Reading List

中国在梁庄

Hong Liang

它戳破了过去，但未必能指向未来.

Kan Jian (看见)

Jing Chai

柴静在书中记录了她作为记者初出茅庐时感性怜悯，逐渐在新闻行业摸爬滚打中练就出铜唇铁舌，时常问得被采访人哑然，再到后来真正领悟到采访的意义不在于把看似邪恶的一方逼到墙角，另一方就大获全胜了。只有冷静地倾听和理解任何声音，才得以客观地拆解一个尖锐的社会矛盾，并讨论其背后隐藏的错综复杂的灰色地带。

书中调查过的被多次贩卖的贩毒卖淫女，常年忍受家暴的犯罪妇女，捍卫宪法权利的普通人民，虐杀动物的灰色产业，煤矿过度开采，从上至下被编造的假华南虎，农村留守儿童的成长，自然灾难中的人情，打压教育下长大的杀人高材生……这些一次次刺痛社会的新闻至今仍然屡见不鲜。

柴静说，我们都是时代的患者，做新闻就是病友间的相互探问。她记录下的不仅是特定时代下才长出的症结，而是寻求真理的过程，独立思考的能力，和记录真实的勇气。

这是一名中国记者的成长史，更是中国社会的一剂良药。良药苦口。

2026.05.22

Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City

Fang Fang

Wuhan Diary is a quiet yet piercing record of life under lockdown that reminded me how truth, dignity, and small acts of care matter most in a crisis.

法制的细节

Xiang Luo

It made me realize that justice is built through countless small procedures and boundaries—and it pushed me to value due process as much as outcomes.

The Vegetarian (素食者)

Han Kang

It is an unsettling, poetic story that made me reflect on autonomy and silence—and how refusing to conform can become both a rebellion and a tragedy.

Big River, Big Sea — Untold Stories of 1949 (大江大海一九四九)

Ying-tai Lung

Ying-tai Lung reframed history for me as a collection of ordinary lives caught in extraordinary upheaval, leaving me with a deeper empathy for those who carried the cost of that era.

The Three-Body Problem (三体)

Cixin Liu

The Three-Body Problem expanded my imagination about civilization and survival, and it left me thinking that the most terrifying distance in the universe is often the gap in trust between intelligent beings.

The Crescent Moon

Rabindranath Tagore

The Crescent Moon captures a quiet, lyrical longing that made me reflect on how faith, love, and everyday resilience can coexist within uncertainty.

Stray Birds

Rabindranath Tagore

Stray Birds is a collection of tiny, luminous thoughts that reminded me to slow down and notice how the smallest moments can carry the deepest meaning.

Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise (房思琪的初恋乐园)

Yi-han Lin

Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise is a devastating read that forced me to confront how power can distort “love,” and it left me with a lasting commitment to listen, believe, and protect.

North Kanto Serial Kidnappings and Murders (足利女童连续失踪事件)

Kiyoshi Shimizu

This is a chilling reminder that a society’s safety depends not only on solving crimes, but on protecting the vulnerable and insisting on truth and accountability.

Counselling for Toads: A Psychological Adventure (蛤蟆先生去看心理医生)

Robert de Board

Counselling for Toads is a warm, accessible introduction to therapy that reminded me healing starts with naming feelings honestly—and that growth often comes from gentle self-understanding rather than self-blame.

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Little Prince reminded me that what truly matters is often invisible at first glance, and it encouraged me to protect curiosity, tenderness, and responsibility in adult life.

A Thousand Splendid Suns (灿烂千阳)

Khaled Hosseini

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a heartbreaking yet hopeful story that deepened my empathy for women’s resilience, and it left me believing that love and solidarity can survive even the harshest injustice.

The Kite Runner (追风筝的人)

Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner made me reflect on how guilt and loyalty shape a life, and it reminded me that redemption begins when we choose to face the past with courage and responsibility.