用一本好书解锁孩子的批判性思维与语言潜能！普林斯顿大学、哈佛大学、斯坦福大学、麻省理工学院 2025 暑期阅读书单年度更新！这个暑假，让孩子和顶尖名校教授共读同一本书，自然提升英语素养，培养受益终身的深度阅读力。
无论同学们是打算外出度假还是居家休息，随身携带一本好书，你都会有新收获！下面就和机构一起来看看具体书目包括哪些吧？
普林斯顿大学
资料来源：
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2025/06/27/summer-reads-2025-princeton-professors-share-whats-their-lists
六位普林斯顿大学教授谈论他们最喜欢的书籍，并分享他们的暑期阅读书单——小说、传记和回忆录、幻想小说、历史等等。
1推荐人：Yelena Baraz
最喜爱的一本书：
The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus by Paul Zanker
暑期阅读书：
The Eighth Life by Georgian writer Nino Haratischvili
Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang
Parade by British novelist Rachel Cusk
The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare by Lynn Enterline
Tiberius and His Age: Myth, Sex, Luxury, and Power by Edward Champlin
2推荐人：John Brooks
最喜爱的一本书：
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
暑期阅读书：
The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
3推荐人：Yiyun Li
最喜爱的一本书：
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
暑期阅读书：
“Moby-Dick” and “War and Peace”
The Book Against Death by Elias Canetti
George Sand: A Biography by Curtis Cate
A Truce That Is Not Peace by Miriam Toews
The Entire Body of Work by Camus
4推荐人：Stephen Macedo
最喜爱的一本书：
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam by Barbara Tuchman
暑期阅读书：
An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions by David Zweig
The Weaponization of Expertise: How 机构s Fuel Populism by Jacob Hale Russell and Dennis Patterson
Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson
The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics by Jefferson Cowie
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by H.W. Brands
5推荐人：Arvind Narayanan
最喜爱的一本书：
The Politics of Evidence: From Evidence-Based Policy to the Good Governance of Evidence by Justin Parkhurst
暑期阅读书：
Lovely One by Ketanji Brown Jackson
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality by Renée DiResta
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI by Karen Hao
More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity by Adam Becker
6推荐人：Sara S. Poor
最喜爱的一本书：
Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard by Doug Tallamy
暑期阅读书：
Borne by the River: Canoeing the Delaware from Headwaters to Home by Rick Van Noy
There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader and the World of English Peasants Before the Plague by Judith Bennett
A Poisoned Past: The Life and Times of Margarida de Portu, a Fourteenth-Century Accused Poisoner by Steven Bednarski
Nails in the Wall: Catholic Nuns in Reformation Germany by Amy Leonard
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer
Johannes Gutenberg: A Biography in Books by Eric Marshall White
哈佛大学
资料来源：
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/06/need-a-good-summer-read/
哈佛图书馆工作人员分享了他们的“心头好”书籍！
1虚构
If We Were Villains
by M.L. Rio
Where the Forest Meets the Stars
by Glendy Vanderah
7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy!
by Touko Amekawa
Summer
by Edith Wharton
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
Enter Ghost
by Isabella Hammad
The MANIAC
by Benjamín Labatut
The Memory Police
by Yōko Ogawa
2奇幻
The Teller of Small Fortunes
by Julie Leong
Gifted & Talented
by Olivie Blake
Shark Heart: A Love Story
by Emily Habeck
Wild Magic
by Tamora Pierce
A Sorceress Comes to Call
by T. Kingfisher
3回忆录
With Darkness Came Stars: A Memoir
by Audrey Flack
The Yellow House
by Sarah M. Broom
Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
by Kathleen Hanna
There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
by Hanif Abdurraqib
No. 91/92: A Diary of a Year on the Bus
by Lauren Elkin
Happiness Becomes You: A Guide to Changing Your Life for Good
by Tina Turner
4非虚构
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
by Malcolm Harris
We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience
by Lyndsey Stonebridge
Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard
by Douglas W. Tallamy
Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyrights and Wrongs
by David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
by Henry Grabar
Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power
by Leah Redmond Chang
斯坦福大学
资料来源：
https://stanfordmag.org/contents/what-to-read-this-summer-2025
斯坦福的暑期阅读书目由一位时装设计师、一位填字游戏大师和一位水球冠军教练等人来推荐。
1非虚构
Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson by Claire Hoffman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2025)
Advocate: A Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental Justice by Eddie Ahn, Ten Speed Graphic (2024)
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker, Riverhead Books (2020)
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin, Viking (1987)
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, Beacon Press (1959)
2虚构
Chaotic Energy by Stephanie Yeboah, Trapeze (2025)
The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin, Viking Books for Young Readers (2024)
The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi, ’80, Mira Books (2020)
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough, Harper & Row (1977)
麻省理工学院
资料来源：
https://news.mit.edu/2025/summer-reading-from-mit-0626
暑期是读一本好书的最佳时节。麻省理工学院的作家们在过去一年里恭喜拿了不少佳作。以下是麻省理工学院教职员工在过去 12 个月里出版的部分书籍。
1科学类
So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs — and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease
By Thomas Levenson
The Miraculous from the Material: Understanding the Wonders of Nature
By Alan Lightman
2科技和社会类
The Analytics Edge in Healthcare
By Dimitris Bertsimas
Longevity Hubs: Regional Innovation for Global Aging
Edited by Joseph F. Coughlin
Data, Systems, and Society: Harnessing AI for Societal Good
By Munther Dahleh
SuperShifts: Transforming How We Live, Learn, and Work in the Age of Intelligence
By Ja-Naé Duane
Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World’s Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation
By Greg Epstein
The New Lunar Society: An Enlightenment Guide to the Next Industrial Revolution
By David Mindell
Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023
Edited by Nick Montfort
3教育，工作和创新
Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You
By Lotte Bailyn
Accelerating Innovation: Competitive Advantage through Ecosystem Engagement
By Phil Budden
Writing, Thinking, and the Brain: How Neuroscience Can Improve Writing Instruction
By Jovi R. S. Nazareno
Entrepreneurship: Choice and Strategy
By Erin L. Scott
Failure by Design: The California Energy Crisis and the Limits of Market Planning
By Georg Rilinger
4文化，人类和社会科学
Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript: Speculation, Shapes, Delight
By Arthur Bahr
Taxation and Resentment: Race, Party, and Class in American Tax Attitudes
By Andrea Campbell
Uprooted: How post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe
By Volha Charnysh
Crime, Insecurity, and Community Policing: Experiments on Building Trust
By Fotini Christia
Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter
By Jana Dambrogio
Long-Term Care around the World
Edited by Jonathan Gruber
Empty Vessel: The Global Economy in One Barge
By Ian Kumekawa
The Price of Our Values: The Economic Limits of Moral Life
By David Thesmar
Spheres of Injustice: The Ethical Promise of Minority Presence
By Bruno Perreau
Attention, Shoppers! American Retail Capitalism and the Origins of the Amazon Economy
By Kathleen Thelen
Routledge Handbook of Space Policy
Chapter by Danielle R. Wood
Victorian Parlour Games: A Modern Host’s Guide to Classic Fun for Everyone
By Ned Wolfe
5艺术，建筑，计划和设计
Against Reason: Tony Smith, Sculpture, and Other Modernisms
Chapter by Judith Barry
Steina
Edited by Natalie Bell
Jewish Theatrical Resources: A Guide for Theaters Producing Jewish Work
Chapter by Marissa Friedman
Play It Again, Sam: Repetition in the Arts
By Samuel Jay Keyser
The Moving Image: A User’s Manual
By Peter B. Kaufman
Beyond Ruins: Reimagining Modernism
Edited by Raafat Majzoub SM ’17
The Equitably Resilient City: Solidarities and Struggles in the Face of Climate Crisis
By Lawrence J. Vale
6小说和传记
The Novice of Thanatos: An Epic Dark Fantasy of Horror, Death, and Necromancy
By Scott Austin Tirrell
7对年轻的读者
I Love You Bigger Than Everything That’s Big
By Lindsay Bartholomew
A Century for Caroline
By Kaija Langley
All the Rocks We Love
By Taylor Perron
以上就是普林斯顿、哈佛、斯坦福、MIT 的暑期书单。通过阅读这些书单，可以为 Class OF 2029 届新生提前注入学术文化基因，无缝衔接大学节奏；也能够为规划申请期的学生深度解码目标大学价值观，同步淬炼语言素养。阅读写作能力的培养不是一朝一夕的，需要同学们潜心沉淀，不断输入&输出。这样才能在申请季写文书的时候得心应手。
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