher Weekly's novel of the year in The New York Times, track award and British fantasy literature prize.
I shouldn't be a mother.
Today, the topic of women is gradually recognized by people, and this novel "I shouldn't be a mother" appears at the right time. Bryce, the hero of the story, has always been deeply afraid of becoming a mother. This fear not only makes her daughter indifferent and hostile, but also indirectly leads to the death of her youngest son, and even leads to the breakdown of her marriage with her husband and the disintegration of the whole family. This is undoubtedly a thought-provoking female enlightenment, pointing to the concept of "binding female values with motherhood" inherent in society, telling us that not all girls need to be mothers. It is worth mentioning that this book has aroused widespread concern once it was published. Within two weeks, the copyrights of 34 countries and regions were sold, and the copyrights of film and television dramas were also seized by the producers of Harry Potter.
Step 4 abandon the cat
Finally, I waited for Haruki Murakami's new work "Abandoning Cats", which is his latest work in three years. In the book, I finally talked about my father, self, memories and cats completely. Some things will be forgotten with the passage of time, and some things will be mentioned again by time. Murakami calmly wrote his father's life, turned his long-term estrangement, break and reconciliation with his father into visible words, and showed the readers what his father had experienced in his life without hesitation.
5. Boys, Moles, Foxes and Horses
Boys, Moles, Foxes and Horses is one of the top ten books worth reading in 20021. This high-profile book has a global sales volume of 2.22 million, and was rated as the best book of the year by Shi Shui Bookstore in the UK and Barnes & Noble Bookstore in the US. The story in this book is simple. It tells the story that a lonely boy met a mole, a fox and a horse, and four lonely souls went on the road together and found their own meaning in each other. Stories will encourage you and give you the courage to explore life.
6. Me and my life
Among the domestic works recommended by 20021Good Book, maigoo Bian Xiao recommended this book My Life and Me the most. The protagonist in the book comes from a broken family. At first, she didn't believe in her life and wanted to change her destiny by her own struggle, but when her life improved slightly, the nightmare persisted. Liang, a writer, has always been regarded as the spokesman of the common people in China. This is his first novel after winning the Mao Dun Literature Prize. With its good realistic brushwork, the book tells the profound entanglement between man and life through the struggle story of two young people, shows the multidimensional dialectics of misfortune and happiness, and thinks about why people are home and how to be a man.
7. Clara and the sun
Clara and the Sun is the latest work of Japanese writer kazuo ishiguro after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature. In this work, kazuo ishiguro observes the ever-changing modern society from the perspective of an unforgettable narrator, and probes into a fundamental question: What is love? This is a novel about people's hearts, from different places, whispering to you and me here and now. The world of reality and fantasy can't escape the shackles of human nature after all.
8. Autobiography of seligman
202 1 Of the ten autobiographies that must be read, seligman's autobiography is highly recommended. This book is seligman's first autobiography, presenting the legendary life of seligman. It is not only a biography of seligman, but also a history of positive psychology and half a history of contemporary psychology. This book reproduces the story behind the emergence, application and development of positive psychology, and directly attacks how seligman pushed the whole field of psychology to turn. It is because of seligman that psychology has entered a new era. Everyone who is interested in psychology and who pursues happiness should read it.
9. Don't break the contract
Poetry is indispensable in the recommendation list of 202 1. The book "Break Your Word" must be a work that won't let you down. This collection of poems was written by Zhang Wei, winner of Mao literature prize. Although this work takes poetry as the form of expression and love as the clue, it has actually surpassed the traditional concept and boundaries of poetry. The writer mobilized the comprehensive means of humanities, thought, history, philosophy, literature and art to be powerful.
10, why are you sleeping?
"Why should we sleep?" It is one of the most worth reading new books in 202 1. This book is the famous work of carl sagan Prize winner Matthew Walker. Its global sales have exceeded 1 10,000 copies, and it has been translated into 34 languages and sold well all over the world. It is the best-seller list of The New York Times Sunday Times 1 issue, Observer, Financial Times, Guardian and Daily Mail. The answer lies in this popular book about sleep, which has sold millions of copies all over the world.
1 1, autobiography of zimbardo
Professor zimbardo is one of the famous contemporary psychologists and the former president of the American Psychological Association. He has won the lifetime achievement award of psychological science and is known as "the image and voice of contemporary psychology". This autobiography of zimbardo is the only one he published for the first time. The first-angle statement in the book is vivid and touching, which makes you feel as if you are having a deep dialogue with this broad, enthusiastic and wise great man, and records in detail four important studies of zimbardo's life: Stanford prison experiment and wisdom.
12, Super Parent Class in Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley Super Parents Course is undoubtedly the most concerned parenting education book in 20021. In the United States, an ordinary mother trained her three daughters to be CEO of You Tube, a professor at the University of California, and the founder of a gene company. These three outstanding daughters are therefore called the three outstanding women in Silicon Valley, and their mothers have a more powerful name: Godmother in Silicon Valley. This book is the exclusive secret of this mother's child training and her unique parenting method, and has been recommended by many big brands at home and abroad. Even Jobs insisted that his children follow her, and every parent or educator should not miss this book.