The days are longer, the pace is slower, and the air is full of possibilities: There are picnics to have, trips to take, friends to meet, and –– for some of us, anyway — piles of books we have been saving for just the right lazy afternoon.
“
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
”
– Ernest Hemingway
Or, if you plan to read yet have no idea what to read, why not take a look at
What Are Pekingers Reading?
The most popular books in Chinese
1
Tax Reform of BT-VAT, Great Era of Tax Reform for Replacing Business Tax with Value-added Tax — Policy Analysis and Solutions
《营改增的大时代——政策透析与解决方案》
By Hao Longhang and Wang Jun
2
1Q84
[BOOK2]
By Haruki Murakami
3
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
《家庭、私有制和国家的起源》
By Friedrich Engels
The most popular books in English
1
Morse Theory: Smooth and Discrete
By Kevin P. Knudson
2
Die Bibel
By Katholisches Bibelwerk
3
Introductory Economics: A Modern Approach
By Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
The Most Popular
Faculty-recommended Book
Democracy in America
《论美国的民主》
By Alexis de Tocqueville
The Most Popular Fiction
The book Fantastic Night in the PKU Library
The book Norwegian Wood in the PKU Library
Clearly and interestingly, our young women and young men have different reading preferences.
The authors that female readers like the most:
The authors that male readers like the most:
All the above reading habits are based on the analysis of the 1,482,313 visits that Pekingers paid to Peking University Library and their 2,144,520 page visits to their website last year, according to the library's Reading Report of Peking University 2017.
The books that Pekingers are reading cover a wide range of genres and topics, from economics to history, from academic to fiction… What do you think of them? Which books are you reading recently? Which book would you recommend us to read? Share your recommendation with us through comments!
It is never too late to learn, and it is better to start right now. Summer is coming, what will you be reading?