紐約時報推薦年度十大好書：你都看過了嗎

The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review.
《紐約時報》書評的編輯選出了今年的值得一看的小說、詩歌和散文文學。

1. GRIEF IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS. By Max Porter. A father and his sons struggle with a death in this luminous novel.
1.馬克斯·波特《悲傷帶着羽毛》這部小說光芒四射，講的是父與子在死亡線上掙扎。

2. LAROSE. By Louise Erdrich. A man who accidentally killed his best friend’s son gives the man his own child in this powerful story about justice and forgiveness, set in and near a North Dakota Ojibwe reservation.
2.路易斯·厄德里克《拉羅斯》一名男子意外殺害了最好朋友的兒子，便把自己的兒子給了對方。這部有關公正與原諒的小說內容震撼，故事設置在北達科他州奧吉布維保留地。

3. CITY OF DREAMS: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York. By Tyler Anbinder. A richly textured guide to the past of the nation’s chief immigrant city.
3.泰勒·安德賓的《夢幻之城：移民紐約的400年史詩》這本書簡介了有關這個國家主要移民城市的過往，內容豐富。

4. THE GENE: An Intimate History. By Siddhartha Mukherjee. With scope and grandeur, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Emperor of All Maladies” presents the history of the science of genetics and examines the philosophical questions it raises.
4.悉達多·穆克吉《親密的歷史》這本書有廣度，內容出彩，其作者所寫的《衆病之王》獲得普利策獎，這本書向我們呈現基因科學的歷史，審視了所提出的哲學問題。

5. SING FOR YOUR LIFE: A Story of Race, Music, and Family. By Daniel Bergner. A portrait of an African-American opera singer who overcame terrible childhood poverty and abuse. This season he has a lead role in the Metropolitan Opera’s “La Bohème.”
5.丹尼爾波哥那《爲生命而歌：種族、音樂和家庭的故事》一名非洲裔美國歌劇演員的畫像——（講述）童年貧困、深受虐待的歲月，他是如何一一捱過的。這一季，他擔任紐約大都會歌劇院《波希米亞人》的主角。

6. WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy. By Cathy O’Neil. A frightening look at the risks of the algorithms that regulate our lives, by a former hedge fund “quant” (she got her Ph.D. in math at Harvard) who became an Occupy Wall Street activist.
6.凱西·奧內爾《數學毀滅武器：大數據如何增加不平等和民主威脅》看看運算法則管理着我們的生活，其帶來的風險，駭人聽聞。前對衝基金工程師（獲哈佛數學博士學位）成了佔領華爾街的激進分子。

7. WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR. By Paul Kalanithi. A brilliant young neurosurgeon reckons with the meaning of life and death when he learns he has advanced lung cancer; a moving and courageous account.
7.保羅·卡蘭斯《當呼吸成爲空氣》聰明的神經外科醫生得知患有肺癌晚期，開始思考生與死的意義；記敘感人至深、鼓舞人心。

8. WHEN IN FRENCH: Love in a Second Language. By Lauren Collins. Collins, a New Yorker staff writer married to a Frenchman, writes a very personal memoir about love and language, shrewdly assessing how language affects our lives.
8.羅侖·柯林斯《說法語：第二語言的愛》柯林斯是《紐約時報》特約撰稿人，嫁給了法國人，寫了這部有關愛喝語言的個人回憶錄，活靈活現展現了語言如何影響我們的生活。

9. WHITE TRASH: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America. By Nancy Isenberg. A masterly and ambitious cultural history of changing concepts of class and inferiority.
9.南希∙伊森伯格《白色垃圾：美國曆史不爲人知的400年》是部手法嫺熟、頗有追求的文化史，講述了階級和弱勢階層概念的變遷。

10. HOT MILK. By Deborah Levy. In Levy’s evocative novel, dense with symbolism, a woman struggles against her hypochondriacal mother to achieve her own identity.
10.德博拉·利維的《熱牛奶》利維的小說滿是象徵主義、激發人們的感想，講的是一名女子與其患憂鬱症的母親鬥爭，獲得其身份的故事。