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Last updated May 12, 2024

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• Living Color: The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color
• The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World #must #history
• A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe
• Captives: How Stolen People Changed the World
• Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
• Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century
• In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio
• The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art
• People of the Sea: Identity and Descent among the Vezo of Madagascar
• 辶反田野：人類學異托邦故事集 #fiction #stories
• 異溫層迷航記【芭樂人類學2】 #field
• Claude Levi-Strauss: The Father of Modern Anthropology #people
• My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File #memoir
• Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth

• Wild Dog Dreaming: Love and Extinction #nature #indigenous

• Red Roulette: An Insider’s Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today’s China #must
• Selling China: Foreign Direct Investment during the Reform Era (Cambridge Modern China Series)
• 中國：潰而不崩
• Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China’s Superpower Future
• 盐镇 (易小荷)
• Spies and Lies: How China’s Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World
• June Fourth: The Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989 (Jeremy Brown)
• Coalitions of the Weak (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
• Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China’s Extraordinary Rise
• 六四事件全程實錄 #must
• 六四屠殺內幕解密：六四事件中的戒嚴部隊 #must
• 改革历程 / 国家的囚徒：赵紫阳的秘密录音 #memoir
• The China Order: Centralia, World Empire, and the Nature of Chinese Power
• The Hong Kong Diaries #must
• 中國農民反行為研究(1950-1980)
• 暴政史：20 世紀的權力與民眾
• 毛泽东私人医生回忆录 #must
• China at War: Triumph and Tragedy in the Emergence of the New China
• 出賣中國：權貴資本主義的起源與共產黨政權的潰敗
• 何為中國
• 探索的历程 (许成钢)
• 张戎 #must
  • 慈禧：开启现代中国的皇太后
  • 鸿：三代中国女人的故事
  • 毛泽东：鲜为人知的故事
• 西太后：大清帝国最后的光芒 (加藤徹)
• 茅海建
  • 天朝的崩溃: 鸦片战争再研究
  • 苦命天子：咸丰皇帝奕詝
  • 戊戌时期康有为、梁启超的思想
• Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao
• 文革前的鄧小平 (鍾延麟)
• Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts: Information, Ideology, and Authoritarianism in China
• Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America
• 李登輝執政告白實錄
• Red Star over the Pacific: China’s Rise and the Challenge to U.S. Maritime Strategy
• China Pop (查建英)
• The Socialist System: The Political Economy of Communism
• Deadly Quiet City: Stories From Wuhan, COVID Ground Zero
• Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong
• Cadre Country: How China became the Chinese Communist Party
• Surveillance State: Inside China’s Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control (監控國家：中國全力打造的數位烏托邦，一座不斷進化、從上到下集體共構的全景監獄)
• 张医生与王医生
• Out of Mao’s shadow
• Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China’s Cultural Revolution
• 中国狱中作家文选
• Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide #must
• 羌在漢藏之間 #bumingbai
• Politics of Control: Creating Red Culture in the Early People’s Republic of China
• 毛澤東、斯大林與韓戰
• 艾未未：千年悲歡 (1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows) #must
• With the Empress Dowager of China
• Coalitions of the Weak (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) #bumingbai
• 張春橋: 1949及其後 #bumingbai
• 我的回忆 (张国焘) #bumingbai
• 软埋 (方方) #bumingbai
• 晚年周恩来 (高文谦)
• 行者思之: 張思之回憶錄 #must
• 汪政權的開場與收場
• 沪上法治梦
• 牛鬼蛇神錄——文革囚禁中的精靈 #must
• 黃禍 (王力雄) #must
• 中国国家治理的制度逻辑：一个组织学研究 #bumingbai
• 杨显惠
  • 夹边沟记事 #must
  • 定西孤儿院 #bumingbai #must
  • 甘南纪事
• 胡平文集 (博大出版社, 2005年4月)
• 游民文化与中国社会
• 重探抗戰史
• 林昭
  • 《星火》: 兰州大学“右派反革命集团案”纪实 #bumingbai #must
  • 走近林昭
  • 追寻林昭
  • 林昭，不再被遗忘
  • 北大魂——从林昭到八九民运
  • 十四万言书——致人民日报编辑部信
  • 中华民族的自由女神——林昭罹难40年纪念文集
• Ian Johnson
  • Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future #bumingbai #must
  • The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao
• 杨继绳
  • 墓碑 #bumingbai #must
  • 天地翻覆: 中国文化大革命历史
• 尋找家園 (高爾泰) #bumingbai #must
• 毛澤東的大饑荒：中國浩劫史1958-1962
• 上海生與死 (Life and Death in Shanghai)
• I Have No Enemies: The Life and Legacy of Liu Xiaobo #must
• 血殇 (高耀洁) #must
• The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan
• 高潔的靈魂 #bumingbai #must
• 疫症病案一百例 (高耀潔)
• 鏡頭下的真相—記中國愛滋病實況 #bumingbai #must
• The Woman Back from Moscow: In Pursuit of Beauty: A Novel #bumingbai
• Forty-Five Years in China, Reminiscences
• Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China, 1900-1950
• My Life in China and America #must
• 廬山會議實錄 #must
• 方勵之自傳 #must
• My Country and My People
• 熱昏的年代：1949-1965年紅色的大陸 (張萬舒)
• 我的辯詞與夢想
• 李作鵬回憶錄
• 李锐口述往事 #must
• Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China
• 王力雄
  • 黄祸 #bumingbai
  • 转世 #bumingbai
  • 天葬——西藏的命运 #must
  • 我的西域，你的東土
• The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China #bumingbai
• The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline #must #bumingbai
• 兄弟 (余华) #bumingbai #censor
• 庐山会议实录
• 毛泽东私人医生回忆录
• 踏跡尋中: 四十年華南田野之旅 #bumingbai #must
• Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City
• In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony
• 高耀潔憶往昔 #must
• 重返天安門 (林慕蓮) #must
• 人民解放軍的真相：中共200萬私軍的威脅、腐敗與野心
• 敲鐘者言: 朱耀明牧師回憶錄 #must
• 被中國拘禁的2279日
• 官場現形記 #fiction
• 老殘游記 #fiction
• China’s Party Congress: Power, Legitimacy, and Institutional Manipulation (Guoguang Wu)
• 中國民運反思 (胡平)
• The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping’s China
• 滿洲國的實相與幻象 #Manchukuo
• Jonathan D. Spence
  • The Gate of Heavenly Peace #must #history
  • The Search for Modern China
  • Chinese Roundabout: Essays in History and Culture
  • The Chinese Century: A Photographic History of the Last Hundred Years
• The Kingdom of Women: Life, Love and Death in China’s Hidden Mountains
• 一百個人的十年 #Cultural-Revolution
• 草根蝉鸣 (刘国凯) #Cultural-Revolution #must
• 喻智官
  • 福民公寓 #must #Cultural-Revolution #fiction
  • 獨一無二的反叛者：王若望
• 革後餘生：從牛津大學到北京市第一看守所
• 文革大屠杀 (宋永毅) #Cultural-Revolution
• 認同而不出櫃：中國同性戀者的生存困境
• Remembering Shanghai: A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels #must #history
• Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China #female #people

• This is Europe: The Way We Live Now
• The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe
• The Greengrocer and His TV: The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring
• Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity #history #must
• From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe #history
• The Hidden Europe: What Eastern Europeans Can Teach Us #travel #must
• Ian Kershaw
  • To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949
  • Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017
• Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 #history #must

• 歐洲的心臟：德國如何改變自己
• The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel #people #must
• A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany

• Women in Ancient Greece: A Sourcebook

• 在夾縫中抵抗：從依法治國與司法抗爭的比較經驗看香港 #law
• 同聲同氣：香港年長女同志口述歷史
• 獨立路上：從前蘇聯省思香港未來

• Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
• The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire #history
• Geek Nation: How Indian Science is Taking Over the World
• The Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore
• The White Tiger: A Novel #fiction
• Lab Hopping: Women Scientists in India #must
• The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing #history

• Prison in Iran: A Known Unknown
• Prisoner of Tehran: A Memoir #must
• My Life as a Traitor: An Iranian Memoir
• Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran
• The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree #fiction
• What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom #must
• The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the US, and Iran’s Global Ambitions
• Whisper Tapes: Kate Millett in Iran
• Days of God: The Revolution in Iran and Its Consequences (James Buchan)
• Women in Mongol Iran: The Khatuns, 1206-1335
• The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran #must #memoir
• Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran #must #memoir
• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books #memoir #must

• The Book of Japanese Folklore: An Encyclopedia of the Spirits, Monsters, and Yokai of Japanese Myth
• Nationalism and Gender (Chizuko Ueno)

• 故鄉無用 (馬尼尼為) #fiction #novel

• Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East
• The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East #history #Turkey
• The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Making of the Modern Middle East #history #must #Turkey

• 楊海英
  • 沒有墓碑的草原：內蒙古的文革大屠殺實錄
  • 蒙古與伊斯蘭中國：一段貼近民族心靈的旅程
  • 在中國與蒙古的夾縫之間：一個蒙古人未竟的民族自決之夢
• 內蒙文革實錄：「民族分裂」與「挖肅」運動
• The Secret History of the Mongols (Urgunge Onon)
• Genghis Khan: His Conquests, His Empire, His Legacy #must
• 內蒙文革風雷 ── 一位造反派領袖的口述史 #Cultural-Revolution
• 顛覆世界史的蒙古 (杉山正明) #history

• Nepal: A History from the Earliest Times to the Present

• The Sister: The extraordinary story of Kim Yo Jong, the most powerful woman in North Korea

• Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace - One School at a Time #memoir #education #Islamic #must

• Minor Detail (Adania Shibli) #fiction

• All the Kremlin’s Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin
• Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag
• Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia #must
• Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia’s New Nationalism #must
• Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution
• The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR
• Yeltsin: A Life (Timothy J Colton)
• The Rise and Fall of Communism (Archie Brown) #must
• The Invention of Russia: The Rise of Putin and the Age of Fake News
• The Less You Know, The Better You Sleep: Russia’s Road to Terror and Dictatorship under Yeltsin and Putin
• A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan
• Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?
• The History of the Gulag: From Collectivization to the Great Terror
• Gulag: A History (Anne Applebaum) #must
• Governing the World: The History of an Idea, 1815 to the Present
• Hitler’s Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe
• The Long Hangover: Putin’s New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past
• Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West
• Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator #history #people #must
• Russia: A 1000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East #history
• Witold Szabłowski
  • Dancing Bears: True Stories about Longing for the Old Days
  • What’s Cooking in the Kremlin: A Modern History of Russia Through the Kitchen Door #history
• I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country #history #journalist #must

• The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice #war #Islamic #female #must

• 台灣地方政治讀本：來自青年世代的提問、實踐與反思 #politics
• 陳柔縉
  • 宮前町九十番地 #bumingbai
  • 台灣西方文明初體驗
  • 人人身上都是一個時代
• 張繼高與吳心柳
• Formosa Betrayed (George H. Kerr) #must
• 島國知音：台灣問題專家葛超智其人其事
• 齐世英先生访问记录
• 常識：一個台灣人最好知道的事
• 移工築起的地下社會：跨國勞動在臺灣
• 靈魂與灰燼：臺灣白色恐怖散文選
• 臺灣總統選舉: 台灣認同的成長與爭奪 #must
• Made in Taiwan: Recipes and Stories from the Island Nation
• 時代如何轉了彎：蔡英文與臺灣轉型八年
• 台灣經濟四百年 #must
• 濁水溪三百年：歷史．社會．環境
• 謝雪紅評傳
• U.S.-Taiwan Relations (Ryan Hass)
• 後中共的中國：當中共政權解體，所有台灣人不可不知的天下大勢全推演
• 台灣生態家庭：六個女性、環保與社會運動的民間典範 #translation #must
  • Ecofamilism: Women, Religion, and Environmental Protection in Taiwan
• 太平輪一九四九：航向台灣的故事
• 羅漪文
  • 我當司法通譯的日子：法律之前，不讓移工喪失權益與尊嚴
  • 抵達安康：在身邊的越南移民故事，企業千金、計程車司機、市場與美甲店的阿姨…… #immigration #Vietnam
• 海島核事：反核運動、能源選擇，與一場尚未結束的告別 #history
• 亞洲第一：尤美女和臺灣同婚法案的故事 #history #transgender
• 重探戰後臺灣政治史：美國、國民黨政府與臺灣社會的三方角力 #history
• 亡國感的逆襲：臺灣的機會在哪裡 #commentary
• 地緣政治Vol.1：島鏈風雲　地理×戰略×大局 #China-geopolitics
• 阿共打來怎麼辦：你以為知道但實際一無所知的台海軍事常識 #war
• 再談阿共打來怎麼辦：從烏克蘭戰場看台海局勢 #war
• 臺灣最好的時刻，1977-1987：民族記憶美麗島 #democracy #politics #history #must
• 被迫一戰，台灣準備好了嗎？：台海戰爭的政治分析 #war #must
• 沒口之河 (黃瀚嶢) #nature #essay
• 「野蠻」的復權：臺灣原住民族的轉型正義與現代法秩序的自我救贖 #indigenous #sociology
• 帝國棄民：日本在臺灣「蕃界」內的統治（1874-1945） #history #translation-enhance #indigenous #must
• 強制移住：臺灣高山原住民的分與離 #history #indigenous
• 第五道浪之後：阿美族水下獵人的海洋知識與傳統海域的保育與管理 #indigenous

• 殺劫：不可碰觸的記憶禁區，鏡頭下的西藏文革，第一次披露 #must
• 圖博千年：一個旅人的雪域凝視
• 桑和朵瑪：西藏離散社群的流動與社會韌性

• The Architect’s Apprentice (Elif Shafak) #fiction

• Error of Judgement: The Birmingham Bombings and the Scandal That Shook Britain
• Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe #history

• Zelensky: A Biography (Serhii Rudenko) #people
• The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World (Iuliia Mendel) #memoir
• The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine
• Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine #must
• The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky #must
• The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
• The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
• The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution #must
• Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine Under Nazi Rule
• The Language of War (Oleksandr Mykhed) #must
• She Came from Mariupol #history #memoir #must
• 烏克蘭的不可能戰爭：反抗，所以存在
• 帝國解體與自由的堡壘：烏克蘭抗俄戰爭的歷史源起、地緣政治與正義之辯 #geopolitics #must
• 向日葵的季節 (Igor T. Miecik) #documentary #translation
• 戰火下我們依然喝咖啡：烏克蘭人的抵抗故事 #documentary #war
• The Rooster House: My Ukrainian Family Story: A Memoir #history

• Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition
• Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now (Evan Osnos)
• 為幸福而生：在法律秩序中追求平等權利的歷程 #bumingbai
• Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic #must
• Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right #must
• Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy #must
• The Internationalists: The Fight to Restore American Foreign Policy After Trump #must
• What Happened (H. R. Clinton) #must
• White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide #must
• Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation
• Infinite Jest: A Novel
• Dear Senator: A Memoir #must
• The Family Roe: An American Story #must
• A Question of Choice (Sarah Weddington)
• Outtakes: Stumbling Around the World for NPR
• Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change
• Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market #history
• The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery #history
• Goldberger’s War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader #history
• An American Dilemma (Gunnar Myrdal)
• Who Are We?: The Challenges to America’s National Identity
• How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
• They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South #must #history
• Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America
• Tipping: An American Social History of Gratuities
• The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology
• Woman: The American History of an Idea #history
• The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America #must
• A Beginner’s Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious
• Trauma And Recovery: The Aftermath Of Violence- From Domestic Abuse To Political Terror #psychology
• Anti-Intellectualism in American Life #education #sociology
• 此心安處：美國十年
• Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency #democracy #history
• Black Like Me #racism #history #liberty #must
• Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy

• 越南現代小說選 (羅漪文 譯) #fiction #novel #must

• The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land

• Vivian Maier: The Color Work
• Bruegel: The Complete Paintings
• Timeless Paris (Marin Montagut)
• Divine Gardens: Mayumi Oda and the San Francisco Zen Center #must #essay
• The Roots of Romanticism (Isaiah Berlin) #bumingbai

• Facebook: The Inside Story

• The Road to Serfdom (F. A. Hayek) #bumingbai #must
• A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy
• Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises #must #history
• The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
• The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes #people #must #history
• The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you #business #must
• Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics #bumingbai
• The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism #capitalism
• The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy #history
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty #politics #history #must
• Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology #history
• Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century #history

• Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
• How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
• Happy Teachers Change the World: A Guide for Cultivating Mindfulness in Education #must #mindfulness

• A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future #must
• Forests: The Shadow of Civilization
• Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer’s Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont #must
• Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization #must
• The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times #must
• Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science #must
• Underland: A Deep Time Journey
• The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
• Pass it On: Five Stories That Can Change the World #must
• Radical Love: From Separation to Connection with the Earth, Each Other, and Ourselves (Satish Kumar)
• World as Lover, World as Self: Courage for Global Justice and Planetary Renewal
• The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future #must
• Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World #must

• Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
• Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
• Self-Made Man: One Woman’s Year Disguised as a Man
• Dear Life: Stories (Alice Munro)
• Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism #must
• The Story of Art without Men #must
• Dr. Jen Gunter
  • The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina: Separating the Myth from the Medicine #must
  • The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism
  • Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
• A History of Women in 101 Objects: A walk through female history
• Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power #must
• Angela Saini
  • Inferior: The true power of women and the science that shows it #must
  • Superior: The Return of Race Science
  • The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule #must
• Andrea Dworkin
  • Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin #must
  • Intercourse
  • Heartbreak : The Political Memoir Of A Feminist Militant
• bell hooks
  • All About Love: New Visions #must
  • bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
  • Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood
  • The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love #must
• The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem #must
• Wednesday Martin
  • Untrue: Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free #must
  • Primates of Park Avenue: A Memoir
• Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women are Worth
• Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men #must
• The Women I Think About at Night: Traveling the Paths of My Heroes #must
• On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good
• Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India’s First Women in Medicine #must
• Gloria Steinem
  • My Life on the Road #must
  • The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion #must
• 50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution
• Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics
• Fatima Mernissi
  • Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood
  • The Veil And The Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation Of Women’s Rights In Islam
• White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color #must
• When God Was a Woman (Merlin Stone) #must #history
• The Creation of Patriarchy (Gerda Lerner) #history
• We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women’s Lives
• Woman at Point Zero #fiction
• The Living Goddesses (Marija Gimbutas)
• The Feminine Mystique (Betty Friedan) #must
• The Handmaid’s Tale #fiction
• Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
• Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty #must
• The Female Turn: How Evolutionary Science Shifted Perceptions About Females
• Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
• Mediocre (Ijeoma Oluo)
• It’s Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race
• Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
• On Female Body Experience: “Throwing Like a Girl” and Other Essays (Iris Marion Young)
• Simone De Beauvoir
  • The Second Sex
• The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century #philosophy
• Becoming Beauvoir: A Life #people #must
• 始於極限：跨越社會習以為常的「邊界」，當代女性如何活出想要的人生 (Chizuko Ueno) #letter #translation #must
• Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Judith Butler) #theory
• My Body (Emily Ratajkowski) #memoir #must
• Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women #philosophy

• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Beasts of No Nation: A Novel
• 悲情城市
• Dune (6 books)
• Prep (Curtis Sittenfeld)
• Caging Skies (Jojo Rabbit) #film-origin
• Pride and Prejudice
• Catch-22 #must
• 女神自助餐 (劉芷妤)
• 台北人 (白先勇)
• Siddhartha: A Novel
• Stoner (John Williams)
• ¡Ay, Mija! (A Graphic Novel)
• 人世间 (梁晓声) #bumingbai
• Neuromancer (William Gibson) #must #bumingbai
• Sympathizer: A Novel #must #bumingbai
• 鹿鼎记 #bumingbai
• Silence: A Novel #bumingbai #must
• The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream #must

• Out of the Hitler Time (trilogy) #must
• The Coconut Monk (Thich Nhat Hanh)

• Anna Karenina (Rosamund Bartlett translation version) #bumingbai
• Ferdydurke (Witold Gombrowicz) #must
• Schindler’s ark
• The Child of Ukraine: An absolutely gripping and heart-wrenching historical novel based on a true story
• Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer #must
• Black Butterflies (Priscilla Morris) #must
• The Actual Star: A Novel #sci-fi
• I Kick and I Fly #must
• White Nights (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
• The First Bad Man: A Novel #must #Miranda-July
• The Joy Luck Club: A Novel (Amy Tan)
• Stone Butch Blues (Leslie Feinberg) #autobiography #transgender

• English / Wish You Were Here: Two Plays #must
• Samuel Beckett: The Complete Dramatic Works
• Nora: A Doll’s House

• The Journeys of Socrates: An Adventure #must

• The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (Alistair MacLeod)
• Interpreter of Maladies
• Men Without Women (Ernest Miller Hemingway)
• No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories #must
• Writing (ori: Écrire, Marguerite Duras)
• A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories (Lucia Berlin) #female #must

• Brave New World

• The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security #must

• Eat Like The Animals: What Nature Teaches Us About the Science of Healthy Eating
• Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
• The Blue Revolution: Hunting, Harvesting, and Farming Seafood in the Information Age
• The Future of Nutrition: An Insider’s Look at the Science, Why We Keep Getting It Wrong, and How to Start Getting It Right #must
• Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them #must
• The Berkeley Bowl Cookbook: Recipes Inspired by the Extraordinary Produce of California’s Most Iconic Market #recipe
• Things I Did When I Was Hangry: Navigating a Peaceful Relationship with Food #mindfulness #must
• Have You Eaten Yet: Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World #immigration

• Chronic Pain Reset: 30 Days of Activities, Practices, and Skills to Help You Thrive
• Beyond Satisfied: A Sex Hacker’s Guide to Endless Orgasms, Mind-Blowing Connection, and Lasting Confidence #must
• Period (Emma Barnett)
• Break Free from Maternal Anxiety: A Self-Help Guide for Pregnancy, Birth and the First Postnatal Year
• This Is Assisted Dying: A Doctor’s Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life #must

• How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
• IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation
• 海風泱泱：從忠義計畫到拉法葉艦的故事
• 終戰那一天：臺灣戰爭世代的故事
• 百年追求：臺灣民主運動的故事
• Accidental State: Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the Making of Taiwan
• A Very Short History of the World (Geoffrey Blainey) #must
• Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land
• A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution
• The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power #must
• Prisons We Choose to Live Inside (Doris Lessing) #must
• Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone
• The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality #bumingbai #must
• 文明的邏輯: 人類與風險的博弈 #bumingbai
• The Truce (Primo Levi) #bumingbai
• A Guest in My Own Country: A Hungarian Life #bumingbai
• In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines
• Fascism: A Warning #must
• The Power of the Powerless #must #bumingbai
• Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition #must #bumingbai
• The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History #must #bumingbai
• 技术与文明 (张笑宇) #bumingbai
• Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel,1917-2017
• My Promised Land:The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
• The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas #bumingbai #must
• Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
• Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
• Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage #must
• The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing, 1450-1800
• Rome and China : Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires
• Bad Year Economics: Cultural Responses to Risk and Uncertainty
• Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
• Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
• God’s Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican #must
• Church History in Plain Language
• The Destruction of the European Jews
• KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
• Fascism: A Warning #must
• How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler #must
• The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany
• Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations #must
• The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq #must
• Memoirs 1925-1950 (George F. Kennan)
• Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War Between Science and Religion #must
• The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples
• Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
• Open: The Story of Human Progress
• The Fighters: Americans In Combat
• Sisters of the War: Two Remarkable True Stories of Survival and Hope in Syria
• Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town #must
• Debt: The First 5,000 Years #must
• The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
• How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks (Witold Szablowski)
• Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology
• Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior
• SCOOPS (Sam McAlister)
• Berlin Diary (William L. Shirer)
• Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying
• Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955
• Undelivered: The Never-Heard Speeches That Would Have Rewritten History
• An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Civilization to Independence #must
• Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About The End of the World #must
• A Brief History Of Everyone Ever Lived #must
• Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War #must
• The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
• Affluence Without Abundance: What We Can Learn from the World’s Most Successful Civilisation #must
• The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
• The Superhero Reader (University Press of Mississippi) #must
• Hammer And Tickle: A History Of Communism Told Through Communist Jokes
• Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
• The Spartans: A Very Short Introduction (Andrew J. Bayliss)
• Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves #slavery
• The Rise and Fall of Communism (Archie Brown)
• Maoism: A Global History #must
• Night (Elie Wiesel)
• Prisoners of History: What Monuments to World War II Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves
• The Cold War: A World History (Odd Arne Westad) #must
• Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland #Holocaust
• The Guns of August #WWI #must
• Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters

• No Ordinary Assignment #memoir #war #female #must

• Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto

• The Prosecutor: One Man’s Pursuit of Justice for the Voiceless
• Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity
• The Future of Human Rights (Alison Brysk) #human-rights
• Inventing Human Rights: A History #human-rights #history
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption #memoir #must
• 法律有關係：法律是什麼？怎麼變？如何影響我們生活？

• How to be a Happier Parent: Raising a Family, Having a Life, and Loving (Almost) Every Minute
• Arriving at Your Own Door: 108 Lessons in Mindfulness
• Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain
• Dilemmas of Desire: Teenage Girls Talk about Sexuality
• Being a Teen: Everything Teen Girls & Boys Should Know About Relationships, Sex, Love, Health, Identity & More
• The Confidence Code for Girls: Taking Risks, Messing Up, & Becoming Your Amazingly Imperfect, Totally Powerful Self
• 是非要溫柔：聖嚴法師的禪式管理學
• 100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World
• Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict
• The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions #must
• Persepolis #must
• Learning to Think.: The inspiring memoir about family, poverty, and the power of education
• 視障者的機智生活
• The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA #must
• No One Talks About This Stuff: Twenty-Two Stories of Almost Parenthood #must
• Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind
• Wang Gungwu
  • Home is Not Here
  • Home is Where We Are
• It Chooses You (Miranda July)
• Sefton Delmer
  • Trail Sinister
  • Black Boomerang
• Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
• The Years Paperback (Annie Ernaux) #must
• How to Say Babylon: A Memoir #must
• I’m Black So You Don’t Have to Be: A Memoir in Eight Lives #must
• Healing: A Woman’s Journey from Doctor to Nun #spirituality
• A Very Easy Death: A Memoir (Simone De Beauvoir)
• Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir #Islamic #immigration #queer #must
• Living the Good Life: How to Live Sanely and Simply in a Troubled World #must
• Out of Egypt: A Memoir #bumingbai #must

• How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking

• 真相製造：從聖戰士媽媽、極權政府、網軍教練、境外勢力、打假部隊、內容農場主人到政府小編
• When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Digital Age #racism

• Trail Guide to Movement: Building the Body in Motion #anatomy
• The Body: A Guide for Occupants #anatomy #must
• In the Wars: A Doctor’s Story of Conflict, Survival and Saving Lives #memoir #must
• The Knife’s Edge: The Heart and Mind of a Cardiac Surgeon #life #must

• Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity
• Ten Birds That Changed the World
• Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach #must
• The Climate Book (Greta Thunberg) #must
• The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
• Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life #history

• There Are Moms Way Worse Than You: Irrefutable Proof That You Are Indeed a Fantastic Parent #picture
• Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding) #female #memoir
• Advanced Parenting: Advice for Helping Kids Through Diagnoses, Differences, and Mental Health Challenges #must
• The Parent Trap: How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis
• Lisa Damour
  • Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood #girl #psychology #must
  • Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls #girl #psychology #must
  • The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents #psychology #must

• I am Malala
• A Woman of Firsts: The true story of the midwife who built a hospital and changed the world
• The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini
• The Sister: The Extraordinary Story of Kim Yo Jong, the Most Powerful Woman in North Korea
• Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
• The War Diary of Asha-san : From Tokyo to Netaji’s Indian National Army
• Man’s Search for Meaning #must
• Muzoon: A Syrian Refugee Speaks Out
• Champions for Peace: Women Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize (latest edition) #must
• The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir #must
• A Propensity to Self-Subversion
• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
• No Name in the Street
• Soundtrack of Silence: Love, Loss, and a Playlist for Life
• Beyond Evacuation: From the Himalayas to the Statue of Liberty
• Life: My Story Through History (Pope Francis) #must
• Making It So: A Memoir (Patrick Stewart)
• Francis of Assisi: A New Biography (Augustine Thompson) #must
• Fear No Evil (Natan Sharansky) #must
• 王鼎鈞回憶錄四部曲
• Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary
• Chadwick Boseman: Forever Our King 1976-2020
• Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir
• Motherland: A Memoir (Paula Ramón)
• The Cave: A Secret Underground Hospital and One Woman’s Story of Survival in Syria #must
• Last to Eat, Last to Learn: My Life in Afghanistan Fighting to Educate Women #must
• Al Pacino: In Conversation with Lawrence Grobel
• The Liverbirds: Our life in Britain’s first female rock ’n’ roll band
• Julie Andrews
  • Home: A Memoir of My Early Years
  • Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years #must
• Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life #must
• Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950 #must
• The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X #must
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
• Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
• My Life, My Love, My Legacy #must
• Autobiography of a Yogi (Paramahansa Yogananda)
• Letters from the Field, 1925-1975 (Margaret Mead)
• Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics
• Curriculum Vitae: A Volume of Autobiography
• Hite Report on Shere Hite: Voice of a Daughter in Exile #must
• Just as I Am: A Memoir (Cicely Tyson) #must
• Finding Me (Viola Davis)
• The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters
• Women Warriors: An Unexpected History #must
• Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener
• Chess Queens (Jennifer Shahade)
• We Are One: A Celebration of Tribal Peoples #must
• Learning True Love: Practicing Buddhism in a Time of War #religion #female #Buddhism #must
• A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again #female #must
• Lab Girl: A Memoir #science #must
• Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex #science
• Sontag: Her Life and Work #female #must #queer
• Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom #psychology #must
• Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (Vladimir Nabokov) #bumingbai
• Nelson Mandela
  • Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela #must
  • Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction

• The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
• Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
• Ten Things Video Games Can Teach Us: (about life, philosophy and everything) #must
• The Little Book of Humanism: Universal lessons on finding purpose, meaning and joy
• Unconditional Equals (Anne Phillips)
• Racism, Not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions #must
• The Philosopher Queens: The lives and legacies of philosophy’s unsung women #people
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values #Zen #meditation #memoir #must
• The Lives of Michel Foucault #people
• The Agony of Eros (Byung-Chul Han) #love
• Beauty: A Very Short Introduction #must

• I Am Home: Portraits of Immigrant Teenagers

• Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics #quantum #philosophy
• Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos #must
• Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Carlo Rovelli)

• Strong Is the New Pretty: A Celebration of Girls Being Themselves #must
• What It Is (Lynda Barry)
• Gender Queer: A Memoir #gender

• On Time and Eternity (Rubem Alves)
• Poetry for the Many: An Anthology
• Deaf Republic: Poems
• Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
• States of the Body Produced by Love
• Romanzero (Heinrich Heine) #Germany
• First Buddhist Women: Poems and Stories of Awakening #Buddhism #history #must
• Please Mrs Butler #children

• Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism #must
• The Power of the Powerless
• The Opium of the Intellectuals #bumingbai
• The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians
• If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
• New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West #must
• This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
• The Origins of Totalitarianism (Hannah Arendt) #must
• How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed #memoir
• Trump and Hitler: A Comparative Study in Lying #must
• The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities #history #democracy
• The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today #democracy #history
• Populism: A Very Short Introduction #must
• The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy #rhetoric
• Why Liberalism Failed (Patrick J. Deneen)
• How Propaganda Works (Jason Stanley) #philosophy
• The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty #liberty #history #must
• How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future #democracy #history
• Statelessness: A Modern History #history
• The Sum of the People: How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age #history
• On Liberty (John Stuart Mill) #must
• The Prince (Niccolo Machiavelli) #leadership #bumingbai #must
• The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics #bumingbai #must
• Outsider in the White House (Bernie Sanders) #memoir #people #must

• Mirror Thinking: How Role Models Make Us Human
• The Rubber Brain: A toolkit for optimising your study, work, and life! #must
• Tell Me What You Want: A Therapist and Her Clients Explore Our 12 Deepest Desires
• The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
• Split-Second Persuasion: The Ancient Art and New Science of Changing Minds
• A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook
• Counselling for Toads: A Psychological Adventure #must
• Studies in the Psychology of Sex #must
• Lisa Feldman Barrett
  • Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain #must
  • How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain #must
• Defining You: Build Your Unique Personal Profile and Unlock Your True Potential
• How to Knit a Human: A memoir
• The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World #must
• The Philosophical Baby: What Children’s Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life #must
• The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
• Three Women (Lisa Taddeo)
• Worlds in Harmony: Compassionate Action for a Better World #Buddhism
• The Hope Circuit: A Psychologist’s Journey from Helplessness to Optimism #memoir
• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed #must
• Child Development: A Practitioner’s Guide (forth edition)
• Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of the Self
• Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
• Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind
• Trauma And Recovery: The Aftermath Of Violence- From Domestic Abuse To Political Terror #trauma #must
• The Art of Loving (Erich Fromm) #love #theory #must

• Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
• Seeking Soulmate: Ditch the Dating Game and Find Real Connection #must #psychology #dating
• BFF?: The truth about female friendship
• Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
• 報導者事件簿003：無體溫關係
• The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love #sex #love
• 我媽媽的寄生蟲 (林蔚昀) #essay #must

• Conversations With God (Neale Donald Walsch)

• Why Animals Talk: The New Science of Animal Communication
• Learn to Orgasm in 4 Acts
• How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology #must
• Gendered Brain (Gina Rippon) #must
• How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
• An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us #must
• Fearfully and Wonderfully: The Marvel of Bearing God’s Image #must
• Adventures in Volcanoland: What Volcanoes Tell Us About the World and Ourselves
• Across the Bridge: Understanding the Origin of the Vertebrates #must
• Brains Through Time: A Natural History of Vertebrates
• The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution
• Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA
• Stuart Firestein
  • Failure: Why Science Is So Successful
  • Ignorance: How It Drives Science
• The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature #must
• Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind
• What Makes Biology Unique?: Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline
• Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human #must
• Randall Munroe
  • What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions #must
  • What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
  • How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
• Tamed: Ten Species that Changed our World
• Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past #must
• Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist #must
• Nano: The Spectacular Science of the Very (Very) Small #children
• The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark #vision #must
• The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir

• Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Stephen Hawking) #must
• Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer’s Guide to the Universe #astronomy

• Seeing the Mind: Spectacular Images from Neuroscience, and What They Reveal about Our Neuronal Selves #must

• Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (by Edward O.Willson) #must

• Scam Me If You Can: Simple Strategies to Outsmart Today’s Rip-off Artists

• Tiny Habits: The Small Changes that Change Everything
• Reinventing Your Life: The Breakthrough Program to End Negative Behavior and Feel Great Again #psychology

• Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era #memoir #philosophy #gender
• 女性的世界史：理解性別意識與歷史變遷，開啟性別史的新視野 #history
• 幽黯國度：障礙者的愛與性
• 直到夜色溫柔 (簡莉穎, 廢廢子) #comics
• Love in the Big City (Sang Young Park) #queer #novel #fiction #translation
• 紅線：我的性紀錄 (洪承喜 홍칼리) #translation #life #female #feminism #must
• 房思琪的初戀樂園 #must
• She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement #sociology #journalism #must
• The T Guide: Our Trans Experiences and a Celebration of Gender Expression—Man, Woman, Nonbinary, and Beyond #transgender

• The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
• Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All #must #copyright
• The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle #must #copyright
• Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age #must #copyright
• 茶室女人心：萬華紅燈區的故事 #sex
• The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas #must
• Children of Cambodia’s Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors #must
• Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace - One School at a Time
• Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States
• War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
• The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
• The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism
• Suicide in Schools: A Practitioner’s Guide to Multi-level Prevention, Assessment, Intervention, and Postvention
• My Life: Growing Up Asian in America
• The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined #bumingbai #must
• Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance #must #bumingbai
• The Whole World Is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left, With a New Preface #bumingbai
• Journalism: Why It Matters (Michael Schudson) #bumingbai
• Development as Freedom #must #bumingbai
• The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe’s Refugee Crisis
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race #must
• The Origins of Totalitarianism #bumingbai
• Law, Legislation and Liberty (F. A. Hayek) #must #bumingbai
• Plagues and the Paradox of Progress: Why the World Is Getting Healthier in Worrisome Ways #bumingbai
• The Power of Crisis #bumingbai #must
• Guns, Germs, And Steel: The Fates of Human Societies #bumingbai #must
• The Wealth of Nations #bumingbai #must
• The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the U.S., and Iran s Global Ambitions
• 洗腦的歷史：禍害世界的極端思想控制術大解析 #must
• The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality #must
• On Palestine (Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappé) #must
• White Torture: Interviews with Iranian Women Prisoners #must
• Economy and Society (Max Weber)
• Humankind: A Hopeful History #must
• Automating Inequality: How High-tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor #must
• How Doctors Think (Jerome Groopman)
• Battle for the Bird: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and the $44 Billion Fight for Twitter’s Soul
• War in 140 Characters: How Social Media Is Reshaping Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
• It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism #must
• Women on Porn: One hundred stories. One vital conversation #must
• 制度基因：中国制度与极权主义制度的起源 (Institutional Genes: The Origins of China’s Institutions and Totalitarianism) #must
• The Different Drum: Community-making and peace #must
• The New Odyssey (Patrick Kingsley)
• Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go To War
• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York #history
• Emotional Justice: A Roadmap for Racial Healing #must
• Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism
• A Necessary Kindness: Stories From the Frontline of Abortion Care
• 思辨是我們的義務：那些瑞典老師教我的事
• We’ve Got This: Stories by Disabled Parents #must
• All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience
• No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us #must
• Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back from Extremism
• A Death in Malta: An assassination and a family’s quest for justice
• How to Win the War on Truth: An Illustrated Guide to How Mistruths Are Sold, Why They Stick, and How to Reclaim Reality
• Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
• Our House Is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis #must
• Seed Money: Monsanto’s Past and Our Food Future #must
• Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
• Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life
• Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
• Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do #must
• Being Arab (Samir Kassir) #Islamic #history
• Illegality, Inc.: Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe
• Sex and Lies: True Stories of Women’s Intimate Lives in the Arab World (Leïla Slimani) #must
• The Dictator’s Learning Curve: Inside the Global Battle for Democracy #democracy
• Multiculturalism: A Very Short Introduction
• 受苦的倒影：一個苦難工作者的田野備忘錄
• Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit #female
• Is Democracy Failing? (The Big Idea Series) #democracy #must
• Spite: The Upside of Your Dark Side #psychology
• Black Skin, White Masks (Frantz Fanon) #racism
• Speak Not: Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language #indigenous #history #language
• The Souls of Black Folk #philosophy

• Not Quite Nirvana: A Skeptic’s Journey to Mindfulness #must #memoir
• Solid Ground: Buddhist Wisdom for Difficult Times
• Ten Breaths to Happiness: Touching Life in its Fullness
• A Fierce Heart: Finding Strength, Courage, and Wisdom in Any Moment
• Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy #meditation #yoga

• Tell Me Something about Buddhism: Questions and Answers for the Curious Beginner #must #Buddhism #Zen
• Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction #must

• Reading Lessons: The books we read at school, the conversations they spark and why they matter #must

• The Network State: How To Start a New Country #bumingbai
• Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids-and How to Break the Trance #must
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
• Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
• Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
• Burn Book: A Tech Love Story #must

• Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
• Re-Engineering Humanity

• Proof of Stake: The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of Blockchains
• The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century’s Greatest Dilemma #must

• Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It (Chris Voss)
• Bargaining with the Devil: When to Negotiate, When to Fight
• Start with No: The Negotiating Tools That the Pros Don’t Want You to Know
• You Can Negotiate Anything: The World’s Best Negotiator Tells You How To Get What You Want
• How to Become a Rainmaker: The Rules for Getting and Keeping Customers and Clients
• Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond

• How to Read a Book #must

• Strategy: The Indirect Approach #war #military #must

• Thinking, Fast and Slow #must

• The World As I see It #bumingbai

• Bruce Lee Library ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08B8VS2X7) #must

• One Man’s Meat

• The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution, 1945-57 #bumingbai #must
• Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962 #bumingbai #must
• The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962–1976 #must
• China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower

• Politics and the English Language
• 1984 #must

• The Origins of Totalitarianism #must
• Responsibility and Judgment #philosophy
• The Promise of Politics

• The Question of German Guilt #must
• Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus : the paradigmatic individuals #must
• Way to Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy

• The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Clayborne Carson) #people
• Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

• Mohandas K. Gandhi, Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth #people #must
• Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction #must

• Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
• Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets #must #bumingbai
• War’s Unwomanly Face
• Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
• Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
• The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II #must

• On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century #must
• Our Malady #must
• Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
• Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
• The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America #must
• Thinking the Twentieth Century #must
• Stalin and Europe: Imitation and Domination, 1928-1953
• The Reconstruction Of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999
• Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist’S Mission To Liberate Soviet Ukraine
• The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke
• Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe: A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, 1872-1905
• The Wall Around the West: State Borders and Immigration Controls in North America and Europe

• No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering #must #mindfulness
• Happiness: Essential Mindfulness Practices
• Love Letter to the Earth
• The Mindfulness Survival Kit: Five Essential Practices
• Present Moment Wonderful Moment: Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living #must #Buddhism #practice
• Understanding Our Mind: 50 Verses on Buddhist Psychology #must
• Call Me By My True Names: The Collected Poems of Thich Nhat Hanh #must
• Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire: A Buddhist Proposal for Peace #history
• Stepping into Freedom: An Introduction to Buddhist Monastic Training #must #practice
• At Home in the World: Stories and Essential Teachings from a Monk’s Life #must
• Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha #Buddhism #must

• Sula
• The Bluest Eye
• Toni Morrison: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
• Song of Solomon

• Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 #must
• The Memory Chalet #must
• When the Facts Change: Essays, 1995-2010 #must
• The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century

• Unstoppable Us (Volume 1, 2)
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind #must
• Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow #must

• 末日倖存者的獨白: 關於我和「六・四」
• 刘晓波纪念文集
  • The Journey of Liu Xiaobo: From Dark Horse to Nobel Laureate

• 英雄時代 #must #poetry
• 寫給海日汗的21封信 #must

• 國鎮 #must
• 江上的母亲
• 父亲的战争
• 大地呻吟 #must

• 余英時回憶錄 #must
• 余英時談話錄

• Ocean of Insight: A Sailor’s Voyage from Despair to Hope

• On Connection (Kae Tempest) #creativity #meditation

• The Idealist’s Survival Kit: 75 Simple Ways to Avoid Burnout #social-work
• Inclusion on Purpose: An Intersectional Approach to Creating a Culture of Belonging at Work #must
• Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do #must

• The Color Purple: A Novel #fiction #must
• In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose #essay #feminism

• The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality #must

• The Remains of the Day #fiction

• The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia #history #must
• The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin #must
• Surviving Autocracy

• Bloodchild and Other Stories #sci-fi #short-stories
• Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

• Night Shift #must

• https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/香港遭審查下架書刊 #China
• 編程隨想書單：https://github.com/programthink/books
• 食学共读: https://www.douban.com/doulist/135459538/ (食学社读书会往期书单)

• List of awards in Chinese: https://tpml.gov.taipei/News_Content.aspx?Create=1&n=E5E37C9048A83EB3&state=F5D336F102ACBC68&s=BF9949D8402E6AB9&sms=7D4B7120B494353E
• Hughes Prize: https://www.bshs.org.uk/prizes/hughes-prize

• 2013 — “The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen” by Kwame Anthony Appiah
• 2014 — “Meaning in Life and Why It Matters” by Susan Wolf
• 2015 — “Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do” by Claude Steele
• 2016 — “Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality” by Danielle Allen
• 2017 — “What Is Populism?” by Jan-Werner Müller
• 2018 — “Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech” by Keith Whittington
• 2019 — “Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy” by James Williams
• 2020 — “This America” by Jill Lepore
• 2021 — “Moving Up Without Losing Your Way” by Jennifer Morton
• 2022 — “Every Day the River Changes” by Jordan Salama
• 2023 — How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for our Future
• 2024 — The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI #must

• Why It Matters ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BF9MK61)

• 向下扎根！德國最受歡迎的思辨讀本系列 1～7

• Penguin Great Ideas: https://www.penguin.co.uk/series/PEN02/penguin-great-ideas

• The Last Interview: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084R7T3JZ

• Very Short Introductions (OUP): https://global.oup.com/academic/content/series/v/very-short-introductions-vsi

• Mindfulness Essentials - How To

  • How to Sit #must
  • How to Eat
  • How to Love #must
  • How to Walk #must
  • How to Relax
  • How to Fight
  • How to See
  • How to Connect
  • How to Focus

• 中国民主季刊 #China
• 小鸟文学

• #must: personal must read
• #China-geopolitics: geopolitics around China, including:
  • inside: Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Hong Kong
  • border: Afghanistan, Bhutan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Vietnam
  • sea border: Brunei, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam
• #censor : might be a result under censorship