1 . Reading is a great exercise for the mind. It helps kids calm down and relax, opening doors of new knowledge to enlighten their minds. Kids who read grow up to have better cognitive (认知的) skills. Reading is good for everyone, not only children or young adults. You will find many lists with up to 30 reasons why reading is important. Our expert librarians selected the year’s best books for kids, teens, and adults. Check out these outstanding titles and choose what your kids might be interested in.

Hurricane Summer By Asha Bromfield

Tilla’s mother says you get two birthdays-One the day you are born and the other when you give birth to yourself. While visiting Jamaica, Illa faces a storm of dark secrets that threaten to unravel her life while an actual storm threatens the lives of those she loves.

Darling By K. Ancrum

When a boy named Peter appears at Wendy Darling’s window and invites her to join him and his friends for a night out in Chicago, she eagerly agrees. But as the night slowly gets out of control, not even Wendy can predict the secrets she’ll uncover.

The Dire Days of Willow weep Manor By Shaenon K. Garrity

It is illustrated (作插图) by Christopher Baldwin. Gothic romance superfan Haley saves a stranger from drowning and wakes up at Willow weep Manor, which embodies the settings of her favorite books. Willow weep hides a device that prevents evil from entering our world-but it’s falling apart.

The Cost of Knowing By Brittney Morris

With the power to see the future of anything-or anyone-he touches, Alex deals with extreme worry.But when he gets a vision of his brother’s death in just a few days’ time, Alex has to reconnect with his brother and see if he can stop what he knows is coming.

2 . Unusual Libraries Around the World

There are 2.7 million libraries spreading across the globe, and while there are many beautiful ones, there are also a number of unique ones.

The Haskell Free Library and Opera House, a special library spanning two countries, is stationed on the border between Canada and the United States and serves people from both countries. The main entrance is on the American side, but the majority of collection of the books are in Canada. There’s even an official American-Canada borderline running right across the library’s floor.

Praised by many as a library of the future, the Deichman Bjørvika, city of Oslo’s new main library, has one hundred unread and unpublished texts. They are stored in a specially designed room lined with wood from the forest, making the library the world’s most secretive one. It witnesses different authors add their works to the collection that will not be available for reading until 2114.

Quietly sitting on an isolated (孤零零的) stretch of beach of Qinhuangdao in northern China, the Seashore Library has been called the world’s loneliest library. People have to walk across the sand to reach the doors. The building is designed to promote people’s connection with ocean, so the main reading room features a layered design to ensure that everyone has a good view of the sea.

Bíbliotheca Alexandrina is considered as a revival (复兴) of an ancient library in the Alex-andria 2,300 years ago or so. Characterized by its circular, tilting form, the building spans 160 meters in diameter (直径) and reaches up to 32 meters in height, while also diving some 12 meters into the ground.

Jack Rosenthal is the author of “Teen Investing”, the #2 book on teen investing (投资) on Amazon. He wrote Teen Entrepreneurship as a way to educate other teenagers on what it takes to create their own companies. Jack Rosenthal is currently a 19-year-old student at Babson College in Massachusetts.He’sbeen an entrepreneur and investor for the last 10 years and has worked on numerous businesses.

You AreWhat You Riskis aloud call for a new conversation about our relationship with risk and uncertainty, Inthisground-breaking book, Michele Wucker examines why it’s so important to understand your risk fingerprint and howto make your risk relationship work better in business, life, and the world.

Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s webcomic (网络漫画). His drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a huge following, as do his deeply researched answers to his fans’ strangest questions. The book features (以……为特色) new and never-before-answered questions, along with the most popular answers from the website.

Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. Tomorrow’s champions will not win by competing in today’s marketplace. They will escape competition altogether, because their businesses will be unique.

4 . Anthony Doerr’s new bestseller, All the Light We Cannot See, holds special appeal for me. That’s how I would describe it. From the poetic language, to the realization of what the tile actually means: that underneath the surface of history, there is light that has not been seen, and stories that have gone untold.

I’m going to be honest-love for this book didn’t hit me straight away. In fact, my first attempt to read it last month ended with me putting it aside and going to find something easier, lighter and less descriptive to read. But this book is built on beautiful imagery. Both in the literal sense-the physical world of 1940s Paris and Germany, and the metaphorical (隐喻性的)sense-scientific and philosophical references to light, to seeing and not seeing, and the differences between the two. It’s a beautiful work of genius, but it does get a little complicated at times.

However, when we get into the meat of this World War II novel, it’s also an upsetting story of a childhood torn apart by war. It’s about Parisian Marie Laure who has been blind since she was six, and a German orphan called Werner who finds himself at the center of the Hitler Youth. Both of their stories are told with sensitivity and sympathy, each one forced down a path by their personal circumstances and by that destructive monster-war.

I think this is the kind of book you will never appreciate if you stop too soon-I learned that lesson. From the first to last page, there is a theme of invisible lines running parallel (平行的)to one another and sometimes, just sometimes, crossing in the strangest way. These two lives we are introduced to seem to be worlds apart, and yet they come together and influence one another. It was this, more than the predictably awful tale of war, that made me feel quite emotional.

5 . Settling down with a great novel enables you to consider ideas that might have never crossed your mind had you not chosen it in the first place.    1    If you have the urge and are curious about how to start a book club, it’s easier than you might think.

First, find members. Reach out to your existing reading-loving friends and post a notice in your local library or bookstore. If you’re open to a more digital-friendly approach, put the word out about your new club via Twitter or Facebook.    2    

Then set group guidelines. To guarantee your new group is all on the same page, take time to discuss what you want to get out of regular club gatherings before your first official meeting. Will your time together be spent largely focusing on the novel at hand?    3     While enjoying stimulating non-book conversation over coffee and snacks is in no way ill-advised, not everyone who signs up for a book club is willing to reject their novel for a cup.

    4    Books that work really well are the ones that help you reflect on self. They have lots of entry points for people so they probably have a good setting. Also, there’s great character development. Select something with the criteria, and you can please all kinds of readers.

As far as how often you meet, that schedule is up to your members to determine what’s realistic-plus how long it will take to complete the book. As for location, meeting up at your home is always an option.    5    Meeting at a public space like a bar can ease the pressure of entertaining.

7 . I’ve always been a bookworm. As an English Literature graduate, reading is one of the only things I feel truly qualified to do. There’s no place I’d rather be than buried in the pages of an attention-getting story. Yet lots of people find it difficult to fit reading into their daily routine.     1    

Dedicated (专用的) reading time. Setting aside some dedicated time every day is a good place to start.     2     Literary agent Molly Murray, who runs Seahorse Bookstore, says she and her husband were struggling to get through their book pile until they “turned off the TV and became intentional about fitting in time to read” .

Listen to an audiobook.     3     Book blogger Amanda Chatterton, who reviews books on her site Bookish Chat, says she sticks in her headphones and “reads” while going for an hour long pre-work walk in the morning. “They are such a good way to up your reading,” she says Set a challenge. If you’re the kind of person who is inspired by goals, try using websites like GoodReads to set yourself a reading challenge for the year.     4     Elsewhere, Story-Graph has a list of challenges you can sign up to, such as “read the world”, which tasks you with reading a book by an author from ten different countries.

    5     Finding that none of her close friends or family enjoyed reading as much as she did, Tracy Fenton launched THE Book Club on the Internet seven years ago and has grown it to over 13, 000 members since then. “It’s fantastic to be among like-minded individuals who love reading as much as I do,” she said.

10 . The Storyteller’s Secret by Carmine Gallo

4.5 out of 5 stars 474 ratings

How did a Venice Beach T-shirt vendor become television’s most successful producer? How did an entrepreneur who started in a garage create the most iconic product launches in business history, and how did a shy man overcome a paralyzing fear of public speaking to captivate sold-out crowds at Yankee Stadium?——They told brilliant stories.

The Psychology of Persuasion by Peter Daniel Andrei

5.0 out of 5 stars 865 ratings

Why do some people effortlessly make people convinced while others can’t? Why do some people easily speak with confidence, fluency, influence, and impact, while others struggle to speak well? Why do some presentations build support, generate consensus, and motivate positive action, while others don’t? — Decades of leading scientific studies present an answer.

The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. & E. B.White

4.7 out of 5 stars 9,707 ratings

This is The Elements of Style, the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition. A new foreword by Roger Angell reminds readers that the advice of Strunk & White is as valuable today as when it was first offered. The book has grown to become the American English writing style guide often required in U.S. high school and university composition classes.

Eliminate Negative Thinking by Derick Howell

4.4 out of 5 stars 990 ratings

Do you find it hard to fall asleep because your brain won’t stop worrying? Do you feel stuck in an endless loop of uncontrollable negative thoughts? You’re not alone. Around 18% of the population suffer from anxiety. This book offers actionable strategies that will help you eliminate the deep-seated causes of your anxiety and manage your day-to-day worries.