近日,由BBC举办的为期一年的文学庆祝活动“The Novels That Shaped Our World”终于揭晓了最终的名单。
1719年,笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》出版,被认为是英语小说的开山之作。今年正值300周年纪念,由6位英国著名作家、策展人和评论家组成的评选小组选出了他们心目中100本最具影响力的书籍。书单分为10类,包括童书、当代经典和图像小说等,这些书籍被认为极大地推动了文化的转变和发展。
BBC艺术频道的导演乔蒂·克莱波尔(Jonty Claypole)表示:“这次的评选活动旨在激发所有人阅读更多书籍,读书能真正提升我们的生活质量。”
BBC还将与英国图书馆和读书会合作,发起为期一年的阅读活动,包括研讨会、徒步旅行、电影放映和现场表演等,并于11月9日正式启动。
以下就是选出的100本塑造世界的英语小说,跟随国际君一起来看看,你最爱的哪本有没有入围吧。
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry Fugitive Pieces by Anne MichaelsHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSmall Island by Andrea Levy The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding Giovanni’s Room by James BaldwinPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonThe Far Pavilions by M M Kaye The Forty Rules of Love by Elif ShafakThe Passion by Jeanette WintersonThe Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton
City of Bohane by Kevin BarryEye of the Needle by Ken FollettFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayHis Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip PullmanMr Standfast by John BuchanThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Jack Aubrey Novels by Patrick O’BrianThe Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J R R TolkeinLife, Death & Other Worlds
A Game of Thrones by George R. R. MartinAstonishing the Gods by Ben OkriFrankenstein by Mary ShelleyGilead by Marilynne RobinsonThe Chronicles of Narnia by C S LewisThe Discworld Series by Terry PratchettThe Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula K Le GuinThe Sandman Series by Neil GaimanThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Politics, Power & Protest
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyHome Fire by Kamila ShamsieLord of the Flies by William GoldingNoughts & Crosses by Malorie BlackmanStrumpet City by James PlunkettThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeV for Vendetta by Alan Moore
A House for Mr Biswas by V S NaipaulCannery Row by John SteinbeckOur Mutual Friend by Charles DickensSaturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan SillitoeThe Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian MooreThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel SparkThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroWide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Emily of New Moon by L M MontgomeryGolden Child by Claire AdamOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodSo Long, See You Tomorrow by William MaxwellSwami and Friends by R K NarayanThe Country Girls by Edna O’BrienThe Harry Potter series by J K RowlingThe Outsiders by S E HintonThe Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 ¾ by Sue TownsendThe Twilight Saga by Stephanie Meyer
A Suitable Boy by Vikram SethBallet Shoes by Noel StreatfeildCloudstreet by Tim WintonCold Comfort Farm by Stella GibbonsI Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithMiddlemarch by George EliotTales of the City by Armistead MaupinThe Shipping News by E Annie ProulxThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne BronteThe Witches by Roald Dahl
American Tabloid by James EllroyAmerican War by Omar El AkkadIce Candy Man by Bapsi SidhwaRebecca by Daphne du MaurierRegeneration by Pat BarkerThe Children of Men by P D James The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin HamidThe Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia HighsmithThe Quiet American by Graham Greene
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleBartleby, the Scrivener by Herman MelvilleHow to be Both by Ali SmithOrlando by Virginia WoolfNights at the Circus by Angela CarterNineteen Eighty-Four by George OrwellPsmith, Journalist by P G WodehouseThe Moor’s Last Sigh by Salman RushdieZami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde
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