书籍是可随身携带的世界，

即使寸步不行，

也能体会诗与远方。

今天Vicky给童鞋们推荐

一些世界名人学霸怒赞的英文原著，

让我们一起见识这大千世界的智慧吧！

段子手总统奥巴马推荐：

阅读成就了我，再忙也会抽空读书

The Sixth Extinction—Elizabeth Kolbert 
《第六次灭绝》 伊丽莎白•科尔伯特 

生命极为坚韧，却非永远如此

A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes.

In The Sixth Extinction,she introduces us to a dozen species,some already gone,others facing extinction,including the Panamian golden frog, staghorn coral,the great auk,and the Sumatran rhino.

Through these stories, Kolbert provides a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept,from its firstarticulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up through the present day. The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy; as Kolbert observes,itcompels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.

简介：

（以下简介部分整理自网络）

《纽约客》记者伊丽莎白•科尔伯特以最新锐的生态观点向大家揭示了世界正在进行中的物种大灭绝事件。

该书共有十三个故事有。前几个故事所涉及的美洲乳齿象、大海雀还有菊石已经灭绝了，这一部分主要介绍远古的大灭绝及其曲折的发现过程。第二部分主要讲述了七种濒危生物，以此来探讨地球环境的变迁与人类的处境。

随着故事的推进，作者使读者渐渐意识到：当前发生的这一轮大灭绝，源头就在人类自己身上，人类不仅是起因，而且本身也是受害者。阅读《第六次大灭绝》时，你会觉得既生动有趣又触目惊心。

All The Light We Cannot See—Anthony Doerr 

《所有我们看不见的光》安东尼•多尔

黑暗中的勇气是最强的那道光

From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr,the beautiful,stunninglyambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.

Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve,the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo,where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel......

简介：

法国少女玛丽洛尔生活在巴黎，幼年失明后，父亲保护她、训练她，鼓励她勇敢生活下去。1940年，德国入侵，她被迫离家，不久又与父亲骨肉分离，以瘦削的肩膀抵抗纳粹暴政。

德国少年维尔纳从小失去双亲，与妹妹在矿区孤儿院相依为命。一心想摆脱底层命运的他，凭借无线电天赋跻身纳粹精英学校，本以为是命运的转折，不料却跌入另一个地狱。

战争碾碎了他们的希望，两个陌生人的生命轨迹也意外交汇。当平静的生活成为不可企及的黑暗之光，他们是否有勇气，在死之前，活出生机？

The Lowland—Jhumpa Lahiri 
《低地》裘帕•拉希莉

命运如此这般剪不断理还乱

Two brothers bound by tragedy; a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past; a country torn by revolution: the Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times best-selling author gives us a powerful new novel--set in both India and America--that explores the price of idealism and a love that can last long past death.

简介：

《低地》讲述的是一个历史悠久的家族的故事：一对兄弟截然不同的悲惨命运，一位受过去所困的优秀女性，一个被革命分裂的国家，一段经受死亡考验的爱情。作为普利策奖得主和《纽约时报》畅销书作者，拉希莉在书中描述了从上世纪60年代到现在，从印度到美国，几代人的纠葛。

物理至尊爱因斯坦推荐：

在所阅读的书本中找出可以把自己引到深处的东西，把其他一切统统抛掉，就是抛掉使头脑负担过重和会把自己诱离要点的一切。

“Don Quijote”—Cervantes Saavedra 
《堂·吉诃德》塞万提斯·萨维德拉著

戏剧是人生的镜子

精彩节选：

I wish to follow the past , 

beyond the real knights' steps

in the sleepy wild,

on the neck of the horse.

我愿意跟随那些过往的真正骑士的脚步

在沉沉入睡的荒野中——

信马漫步。

This is of the best allegorical novels to explain the fractured nature of 19th century Russia. Each character is representative of one of the ruling classes. 

There is the father Fyodor, the landowner who is negligent about his land, but greedy in using its produce for himself. There's Dmitri, who has been passed around from house to house. There's the skeptic Ivan, who wishes to live more among cold concepts than people. And gentle Alyosha, the mystic and religious peacemaker, and the illegitimate Smerdyakov. 

Throughout are themes of love, law, and duty, which makes this one of the best Dostoyesky books to read besides Crime and Punishment. 

简介：

这是最棒的讽喻小说之一，阐释了19世纪俄国社会的阶级对立。每一个人物都代表了统治阶级的一员。

小说通过一桩真实的弑父案，描写老卡拉马佐夫同三个儿子即两代人之间的尖锐冲突。老卡拉马佐夫贪婪好色，独占妻子留给儿子们的遗产，并与长子德米特里为一个风流女子争风吃醋。一天黑夜，德米特里疑心自己的情人去跟老头儿幽会，便闯入家园，一怒之下，差点儿把老头儿砸死。他仓皇逃离后，躲在暗中装病的老卡拉马佐夫的私生子斯乜尔加科夫，悄然杀死老爷，造成了一桩震惊全俄的扑朔迷离的血案，从而引发了一连串惊心动魄的事件。作品展示一个错综复杂的社会家庭、道德和人性的悲剧主题，这使其成为陀思妥耶夫斯基《罪与罚》之外最值得一读的书。

 苹果之父乔布斯推荐：

我们在阅读中窃取他人的奇思妙想，并且从不羞愧。

"Moby Dick" — Herman Melville 
《白鲸》赫尔曼·梅尔维尔

我叫得越响亮，我的灵魂就越畏惧。

精选名句：

1.The great man, the sudden accumulation of deep pain, often equal to the ordinary people throughout their lives through all the pain.

伟大人物，刹那间所积起的深重痛苦，往往等于常人终其一生所经历的全部平淡痛苦。

2.The world of those unbelievable things are silently out of the sound is not sincere, deepest memory is no tombstone form.

人间那些不可思议的事都是默默的进行的，喧哗者不真诚，最深挚的怀念也是没有墓碑的形式的。

3.Everything in the world, the noble seems to have some melancholy quality.

世间万物，凡高贵者似乎都有些忧郁的品质。

4.Perhaps darkness is the essence of our human existence, so if you don't close your eyes, you will always have a false feeling.

大概黑暗是我们人类的本质的存在方式吧，所以你不闭上眼睛便永远有一种虚假的感觉。

5.The real place is never on the map.

真实的地方是从来不登上地图的。

6.How much happiness you have to bear, how much happiness you will experience how much happiness.

你享受多少幸福就要承受多少不幸，你经历多少不幸必将会得到多少幸福。

This work tells the story of an extremely cunning and fearsome whale which becomes the focus of fear and superstition among its pursuers. The one-legged Captain Ahab of the whaler Pequod takes the reader deeper and deeper into the realm of obsessive revenge and monomania.

简介：

这本杰作讲的是一条令人捉摸不透的、极具破坏性，以摧毁捕鲸船为乐的白鲸以及它的疯狂追捕者亚哈船长的故事。

亚哈船长对于自己失去的腿和船有着强烈的复仇欲望，这全是拜白鲸所赐。他的外形古怪，摇摇晃晃地用他那取材自鲸鱼颚骨的腿驾驶着船只，根据一位鱼叉船员预言般的喃喃自语搜寻着白鲸的下落。作者通过描述将读者带到了一个令人神魂颠倒的神话中，探寻着善与恶甚至是疯狂的本质。

"Be here now" —Ram Dass 
《活在当下》拉姆·达斯

自我探索是最瑰奇的冒险

As one of the most respected spiritual explorers of recent times, Ram Dass sparked a revolution with the publication of his 2-million-copy classic, Be Here Now. Since then, he has been a beacon for spiritual seekers worldwide, challenging us to find new sources of meaning and purpose in our lives. 

This illustrated guide to Yoga was made popular in the 1970's, and truly lives up to its name. From psychedelic experimentation, to the path of inner discipline, Ram Dass explains why living in the present moment is an all-powerful spiritual concept. Steve Jobs thought it a profound work. 

简介：

作为当代最受尊敬的精神探索家，拉姆·达斯通过出版该书掀起了一场心灵革命。20世纪70年代，配有插图的瑜伽书籍变得流行起来，这也无愧于它的名字。从迷幻的实验过程到内心的自我管理，拉姆·达斯阐述了为何活在当下是一个全能的精神概念，并鼓舞世界的人们追寻生活的全新意义和人生目的。乔布斯认为这是一本深刻的书籍。

"Only the Paranoid Survive"—Andrew S. Grove 
《只有偏执狂才能生存》安迪·格鲁夫

在偏执狂眼中，危机即生机

精彩书评：

"This book is about one super-important concept. You must learn about Strategic Inflection Points, because sooner or later you are going to live through one."                 

—STEVE JOBS

这本书阐述了一个极其重要的概念，你必须了解什么是战略转折点，因为早晚你都会遇到一次那样的时刻。

——史蒂夫·乔布斯

In only the Paranoid Survive, Grove reveals his strategy of focusing on a new way of measuring the nightmare moment every leader dreads——when massive change occurs and a company must，virtually overnight adapt or fall by the wayside．Grove calls such a moment a Strategic Inflection Point，which can be set off by almost anything:mega-competition, a change in regulations, or a seemingly modest change in technology. When a Strategic Inflection Point hits, the ordinary rules of business go out the window. Yet man-aged right, a Strategic Inflection Point can be and opportunity to win in the marketplace and emerge stronger than ever. Grove underscores his message by examining his own record of success and failure, including how he navigated the events of the Pentium flaw, which threatened Intel's reputation in 1994, and how he has dealt with the explosions in growth of the Internet. The work of a lifetime, Only the Paranoid Survive is a classic of managerial and leadership skills.

简介：

格鲁夫在该书中揭示了他在处理每个领导都会面临的噩梦时刻——即重大改变发生，公司的成败就在一夜之间时的新策略。格鲁夫将这样的时刻称为战略转折点。

格鲁夫通过回顾自己领导公司时成功与失败的案例，强调了及时适应企业改变的必要性。这些案例包括处理1994年威胁到英特尔声誉的“奔腾处理器瑕疵事件”以及应对互联网膨胀发展的情况。

作为一生经历的总结，该书堪称管理和领导技能领域的经典之作。据《华尔街日报》报道，这本书是教练吉姆·哈伯给足球队——旧金山49人队最爱的手册之一。

世界首富比尔·盖茨推荐：

这些书要么能让我认真思考要么能让我放声大笑，有时两者兼有。

What If?-Randall Munroe.

《如果的事》兰达尔·门罗

脑洞有多大，答案就有多奇葩

From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.

Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following.

Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last?

The book features new and never-before-answered questions, along with updated and expanded versions of the most popular answers from the xkcd website. What If? will be required reading for xkcd fans and anyone who loves to ponder the hypothetical.

简介：

该书作者是著名的网络漫画XKCD的创作者，这本书的副标题是“对荒谬的假设性问题作出的十分科学性的解答”，的确如此。XKCD的粉丝们给门罗提出的问题涵盖了科学的各个范围：物理学，化学，生物学。提到的问题不仅新奇而且以前从未有人解答过，比如说，“烹饪牛排的时候需要抛多高才合适？”，而作者给出的答案更是有趣，即“高到在牛排落回锅里摔成碎肉之前的高度。”

虽然门罗的解答很风趣，但其中所蕴含的科学很准确。这本书不仅使你感到愉悦，同时还能学到些东西，比如说，弹道学，DNA，海洋，以及大气层等。如果你热衷于猜想和假设，这本书不容错过。

Hyperbole and a Half—Allie Brosh.

《夸张和一半》阿莉·布洛什

傻X青年欢乐多

The book, based on Brosh’s wildly popular website, consists of brief vignettes and comic drawings about her young life. The adventures she recounts are mostly inside her head, where we hear and see the kind of inner thoughts most of us are too timid to let out in public.

You will rip through it in three hours, tops. But you’ll wish it went on longer, because it’s funny and smart as hell.

简介：

这本书的写作基础来源于布洛什十分受欢迎的网站，上面有大量简短的插画和滑稽的漫画，描述的是她早年的生活。她所叙述的故事大多都是刻在她脑海里的，从中我们能听到并明白她的内心想法。而这一点，我们大多数人往往过于羞涩而不敢将自己的内心想法向外界宣泄。

这本书，最多三个小时你就能读完。但你会希望它再多讲一些，因为这本书写得既幽默风趣又富有智慧。

各位小伙伴，

有木有钟意哪一本书呢?

趁着春暖花开，

捧起一本好书吧，

做个始于颜值，

陷于才华的考鸭！