香港尖子生的暑假必看書單 — 最受長春藤及牛劍取錄生歡迎的書籍

「學術延伸活動（Super-curriculars）」指學生為深化專業認知而在課堂外進行的學習實踐。暑假期間作為學業空檔，正是提升此類活動成效的理想時段，其中針對性的專業閱讀乃是最具實效的準備途徑。

閱讀作為核心學術能力，直接影響大學階段的學習成效。研究數據明確顯示，學生的閱讀理解水平與其學術表現呈顯著正相關。在申請準備階段建立的系統性閱讀習慣，不僅能擴充專業知識儲備，更能培養高等教育必需的學術文本處理技巧。

除了為將來的課程做好準備，你的閱讀經歷更是強化申請材料的重要環節。許多頂尖學校都會要求申請者列舉自己最喜歡的書籍。例如普林斯頓大學要求學生在申請時提供他們最喜愛的書籍清單，而哥倫比亞大學則有一個單獨的部分讓申請者寫下他們在夏季和全年閱讀的書籍，以及常閱讀的出版物。

你可以從這個基礎列表開始，根據有意申請學科與院校特色，建立階梯式閱讀架構：先掌握核心學術經典，再延伸至跨領域研究。如此規劃既能展現學術視野的廣度與深度，亦能突顯主動探索的學術潛力。

閱讀目錄應由反映你學術興趣的著作組成，讓你能夠在學校課程範圍之外發展對該學科的理解。除了幫助你跟上該學科內的重要或熱門話題，這也是展示你在該學科及其相關主題中深化知識的熱情和主動性的機會。

Crimson 的申請專家為香港學生制定了以下的清單！

STEM 推薦書目

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - R Skloot
• Other Minds - P Godfrey-Smith
• Mutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body - AM Leroi
• The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets - S Singh
• Fermat's Last Theorem - S Singh
• The Man Who Knew Infinity - R Kanigel
• Hidden Unity in Nature's Law - JC Taylor
• The Cosmic Onion - F Close
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman - Richard Feynman
• Computational Fairy Tales - Jeremy Kubica
• Out of Their Minds - D Shasha and Cathy Lazere

經濟與商業推薦書目

• 23 Things They Don't Teach You about Capitalism - Ha-Joon Chang
• Predictably Irrational - D Ariely
• Nudge - C Susstein and R Thaler
• The White Man's Burden - W Easterly
• The Bottom Billion - P Collier
• The End of Alchemy - M King
• Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
• Nudge - Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler
• Freakonomics - Dubner and Levitt
• Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
• Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World - Anand Giridharadas
• End This Depression Now!
• This Changes Everything Capitalism vs the Climate
• Monetary Policy and International Capital Flows
• The Finance Curse - Nicholas Shaxson
• Nine Crises: Fifty Years of Covering the British Economy from Devaluation to Brexit
• Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life

哲學推薦書目

• Introduction to Political Philosophy - R Wolff
• Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong - JL Mackie
• Utilitarianism: For and Against - JC Smart
• On Liberty - JS Mill
• Think by Simon Blackburn
• The Rise of Consciousness - Oliver Sacks. Or literally any other book by Oliver Sacks.
• To Float in the Space Between - Terrance Hayes
• Problems of Philosophy, Bertrand Russell
• The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir
• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; A Treatise of Human Nature - David Hume
• Meditations - Descartes
• Existentialism is a Humanism - Sartre
• The Republic - Plato
• The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
• The Female Persuasion - Meg Wolitzer
• Bluets - Maggie Nelson
• Behold, America: The Entangled History of America First and the American Dream - Sarah Churchwell
• Concepts of Consciousness - Ned Block

醫學與生物醫學推薦書目

• Being Mortal - A Gawunde
• This is Going to Hurt - A Kay
• When Breath Becomes Air - P Kalanithi
• Unnatural Causes - R Shepherd
• The Medici Effect -Frans Johansson
• Life at the Extremes - F Ashcroft
• The Man who mistook his Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks
• The Rise of Consciousness - Oliver Sacks

法律推薦書目

• Landmarks in the Law - A Denning
• The Discipline of Law - A Denning
• Five Ideas to Fight For - A Lester
• Invitation to Law - AW Simpson
• Whiteness as Property - C Harris
• Eve was Framed - H Kennedy
• Letters to a Law Student - Nicholas J. McBride
• The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court - Jeffrey Toobin
• Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism - Mahmood Mamdani

社會科學推薦書目

• AI Superpowers – Kai-Fu Lee
• The Everything Store – Brad Stone
• Originals: How Non-Conformists Move The World - Adam Grant
• American Like Me - America Ferrera
• On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
• The Welfare of Nations
• The Great Transformation

工程與物理推薦書目

• How Do Wings Work? - Holger Babinsky
• Structures – or Why Things Don't Fall Down - J.E. Gordon
• The Gecko's Foot: How Scientists are Taking a Leaf from Nature's Book - Peter Forbes
• Feynman Lectures on Physics

數學與統計推薦書目

• A Russian Childhood - S. Kovalevskaya
• The Man Who Loved Only Sumbers - Paul Hoffman
• An Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning: Numbers, Sets and Functions

化學推薦書目

• The elements of murder - John Emsley
• The fats of life (sic) by Pond - Caroline M.
• Elegant Solutions : Ten bBautiful Experiments in Chemistry - Philip Ball
• The science of chocolate - S. T. Beckett
• Oxygen: The Molecule that Changed the World - N Lane

生物學推薦書目

• The Demon-Haunted World - Carl Sagan
• Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion - Year History of the Human Body - Neil Shubin
• A Natural History of the Senses - Diane Ackerman
• What it is like to be a Bat - Thomas Nagel