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Books recommended by [[People's Republic of China|Chinese]] President [[Xi Jinping]] in 2020. It includes both fiction and nonfiction, including [[Marxism|Marxist]] and [[Liberalism|liberal]] political theory. It was published in English ([https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1186551.shtml source]) and Chinese ([http://cpc.people.com.cn/n1/2020/0423/c164113-31684534.html source]) with some slight differences.

== Marxist-Leninist classics ==

* ''[[Library:Manifesto of the Communist Party|The Communist Manifesto]]'' ([[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]])
* ''[[Library:Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism|Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism]]'' ([[Vladimir Lenin]])
* ''[[Library:Capital, vol. I|Das Kapital]]'' (Karl Marx)
* ''[[Library:Economic and philosophic manuscripts of 1844|Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844]]'' (Karl Marx)
* ''[[Library:Anti-Dühring|Anti-Dühring]]'' (Friedrich Engels)
* ''[[Library:A contribution to the critique of political economy|A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy]]'' (Karl Marx)
* ''[[Library:Critique of the Gotha Program|Critique of the Gotha Program]]'' (Karl Marx)
* ''[[Library:Materialism and empirio-criticism|Materialism and Empirio-criticism]]'' (Vladimir Lenin)
* ''[https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/index.htm Selected Works of Mao Zedong]''

== Philosophy and law ==

* ''The Origin and Goal of History'' (Karl Jaspers)
* ''The Republic'' ([[Plato]])
* ''One-Dimensional Man'' ([[Herbert Marcuse]])
* ''World Order'' ([[Henry Kissinger]])
* ''The Social Contract'' ([[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]])
* ''Utopia'' (Thomas More)
* ''The City of the Sun'' (Tommaso Campanella)
* ''Two Treatises of Government'' ([[John Locke]])
* ''Elements of the Philosophy of Right'' ([[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel|Hegel]])
* ''The Spirit of the Laws'' ([[Charles de Montesquieu|Montesquieu]])

== Chinese classics ==

* ''大学- The Great Learning'' (Zengzi)
* ''诗经 - The Book of Songs'' (Confucius) 
* ''礼记 -'' ''The Book of Rites''
* 管子 - ''The Guanzi''
* ''论语 - The Analects of Confucius''
* ''孟子 - Mencius''
* 荀子 - ''Xunzi''
* 左传 - ''Zuo Zhuan''

=== English only ===

* 春秋 - ''Spring and Autumn Annals'' ([[Confucius]])
* 古今小说 - ''Stories to Enlighten the World'' (Feng Menglong)

=== Chinese version only ===
* 老子 - ''Tao Te Ching (Laozi)''
* 中唐 - Doctrine of the Mean (Zisi)
* 尚书 - Book of Documents
* 周易 - I Ching
* 国语 - '''''Discourses of the States'''''
* 庄子 - Zhuangzi
* 晏子春秋 - Spring and Autumn Annals (Master Yan)
* 吕氏春秋 - Spring and Autumn Annals (Lü Buwei)

== History ==

* 史记 - ''Selections from Records of the Historian'' (Sima Qian)
* 汉书 - ''Chronicles of the Han Dynasty''
* ''History of Modern Europe''

== Economy ==

* ''Capitalism and Freedom'' ([[Milton Friedman]])
* ''The Wealth of Nations'' ([[Adam Smith]])
* ''An Essay on the Principle of Population'' ([[Thomas Malthus]])
* ''Capital in the Twenty-First Century'' (Thomas Piketty)
* ''The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money'' ([[John Maynard Keynes|John Keynes]])
* ''Theory of Economic Development''
* ''Economic Growth of Nations''

== Chinese contemporary literature ==

* 平凡的世界 - ''Ordinary World'' (Lu Yao)
* ''Plot Against''
* ''The Message''

== Foreign classics ==

* ''How the Steel Was Tempered'' (Nikolai Ostrovsky)
* ''A Hero of Our Time'' (Mikhail Lermontov)
* ''And Quiet Flows the Don'' (Mikhail Sholokhov)
* ''War and Peace'' (Leo Tolstoy)

== Shakespeare's plays ==

* ''Macbeth''
* ''Hamlet''
* ''Othello''
* ''King Lear''
* ''Romeo and Juliet''
* ''Twelfth Night''
* ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''

== Others ==

* ''Faust''
* ''The Sea Wolf'' ([[Jack London]])
* ''Ninety-Three'' ([[Victor Hugo]])
* ''Oliver Twist'' ([[Charles Dickens]])
* ''The Old Man and the Sea'' (Ernest Hemingway)
* ''Les Misérables'' (Victor Hugo)
* ''A Tale of Two Cities'' (Charles Dickens)
* ''The Call of the Wild'' (Jack London)
* ''The Federalist Papers''

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