美国招生官告诉你假期该看什么书

2017-03-31 作者: 148阅读

假期总是那么让人期待,终于,暑假来了。不知道各位同学有什么安排呢?如果你喜欢待在家里,那么看书就是一件非常好的选择。看书能明智明理,能开阔眼界和思想。当然得看值得我们看的书才是。下面就是美国学校招生官给我们推荐的书籍名单,这对欲留学美国的同学很有帮助哦。

下面的书单是由Brennan Barnard编辑的,他是新罕布什尔州德瑞菲尔德学校的大学咨询负责人。他每年都会向各大大学招生官和中学咨询官寻求暑期阅读清单的建议,然后汇总起来。

Brennan Barnard说道:“一堆书堆在我的床边,夏天没有什么事能比阅读这些书更重要了。夏天是最好的时间来深入研究这些书,从这些书里发现你的兴趣所在。以下这些是书单中比较有代表性的。”

  大学录取: “Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be: An Antidoteto the College Admissions Mania” by Frank Bruni

  青少年的思维: “Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain” by DanSiegel

  灵感: “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t StopTalking” by Susan Cain

  自传: “The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid” by BillBryson

  小说: “Lake Wobegon Days” by Garrison Keillor

  探险: “Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living” by KristaTippett

  短篇小说: “Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls” by David Sedaris

  标准化考试准备: “Acing It! A Mindful Guide to Maximum Results on Your CollegeAdmissions Test” by Erika Oppenheimer

  以下是具体书单:

  推荐给家长:

  “Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls through the Seven Transitions intoAdulthood” by Lisa Damour

  “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity” by AndrewSolomon

  “Pressured Parents, Stressed Out Kids” by Wendy S.Grolnick, PhD. and Kathy Seal

  “Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis” by Robert D. Putnam

  “Age of Opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence” by LaurenceSteinberg

  “American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers” by Nancy JoSales

  “The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Survival Guide toRaising Adolescents and Young Adults” by Frances E.Jensen

  “How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap andPrepare Your Kid for Success” by Julie Lythcott-Haims

  “The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage andConfidence” by Rachel Simmons

  “The End of American Childhood” by Paula S. Fass

  “The Gift of Failure” by Jessica Lahey

  “Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through The Seven Transitions IntoAdulthood” by Lisa Damour, Ph.D.

  教育类书籍:

  “Heroic Leadership” by Chris Lowney

  “The Naked Roommate: And 107 Other Issues You Might Run Into inCollege” by Harlan Cohen

  “The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way” by BillBryson

  “Class and Campus Life” by Elizabeth M. Lee

  “Creating a Class” by Mitchell Stevens

  “Where Everybody Looks Like Me: At the Crossroads of America’s BlackColleges and Culture” by Ron Stodghill

  “The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less” by BarrySchwartz

  “U Chic, The College Girl’s Guide toEverything” by Christie Garton

  “Ungifted: Intelligence Redined: The truth about talent, practice,creativity, and the many paths to greatness” by Scott BarryKaufman

  “The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Goldat the 1936 Berlin Olympics” by Daniel James Brown

  “There Is Life After College: What Parents and Students Should KnowAbout Navigating School to Prepare for the Jobs of Tomorrow” by JfreyJ. Selingo

  “Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom” by LisaDelpit

  “Remaking College: Innovation and the Liberal Arts” by Editedby: Rebecca Chopp, Susan Frost, Daniel H. Weiss

  休闲和思想类:

  “The Art of Fielding” by Chad Harbach

  “Americanah” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  “Self and Soul: A Dense of Ideals” by Mark Edmundson

  “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  “Where Am I Wearing?” by Kelsey Timmerman

  “Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise” by AndresEricson and Robert Pool

  “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” by Ned Vizzini

  “Life on Purpose: How Living for What Matters Most Changes Everything” by VictorJ. Strecher

  “Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People” by MahzarinR. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald

  “The Nightingale” by Kristin Hannah

  “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe” by BenjaminAlire Sáenz

  “Grit: the Power of Passion and Perseverance” by AngelaDuckworth

  “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption” by BryanStevenson

  “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Happens in the End” by AtulGawande

  “David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of BattlingGiants” by Malcolm Gladwell

  “Creativity, Inc., Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand in the Wayof True Inspiration” by Ed Catmull

  “Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work (A StoryCorps Book)” by DaveIsay

  “All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr

  “Straight Man” by Richard Russo

  “City on Fire” by Garth Risk Hallberg

  “The Wright Brothers” by David McCullough

  “Forever: A Novel” by Pete Hamill

  “This Is your Brain on Sports: The Science of Underdogs, the Value ofRivalry, and What We Can Learn from the T-shirt Cannon” by L. JonWertheim and Sam Sommers

  “Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead” by SherylSandberg

  “Guyland: the Perilous World Where Boys Become Men” by MichaelKimmel

  “Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging” by Sebastian Junger


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