在世界讀書日之際,送你一份特別的書單(下)

Natalie Portman, The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank: This choice makes sense as Natalie starred in the play of the same name, detailing the life of the young girl living, loving and growing as she hid from the Nazis.

娜塔麗·波特曼最愛的書是《安妮日記》，作者是安妮·弗朗克：娜塔麗曾在百老匯主演過同名的戲劇。愛屋及烏，這本書也無疑會是她的最愛。書裏細緻描述了這位少女（安妮）在逃離納粹迫害時，她的生活、情感經歷和成長記載。

Catherine Zeta-Jones, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: Check out this Fitzgerald classic to get a take on the lives of the wealthy during the Jazz Age.

凱瑟琳·澤塔-瓊斯最愛的書是《了不起的蓋茨比》，作者是F.史葛·菲茨傑拉德：細讀菲茨拉德的這本著作，你會借這個窗口窺見爵士樂時代，富人階層的生活方式與生存法則。

Nicole Kidman, The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis: While Kidman starred in the much more anti-religious series beginning with The Golden Compass, her favorites are these classic children's books.

妮可·基德曼最愛的書是《納尼亞傳奇》，作者是C.S.路易斯：自《黃金羅盤》始，妮可主演的作品大都是反宗教題材的，但她的最愛可是這些經典兒童名著。

Catcher in the Rye is undoubtfully a classical work of the American literature. The main character being an expelled student named Holden Caulfield, though he is just 16, he encounters many events that tend to preclude adults. Catcher in the Rye is about a youth of 1960-s, but it is still actual today.

《麥田裏的守望者》無疑是美國文學史上最經典的一部著作。書的主人公是一個叫霍爾頓·考爾菲德的除名學生，雖然他只有16歲，但他遭遇了很多的事情讓他趨向於成熟。《麥田裏的守望者》是關於20世紀60年代的一個年輕人的故事，但是現今仍然很契合實際。

"Song of Solomon" ends up on many to-read book lists because of the author's 1993 Nobel Prize for literature, and because the book itself won the prestigious National Book Critics Fiction award in 1977.

《所羅門之歌》出現在很多閱讀清單上，因爲它的作者獲得了1993年的諾貝爾文學獎，並且該書本身也在1977年獲得了久負盛名的美國國家書評獎。

Somewhat like the James Joyce classic "Ulysses", this book combines historical elements, free association, and unanswerable questions in the life of its main character. Beginning with a suicide and a black child's birth into a Michigan hospital, Morrison explores the complicated role of black family life, its heritage and its possible future.

這本書有點像詹姆斯·喬伊斯的經典之作《尤利西斯》，融合了歷史元素、自由聯想以及無法回答的問題，展現了主角的生活。莫里森以自殺和在密歇根大學醫院出生的黑人小孩開始，探討了黑人家庭生活的複雜角色、遺產以及可能的未來。

This is one of the best allegorical novels to explain the fractured nature of 19th century Russia. Each character is representative of one of the ruling classes. There is the father Fyodor, the landowner who is negligent about his land, but greedy in using its produce for himself. There's Dmitri, who has been passed around from house to house, and has grown up an entitled but debt-ridden soul. There's the skeptic Ivan, who wishes to live more than people. Third is gentle Alyosha, the mystic and religious peacemaker, and the illegitimate Smerdyakov. Through out are themes of love, law, and duty, which makes this one of the best Dostoyesky books to read besides Crime and Punishment.

這是最好的寓言小說之一，闡述了19世紀俄國分崩離析的本質。每個角色都是統治階級的代表之一。父親費多爾是個疏於耕種的地主，卻貪婪地一心要把作物佔爲己用。德米特里，挨家挨戶遊蕩，長大成人雖有權利在握，卻心債累累。滿腹狐疑的伊凡，整日想着要比起別人活得更長。老三阿廖沙性格溫和，信仰宗教，是個和事佬；還有私生子麥爾佳科夫。貫穿全書的主題是情愛、法律和責任，這讓其成爲陀思妥耶夫斯基《罪與罰》之外最值得一讀的書籍。

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》是因爲其“層層疊疊的敘述結構”和豐富驚人的想象力，更因爲《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”。

Great Expectations might be the quintessential British novel. To re-read Dickens' classic as an adult is to discover its wit and brio, its influence, and its truth. It has all the elements of classic Dickens – endearing, flawed characters; a plot that skewers the politics of the time; subplots that skewer morality and culture; a love story; and a wonderful storyline.

《遠大前程》或許是最地道的英國小說。成年讀者重溫狄更斯經典，去發現其智慧與精彩、影響與真理。《遠大前程》有狄更斯經典的所有元素，討人歡喜卻不甚完美的角色、主要故事情節能牽住時局、副線情節串起道德與文化，是一部情節精彩的愛情故事作品。

A novel 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社會心理學小說。