My Reading List

I love reading during my spare time. Some of them are very impressive to me and I’m glad to share with anyone who also enjoys reading. So I list them here as a reference.

Novel

Stefan Zweig

• The World of Yesterday (Die Welt von Gestern: Erinnerungen eines Europäer)
• Letter from an Unknown Woman (Brief einer Unbekannten)
• Chess: A Novel (Schachnovelle)
• Decisive Moments in History (Sternstunden der Menschheit)

Italo Calvino

• If on a winter’s night a traveler (Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore)
• The Nonexistent Knight (Il cavaliere inesistente)
• Invisible Cities (Le città invisibili)

Franz Kafka

• The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung)

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges

• The Garden of Forking Paths (El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan)

Gabriel José García Márquez

• One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien años de soledad)

Jane Austen

• Pride and Prejudice

Charlotte Brontë

• Jane Eyre

Kawabata Yasunari (川端 康成)

• The Old Capital (古都)
• Thousand Cranes (千羽鶴)
• Snow Country (雪国)
• The Dancing Girl of Izu (伊豆の踊子)

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (芥川竜之介)

• Rashōmon (羅生門)

Alexandre Dumas

• The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo)

Henry René Albert Guy de Maupassant

• The Necklace (La Parure)
• The False Gems (lesbijoux)

Xun Lu (鲁迅)

• Call to Arms (呐喊)

George Orwell

• 1984

Aldous Huxley

• Brave New World

Edgar Allan Poe

• The Fall of the House of Usher
• The Oval Portrait

Prose

Dingjun Wang (王鼎钧)

• 左心房漩涡
• 山里山外

Xianlin Ji (季羡林)

• 季羡林散文

Poem

Guangzhong Yu (余光中)

• 余光中诗歌选集

Xiu Ouyang (欧阳修)

• 欧阳修词集

Dante Alighieri

• Divine Comedy (Divina Commedia)

John Milton

• Paradise Lost

Biography

Irving Stone

• Lust for Life

Yutang Lin (林语堂)

• The Gay Genius：The Life and Times of Su Tungpo (苏东坡传)

Qichao Liang (梁启超)

• 王安石传

Richard Milhous Nixon

• Leaders

Philosophy

Alain de Botton

• The Consolations of Philosophy

Plato

• Plato’s dialogues

Confucius (孔子)

• The Analects (论语)

Sun Tzu (孙武)

• The Art of War (孙子兵法)

Social Science

Max Weber

• The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus)

Alexander Hamilton

• Federalist Papers

Neil Postman

• Amusing Ourselves to Death

Xiaotong Fei

• From the Soil (乡土中国)

Enjoy reading!