想要申请美国大学，这些必读书目你看了吗

众所周知，美国学生的阅读量极大，有专家指出，在同样的普通家庭里，美国学生的阅读量是中国学生的6倍。值得一提的是，在美国的高中生既有Required reading，也就是必读书目，每门课要求阅读2-8本书目。另外，他们还有Leisure reading，也就是业余阅读，这取决于学生自己的兴趣及对自身的要求。

在申请美国大学时，部分学校在面试环节会提问申请者最喜欢的书目是什么，或者让他们分享几本好书。因此，对于想要留美的同学来说，你所阅读的书单能反映个人激情、主动性，也能展现出自己的学术兴趣，甚至可以把你在阅读过程的感悟适当地写进文书当中去。

那么，同学们阅读哪些书目更容易得到大学的青睐呢？对此，吴老师整理了一些书单，适合申请各专业的同学阅读，希望对大家的留学申请能有所帮助。

01 申请STEM方向

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - R Skloot
• Other Minds - P Godfrey-Smith
• Mutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body - AM Leroi
• The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets - S Singh
• Fermat's Last Theorem - S Singh
• The Man Who Knew Infinity - R Kanigel
• Hidden Unity in Nature's Law - JC Taylor
• The Cosmic Onion - F Close
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman - Richard Feynman
• Computational Fairy Tales - Jeremy Kubica
• Out of Their Minds - D Shasha and Cathy Lazere

02 申请经济学&商科方向

• 23 Things They Don't Teach You about Capitalism - Ha-Joon Chang
• Predictably Irrational - D Ariely
• Nudge - C Susstein and R Thaler
• The White Man's Burden - W Easterly
• The Bottom Billion - P Collier
• The End of Alchemy - M King
• Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
• Nudge - Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler
• Freakonomics - Dubner and Levitt
• Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
• Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World - Anand Giridharadas
• End This Depression Now!
• This Changes Everything Capitalism vs the Climate
• Monetary Policy and International Capital Flows
• The Finance Curse - Nicholas Shaxson
• Nine Crises: Fifty Years of Covering the British Economy from Devaluation to Brexit
• Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life

03 申请哲学方向

• Introduction to Political Philosophy - R Wolff
• Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong - JL Mackie
• Utilitarianism: For and Against - JC Smart
• On Liberty - JS Mill
• Think by Simon Blackburn
• The Rise of Consciousness - Oliver Sacks. Or literally any other book by Oliver Sacks.
• To Float in the Space Between - Terrance Hayes
• Problems of Philosophy, Bertrand Russell
• The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir
• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; A Treatise of Human Nature - David Hume
• Meditations - Descartes
• Existentialism is a Humanism - Sartre
• The Republic - Plato
• The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
• The Female Persuasion - Meg Wolitzer
• Bluets - Maggie Nelson
• Behold, America: The Entangled History of America First and the American Dream - Sarah Churchwell
• Concepts of Consciousness - Ned Block

04 申请医学&生物医学方向

• Being Mortal - A Gawunde
• This is Going to Hurt - A Kay
• When Breath Becomes Air - P Kalanithi
• Unnatural Causes - R Shepherd
• The Medici Effect -Frans Johansson
• Life at the Extremes - F Ashcroft
• The Man who mistook his Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks
• The Rise of Consciousness - Oliver Sacks

05 申请法学方向

• Landmarks in the Law - A Denning
• The Discipline of Law - A Denning
• Five Ideas to Fight For - A Lester
• Invitation to Law - AW Simpson
• Whiteness as Property - C Harris
• Eve was Framed - H Kennedy
• Letters to a Law Student - Nicholas J. McBride
• The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court - Jeffrey Toobin
• Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism - Mahmood Mamdani

06 申请社会科学方向

• AI Superpowers – Kai-Fu Lee
• The Everything Store – Brad Stone
• Originals: How Non-Conformists Move The World - Adam Grant
• American Like Me - America Ferrera
• On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
• The Welfare of Nations
• The Great Transformation

07 申请工程&物理学方向

• How Do Wings Work? - Holger Babinsky
• Structures – or Why Things Don't Fall Down - J.E. Gordon
• The Gecko's Foot: How Scientists are Taking a Leaf from Nature's Book - Peter Forbes
• Feynman Lectures on Physics

08 申请数学&统计学方向

• A Russian Childhood - S. Kovalevskaya
• The Man Who Loved Only Sumbers - Paul Hoffman
• An Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning: Numbers, Sets and Functions

09 申请化学方向

• The elements of murder - John Emsley
• The fats of life (sic) by Pond - Caroline M.
• Elegant Solutions : Ten bBautiful Experiments in Chemistry - Philip Ball
• The science of chocolate - S. T. Beckett
• Oxygen: The Molecule that Changed the World - N Lane

10 申请生物方向

• The Demon-Haunted World - Carl Sagan
• Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion - Year History of the Human Body - Neil Shubin
• A Natural History of the Senses - Diane Ackerman
• What it is like to be a Bat - Thomas Nagel