Inspirational books that must be read in life

If you are still pursuing, struggling, dissatisfied and looking for another way of life, then come and learn! The following are inspirational books I recommend for you, hoping to help you.

1, Republic

Author: [Ancient Greece] Plato

The Republic is not only an important dialogue of Plato, but also a typical comprehensive work, involving philosophy, politics, ethics, education, psychology, society, family, religion, art and many other issues. Moreover, the language is quite literary, full of speculative philosophy and full of fragrance. The Republic is a must-read for western intellectuals. To understand the contemporary western social and political culture, we need to trace back to the source and understand the ancient western political and cultural thoughts. The Republic is the source of ancient western political thoughts, and it is also the first book reflecting ancient western political thoughts.

2. Fortress Besieged

Author: Qian Zhongshu

Life is a besieged city and marriage is a besieged city. If you rush in, you will be surrounded by various concerns about survival. Fortress Besieged is Qian Zhongshu's new work. Qian Zhongshu described the life of a group of intellectuals with his free and easy humor. The punch line in Fortress Besieged is the most successful part of this novel, and it is also the most admirable part.

3. Grapes of Anger

Author: [America] Steinbeck

This book is the masterpiece of Steinbeck, a famous American writer and Nobel Prize in Literature winner. In 1930s, during the American economic panic, a large number of farmers went bankrupt and fled. This writer once followed farmers from Oklahoma to California. What he saw along the way shocked him. "There are 5,000 families about to starve to death, and the problem is very acute ..." With profound and realistic brushstrokes, he showed the scene of American farmers struggling to resist at that time in his book. After the publication of the work, it caused panic among the ruling classes in various States. Many states banned the publication of novels, and even published a novel called "The Grapes of Happiness" to show tit for tat. But nothing can shake the important position of The Grapes of Wrath in the history of modern American literature.

4. The death of a salesman

Author: [America] Arthur Miller

Death of a Salesman is the pinnacle of Miller's drama creation. It won the Pulitzer Prize and the new york Drama Critics Award, which won him an international reputation. Willie Loman, a salesman, asked to work in an office because of his old age and infirmity, but his boss fired him. Willie was depressed and blamed his two sons for doing nothing. The son retorted that he was just a lame errand agent. The old salesman had a dream all his life, but now all this has been dashed and his self-esteem has been seriously bruised. He is talking dreamily with his late',

The eldest brother who made a fortune in Africa argued endlessly about his hobbies. Finally, in order to get a life insurance for his family, he drove out late at night and crashed into a car and died. The play embodies the realistic and life-oriented features of Miller's tragedy, reveals the true meaning of the American dream, and warns us that the pursuit of material wealth alone cannot bring spiritual freedom and enrichment. Otherwise, the dream will become a bubble and will inevitably go to destruction.

5. The Catcher in the Rye

Author: [America] J.D Salinger

Holden, the hero of this book, is a middle school student, a boy of 16 years old from a wealthy middle class. After being expelled from school for the fourth time, he didn't dare to go home rashly. He wandered around new york, the most prosperous city in the United States, for a day and two nights, staying in inns, visiting nightclubs, promiscuous girlfriends and drinking ... He had seen all kinds of ugliness in capitalist society and all kinds of people, most of whom were "hypocrites".

Holden hardly likes what is happening around him. He even wanted to escape from the real world and pretend to be a deaf-mute in the backcountry, but it was impossible to really do it. As a result, he can only live in contradiction: he hates movies most in his life, but he has to kill time in the cinema in boredom; He hates sex without love, but he is called prostitute X; He hates his vain and vulgar girlfriend Sally, but he is infatuated with her beauty and can't help hugging her.

Therefore, although he doesn't like the world, he has to be depressed and embarrassed. He used the planting of sulfur seeds to guide Meng Tritium's ginseng cave to meet with Haiyun, and he played with magic rhyme.

The author of this book dissects the complex psychology of teenagers with keen insight, observes the spiritual essence through phenomena, vividly depicts all aspects of Holden's spiritual world, not only reveals his decadent and declining side influenced by the environment, but also writes his simple, sensitive and kind side, which truly reflects the characteristics of teenagers in the period of youth reform to some extent. No wonder it has aroused great repercussions among teenagers in western society, and many adults also regard it as the key to enlighten them to understand the younger generation.

6. The Analects of Confucius

The Analects of Confucius is a documentary collection of thoughts and essays. As early as the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, when Confucius set up an altar to give lectures, its main contents were initially established; After the death of Confucius, his braid and disciples handed down his remarks from generation to generation, and gradually recorded the words and deeds quoted orally, and finally compiled a book in the early years of the Warring States Period, so it was called On. The Analects of Confucius mainly records the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples, so it is called "language".

7. War and peace

Author: [Russian] lev tolstoy

"War and Peace" not only narrates important historical events in Russia and Western Europe, but also fictions about the past. Not only did he write about the battle of Kingoma Iron, swords and shadows, but he also wrote about the comfortable and quiet daily life. There are impassioned discussions about people and the world, and there are delicate and graceful lyric expressions. With superb artistic skills, the author created a series of vivid characters and wrote various human feelings. The famous writer Turgenev called this novel "a more direct and accurate understanding of the character and temperament of the Russian people and the whole Russian life", and reading it "is better than reading hundreds of books on ethnology and history".

8. On social contract

Author: [France] Rousseau

Social Contract is the most famous masterpiece of Rousseau, a French enlightenment thinker. His famous sentence, "Man is born free, but he is shackled everywhere", has inspired countless people with lofty ideals at home and abroad to devote themselves to the cause of human liberation in pursuit of democracy and freedom. His thought of "people's sovereignty" deeply influenced the American revolution and its declaration of independence, the French revolution and its declaration of human rights. It is a classic that contemporary youth can't put it down.

9. Ordinary world

Author: Lu Yao

Ordinary World is a realistic novel and a family history in the form of a novel. In the novel, the author focuses on the historical changes in the northwest rural areas of China, and shows the social life of contemporary urban and rural areas in China in a panoramic way. In the broad background of nearly ten years, through complex contradictions and entanglements, many images of ordinary people from all walks of life have been portrayed. Labor and love, frustration and pursuit, pain and joy, daily life and huge social conflicts are intertwined, which profoundly shows the difficult and tortuous road that ordinary people have gone through in the historical process of the great era.

The spiritual connotation conveyed by this novel is the conscious inheritance of the Chinese nation's spiritual tradition of "striving for self-improvement, being virtuous and carrying things" for thousands of years. This kind of novel undoubtedly has a "lighthouse effect" on the bottom strugglers.

10, Sun Tzu's Art of War

Author: Sun Wu

Sun Tzu's Art of War, known as the treasure of the town house, is the earliest existing military book in China and the earliest military work in the world, and is known as the "sacred book of military science". The philosophy of Taoism and military strategists is everywhere. It has always been highly respected and learners are in an endless stream. Kōnosuke Matsushita, the founder of Panasonic, said: "The art of war is the best god in the world. We must worship it, recite it carefully and use it flexibly, so that the company can develop. "