- I. Science, Philosophy, Evolution, History of Human Civilization, Human History
- II. Chinese Civilization, History and Culture
- III. China's Contemporary Economic Reform and Development
- IV. Value Investing, Finance and Capitalism
- V. History of Western Civilization
- VI. Biography and Others
| SN | Author | Title | Publisher | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jared M. Diamond | Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies | New York, NY, US: W. W. Norton & Co | 1999 |
| 2 | Ian Morris | Why the West Rules — for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future | London, UK: Picador | 2011 |
| 3 | Ian Morris | The Measure of Civilization: How Social Development Decides the Fate of Nations | Princeton, NJ, US: Princeton University Press | 2013 |
| 4 | E. O. Wilson | The Social Conquest of Earth | New York, NY, US: W. W. Norton & Co | 2012 |
| 5 | David Deutsch | The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World | London, UK: Allen Lane | 2011 |
| 6 | David Deutsch | The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes — And Its Implications | New York, NY, US: Allen Lane | 1997 |
| 7 | Matt Ridley | The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves | Harper | 2010 |
| 8 | Karl Popper | The Logic of Scientific Discovery | Routledge | 2002 |
| 9 | Karl Popper | The Open Society and its Enemies | Princeton University Press | 2013 |
| 10 | Richard Dawkins | The Selfish Gene | Oxford University Press | 1990 |
| 11 | Yuval N. Harari | Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind | New York, NY, US: Harper | 2015 |
| 12 | Niall Ferguson | Civilization: The West and the Rest | Penguin Books | 2012 |
| 13 | Steven Pinker | Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress | Viking | 2018 |
| 14 | Steven Pinker | How the Mind Works | W. W. Norton & Co Inc | 1997 |
| 15 | Charles Van Doren | A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future | Ballantine Books | 1992 |
| 16 | Karen Armstrong | A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam | Ballantine Books | 1994 |
| 17 | Robert Wright | Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment | Simon & Schuster | 2017 |
| 18 | Daniel Kahneman | Thinking, Fast and Slow | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2011 |
| 19 | Vaclav Smil | Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact | Oxford University Press | 2005 |
| 20 | Vaclav Smil | Transforming the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations and Their Consequences | Oxford University Press | 2006 |
| SN | Author | Title | Publisher | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 钱穆 | 《先秦诸子系年》 | 商务印书馆 | 2001 |
| 2 | 钱穆 | 《中华文化十二讲》 | 九州出版社 | 2013 |
| 3 | [汉] 司马迁 | 《史记(白话本)》 | 商务印书馆 | 2016 |
| 4 | 李解民等 | 《白话二十五史精选》 | 新世界出版社 | 2009 |
| 5 | [宋] 朱熹(编) | 《四书章句集注》 | 上海古籍出版社 | 2006 |
| 6 | William Theodore de Bary | Waiting for the dawn | Columbia University Press | 1993 |
| 7 | William Theodore de Bary | The Liberal Tradition in China (Neo-Confucian Studies) | The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press | 1983 |
| 8 | William Theodore de Bary and Irene Bloom. Editors | Approaches to the Asian Classics | Columbia University Press | 1990 |
| 9 | Wing-Tsit Chan | A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy | Princeton University Press | 1969 |
| 10 | 许倬云 | 《万古江河——中国历史文化的转折与开展》 | 湖南人民出版社 | 2017 |
| 11 | 黄宗羲 | 《黄宗羲全集》 | 浙江古籍出版社 | 2012 |
| 12 | 余英时 | 《余英时文集》 | 广西师范大学出版社 | 2014 |
| 13 | 林毓生 | 《思想与人物》 | 联经出版事业公司 | 1983 |
| 14 | 曾国藩 | 《曾国藩全集》 | 岳麓书社 | 1994 |
| 15 | 黄仁宇 | 《万历十五年》 | 三联书店 | 1997 |
| 16 | 史景迁 | 《天安门:知识分子与中国革命》 | 中央编译出版社 | 1998 |
| 17 | Jonathan D. Spence | The Search for Modern China | W. W. Norton & Co | 1991 |
| 18 | 王亚南 | 《中国官僚政治研究》 | 中国社会科学出版社 | 1981 |
| 19 | 辜鸿铭 | 《中国人的精神》 | 外语教学与研究出版社 | 1998 |
| 20 | 孙皓晖 | 《中国原生文明启示录》 | 中信出版社 | 2016 |
| SN | Author | Title | Publisher | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 黄仁宇 | 《资本主义与二十一世纪》 | 三联书店 | 2006 |
| 2 | 钱穆 | 《中国经济史》 | 北京联合出版公司 | 2013 |
| 3 | [美]傅高义 | 《邓小平时代》 | 三联书店 | 2013 |
| 4 | 吴敬琏 | 《中国经济改革进程》 | 中国大百科全书出版社 | 2018 |
| 5 | 林毅夫 | 《解读中国经济(增订版)》 | 北京大学出版社 | 2014 |
| 6 | 杨小凯 | 《杨小凯学术文库》 | 社会科学文献出版社 | 2018 |
| 7 | 史正富 | 《超常增长:1979 – 2049 年的中国经济》 | 上海人民出版社 | 2013 |
| 8 | 文一 | 《伟大的中国工业革命》 | 清华大学出版社 | 2016 |
| 9 | [新加坡] 李光耀 | 《李光耀回忆录:我一生的挑战——新加坡双语之路》 | 译林出版社 | 2013 |
| 10 | [新加坡] 韩福光等 | 《李光耀:新加坡赖以生存的硬道理》 | 外文出版社 | 2015 |
| 11 | [新加坡] 李光耀 | 《李光耀回忆录 1923-1965》 | 世界书局 | 1998 |
| 12 | [新加坡] 李光耀 | 《李光耀回忆录 1965-2000》 | 世界书局 | 2000 |
| 13 | 吴晓波 | 《浩荡两千年:中国企业公元前 7 世纪—1869 年》 | 中信出版社 | 2012 |
| 14 | 王小波 | 《沉默的大多数》 | 北京十月文艺出版社 | 2017 |
| SN | Author | Title | Publisher | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Benjamin Graham | The Intelligent Investor | Collins Business | 1994 |
| 2 | Benjamin Graham and David Dodd | Security Analysis | McGraw-Hill Education | 1996 |
| 3 | Roger Lowenstein | Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist | Random House | 1995 |
| 4 | Peter D. Kaufman | Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger | Walworth Publishing Company | 2005 |
| 5 | Peter Bevelin | Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger | PCA Publications | 2007 |
| 6 | Janet Lowe | Damn Right! Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger | Wiley | 2000 |
| 7 | Lawrence A. Cunningham | Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Investors and Managers | John Wiley & Sons Ltd | 2009 |
| 8 | Warren E. Buffett | The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America | The Cunningham Group | 2001 |
| 9 | Andrew Kilpatrick | Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett | Andy Kilpatrick Pub Empire | 1998 |
| 10 | Alice Schroeder | The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life | Bantam Books | 2008 |
| 11 | Robert G. Hagstrom | The Warren Buffett Portfolio: Mastering the Power of the Focus Investment Strategy | John Wiley & Sons | 1999 |
| 12 | Philip A. Fisher | Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings | Wiley | 1996 |
| 13 | Benjamin Graham | Benjamin Graham: The Memoirs of the Dean of Wall Street | McGraw-Hill | 1996 |
| 14 | John Train | Money Masters of Our Time | HarperBusiness | |
| 15 | James R. Vertin and Charles D. Ellis | Classics: The Most Interesting Ideas and Concepts from the Literature of Investing | ||
| 16 | James R. Vertin and Charles D. Ellis | Classics II: Another Investor’s Anthology | 1991 | |
| 17 | Joel Greenblatt | You Can Be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits | Touchstone | 1999 |
| 18 | Howard Marks | Memo to Oaktree Clients | WAVE | |
| 19 | George Soros | The Alchemy of Finance | Wiley | 2015 |
| 20 | George Soros | Soros on Soros | Wiley | 1995 |
| 21 | Leon Levy and Eugene Linden | The Mind of Wall Street: A Legendary Financier on the Perils of Greed and the Mysteries of the Market | PublicAffairs | 2002 |
| 22 | David F. Swensen | Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment | Free Press | 2005 |
| 23 | Charles Mackay | Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds | Barnes & Noble Inc | 1994 |
| 24 | Charles P. Kindleberger | Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises | Wiley | 2005 |
| 25 | Barton Biggs | Wealth, War and Wisdom | Wiley | 2008 |
| 26 | Ray Dalio | Principles: Life and Work | Simon & Schuster | 2017 |
| 27 | John Rothchild | The Davis Dynasty: 50 Years of Successful Investing on Wall Street | Wiley | 2001 |
| 28 | Walter Isaacson | Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution | Simon & Schuster | 2014 |
| 29 | Edwin Lefèvre | Reminiscences of a Stock Operator | Wiley | 2004 |
| 30 | Fred Schwed Jr | Where Are the Customers’ Yachts? Or, A Good Hard Look at Wall Street | Wiley | 1995 |
| 31 | Seth Klarman | Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor | HarperCollins | 1991 |
| 32 | Bruce Greenwald and Judd Kahn | Competition Demystified: A Radically Simplified Approach to Business Strategy | Portfolio | 2007 |
| 33 | S. Jay Levy and David A. Levy | Profits and The Future of American Society | Happer & Row | 1983 |
| 34 | Martin J. Whitman | Value Investing: A Balanced Approach | Wiley | 1999 |
| 35 | David S. Landes | The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor | W. W. Norton & Company | 1999 |
| 36 | F. A. Hayek | The Road to Serfdom | University of Chicago Press | 1994 |
| 37 | Kenneth R. Hoover | Economics as Ideology: Keynes, Laski, Hayek, and the Creation of Contemporary Politics | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers | 2003 |
| 38 | Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge | Capitalism in America: A History | ||
| 39 | Joseph A. Schumpeter | Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy | Routledge | 1994 |
| 40 | Charles R. Geisst | Wall Street: A History | Oxford University Press | 2018 |
| 41 | Michael E. Porter | Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance | Free Press | 1998 |
| 42 | Jeremy J. Siegel | Stocks for the Long Run: The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns and Long-Term Investment Strategies | McGraw-Hill | 2002 |
| 43 | Richard Koo | The Other Half of Macroeconomics and the Fate of Globalization | Wiley | 2018 |
| SN | Author | Title | Publisher | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plato | Great Dialogues of Plato | ||
| 2 | Plato | Republic | ||
| 3 | Homer | Odyssey | ||
| 4 | Homer | Iliad | ||
| 5 | Aristotle | Nicomachean Ethics | ||
| 6 | Aristotle | Politics | ||
| 7 | Thucydides | History of the Peloponnesian War | ||
| 8 | St. Augustine | Confessions | ||
| 9 | Bible | |||
| 10 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | ||
| 11 | Thomas Hobbes | Leviathan | ||
| 12 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | The Social Contract | ||
| 13 | Niccolo Machiavelli | The Prince and the Discourses | ||
| 14 | John Locke | Two Treatise of Government | ||
| 15 | John Stuart Mill | On Liberty | ||
| 16 | René Descartes | Principles of Philosophy | ||
| 17 | Isaac Newton | Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy | ||
| 18 | Charles Darwin | On the Origin of Species | ||
| 19 | Adam Smith | The Wealth of Nations | ||
| 20 | Alexis de Tocqueville | Democracy in America | ||
| 21 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison | The Federalist Papers | ||
| 22 | The Constitution of the United States. United States Declaration of Independence. United States Bill of Rights | |||
| 23 | Sigmund Freud | The Interpretation of Dreams | ||
| 24 | Contemporary Civilization Staff of Columbia College | Introduction to Contemporary Civilization in the West | Columbia University Press | |
| 25 | L. S. Stavrianos | A Global History: From Prehistory to the Present | ||
| 26 | Paul Kennedy | The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 | Random House | 1987 |
| SN | Author | Title | Publisher | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Benjamin Franklin | Poor Richard's Almanack | Peter Pauper Press | 1980 |
| 2 | Gordon S. Wood | The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin | Penguin Books | 2005 |
| 3 | Walter Isaacson | Benjamin Franklin: An American Life | Simon & Schuster | 2003 |
| 4 | Walter Isaacson | Einstein: His Life and Universe | Simon & Schuster | 2008 |
| 5 | David Cannadine | Mellon: An American Life | Knopf | 2006 |
| 6 | Ron Chernow | The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family | Random House | 1993 |
| 7 | Ron Chernow | The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance | Atlantic Monthly Press | 1990 |
| 8 | Ron Chernow | Titan: The Life of John D. Rockfeller Sr | Vintage | 2004 |
| 9 | Joseph Frazier Wall | Andrew Carnegie | University of Pittsburgh Press | 1989 |
| 10 | Ayn Rand | The Fountainhead | Plume | 1994 |
| 11 | George Orwell | 1984 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 2017 |
| 12 | Fareed Zakaria | The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad | W. W. Norton & Company | 2003 |
| 13 | Fareed Zakaria | The Post-American World | W. W. Norton & Company | 2008 |
| 14 | Graham Allison | Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 2017 |