2010年度最佳书籍排行 编辑本段回目录
黛博拉·艾森伯格故事集（The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg）
黛博拉·艾森伯格（Deborah Eisenberg）
Picador
This collection of 20 years’ worth of stories—their milieus vividly defined, their dialogue unsettlingly real, their characters hyperobservant—establishes Eisenberg’s place at the pinnacle of American fiction.
Picador出版社
本书汇集20年来的故事精品——故事背景勾勒得栩栩如生，语言对话真实得令人感到不安，而人物个性更是被敏锐无比的观察力精准地捕捉到——正是它们把艾森伯格推上了美国小说界的尖峰地位。
A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers
爵士大师和流行巨星传记辞典（A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers ）
Will Friedwald
威尔·弗雷德沃德（Will Friedwald ）
Pantheon
Pantheon出版社
Friedwald chronicles the Great American Songbook, its creators, and its interpreters—a body of work that stands at the apogee of this nation’s civilization. Quirky, opinionated, shaped by exquisite taste and judgment, this feat of musical and cultural criticism offers an exuberant glimpse into the American character.
弗雷德沃德将美国最优秀的歌曲集、创作者和它们的演绎者编年成集。是一本集合了代表美国文化巅峰之作的书籍。作者观点古怪而又顽固，却有着精致敏锐的鉴赏力和判断力，这一集音乐和文化评论为一体的力作，将令你饶有兴味地一窥美利坚民族的个性、
Private Life: A Novel
私人生活：一部小说（Private Life: A Novel ）
Jane Smiley
简·斯迈利（Jane Smiley ）
Knopf
Knopf出版社
A heartbreaking, bitter, and gorgeous epoch-spanning novel of a woman’s life stunted by marriage, this is Smiley’s best book yet. Making dazzling and meticulous use of her historical scope, she has written a work at once majestic and gemlike.
这本小说关于一个被婚姻束缚的女人的生活，一本令人心碎、倍感苦涩的小说，一部划时代的辉煌力作，它是斯迈利迄今最优秀的作品。从她的历史视角出发，笔力光灿夺目却又精确缜密，一度被视为珍宝般的宏伟之作。
The Evolution of Childhood: Relationships, Emotion, Mind
童年进化史：关系、情感和理智（The Evolution of Childhood: Relationships, Emotion, Mind ）
Melvin Konner
马尔文 科纳（Melvin Konner ）
Harvard
Harvard出版社
This monumental book—more than 900 pages long, 30 years in the making, grand and intricate, breathtakingly inclusive and painstakingly particular—probes the biological evolution of human behavior and specifically the behavior of children. It is the flower of an astoundingly productive and innovative period of scholarship.
一部里程碑似的作品——长度超过900页，编写历程跨越30年，气势宏大又错综复杂，包罗万象的程度令人惊叹，却又有着苦心经营而成的独特韵味。本书探究了人类行为的生物学进化，着重刻画了儿童的行为。在不断创新又丰富多产的学术时代中，这是一朵艳丽的奇葩。
What Becomes: Stories
后来怎样：故事集（What Becomes: Stories ）1
A. L. Kennedy
A.L.肯尼迪（A. L. Kennedy ）
Knopf
Knopf出版社
Kennedy’s approach in these lapidary stories is off-kilter and desolate—most of them involve unions unhappy or unraveling, and violence animates several. The author, a supremely refined stylist, leaves the reader shaken, but not in despair. Humor, albeit of a particularly hard-won variety, suggests Kennedy (a sometime stand-up comic), is necessary for fortitude.
肯尼迪的创作手法使书中宝石般的故事显得离奇而又荒凉，大多数故事是不幸或破坏的结合体，也有一些暴力故事穿插其中增添色彩。作者是个极度优雅的文体大师，他令读者不禁颤抖，但绝无失望。他的幽默，即使带着来之不易的独特的捉摸不定感，暗示了肯尼迪（他曾经是一位单人喜剧表演者）必定有着坚韧不拔的毅力。
