斯坦福大学2018新生暑期书单
“三本书”计划是斯坦福大学新生入学指导的一部分。斯坦福大学的管理者们希望同学们能够对世界上的复杂问题进行批判性的思考，从而自2004年起发布了“The Three Books”项目 ，三本书计划－每个暑假都会列出三本他们认为整个新生社区都应该阅读与讨论的书籍。随后，学校还会在迎新周期间组织同学们与各位作者进行圆桌讨论，听取他们的观点。
In 2004, they entered into a terrifying tale of good people caught up in events beyond their control. Brother, I’m Dying is an astonishing true-life epic, told on an intimate scale by one of our finest writers.
Every kid in Lola’s school was from somewhere else.
Hers was a school of faraway places.
So when Lola’s teacher asks the students to draw a picture of where their families immigrated from, all the kids are excited. Except Lola. She can’t remember The Island—she left when she was just a baby. But with the help of her family and friends, and their memories—joyous, fantastical, heartbreaking, and frightening—Lola’s imagination takes her on an extraordinary journey back to The Island. As she draws closer to the heart of her family’s story, Lola comes to understand the truth of her abuela’s words: “Just because you don’t remember a place doesn’t mean it’s not in you.”
Gloriously illustrated and lyrically written, Islandborn is a celebration of creativity, diversity, and our imagination’s boundless ability to connect us—to our families, to our past and to ourselves.
Traversing this lonely territory is Makina, a young woman who knows only too well how to survive in a violent, macho world. Leaving behind her life in Mexico to search for her brother, she is smuggled into the USA carrying a pair of secret messages – one from her mother and one from the Mexican underworld.
Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing
Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones
2016- Elizabeth Tallent, Professor of English
NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names
Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell
Justin Torres, We the Animals
2015- John Hennessy, President of Stanford University
Walter Isaacson, The Innovators
Tobias Wolff, This Boy’s Life
Lalita Tademy, Cane River
2014- Persis Drell, Dean of the School of Engineering and Professor of Physics
Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
Richard A. Muller, Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines
Lauren Redniss, Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout
2013- Nicholas Jenkins, Associate Professor of English
Arlie Russell Hochschild, The Outsourced Self
Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding
Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father
2012- Mark Applebaum, Associate Professor of Music
Michael Kimmelman, “My Kid Could Paint That”
Chuck Klosterman, Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural Nörth Daköta
Ge Wang, Smule
2011- Scott Sagan, Professor of Political Science
Geraldine Brooks, March
Stephen Carter, The Violence of Peace: America’s Wars in the Age of Obama
Nathaniel Fick, One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
2010- Debra Satz, Professor of Philosophy
Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Tracy Kidder, Strength in What Remains
Joyce Carol Oates, The Undesirable Table (From the collection “Will You Always Love Me?”)
2009- Harry Elam, Professor of Drama, and Michele Elam, Professor of English and Program in African and African American Studies
Lan Samantha Chang, Hunger
Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers
Abraham Verghese, My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story
2008- Andrea Lunsford, Professor of English
Lynda Barry, One Hundred Demons
Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
ZZ Packer, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
2007- Kenneth Fields, Professor of English
Lucille Clifton, Good Woman
N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain
Nancy Packer, Jealous Hearted Me
2006- Tobias Wolff, Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor of English
Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains
Julie Orringer, How to Breathe Underwater
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
2005- Hazel Markus, Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences
David Henry Hwang, M Butterfly
Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
Tobias Wolff, Old School
2004- Steven J. Zipperstein, Faculty Director of Undergraduate Advising
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
Richard Rodriguez, Brown
Danzy Senna, Caucasia
