1. Art of Travel

1. 分享自己最精选书单【五本书】 FIVE BOOKS YOU MUST READ BEFORE YOU QUIT [either reading or life]

《红楼梦》前八十回 曹雪芹

虽然不是英文著作，但是走到美国突然想寻找自己的文化之根的时候，可以记得这本中文文学的巅峰。

War and Peace Leo Tolstoy

真是一本沉重的大书（这么沉重绝对是Oscar的锅，都要“before you quit life”了）（托尔斯泰一开始是想写短篇的）不过作为一个名副其实的“大部头”，百川纳海，世态炎凉，尽收书中，实际上是挺容易看进去的，也是可以看得很酣畅淋漓的

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“密林深处，静谧的晨辉中，矗立着一艘沾满尘土的白色西班牙大帆船……远征队员们小心翼翼地查看了船体内部，里面空无一物，除了一片茂密的花丛。”

Towards a New Architecture Le Corbusier (or) Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture 

夹带私货！可以二选一，了解对当代建筑，城市与生活影响深远的现代主义运动

River Town by Peter Hessler 

不可多得的非虚构写作佳作。从独特的角度了解当代中国的变迁。

2. What reading means to me？——吴凯风

I confess that, as a designer, photographer, and architecture student, I’m a disciple of visual storytelling, of its intimacy and richness. However, I must admit: written language is perhaps humanity’s most important invention. It remains, even in this digital age, the most commonly used and readily available medium for information, both for creation and consumption. Throughout the human history, generations with chisels, quills, brushes, pencils, pens and keyboards have added to this medium and crafted it to its absolute perfection. Nothing can be so clear yet so ambiguous, so electrifying yet so tender, so grand yet so profound – nothing except language, which encompasses all human indecency and all human triumph; all human knowledge and all human emotions. What languages lack in vividness, we make up with imagination in abundance. Literature. Poetry. The written language is the founding stone upon which our civilizations are carved. Reading is a conversation with humanity - all we have ever done, knew, and felt.

2. What does reading mean to me? ——王炳轩

Reading is the best way I know to transform a provincial existence into a more universal one, and an accidental existence into a more valid one. 

3. 推荐江博读书会文学/自然科学/社会科学大书单:

文学书单建议增加

书名 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

自然科学书单推荐

书名 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn 

社会或人文书单推荐      

书名 Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk