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First-person account: Why I'm a man when it comes to books

By Yang Yang (chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2016-04-22 10:03

First-person account: Why I'm a man when it comes to books

A customer uses a Kindle table device at the Amazon bookstore in Seattle, the United States. GETTY IMAGES

Professor Chen's three suggestions to readers.

College students should read more books that are less useful than textbooks and academic materials, like literature to broaden your view of the world.

Reading should be a habit that runs through your life, instead of a performance art that takes place only in April.

Read less bestsellers, less self-help books, but books that are good and less known.

The following are the bestsellers on Amazon in the first quarter of 2016. Which ones have you read?

 

Top 10 Bestselling Print Books on Amazon in the first quarter of 2016

The Storied Life of A K Fikry

Unworried Store

The Willpower Instinct

Everything I Never Told You

So Slow, So Beautiful

Genius on the Left, Lunatic on the Right

Spark English: Exercises for College English Test Band 4

Passing by Your Whole World

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

The Kite Runner

 

Top 10 Bestselling Kindle Books on Amazon in the first quarter of 2016

Unworried Store

What Life Should Mean to You

The Shortest History of Europe

Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Collection

General History of China

Everything I Never Told You

It Never Occurs to Me: How to Understand the World in Scientific and Engineering Thinking

Guai, Mo Mo Tou (There There, Touch the Head)

 

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