My All-Time Favorites 个人最爱

We believe reading can renew a person, and even shape who they become to some extent. In 2017, let’s read together. Let’s make reading a way of life. We’re fully aware that every recommendation is personal and subjective. People looking for recommendations don’t expect them to be “objective.” They hope instead to draw on someone else’s temperament, tastes, and knowledge to fill in the gaps in their own. So this list wasn’t put together through any process of “evaluation” or “discussion.” Each contributor, whether an official account or an individual, recommended the books they most wanted to share at the time and did their best to explain why they were worth reading. We’re a group of people who take life seriously and have come together in the name of the arts. Each of us has struggled and found our footing in our own field, and reading is one of our most important ways of getting by. That’s why we believe these thoughtful, personal recommendations can be valuable to others. Fifty books, spanning all kinds of fields, full of unpredictable surprises. Some are rare finds; others are everywhere. I think you’ll find plenty of stories just by reading this list.