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◉ HISTORY AND CULTURE

→ [CN] 一百年，许多人，许多事 (A Hundred Years, Many People, Many Things)
by 杨苡 (Yang Yi) and 余斌 (Yu Bin)

→ [CN] 世说俗谈 (A Folk Account of the Tales of the World)
by 刘勃 (Liu Bo)

→ [CN] 入关(Crossing the Broader)
by 张明扬 (Zhang Ming Yang)

→ [EN] Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China
[CN] 中华帝国晚期的性、法律与社会
by Mattew H. Sommer
translated by 谢美裕 (Xie Meiyu) and 尤陈俊 (Yo Chenjun)

→ [EN] The Chinese Typewriter: a History
[CN] 中文打字机
by Thomas S. Mullaney
translated by 张朋亮 (Zhang Pengliang)

→ [CN] 开场：女性学者访谈 (Women in Acdemia)
by 新京报书评周刊 (Xinjingbao Book Critiques)

→ [FR] Rage Against the Machisme
[CN] 去他的父权制
by Mathilde Larrere
translated by 何润哲 (He Runzhe)

→ [EN] The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
[CN] 要命还是要灵魂
by Anne Fadiman
translated by 汤丽明 (Tang Liming), 刘建台 (Liu Jiantai) 杨佳蓉 (Yang Jiarong)

→ [EN] The Five: the Untold Lives of the Women Killed
[CN] 生而为女
by Hallie Rubenhold

◉ SOCIETY AND DOCUMENTARY

→ [JP] 生き延びるための思想
[CN] 为了活下去的思想
by 上野千鶴子 (Ueno Chizuko)
translated by 邹韵 (Zou Yun) and 薛梅 (Xue Mei)

→ [JP] 快楽上等！
[CN] 快乐上等
by 上野千鶴子 and 湯山玲子
translated by 马文赫

→ [JP] ネグレクト
[CN] 育儿放弃
by 杉山春
translated by 烨伊

→ 盐镇
by 易小荷

→ [FR] Moi les hommes, je les déteste
[EN] I Hate Men
[CN]我，厌男
by Pauline Harmange
translated by 一千度

→ 多谈谈问题 (The Issues Issue)
by 吴琦 (Wu Qi)

→ 金榜题名之后

→ [EN] Making the Familiar Unfamiliar
[CN] 将熟悉变为陌生
by Zygmunt Bauman and Peter Haffner
translated by 王立秋

→ [FR] La Condition ouvrière
[CN] 工厂日记
by Simone Weil
translated by 王天宇

→ [EN] Diddly Squat, a Year on the Farm
[CN] 克拉克森的农场
by Jeremy Clarkson
translated by 吴超

◉ MYSTERIES

→ [CN] 第欧根尼变奏曲 (The Diogenes Variations)
by 陈浩基 (Chen Haoji)

→ [FR] Le Manuscrit inachevé (The Unfinished Manuscript)
[CN] 两度 (Twice)
by Frank Thilliez
tranlsated by 萨姆斯 (Sa Mu Si)

→ [EN] The Man Who Died Twice
[CN] 死了两次的男人
by Richard Osman
translated by 张雅琳 (Zhang Yalin)

→ [JP] 火の粉 (Flames)
[CN] 邻居
by 雫井脩介 (Shizukui Shusuke)
translated by 吕灵芝 (Lv Lingzhi)

→ [JP] 六人の嘘つきな大学生 (Six Lying College Students)
[CN] 六个说谎的大学生
by 浅倉秋成 (Asakura Akinari)
translated by 王星星

→ [JP] グレイヴディッガー (Grave Digger)
[CN] 恶徒的救赎
by 高野和明
translated by 徐建雄 (Xu Jianxiong)

→ [JP] 黒牢城 (Black Prisoned City)
[CN] 黑牢城
by 米澤穂信 (Yonezawa Honobu)
translated by 萧遥 (Xiao Yao)

→ [JP] 硝子の塔の殺人 (The Glass Tower Murder)
[CN] 玻璃塔谜案
by 知念実希人 (Chinen Mikito)
translated by 烨伊 (Ye Yi)

→ [JP] 名探偵のいけにえ (Detective's Sacrifice)
[CN] 名侦探的献祭
by 白井智之 (Shirai Tomoyuki)
translated by 吕灵芝 (Lv Lingzhi)

→ [JP] 孤島の来訪者 (Visitors of the lone island)
[CN] 孤岛的来访者
by 方丈貴恵 (Houjou Kie)
translated by 穆迪 (Mu Di)

◉ SCI-FI FANTASY

→ [CN] 她对此感到厌烦 (She Got Bored by This)
by 妚鹤 (Fou He)

→ [CN] 我们生活在南京 (We Live in Nanjing)
by 天瑞说符 (Tian Rui Shuo Fu)

→ [CN] 宛转环 (The Serpentine Band)
by 慕明 (Mu Ming)

→ [EN] Babel
[CN] 巴别塔
by RF Kuang
translated by 陈阳 (Chen Yang)

→ [EN] The Best of Greg Egan
[CN] 祈祷之海
by Greg Egan
translated by 鲁冬旭 (Lu Dongxu), 阿古 (Ah Gu), 刘文元 (Liu Wenyuan), 萧傲然 (Xiao Aoran) and 张涵 (Zhang Han)

→ [EN] Axiomatic
[CN] 意识上传中
by Greg Egan
translated by 姚向辉 (Yao Xianghui)

→ [EN] The Book of Wonder
[CN] 奇迹之书
by Greg Egan
translated by 何殇 (He Shang) and 张螺螺 (Zhang Luoluo)

→ [JP] 肉食屋敷
[CN] 破烂回收店
by 小林泰三 (Kobayashi Yasumi)
translated by 黄怡轶 (Huang Yiyi)

→ [KR] 지구 끝의 온실 (Greenhouse in the end of the World)
[CN] 地球尽头的温室
by 김초엽 (Kim Cho-Yup)
translated by 简郁璇 (Jian Yuxuan)

→ [EN] QualityLand
[CN] 未来之城
by Marc-Uwe Kling
translated by 王柄熠

◉ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 overview
3:24 History and Culture
7:22 Society and documenting
12:50 Mystery and Deductive
18:48 Sci-fi fantasy