四、文化類

1. The Personality Brokers. By Merve Emre.

《人格經紀人》（作者：梅爾韋·埃姆雷）

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the best-known personality test, is the focus of an entertaining cultural history of the personality-assessment industry. Its enduring popularity ought not to be surprising: after all, it offers both the “rush of self-discovery” and “the comfort of solidarity” with others of the same type.

最著名的人格測試“邁爾斯-布里格斯類型指標”在人格評估業成為娛樂文化一部分的過程中扮演著核心角色。它經久不衰的熱度應該并不令人意外：畢竟，它可以讓人“迅速發現自我”，同時又因為同一種類型的其他人的存在而獲得“抱團取暖的安慰”。

2. The Prodigal Tongue. By Lynne Murphy.

《英式英語與美式英語愛恨交織的關系》（作者：琳恩·墨菲）

The first and perhaps only book on the relative merits of American and British English that is dominated by facts and analysis rather than nationalistic prejudice. For all its scholarship, this is also a funny and rollicking read.

關于美式英語與英式英語相對而言的優點，這是第一本、可能也是唯一由事實和分析而不是民族主義偏見占主導的書。盡管是學術性著作，讀來卻輕松有趣。

rollicking['rɑl?k??] : adj.歡樂的；喧鬧的

3. Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke and the Making of a Masterpiece. By Michael Benson.

《太空漫游：斯坦利·庫布里克、阿瑟·克拉克與杰作的誕生》（作者：邁克爾·本森）

An illuminating account of a collaboration that resulted in a landmark film. The author’s scientific background helps him to explain its pathbreaking visual effects. The making of a great work of art has rarely been anatomized so thoroughly.

富有啟發意義地記述了一段協作關系，這段關系最終締造了一部具有里程碑意義的電影。作者的科學背景幫助他解讀了影片中開創性的視覺效果。偉大藝術作品的形成過程很少得到如此全面的剖析。

五、小說類

1. The Long Take. By Robin Robertson.

《長鏡頭》（作者：羅賓·羅伯遜）

The wondrous story of a Canadian veteran of the World War II who washes up in New York and then Los Angeles. Walker, the protagonist, is haunted by his experiences in combat and by memories of his youth.

關于一名加拿大籍二戰老兵漂泊到紐約、然后又到洛杉磯的奇妙故事。主人公沃克無法擺脫戰爭經歷和年輕時的回憶。

protagonist[pr?'t?g(?)n?st]: n.主角

2. The Silence of the Girls. By Pat Barker.

《女孩們的沉默》（作者：帕特·巴克）

The “Iliad” reimagined from the perspective of Briseis, the captured slave-girl who is the cause of the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon—and in the original is almost silent.

從被抓獲的奴隸女孩布麗塞絲的角度重新構思《伊利亞特》，她成為阿喀琉斯與阿伽門農爭吵的原因——而在原作中，她基本上沉默不語。

3. Milkman. By Anna Burns.

《送奶人》（作者：安娜·伯恩斯）

The winner of this year’s Man Booker prize is set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland in an unnamed city that looks like Belfast. A haunting depiction of the impact of violence on ordinary lives.

這是2018年的布克獎獲獎書籍，以北愛爾蘭動蕩時期為背景，故事的發生地點是一座看起來像貝爾法斯特的無名城市。本書描寫了暴力對普通人的生活所產生的影響，讓人難以忘記。

六、科技類

1. Beyond Weird. By Philip Ball.

《怪誕之外》（作者：菲利普·巴爾）

Wearing deep learning lightly, this author explains quantum mechanics simply and thoughtfully, revealing the theory’s true power as a way of knowing what can be said about nature.

本書作者舉重若輕，簡練而有創見地闡釋了量子力學，揭示了該理論作為了解自然界的一種方式所具有的真實力量。

2. Rocket Men. By Robert Kurson.

《火箭人》（作者：羅伯特·古爾松）

A gripping account of Apollo 8, the first manned space flight around the Moon. The story of the dangerous mission that laid the ground for the Moon landing has not been told in such detail until now.

扣人心弦地講述了關于首次載人繞月飛行的“阿波羅8號”的故事。這次危險的任務為登月打下了基礎，在此之前，從來沒有哪一本書如此細致地講述這段往事。

3. Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine and Mysteries of Blood. By Rose George.

《九品脫》（作者 羅絲·喬治）

This history of blood takes its name from the quantity in a human body. The author visits high-tech facilities, a South African slum and Nepalese villages to convey what is known and what remains mysterious about the liquid.

這本系統闡述血液的書是根據人體內血液的數量命名的。作者探訪了高科技場所、南非的一處貧民窟以及尼泊爾的村莊，為的是告訴讀者有關這種液體的眾所周知以及依然神秘的知識。

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