In this list, there are many new scientific and technological knowledge that has become the focus of the whole society in 20 13, and some keywords are just in the ascendant, such as "big data era" and "3d printing: from imagination to reality"; There is also an interesting collection of Jiang's column History of Foreign Science, which is in line with the current hot issues. There are serious, heavy and far-sighted economic works, such as The Road to Double Economic Transformation in China by Professor Li Yining, a famous economist, and ronald harry coase, the originator of new institutional economics and the founder of property rights theory, The winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics at the age of 102: Changing China: The Road to China in a Market Economy; There are also books of the same name in the large-scale TV series "The Right Path Change: 500 Years of Socialism", and "Reform is China's biggest dividend" condenses readers' understanding of reform with simple narration. Non-fiction books such as The Story of Liangzhuang, Biography of Ye Hong, Little Ai, Dad misses you very much, and so on. Describe all aspects of modern and contemporary social life in China from a historical perspective.

Bao, a researcher at the Institute of Literature of Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, commented on this book list, saying that it reflects the interests of all sectors of society and conveys the direction of positive energy. Among them, two scientific and technological books, Big Data Age and 3d Printing: From Imagination to Reality, have "caught the hottest of the times" and "let you see how technology permeates the contemporary world and how informatization creates invisible gaps in social life".

Reflect the reading interest of China readers.

Comparing the top 25 books in the "20 13 bestseller list" in Amazon.com, it is found that non-fiction books 10, novels 8, economics and society 4, science and technology 2 and children 1 0. Comparing the composition of 4 nonfiction books, 4 novels, 8 economic and social books, 5 science books, 3 children's books and 1 this art book in the "20 13 China Good Books" list, there are obvious differences in structure. The biggest difference is the economics and science in 20 13 China Good Books.

Yong Zongpei, editor-in-chief of Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, said that this book list not only grasped the trend of social reading, but also reflected the inner pursuit direction of Chinese people, and played a benchmark and demonstration role in the publishing industry.

According to the organizer, these 25 "20 13 China Good Books" are more than 500 excellent books out of more than 400,000 books published nationwide in 20 13, and the final 25 books were selected by experts and scholars through strict and thorough procedures. In the selection process, we referred to the list of good books of 32 book publishing institutions, 47 newspapers and magazines and 15 portal in 2065,438+03, combined with the sales data of Kaijuan, Xinhua Bookstore and major online bookstores, and finally got the result. Therefore, it is highly scientific, authoritative and representative, which can be said to reflect the reading interest of China readers in the past year.