給香港精英學生的推薦書單：最受常春藤及牛劍錄取生歡迎的書籍

閱讀無疑是一項關鍵的學術技能，大多數課程都涉及高級別的閱讀和研究。近年研究顯示，學生的閱讀能力與他們的學業成就之間存在密切關聯。在申請入學前的幾年內培養閱讀習慣，不僅有助於學習相關的學術內容，更能鍛煉閱讀技能，這些都是大學學習的關鍵工具。

除了為將來的課程做好準備，你的閱讀經驗將有助於構建頂尖大學的申請，在某些情況下甚至是申請的一部分。許多頂尖學校都會要求申請者列舉自己最喜歡的書籍。例如 Princeton 要求學生在申請時提供他們最喜愛的書籍清單，,而 Columbia University 則有一個單獨的部分讓申請者寫下他們在夏季和全年閱讀的書籍，以及常閱讀的出版物。

你所申請的課程和大學，將幫助指導你如何去選擇主要的閱讀書目。你可以從這個基礎列表開始，策劃一個個人化的閱讀計劃，並符合你的申請策略和興趣主題。

閱讀目錄應由反映你學術興趣的著作組成，讓你能夠在學校課程範圍之外發展對該學科的理解。除了幫助你跟上該學科內的重要或熱門話題，這也是展示你在該學科及其相關主題中深化知識的熱情和主動性的機會。

Crimson 的申請專家為香港學生制定了以下的清單！

STEM 推薦書目

• 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

經濟與商業推薦書目

• 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

哲學推薦書目

• 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

醫學與生物醫學推薦書目

• 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

法律推薦書目

• 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

社會科學推薦書目

• 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

工程與物理推薦書目

• 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

數學與統計推薦書目

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

化學推薦書目

• 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

生物學推薦書目

• 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