Wuthering Heights
《呼嘯山莊》，1847年
作者:Emily Brontë 艾米莉·勃朗特
Wuthering Heights is "powered by more psychological energy than any book ever written". Readers admire Wuthering Heights because of "its layered narrative structure, because it is a work of incredible imagination, and because it is far more than a love story. The story shows "the eternal rocks beneath" our fleeting desires.
《呼嘯山莊》“蘊含巨大的心理能量，沒有其它書籍能夠與之匹敵。”讀者推崇《呼嘯山莊》是因為其“層層疊疊的敘述結構”和豐富驚人的想象力，更因為《呼嘯山莊》超越了愛情故事本身，展現了我們轉瞬即逝的慾望之下“永恆的震撼”。
The Pigeon Tunnel
鴿子通道
作者:John le Carré 約翰·勒·卡雷
The master of espionage fiction offers a memoir of sorts, a series of meticulously crafted, witty and enthralling "stories from my life". He describes the childhood deceptions and losses that launched him, his schooling in Switzerland, where he made his first "infant steps for British Intelligence, delivering I knew not what to I knew not whom."
間諜小說大師推出自傳體作品，細膩打造“我的生活中”引人入勝的趣事。他描述了童年遭遇的欺騙和隨之而來的失落感，講述了在瑞士的學生時光，正是在那裡，他“邁出了成為英國情報人員的第一小步，把我不瞭解的信息傳遞給我不認識的人”。
Jane Eyre
《簡·愛》，1847年
作者:Charlotte Brontë 夏洛蒂·勃朗特
Brontë's revolutionary 1847 Gothic romance about a young woman seeking a richer and more passionate life on her own still resonates with modern readers. Brontë's novel features the orphan Jane Eyre's search for an identity, her powerful attraction to her master, Mr. Rochester, and an intimate deion of her complex moral choices and sometimes raw emotional states.
勃朗特這部哥特式愛情傳奇出版於1847年，內容革新，講述了一個年輕女性追尋更為充實激情的生活，至今仍能引起現代讀者的共鳴。 勃朗特小說的主人翁簡·愛是個孤兒，追尋著自我的身份，主人羅切斯特先生深深吸引著她;小說真切描述了簡·愛複雜的道德抉擇及其有時顯得有些原始的情感狀態。
Middlemarch
《米德爾馬契》，1874年
作者:George Eliot 喬治·艾略特
Anovel of great characters, it's an even greater novel of ideas and ideals. Middlemarch is the greatest social and psychological novel ever written in English.
這部小說人物角色卓越，更精妙之處在於其想法與理念。《米德爾馬契》是迄今最偉大的英文寫就的社會和心理學小說。
Frankenstein
《弗蘭肯斯坦》，1818年
作者:Mary Shelley 瑪莉·雪萊
This pioneering work of science fiction and Gothic horror developed an indelible "monster" of a theme that has endured for centuries: of the scientist as a "modern Prometheus".
這部先鋒作品集科幻和哥特式恐怖於一身，營造了一個難以磨滅的“惡魔”主題，即科學家中的“現代普羅米修斯”，幾世紀以來經久不衰。
Mrs Dalloway
《達洛衛夫人》，1925年
作者:Virginia Woolf 弗吉尼亞·伍爾芙
If the most precious gift of the novel as a medium is the power it has to break into the prison of human consciousness, to expose the gossamer (蛛絲似的，纖細縹緲的) weave of thought and feeling and memory that makes up our innermost lives, then Woolf's fourth novel stands alone at the pinnacle(頂峰). Virginia Woolf made modernism live and breathe.
如果說這部小說作為媒介最天才之處在於其破除人類意識的囹圄、暴露人們那些構成內在世界的細若蛛絲的思緒、情感和記憶，那麼伍爾芙的第四部小說就是孤立巔峰之作。弗吉尼亞讓現代主義煥發生命、鮮活起來。
Lincoln in the Bardo
林肯在中陰
作者:George Saunders 喬治•桑德斯
February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln’s beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. “My poor boy, he was too good for this earth,” the president says at the time. “God has called him home.” Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns, alone, to the crypt several times to hold his boy’s body.
1862年，林肯的兒子威利死於傷寒，年僅11歲。在他經歷喪子之痛時，美國內戰爆發，戰局混亂，傷亡人數不斷攀升。作者通過佛教“中陰”的概念來呈現威利墓地上的悲傷幻象，同時也揭示了林肯作為父親的悲傷和他決定“勇敢面對，解決問題”的關鍵決定之間的聯繫。
A Separation
一場分離
Amarried couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
“故事始於伊莎貝拉的一個電話。她想知道克里斯托弗在哪裡。”伊莎貝拉的兒子克里斯托弗隱瞞了他和妻子已經分居6個月的事實。隨著克里斯托弗的消失，他的謊言和背叛也即將暴露，妻子決定飛往雅典和丈夫離婚……
The Book Thieves
偷書賊
作者:Anders Rydell 安德斯•李戴爾
1939 - Nazi Germany - The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and the story of the inhabitants of her street when the bombs begin to fall. Some important information - this novel is narrated by death. It's a small story, about: a girl; an accordionist; some fanatical Germans; a Jewish fist fighter; and quite a lot of thievery. Another thing you should know - death will visit the book thief three times.
作者本身簡約的文字風格，賦予這部小說一種冷冽、抽離的情感，加上死神的口吻，讓讀者不斷感嘆於人性的光輝與險惡之中。孩子們單純快樂的童年生活中，飄著納粹的烏雲。偷書賊住在天堂街，不斷面臨生存的壓力與思想的桎梏，支撐主角靈魂去面對現實的，不是真正的天堂，而是這些偷來的書!本書的故事很容易讓人想起《安妮日記》，似乎與它有異曲同工之妙，同樣的背景不同的人物演繹著那一段對猶太人來說刻骨銘心的歷史。一個用日記體記錄著每天的點點滴滴，而另一個則用小說站在第三者的角度上來審視納粹的歷史。表達了同樣的主題和思想:對罪惡戰爭的控訴和對崇高心靈的讚美。
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