1. "The Siege"

Author: Qian Zhongshu

Life is a siege, and marriage is a siege. If you rush in, you will be surrounded by all kinds of worries of survival. "Besieged City" is a "new "School of Foreign Studies" written by Qian Zhongshu. Qian Zhongshu described the life of a group of intellectuals with his free and humorous writing. The witty words in "Besieged City" are the most successful part of this novel, and it is also the most worthy of appreciation.

1. "The Art of Travel"

Author: [English] Alain De Botton

This book is like the perfect journey to teach us how to be curious, to think, to observe, and to renew our enthusiasm for life. What is travel, De Botton does not want to rush to provide an answer, why travel, De Botton does not seem to be eager to explore. But after the release of the volume, I believe that every reader will get an answer - this answer is both speculative and emotional, both hearty and indescribable, because it is more like an emotion, which is intoxicating rather than indescribable. Knowing that opening this book, you will embark on an extraordinary reading journey. The book is divided into five chapters: Departure, Motivation, Landscape, Art and Return. Through traveling to different places, it focuses on describing the author's psychological feelings, while reviewing history, through the life journey of Flaubert, Baudelaire and others As well as the analysis of the works, looking for the humanistic feelings in the travel places. Unlike general travel recommendations, this book does not have trivial matters such as packing your bags and problems to pay attention to during the journey. In this book, the author deliberately writes about travel as a spiritual experience rather than a physical rush. In the process of traveling in different places, there are also a lot of reviews of writers and artists who have lived here, recording the author's own spiritual journey.

1. "Where is the return journey"

Author: Li Yang

"Where is the Return Journey" is also a novel with very beautiful language. It adopts a unique prose culture and poetic language form. It describes the history of the spiritual transformation of contemporary young intellectuals and calls on contemporary young people to stick to their ideals in the collision of diverse values. and spiritual heights. The contradiction between ideal and reality is vividly expressed in beautiful language. In the novel, the author deliberately inherits and promotes traditional Chinese culture, especially the beauty, breadth and depth of traditional literature. In the face of the unstoppable fashion of Western learning to the east, the author raises the banner of "Eastern learning to the west" and tries to practice it with her novels. From the perspective of language alone, Li Yang's novel is unique in Chinese contemporary literary circles.

1. "One Hundred Years of Solitude"

Author: [Colombia] García Márquez

"One Hundred Years of Solitude" is a masterpiece of magical realism literature, depicting the legendary story of seven generations of the Buendía family, as well as the rise and fall of Macondo, a small town on the Caribbean coast, reflecting the changing history of Latin America over a century. . The work incorporates myths and legends, folk tales, religious allusions and other mysterious factors, and skillfully combines reality and fantasy, showing a magnificent imaginary world, becoming one of the most important classic literary masterpieces in the 20th century. García Márquez won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, establishing his status as a world-class literary master, largely due to the huge influence of "One Hundred Years of Solitude".

1. The Communication Bible

How to achieve fast reading and receive effective information

This book comprehensively shares "all-round communication skills such as listening, speaking, reading, writing, etc.", telling everyone that communication is not the same as speaking, and sometimes you are not competent, but lack the speaking skills. But the book's greatest help for writers is how it teaches you how to read. In the information age, the population will be gradually divided into interactive population and passive population. The former participates in knowledge production and creation, while the latter only receives information. Regardless of the population, the ability to receive information is critical. The improvement of reading speed and reading efficiency is precisely to improve the writer's ability to receive information efficiently. It starts from increasing reading speed and improving reading efficiency, and teaches you how to combine reading speed and efficiency. Find out your own reading flaws, so that you can clearly understand why others can do it with one eye and ten lines? So as to help you find the reading method that suits you by self-examination, and learn how to eat different books with different reading methods. While helping you to read, it enables you to quickly realize the efficient input of different types of knowledge, laying a solid foundation for the breadth and depth of your writing materials.