2015年马上就要过完啦，年初给自己定的读书计划你完成了多少？小编非常惭愧，还有大部分没有完成。爱阅读的你一定比我强多了吧！囤书的机会又来啦！《华盛顿邮报》年度十大好书近日新鲜出炉！对于好书，希望这次我们不再错过。
1.Between the World and Me BY TA-NEHISI COATES
《我和世界之间》，作者：塔-那西斯·科茨
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It is a riveting meditation on the state of race in America that has arrived at a tumultuous moment in America's history of racial strife.
在美国种族冲突出现前所未有的激烈动荡的时刻，《我和世界之间》关于美国种族问题的阐释是发人深省的。
What it does better than any other recent book is relentlessly drive home the point that "racism is a visceral experience..."To be black in the ghetto of Coates's youth "was to be naked before the elements of the world, before all the guns, fists, knives, crack, rape, and disease."
相较于其他新书，它更加残酷地指出："种族主义是一种发自内心的体验……"作为一名贫民窟的黑人，科茨的青春"在全世界面前变得赤裸裸，在枪支、拳头、刀、爆炸、强奸和疾病面前手无寸铁，毫无反击之力"。
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A black man's stark, visceral experience of racism.
这本书是一名黑人对于种族主义发自肺腑的呐喊。
2.Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS BY JOBY WARRICK
《黑旗——伊斯兰国的崛起》，作者：乔比·沃瑞克
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The Islamic State, whose radical Islamic warriors have inflicted their brutality across the globe from the Middle East to Paris, was founded as al-Qaeda in Iraq in 2004 by a Jordanian thug known by his nom de guerre, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
2004年，伊斯兰国一个化名为阿布.穆萨布.扎卡维的约旦暴徒，在伊拉克建立了基地组织，如今，激进的伊斯兰战士在从中东到巴黎的全球范围制造暴力。
IJoby Warrick, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, explains the importance of this gangster and analyzes his continuing influence on the Islamic State long after his death in 2006.
普利策获奖记者乔比.沃瑞阐释了扎卡维的重要性，分析了这个死于2006年的暴徒对伊斯兰国所产生的持续影响力。
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Joby Warrick shows in painful but compulsively readable detail how a series of mishaps and mistakes by the U.S. and Jordanian governments gave this unschooled hoodlum his start as a terrorist superstar and set the Middle East on a path of sectarian violence that has proved hard to contain.
作者用充满痛苦但又引人入胜的笔触，揭示了美国政府和约旦政府所犯下的一系列灾难性错误，把一名天生的流氓造就为恐怖主义巨星，并使后来的中东陷于难以控制的宗派暴力事件当中。
3.The Book of Aron BY JIM SHEPARD
《阿伦的书》，作者：吉姆·谢巴德
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In the summer of 1942, German soldiers expelled almost 200 starving children from an orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto and packed them into rail cars bound for Treblinka.
1942年夏，华沙犹太孤儿院里将近200位饥饿的儿童被德国士兵驱逐，装进了开往特雷布林卡集中营的火车上。
Drawing on his imagination and dozens of historical sources, Shepard brings the Warsaw orphanage to life in this remarkable novel about a poor Polish boy and his friendship with the caretaker of the orphans, the pediatrician Janusz Korczak.
作者谢巴德发挥想象，结合大量史料，在这部著名的小说中再现了华沙孤儿院的生活，讲述了一个贫穷的波兰男孩和孤儿院看守、儿科医生雅努什·科扎克之间的深厚友谊。
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Aron relays his world just as he experiencesthat his town slides into hell. Although relentless in its portrayal of systematic evil, "The Book of Aron" is nonetheless a story of such candor about the complexity of heroism that it challenges us to greater courage.
书中阿伦转述的故事就仿佛是他的亲身经历，他所在的小镇陷入地狱。虽然《阿伦的书》对制度性罪恶的刻画冷酷无情，但它也是一个讲述英雄主义复杂性的坦率故事，赋予我们更多勇气。
4.Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush BY JON MEACHAM
《命运与权力：乔治·W·H·布什的美国奥德赛》，作者：乔恩·米查姆
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Jon Meacham's new biography of George H.W. Bush accomplishes a neat trick.
乔恩·米查姆的老布什传是一个巧妙的设计。
In Meacham's telling, Bush indeed lacked an ideological vision, was as overmatched in domestic policy as he was masterful on the global stage, benefited from his family's influence, and remains overshadowed "by the myth of his predecessor and the drama of his sons' political lives."
在米查姆的讲述中，布什确实缺乏一种意识形态视野，他对国内政策的掌控能力远逊于对国际事务的处理能力，他得益于来自家庭的影响，却至今仍活在前任的神话以及儿子戏剧性政治生涯的阴影之中。
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What Meacham so skillfully adds to this understanding — through extraordinary detail, deft writing and, thanks to his access to Bush's diaries, an inner monologue of key moments in Bush's presidency.
米查姆的细节描写卓越，写作方法巧妙，又有幸接触到了老布什日记，由此很好地把握了他在任期内关键时刻的内心活动。
5.Fates and Furies BY LAUREN GROFF
《命运和暴怒》，作者：罗伦·格罗夫
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The book's first half concocts the blessed life of Lancelot "Lotto" Satterwhite, the adored son of a wealthy family who has great ambitions to be an actor. His wife, Mathilde, so long impoverished and alone, willingly takes on the chore of encouraging Lancelot.
作者在前半部分编造了男主的幸福生活，他是一个富裕家庭的可爱儿子，想要当一个演员。他的妻子玛蒂尔达长期被贫穷和孤独折磨，心甘情愿地担负起鼓励这个自恋年轻人的苦差事。
And halfway through, Groff turns from "Fates" to "Furies." Here's a woman as determined as Antigone, as ferocious as Medea.
行文过半，格罗夫从"命运"写到"暴怒"，在真实中两人有着不可调和的矛盾。最后，这名女性成了一位像安提戈涅一样决绝、像美狄亚一样残忍的人
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'Fates and Furies' review: A masterful tale of marriage and secrets.
这是一部关于婚姻和秘密的史诗巨著。
6.Future Crimes：Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable, and What We Can Do About It BY MARC GOODMAN
《未来犯罪——万物关联，人类脆弱，我们怎么办》，作者：马克·古德曼
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Welcome to the brave new world of criminal technology, where robbers have been replaced by hackers and victims include all of us on the Web.
欢迎来到犯罪技术的美丽新世界，在这里，劫匪已被黑客替代，包括我们在内的所有上网者都是受害人。
Goodman, a former beat cop who founded the Future Crimes Institute, wrote his book to shed light on the latest in criminal and terrorist tradecraft and to kick off a discussion. He presents myriad cybercrime examples.
前警察、未来犯罪研究所创立者古德曼通过这本书揭示了最新的犯罪行为和恐怖主义间谍情报技术，并进行了讨论，他向我们展示了无数令人匪夷所思的网络犯罪的例子。
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Exploring the real-world effects — and the political ones — of our technological insecurity.
这是一本探索网络技术所带来的不安感在现实生活中和政治圈里真实呈现的佳作。
7.A Little Life BY Hanya Yanagihara
《小生活》，作者：汉雅·柳原
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Hanya Yanagihara's novel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction, illuminates human suffering pushed to its limits, drawn in extraordinary, eloquent detail.
汉雅·柳原这部小说是国家图书奖小说类的入围作品，她通过非凡的、意味深长的细节，阐释了人类的极致苦难。
The narrative quickly concentrates on Jude, an orphan with a mysterious past. Jude's desire to maintain a veneer of control, despite being haunted by sexual and psychological abuse, creates the book's major drama.
小说的主人公裘德是一个有着神秘过去的孤儿，尽管裘德深陷性虐待和心理虐待之中，但他努力掩饰这一切——这构成了本书的主要冲突。
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Through her decade-by-decade examination of these people's lives, Yanagihara draws a deeply realized character study that inspires as much as devastates.
通过对数十载生活的考察与审视，汉雅·柳原所深刻呈现的人物角色令人鼓舞又让人绝望。
8.Negroland：A memoir BY MARGO JEFFERSON
《黑人之地：一部回忆录》，作者：马戈·杰弗逊
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Margo Jefferson was an African American girl from a good family that had money, connections and expectations of excellence.
作者马戈·杰斐逊是一位非裔美国女孩，来自一个有钱、有人脉、追求卓越的好家庭。
She was (mostly) protected from the sting of racism and its pernicious hacking away at self-esteem, opportunity and hope. But her armor was thin, and over the years she has nursed her discomfort with being a child of privilege.
她大部分时候都免受种族主义的刺痛和对于自尊、机遇、希望的险恶攻击。但她的盔甲依然薄弱，多年来，她一直试图平复自己作为一个特权阶级的小孩在白人上流社会中的不安。
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"Negroland" is not about raw racism or caricatured villains. It is about subtleties and nuances, presumptions and slights that chip away at one's humanity and take a mental toll.
《黑人之地》无关原始的种族主义或被讽刺攻击的恶棍，它描述了那些微妙而细致的假想和轻蔑，他们削弱了人性，造成了心理的伤害。
9.Purity BY JONATHAN FRANZEN
《纯度》，作者：乔纳森·弗兰岑
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The book traces the unlikely rise of a poor, fatherless child named Pip. At least partially to escape her mother's neediness, Pip accepts an internship with a rogue Web site in the jungles of Bolivia that exposes the nasty secrets of corporations and nations.
本书描绘穷苦丧父的皮普希望渺茫的成长过程。为了能多少逃脱母亲的穷困潦倒，皮普接受了一份位于玻利维亚丛林中的流氓网站的短期实习，这个网站暴露了公司和国家的肮脏秘密。
Its leader is an Internet activist whose back story in East Germany reads like a cerebral thriller.
该网站的领导是个网络活动家，他在东德的经历读来就像一部惊悚小说。
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Franzen writes with perfectly balanced fluency. From its tossed-off observations to its thoughtful reflections on nuclear weapons and the moral compromises of journalism, this novel offers a constantly provocative series of insights.
《纯度》的写作完美、平衡而流畅。弗兰岑对于核武器和新闻业的道德妥协进行了深入的观察和思考，为我们提供了一系列颇具挑战性的观点。
10.Welcome to Braggsville BY T.GERONIMO JOHNSON
《欢迎来到布朗斯维尔》，作者：T. 杰罗尼莫·约翰逊
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D'aron Little May Davenport, a polite white teen from Braggsville, Ga., arrives at University of California at Berkeley as if he's a Southern-fried Candide.
阿隆是个有礼貌的白人青年，来自佐治亚州布朗斯维尔，来到加州大学伯克利分校读书，貌似是个南方老实人。
The whole novel turns on a moment in one of his history classes . A too clever, incredibly offensive, potentially disastrous plan is born: D'aron and three friends travel back to Braggsville and stage a mock lynching, "a performative intervention."
整个小说由一节历史课展开。一项聪明至极、充满冒犯的灾难性计划诞生了：阿隆和三个朋友回到布朗斯维尔，导演了一场虚拟私刑。
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Johnson is a master at stripping away our persistent myths and exposing the subterfuge and displacement necessary to keep pretending that a culture built on kidnapping, rape and torture was the apotheosis of gentility and honor.
作者约翰逊善于去除我们固执的缪见、揭露人们的诡计和错位，这种错位假装把建立在绑架、强奸和酷刑之上的文化当做教养和荣誉典范。
（来源：《华盛顿邮报》，中国日报网双语新闻微信 编辑：何娜，丁一）
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