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Editor’s note: I want to improve myself, but I don’t know what book to read? It doesn’t matter, the book is coming! Recently, the British “Guardian” selected a hundred best books in the 21st century, covering topics such as love, society, detective, science, science fiction, etc. There is always one for you. In view of the length of the article, we compiled it in two parts, this is the first part.
100, “I Feel Bad About My Neck”
Author: Nora Ephron (Nora Yifu Long), 2006
Ephron Perhaps more famous is the written script (“Silkwood”, “When Harry Met Sally”, “Heartburn”, her iconic drama humor has the best expression in her essay. She is full of self-deprecating spirit, and even when she writes her apartment in the Upper West Side of New York, she always tries to make herself look like your best friend. The talented woman is almost omnipotent, From how she hates handbags, how to pay attention to retaining youth: dyeing hair, fitness, using countless bottles and jars that claim to delay aging but useless, She also thinks her neck is terrible. This very freehand collection is her funny observation of aging and vanity, and it is also a hot torture of Bill Clinton.
99, “Crushed Glass”
Author: Alain Mabanckou (Alan • Marban library) in 2005
83, “Tell Me How It Ends”
Author: Valeria Luiselli, 2016 Nian
In 2015, as the hysterical mood of immigrants to the United States began to accumulate, the Mexican novelist volunteered to work as an interpreter at the Federal Immigration Court in New York. The book revolves around 40 questions about undocumented Latin American children facing deportation. In this series of powerful essays, she tells the story of the children they meet and puts them in troubles between the Americas. In the larger background.
82, “Coraline”
Author: Neil Gaiman (Neil Gaiman), in 2002
From the comic “Sleep” to the fantasy epic “American Gods” to Twitter, Gaiman stands in the world of books. But this highly perfect children’s novella may be his most glorious moment – a brave little girl enters a parallel world in which her “other mom” is the real life of her. A copy of the ghost of the mother, with a pair of black button eyes. This is a modern myth of horror and moderateness, just touching the inner heart of childhood that is both afraid and eager.
81, “Harvest”
Author: Jim Crace (Jim Kress), 2013
Crace was fascinated by the moment when one era gave way to another. Here, the circle of the commons, a fulcrum of British history, prompted him to tell a story about the imposition of real estate and displacement. The background of the story is set in a village with no name, which dramatically shows the feeling that the world you know is coming to an end. The connection between man and land is cut off. This is the era of our climate crisis and forced migration. It is closely related.
80, “Stories of Your Life and Others”
Author: Ted Chiang, in 2002
Melancholy, Excellence, Jiang Fengnan’s eight high-concept science fiction stories explore the nature of language, mathematics, religion, and physics, have won numerous awards, and won with the film “Advent” in 2016. A wide audience.
79, “The Spirit Level”
Author: Richard Wilkinson (Richard Wilkinson), Kate Pickett (Kate Pickett), 2009
An eye-opening study, based on a large body of evidence, reveals that even in rich countries, “a fairer society performs better.” The author believes that the impact of inequality is greater than growth. More important: whether it is expected lifeLife, infant mortality, crime rate, or obesity, literacy or recycling, (for example) Scandinavian countries will always outperform (for example) the United Kingdom.
78, The Fifth Season
Author: NK Jemisin, 2015 Nian
With the first part of the Broken Earth trilogy, Jemisin became the first African-American to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel. In her complex and imaginative future universe, the world is being endless with an endless earthquake and volcanic tearing world. In the context of this apocalyptic day, she explored the issues that need to be resolved, such as power and slavery, through the eyes of three women. In her acceptance speech, she said: “When such subjects finally recognize the dream of being marginalized, it is also important to recognize that all of us have a future, and the world will have a future. (I hope this time will not be too long.)
77, “Signs before the end of the world”
Author: Yuri Herrera, 2009 Nian
With a parcel from the local gangster and a message to his brother who had been away from home for three years, McKenna began to depart from his Mexican village. The story of her cross-border visit to the United States examines the blurring of boundaries, the mixing of languages, and the integration of identities, making the idea of eventually returning home more complicated.
76, “Thinking, Fast and Slow”
Author: Daniel Kahneman (Daniel Kahneman), 2011
