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Editor’s note: 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 second part.
Related reading: Looking at the world from a larger perspective, here are the best 100 books of the 21st century ( Top)
50, “Antelope and Pheasant”
Author: Margaret Atwood (Margaret Atwood), in 2003
This is the first of the “Utopia” trilogy of the Booker Prize winner. In this book, Atwood speculates about the great catastrophe that science can cause to the world. The biggest warning in this book is that don’t give the earth to the company to manage it. With the advancement of this century, the voice of this warning is becoming more and more harsh.
49, “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?”
Author: Jeanette Winterson (Jeanette Winterson), 2011
Title (“Why are you happy when you can be normal?”) is a question that Winterson’s adoptive mother will ask when she has a 16-year-old daughter of her girlfriend. The autobiographical screen of “Orange is not the only fruit”> Author: Seamus Heaney (Seamus Heaney), 2010 The Chain of People is the last collection of poems by the Nobel Prize winner. The collection of poems is based on the poet’s later years and goes deep into the past to retrieve every revelation and proof in the experience. At its core is an ever-expanding image: People stand up and stand together, gradually forming a piece, spreading across time and space. The collection of poems is a piece of memory, an elegy, a resounding recollection of the past, full of unforgettable aesthetics. Author: Julian Barnes, (Julian Barnes), 2013 The British novelist combines fiction and non-fictional novels to form an essay that is deeply sympathetic to the deceased wife, literary agent Pat Kavanag. Barnes divided the book into three themes, the 19th century hot air balloon, photography and marriage. These themes combine very well. Author: Rebecca Solnit (Rebecca saulny), 2004 “The high power of the Bush administration and the beginning of the Iraq war are extremely desperate,” but the American thinker has to stand againstFor this kind of thinking, he found optimism in radicalism and his ability to change the world. The book covers a wide range, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the uprising of the Zapatista, and even the invention of Viagra. Counting these cases, Solni found that the “hope” behind them is an opportunity for future change. Author: Claudia Rankine (Claudia Lunkai), 2014
The emergency response from the black suburbs (which was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina) was slow, and a mother on the plane tried to position her daughter away from the black passengers. The poet’s award-winning prose works always face the United States. In the history of racism, she raised a question that was thought-provoking: if he left the actual situation, who is truly qualified to become a citizen? Author: Michael Lewis (Michael Lewis), 2010 It’s a skill to make the most embarrassing theme interesting and easy to understand, but the author of The Big Bear has turned this skill into his own profession: “Penalty into Gold” tells a pole How to beat athletes with mathematics has revolutionized the story of baseball. But you don’t need to know or care about the sport, because it’s like all of Lewis’ best works – what matters is how the story is told. Author: Ian McEwan (Ian McEwan), in 2001 In McEwan’s work on meticulous analysis of memories and guilt, you can hear the echoes of DH Lawrence and EM Forster. In 1935, in a country manor, when a sultry day ended, the lie of a young girl changed the fate of three young people. The 13-year-old Misse Brioni is a precocious and fanatical literary youth. The world in her eyes is a distortion of reality. The hidden secrets in her heart are hard to say. In the manor’s party, Brioni met her beautiful sister, Cecilia, and the housekeeper’s son Robbie, and the scene was lingering. Robbie had always been affecting her teenage love, and now his image collapsed in an instant. At the same time, the manor was surging, and a suspicious rape case brought Brioni to the front. Under the influence of various complex emotions, Brioni pointed out that Robbie was a criminal and sent him to prison, but he firmly believed that Robbie’s innocent Cecilia would not hesitate to sever his relationship with his family and wait for him to return. In the elegant meditation of the power of love and art, you can experience the regrets of life, the fear of war and the devastating turning point. Author: Joan Didion (Joan Didion), in 2005 Didion described his husband, John Gregory Dunne, with his cold, clear, precise prose, who died at home because of a fatal heart attack. One year. Her devastating examination of grief and widowhood changed the nature of writing bitterness. This book has been promoted as “the classic of scarred literature”, has won the National Book Award, is the true confession of Didion’s coveted year, in addition to sad and moving memories, there are many reflections on life. Author: Zadie Smith (Zadie Smith) in 2000 The story revolves around two friends who formed an incredible friendship bond during the war years. Smith, who first entered the literary world, skillfully captured the multicultural spirit of the UK and provided a convincing immigrant family life. Insight. “White Teeth” confesses the conflicts between different ethnic beliefs and cultures, the breaks and splits of ideas between generations, and the evolution of the times and the absurdity of history in a witty and detached brush stroke. Between the neighborhoods, a picture of the complex and profound post-colonial immigrant life was portrayed. Author: Alan Hollinghurst (Alan Hollinghurst) in 2004 Oxford University graduate Nick Guest was lucky enough to move to the home of a Conservative MP in the west of London, Tory Tory MP. When Nick fell in love with the son of a supermarket tycoon, the fall of the Thatcher era was fully demonstrated in the book. At the same time, the novel also recorded how AIDS began to poison London’s gay life. In this unparalleled essay, Hollinghurst grasps something close to the spirit of the times, especially in the use of language, the analysis of ordinary human nature and the three-dimensional shaping. Author: Anne Enright (Anne Enright), 2015 Irish novelist’s family drama, with the theme of reunion, but MadiThe stories of the five members of the gan family were well balanced – including the female parent Rosaleen and her four children Dan, Emmet, Constance and Hanna, who left home but were destined to return home. In equilibrium. When the Madigan family finally came together in the middle of the book, Enlight was very skillful in reminding us of the importance of history and family. Author: Martin Amis (Martin Amis), in 2000 Amis’ novel is known for its explosiveness and irony, but in this memoir it shows a more warm side. His life was plagued by the disappearance of his cousin Lucy, and it was discovered 20 years later that Lucy was murdered by Fred West. But Ames recalled that the youth of wearing a “velvet suit, snakeskin boots” was also very interesting, and vividly portrayed his father’s image. In these memories, the self is ablated, dismembered, interpreted, and assembled. The ever-increasing footnotes add a new dimension to the past experience, like onions, which are stacked on top of each other. The publication was ranked fourth in the non-fiction novels published by Time magazine in the same year, and was well received by the critics. Author: Edmund de Waal (Edmund de Waal), 2010 In this exquisite family memoir, the pottery artist explained how he inherited 264 roots (Japanese trinkets) from his uncle. The seemingly impossible surviving of the roots made De Val tell a tortuous story. The story from Paris to Austria under Nazi rule, to Japan, beautifully created a sense of place. This book tells the story of the glory, wandering, and devastating pain experienced by the Jews.The fate of the employer changed because of the mischief of the employer’s teenage daughter. A fuss who is hard to change is gracefully accepting his wife’s new relationship in a nursing home. None of the characters in the Monroe story act according to everyone’s expectations. There is no boundary in emotions, there is no bottom line in the fall, and there is no win or loss in life… No matter in which era, the wisdom contained in these stories is all right, even prophetic. Explore the possibilities and outcomes of life. Author: Thomas Piketty (Thomas Pi Kaidi), 2013 A meticulous masterpiece that has been studied over the past 15 years. The Capital of the 21st Century has made its author a star of intellectuals, modern Marx, and has given readers a serious account of how neoliberalism can lead to serious problems. The phenomenon of inequality has generated great concern. The book’s data, theory, and historical analysis are rich, and the message it sends is clear and predictable: unless the government increases taxes, the new absurd wealth of the rich will contribute to political instability. Author: Sally Rooney (Sally Rooney), 2018 Rooney’s second novel reflects the love story between two smart, wounded young people in contemporary Ireland. This book establishes Rooney’s status as a literary superstar. Her focus is on the misplacement and uncertainty of the millennial generation, but her prose has universal appeal. Author: Jennifer Egan (Jennifer Egan), 2011 Inspired by Proust and The Sopranos, Egan’s or Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy tracks several roles in the American music scene and around, but in essence it’s a memory And blood, time and narrative, continuous and separate books. Life is like rock and roll, there will be sudden pauses. When the big ups and downs, the dream will be misplaced, and it is regrettable to surface. There is no absolute starting point and no end. Author: Andrew Solomon (Andrew Solomon) in 2001 This “anatomy” of depression stems from Solomon’s own painful experience. This book examines its many faces and introduces the science, sociology, and treatment of depression. “Melancholy” combines frankness, academic rigor and poetry, making it a literary memoir and a benchmark for understanding mental health. Author: George Saunders (George Sanders), 2013 American writer who won the Booker Award. This collection of short stories is warm and memorable, and will restore your faith in human nature. No matter how weird the setting of the novel is – the futuristic prison laboratory, the middle-aged residence with artificial turf as a status symbol – Sanders reminds us of this surreal satirical work in the post-crisis era. The meaning found in the small fragments. Author: Yuval Noah Harari (Yuval • Hela Li), 2011 Hirali’s brief history of humanity records the many revolutions that Homo sapiens have experienced in the past 70,000 years: from a new leap in cognitive reasoning to agriculture, science and industry, to the information age and biology. The possibility of technology. The scope of Herari’s work may be too broad for some people, but this fascinating work has long been a stalwart version, creating a miracle of selling millions of copies. Author: Kate Atkinson (Kate Atkinson), 2013 In telling the story of a woman born in the 1910s, Atkinson examines the story of the power of family, history, and fiction—and then she speaks again and again, time after time. Ursula Todd’s many life experiences were strangled at birth, drowned on a beach in Cornwall, and fell into a terrible marriage in Berchtesgaden. Visited Adolf Hitler. But this dazzling fictional structure is based on emotional intelligence, so that the heroine’s struggle is always painful, pleasant and real. Author: Mark Haddon (Mark Harden), in 2003
An epic masterpiece that made Mitchell famous. The whole book is a Russian doll, the story is nested in layers, spanning many centuries and genres can also be calm. From the 19th century navigator to the story of the end of civilization, to the nuclear conspiracy of the 1970s and the testimony of the cloning of the future, these fascinating narratives have subtle interrelationships, the storylines of the waves and the unchanging The human nature is intertwined and constitutes a beautiful cloud. Author: Ali Smith (Ali Smith), 2016
In the context of the Brexit referendum, Smith began writing her “Seasonal Quartet,” a fast-paced publishing experiment that is still in progress. The result is “the first British Brexit novel.” This is not only a snapshot of the newly split Britain, but also a dazzling exploration of love and art, time and dreams, life and death, all done with her usual invention and wisdom. Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates (Tower – Nai Xixi Cortez), 2015
Cotts has a passionate meditation on what it means to be an African American today. This book has made him one of the most important intellectuals and writers in the United States. Violence in BaltimoreAfter raising a former black panther’s son on the street, his voice became challenging, but at the same time poetic. “Between the World and Me” appeared in the form of a letter to his teenage son, covering the daily reality from racial inequality to police violence, to the history of American slaves and civil wars between the North and the South: he wrote Tao, whites will never remember “how many things have been stolen by them to make them rich.” Author: Philip Pullman (Philip Pullman), in 2000
When the last part of Pullman’s “Black Substance Trilogy” became the first choice for young readers, the annual Whitbread Book Awards marked the beginning of the children’s novel era. Pullman brings the imagination of firepower and storytelling courage to the most important themes – religion, free will, authoritarian structures, and the driving force of human learning, rebellion, and growth. Here, Asriel and Authority struggled to the climax, Lyra and Will went to the world of the dead, Mary investigated the mysterious elementary particles, which found the inspiration for the author’s current trilogy: The Book of Dust 》. So far, Pullman’s limelight may have been covered by JK Rowling’s commercial success under the influence of Hollywood, but his careful adaptation of Paradise Lost helped adult readers get rid of any children’s novels. awkward. Author: WG Sebald (Sebald) in 2001
Sebald died in a car accident in 2001, but his combination of sinister and sinister styles has a keen sense of historical morality, a journey of mind and a journey of walking.Interweaving has had a tremendous impact on the contemporary literary world. His last work is a man’s classic fable story, depicting the desperate and lost Jewish people of the 20th century with heartbreaking power. Author: Kazuo Ishiguro, in 2005
From the “Remains of the Day” by the Booker Prize in 1989, to the “The Burial Giant” in 2015, the Nobel Prize winner Ichiro Ichiro wrote about history, nationalism, and the status of the individual in this world. Far-reaching fables are something we can never understand. His sixth novel, set in the background is another England in the 1990s, a love triangle between human clones. The story explores death, loss, and human beings with delicate, reserved statements. significance. Author: Svetlana Alexievich (Svetlana Alexeyevich), 2013
This Belarusian Nobel laureate recorded thousands of hours of testimony of ordinary people and created the oral history of the Soviet Union and its end. Writers, waiters, doctors, soldiers, former Kremlin staff, survivors of Gulag: everyone has a space to tell their own stories, everyone shares their anger and betrayal, and expresses opposing capitalism Concerns about the transition. An unforgettable book is both a spiritual catharsis and a profound manifestation of sympathy. Author: Marilynne Robinson (Marilyn Robinson), 2004
45, “The Level of Life”
44, “Hope in the Dark”
43, Citizen: An American Lyric (Citizen: An American Lyric)
42, “Moneyball (pointing to gold)”
41, “Atonement”
40, “The Year of the Fantasy”
39, “White Teeth”
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37, The Green Road
36, “Experience”
35, “Bunny with Amber Eyes”
26, “The Capital of the 21st Century”
25, “Normal People”
24, “A Visit from The Goon Squad”
23, “Melancholy”
22, “December 10”
21, A Brief History of Humanity
20, “Life is Endless”
19, “The Late Night Puppy Mystery Event”
8, “Autumn”
7, “Between the World and Me”
6, “Amber Telescope”
5, “Osterlitz”
4, “Do not forget”
3, “Used Time”
2, Gilead
