沙滩阅读

There’s still a lot of summer left, 所以我有5个非小说类和5个小说类的推荐给你的海滩阅读.

非小说类

The Half-Known Life: In Search of Paradise, 皮科。耶尔

What is Paradise? Where is Paradise? 皮科。耶尔, a prolific writer of his many travels, visits the holy sites of Iran, 日本, 耶路撒冷, India and Sri Lanka to find out. 他观察到一个悖论，即如此多的暴力伴随着如此多的圣地, and death is especially pervasive here. 当然, Paradise cannot be found on this earth, and death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of birth, quoting a Buddhist scholar. Iyer是一位出色的作家，他优美的散文会吸引你去访问这些网站. 他对天堂的沉思也许能帮助我们欣赏我们所拥有的生活.

粮食的海洋, Scott Reynolds 纳尔逊

Trade built empires,而不是 the other way around, and nothing was as important to trade, 或帝国, 小麦. 纳尔逊, a professor at the University of Georgia, offers a deeply fascinating history of the grain trade, with an emphasis on Ukraine, the breadbasket of Europe. 我们还了解到硝化甘油在粮食贸易中的重要性, 尼尔森在俄罗斯农奴和美国奴隶之间建立了许多深刻的yabo亚博网站登录, or how Catherine the Great emulated the American grain system, 为例. 这是一段精彩的历史，它带来了社会的许多方面, political and technological developments, all through the critically important lens of grain.

不可分割的, Joel Richard Paul

在共和国的早期，美国人的身份几乎没有形成. 几乎每个人都认同自己所在的州，或者在较小程度上认同自己所在的地区. 指导美国建国15年的《yabo亚博网站登录》(Articles of Confederation)用法律术语表达了这一点:那就是13个州 殖民地 that formed the Union. 宪法改变了法律框架，它的开场白是， 我们人民,而不是 我们美国， but a true national identity had not been formed. Yet 70 years later, 数百万人将携起手来，用生命来捍卫美国的身份. 这种从国家身份到民族身份的转变是如何发生的? 在美国身份认同如何发展，甚至是否发展的问题上，存在着相互竞争的力量, 丹尼尔·韦伯斯特的版本和愿景最终得以实现. 不可分割的 is a political history of the first half of the 19^th 世纪的美国，保罗将那个时代的关键人物描绘得栩栩如生. 但他的焦点是丹尼尔·韦伯斯特，美国历史上最伟大的演说家. 在我们这个国家分裂的时代，我们最好记住韦伯斯特的名言， Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable. 不可分割的 is an excellent work of history because it has relevance today.

水槽, Joseph Earl Thomas

This is an 非凡的 memoir, told first in the third person as a preteen, 第二个人是在贫困中长大的青少年, 污秽, 药物, and violence of Philadelphia in the 1990s. 乔伊以一种不偏不倚、实事求是的方式讲述他的生活经历. 这种不哗众取闹的态度使他的日常斗争更加引人入胜. His mother is a crack addict, in and out of his life. 他的祖母带他和妹妹进去，但她也很少在他身边. 他的祖父打她，也打乔伊，但至少给了他们一个住的地方. Joey escapes to the world of video games and anime, 但现实世界从不允许他长期逃避痛苦. 尽管如此，乔伊活了下来，寻找爱，并学会了如何给予爱. This is an autobiography that reads like a novel, 非凡的, shocking and heart-wrenching, a remarkable debut from a gifted writer.

Easily Slip Into Another World, Henry Threadgill

Henry Threadgill is one of the great jazz composers of our era, winner of a Pulitzer Prize, and this is his autobiography. 现在, 我认为大多数自传都很糟糕:它们是由不会写作的人写的, and are either out to settle scores or to create a hagiography. Neither is true here. This book will appeal primarily to musicians, 我觉得最有趣的是他谈到他是如何作曲的. It can be a little technical, so some musical foundation is helpful, but there is so much more to savor. Threadgill在书中充满了他自己家庭中生动的人物, and his experiences growing up on Chicago’s South Side, his time as a soldier in Vietnam, to his development as a musician. 对于一个被学校开除的人来说，他的博学之广是了不起的. All his knowledge and experiences come together in his music. Threadgill tells his life story simply and directly. 这既是对他那个时代的社会世界的审视，也是对音乐是如何创作的探讨. This should have wide appeal beyond those interested in jazz, but for those who are, this is a treasure.

The Rabbit Hutch——苔丝·冈蒂

这是一本yabo亚博网站登录首页生活在印第安纳州一个可怜小镇上的可怜人的可怜生活的小说. 这也是一本令人惊叹的处女作，将我们与每一个人物yabo亚博网站登录在一起, 他们的人性, 他们的缺陷, 对铁锈地带社区寻求恢复昔日繁荣的斗争进行了尖锐的社会评论. 写作是神奇的和迷人的，一个当之无愧的国家图书奖得主.

素食韩康

这是一个简短的, 超现实主义的, 令人不安的小说，一个女人有一个梦想，她不应该再吃肉. 她的家人对她的这种行为感到困惑，因为她体重减轻了，似乎渐渐变成了自己的样子, 隐藏的世界. The story is told first from the perspective of her husband, then her brother-in-law, and finally from her sister. 它包含暴力和性行为，幻觉和噩梦. Yet each character is portrayed with such delicacy and kindness, even as each questions their grip on reality. 这本书在2007年出版时，在国内引起了不小的轰动, 但它的英译本在2016年获得了国际布克奖. It is unsettling, but still beautiful.

Bad Summer People, Emma Rosenblum

这是一个完美的海滩阅读材料:一个紧密yabo亚博网站登录的社区，世世代代都在火岛上避暑. 还有那些讨厌的纽约金融家和他们的花瓶妻子和花瓶孩子, the new tennis pro whom every woman lusts over, the nannies who endure the boredom and disregard, the unending gossip. 还有一起谋杀案. This is not high literature, but as a debut novelist, Emma Rosenblum captures perfectly the cadence, affectations and pettiness of the upper, 上层阶级.

胜利的城市, Salman Rushdie

一个九岁的小女孩看着她的母亲和村里的其他妇女一起走路, 一个接一个, onto a funeral pyre, following the deaths of their husbands in battle. As the girl walks away, she is visited by a goddess, who gives her a bag of magic seeds, from which a city, and then an empire, 种植. 这个女孩活了248年，见证了她的帝国的兴衰. 在她死之前, she leaves a manuscript recounting the history of this empire, and her role in nurturing it for over two centuries. 这是一个由故事大师讲述的迷人的故事，但它远不止于此. Rushdie has long written about political hypocrisy, the leaders who make war in the name of peace, the intolerance of those who proclaim, 和实施, 他们的纯洁, and these themes flow throughout the book. 在这本神奇而迷人的书中，拉什迪给了我们这个时代的教训.

火灾信号丹妮·夏皮罗

This is a truly beautiful, 情感小说, 两个家庭, 邻居, over the course of fifty years. 我们被介绍给每一位父母和孩子，了解他们的恐惧、希望和内心感受. 能够以一种深深触动我们的方式来描写普通人的平凡生活，这是一种罕见的天赋. In the end, this is a book about caring, about love. 无论是情节还是人物，都没有什么特别之处. But you will be moved by the tenderness and love in this novel.

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