This article is born in response to similar needs-I want to recommend the top good books, the most useful books and the most enjoyable books I have read in recent years to people who like reading. Those I personally like, but the public may not like them so much and are too difficult to understand, so I won't record them.
This article will be recommended in the following categories: literature, Buddhism, psychology, epiphany, history and growth.
Strictly speaking, this is not a novel, but a humorous and playful brushwork, which tells the history of the Ming Dynasty for nearly 300 years. I didn't read much extracurricular books in high school. Among them, "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" is my favorite, and it is still deeply imprinted in my heart.
Even though I have rich experience now, looking back, I still think this set of books is wonderful. The story is very strong, easy to read and profound at the same time. Besides, reading it can greatly deepen your understanding of human nature and the history of China.
Unfortunately, it has been almost ten years since The Last Ming Dynasty was published. When the author was in the bright moon, there was still no new book, which made those vertical writers famous and bullying. If someone asks me which author's new book I am most looking forward to, I will definitely answer without hesitation: the bright moon of that year.
Jin Yong's masterpiece. This book is very beautiful and particularly touching. Things like Biography of Sunflowers and Dong Fangbubai have become the daily expressions of many Japanese people-this is the realm that only top novels can reach.
I once asked a friend who also likes reading: "What book have you read more than twice?" He said, "the legendary swordsman and the Ming Dynasty".
Siddhartha tells the story of a passionate seeker's mental journey, which is ups and downs and breathtaking. The author is Hesse, a great German writer and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.
After reading this book, I have a feeling that Buddhism and Taoist philosophy are originally connected with the highest truth of the universe.
Siddhartha is the most profound and enlightening novel I have ever read.
According to my current observation, it seems that few people read Shakespeare now. Maybe it's because Shakespeare is too far away from us and too high. On the contrary, Marquez, Borges, Calvis ... Oh, Nuo Nuo, Calvino and others are more popular.
With all due respect, compared with Shakespeare, Ma, Bo and Ka can only be regarded as small writers-this is my real feeling after reading their main works carefully. As for those writers who are currently surrounded by the market and public opinion, I don't want to say more.
Shakespeare's tragedy is Shakespeare's masterpiece. 99% people don't understand this truth: in fact, the greater the people and works, the closer they are to us ordinary people. Walking into the depths of Shakespeare's tragedies, you will certainly find places that bring you strong repercussions and great shocks-which are hard to get in the books of any other writer in the history of world literature.
Things of the Mind is an anthology of Shi Tiesheng's prose. Perhaps there are still many people's impressions of Shi Tiesheng, which remain in "Ditan and I" because it has been included in middle school textbooks.
In fact, the most precious and remarkable thing about Tie Sheng is his profound thinking on many metaphysical problems.
When recommending Shi Tiesheng's books to others, I always quote myself the following two paragraphs:
Shi Tiesheng walked into the hinterland of wisdom through rigorous thinking. Through the pious soul, I caught a glimpse of the ultimate truth. Embrace suffering, live philosophically and die fearlessly-his understanding of life and death is unparalleled in today's world. "Thinking extremely, life and death are the same", Shi Tiesheng's works are brilliant victories of human dignity.
Shi Tiesheng is good at metaphysical questioning and looking for the ultimate answer. Through logical thinking, his wise understanding and comprehension of words always gives people profound enlightenment in life. In addition to joy, it is also amazing at the power hidden in reason and silence.
One of the most serious mistakes a person can make in this world is to have a serious prejudice against Buddhism. What is lost is not Buddhism, but the opportunity for ta to gain inner peace and life wisdom through Buddhism.
The book that really let me step into the door of Buddhism and make me marvel at Buddhism is Nan's The Diamond Sutra. Note: The wonder here is not a rhetorical device, but a real experience. When I read that nan huaijin said, "Where should the cloud live? How can the clouds subdue his heart? When I should live like this, I should hand over my heart like this, and a wonderful understanding comes to my mind.
The Diamond Sutra is one of the best books in Buddhism. The author nan huaijin reached the peak in the field of Buddhism.
What can best eliminate ordinary people's prejudice against Buddhism is not what the Diamond Sutra says, but the book monks and philosophers.
This book is about the dialogue between monks and philosophers. Monks are the biological sons of philosophers-a doctor of biology in his twenties-who have received top scientific training in the West. Why did he suddenly decide to give up scientific research and choose to become a Buddhist disciple in the distant Himalayas when the future was very bright? Why Buddhism and Buddhism have such amazing attraction? Isn't Buddhism superstitious and backward? Is this doctor of science possessed? Did his sanity go on holiday?
Monks and Philosophers is a wonderful and unusual collision between western rationality and eastern wisdom, which is very profound and convincing. Most importantly, it can greatly eliminate ordinary people's ignorance and great prejudice against Buddhism.
What is the significance and benefit of eliminating ignorance and huge prejudice against Buddhism and Buddhism? Let you really enter Buddhism-a kind of knowledge that frees people from endless troubles and deep-rooted shadows, and a kind of knowledge that can obtain peace, enrichment and joy that echoes our deepest nature. Being a real Buddha can give you the hope of being completely free from infinite confusion, pain and nothingness.
This book tells the 40 most famous research results in the history of western psychology with 40 popular experimental stories.
If, before reading this book, your understanding of people and human nature is 30-40 (full mark 100), then if you absorb the essence of this book, your score will suddenly soar to 60-70.
But it should be noted that it is not easy to thoroughly digest the essence of this book, because you need to read it repeatedly and think deeply.
Love is the meaning of everyone's life. But most people's knowledge and understanding of "love" is still at a very shallow level. This is undoubtedly related to our education system.
Teachers and education departments forced us to spend hundreds of hours studying ideological and political textbooks. But you didn't tell us the art and knowledge of love. The Art of Love is the masterpiece of the famous psychologist Fromm.
Looking back a few decades later, the lack of "love learning" in today's open university curriculum may be as absurd as the widespread foot-binding of women hundreds of years ago.
One of the ways to get rid of this absurdity in advance is to read The Art of Love.
Poor self-control is the root of most problems in human society. How to improve self-control? The book Self-control gives a very detailed, profound and scientifically based answer.
Although Self-control is a best seller, I think it is very informative. After reading it carefully, you can get a great cognitive improvement in self-control.
I have read a similar book called willpower, but I found that self-control is better.
Self-control is one of the most useful books I have ever read.
The title of the book is a little chicken soup, which is the fault of domestic publishers and translators. The original version of this book is written in English, and its name is Desire to Be Me. It tells the story of a cancer patient's near-death experience and miraculous recovery.
This is a book that can refresh people's view of life and death from the root. After reading this book, I even had the ecstasy of "I have no regrets in my life."
When I read the most wonderful part of this book, I felt an unprecedented sense of wonder in my heart: I am so close to everyone in the world. "All beings are one" is not a concept, not an empty talk.
It is not without flaws, and there are cliches in the book, but it can never be denied that it is a wonderful and enlightening book.
Reading Krishnamurti is not limited to this. However, this book is in line with the reading habits of contemporary people, both in typesetting and chapter arrangement.
Who's Krishnamurti? One of the greatest spiritual teachers in the 20th century. At first, when I saw such an introduction, to tell the truth, I was a little repulsive or even disgusted. But when I read Krishnamurti's words carefully, I found that he really deserves this title.
"Krishnamurti claimed that truth is purely personal, and people must illuminate themselves with their own light. His lifelong teaching is to help people get rid of fear and ignorance and realize the realm of compassion and happiness. "
Below, two Douban netizens commented on this book.
If you are human, you should read this book well. It can let us know: Where did human beings come from? Where will mankind go from here?
To tell you the truth, I'm a little surprised that this book can be published. Because, this book puts forward a lot of criticisms of human beings as a whole, which is quite "anti-human" But there is no denying that what the author said is very reasonable.
What's good about this book? Three points: full of goodwill and boundless love, magnificent content and vision, full of amazing ideas and profound insights.
Reading it can greatly broaden our horizons and urge us to deeply understand and reflect on ourselves.
2065438+May 27th, 2007. Ke Jie's complete rout marks that mankind has completely entered the era of intelligence.
The changes in the next few decades will far exceed the imagination of most ordinary people.
When we unconsciously fall into the intelligent age, how should we embrace the changes in the intelligent age? How to seize the opportunity of the intelligent age? How to deal with the challenges of the intelligent age? -Dr. Wu Jun gave a very rational analysis and a very clear answer through this book.
Not only that, the author also deeply discusses the close relationship between big data and machine intelligence, as well as causal thinking and strong associative thinking-strong associative thinking, which is a change in the traditional thinking mode of human beings.
The Age of Intelligence is a book about the near future. It's really an eye-opener. It's like 20 years ago, when 99.99% people in this world didn't know what the Internet was, suddenly a far-sighted foreign expert patiently explained everything about the Internet to you.
Do you know that?/You know what? Do you know that?/You know what? In the past year or two, knowledge payment has risen quietly. One of the leaders is Luo Pang, who founded this app. The core brand to get the app is its paid column, and there are currently 25, each with a price of 199 yuan.
Do you know how great Li Xiaolai is? He not only won the first place in column sales, but also left the second place far behind. In less than a year, he earned more than150,000 by this column. What is even more admirable is that he decided to donate all the income of the column. Because Li Xiaolai is the richest bitcoin in China, not bad at all.
Li Xiaolai's column is called The Road to Wealth and Freedom. What is wealth and freedom? In other words, you don't have to do things you don't like for the money you want to live.
But the road to wealth and freedom is not to teach you how to make money, but to teach you how to make yourself more valuable. What is more noteworthy is that Li Xiaolai did not stop at the level of "value", but went deep into the level of "personal growth" and changing the way of thinking.
Although it actually sells 199 yuan, I found it really worthwhile after subscribing myself. Because there is no such precious content in the book market now. How do you feel after reading hundreds of articles? It's like taking more than 30 classes on personal growth and wealth freedom at Harvard University. Therefore, this column is so cheap.
The Road to Wealth Freedom will not only give you some inspiration about personal growth and wealth freedom, but it will end. It upgrades your entire operating system-the basic way of thinking. If you have an eye, you will realize the great value of this column.
This is not a book about time management. Li Xiaolai emphasized that time can't be managed, and only you can manage it. This is a book about how to emancipate the mind and how to grow up. Particularly profound and valuable.
Although Li Xiaolai is not very famous. His sincerity and thinking ability can leave writers of the same type far behind.
A Douban netizen commented on "taking time as a friend":
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