According to UNESCO statistics, the nordic countries read about 24 books a year, while the average number of Chinese people reads less than 5 books...
Is your 2021 annual reading report also shown below?
Recently, the annual reading list of Douban and major websites has been announced.
Douban also set a very wonderful theme for this list - "midnight and the sun", the official interpretation is very good, there is no need for other excessive interpretation: every midnight hour of searching in reading, books are like the sun, bringing light and warmth, opening a vast and hot life experience, we start from here, arriving at the imagination of language and expression updates.
By sorting out the major lists, Xiaobian brought you "5 good books of the year"
Let's start this holiday season and start 2022 that is "never abandoned"!
#1
Clara and the Sun
/ Robot Girl's Love and Loneliness /
Author: [English] Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House
Description: Clara is a solar artificial intelligence robot (AF) designed to accompany children, with extremely high observation, reasoning and empathy. She sat in the store display window, always expecting someone to pick her up. However, when this possibility of permanently changing circumstances arises, Clara is warned not to believe too much in human promises.
Must-read reason: Douban score 8.3, the author's first novel published after winning the Nobel Prize, and his most gentle book to date. The dramatic form of expression gives the content the most unique expression, and the "love and humanity" under the shell of science fiction is the ultimate place of this book. Tell the story, no flowery words, read effortlessly, gentle but powerful.
#2
Midnight at Chernobyl
/ Don't Forget Don't Forget /
Author: [English] Adam Higgin Bottem
Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press
Introduction: Chernobyl is a huge nightmare in the history of human civilization. Through a large number of archives, letters, memoirs, and investigative interviews, the journalist Adam completed this non-fiction work that shows the scene of the Chernobyl tragedy and the rescue in a panoramic way, once again showing the entire process of this devastating nuclear disaster.
Must-read reason: Douban score 9.2, some people say that "more terrible than the disaster is the lie, more terrible than the lie is the forgetting" The author focuses on the individuals who are caught up in the catastrophe and the difficult choices they make in the face of this innocent catastrophe. The cowardice and bravery of the human individual revealed in the content is more outrageous than any horror novel, more thrilling than any thrilling novel.
#3
Cheese and Maggots
/ A 16th-century miller's universe /
Author: [Italian] Carlo Günzburg
Description: Europe in the 16th century, sandwiched between the chaos of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. The author attempts to recreate the different thinking and ideas of a country miller; tries to weave a clever and fascinating story between the intricate trial archives and the elite and low cultures. Through the eyes of the miller Domenico, we see not only his life, but also the religious beliefs of ordinary people, his single-handed challenge to authority, and the enormous influence of the Enlightenment, the Reformation, and the printing press on this "marginal little man."
Must-read reason: Douban score 8.1, the world's recognized microhistory model, is also the first time in 45 years since its release in 2021 in 2021 to land in China in Chinese translation. A few words, a volume of trial film that was seen 7 years later, a book that took 14 years to publish, written only for a small person on the edge of annihilation in history. This time history is no longer written for grandeur, no longer boring, you can glimpse the universe and gravel of ordinary people in a book.
#4
"Re-Walking"
/ "We" of the Southwest United General Assembly /
Author: Yang Xiao
Publisher: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House
Introduction: In 1938, the "Xiangqian Dian Tour Group" crossed three provinces on foot through the southwest hinterland; in 2018, the author, who was at a turning point in his life, re-embarked on this 1600-kilometer road. It's an atypical road hike, rubbing shoulders with large trucks, resonating with the birdsong of the mountains along the way, overlapping with the footsteps of historical exiles, and a layered, neglected "China" slowly emerges...
Must-read reason: Douban score 9.1, looking for Southwest United University on roads, rivers and post roads. The author hikes on the physical road, lifts the curtain of time and space, and spies those who are floating in the torrent of the times... Looking for history in the present, asking about the present in history, making it possible to combine history and travelogue, and making the past and the present truly connected.
#5
"Souls Should Be Placed in the Garden"
/ Half human nature, half nature /
Author: Damon Young
Publisher: Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House
Introduction: In this book, the author will take us to thirteen writers and philosophers such as Aristotle, Austin, Proust, Woolf, Rousseau, Orwell, Dickinson, Kazantzsański, Sartre, Socrates, etc., to see how they embark on a journey from nature to self in the nourishment of gardens, parks and even potted plants, and finally become giants of thought.
Must-read reason: Douban score 8.4, spring is coming to open it is more appropriate. The "garden" here is both natural and artificial, social and solitary, both the world and the self. Our souls need gardens and nature, and when you are overwhelmed by pre-class presentations and exams, when you are bedridden at home, just open this book and you will have a polymath walking together in the lush garden, and you will feel the infinite vitality of life.
George Martin once said in his work A Song of Ice and Fire, "Reading can go through a thousand lives, and those who do not read can only live once." ”
The epidemic is raging, "traveling" when it is impossible to travel, and seeing and embracing more kinds of life when there is only one holiday life.
Not for quantity, not for comparison, only for yourself, this is the meaning of reading.
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