4月7日,《星期日泰晤士报》的作家和评论家评选出了“本世纪100部最受喜爱小说”。其中一些作品虽然诞生于上个世纪,但最初是用非英语语言写成,直到最近才出版英文版。
《星期日泰晤士报》认为,自2000年以来,文学世界发生了很大的变化,书籍世界变得更加多样化,也可以说更加有趣了。他们所列出的这份榜单并不代表任何权威标准,而是评选者的个人喜好。为了尽可能地扩大范畴,每位作家只入选一本作品。另外,犯罪惊悚类小说未入此列。
从这份榜单中可以看出,短篇小说与外来翻译小说正在兴起。中国共有两位作家的作品入选榜单,分别是莫言的《蛙》和阎连科《炸裂志》。
莫言《蛙》
阎连科《炸裂志》
完整榜单列表如下:
Conversations With Friends (Sally Rooney)
Olive Kitteridge (Elizabeth Strout)
Americanah (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon)
The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)
The Green Road (Anne Enright)
The Essex Serpent (Sarah Perry)
Disobedience (Naomi Alderman)
All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)
Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)
Then We Came to the End(Joshua Ferris)
A Visit From the Goon Squad (Jennifer Egan)
Brooklyn (Colm Toibin)
West (Carys Davies)
Golden Hill (Francis Spufford)
An Officer an a Spy (Robert Harris)
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
All My Puny Sorrows (Miriam Toews)
The Yellow Birds (Kevin Powers)
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lionel Shriver)
Spies (Michael Frayn)
Hope: A Tragedy (Shalom Auslander)
Late in the Day (Tessa Hadley)
Old Filth (Jane Gardam)
Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
NW (Zadie Smith)
All Families Are Psychotic (Douglas Coupland)
God's Own Country (Ross Raisin)
Legend of a Suicide (David Vann)
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things (Jon McGregor)
The Little Red Chairs (Edna O' Brien)
Grief Is the Thing With Feathers (Max John Porter)
The Plot Against America (Philip Roth)
Arlington Park (Rachel Cusk)
Let the Great World Spin (Colum McCann)
The Forgiven (Lawrence Osborne)
Mister Pip (Lloyd Jones)
The Secret River (Kate Grenville)
Burial Rites (Hannah Kent)
Any Human Heart (William Boyd)
Daughters of Jerusalem (Charlotte Mendelson)
Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Notes on a Scandal (Zoe Heller)
All That Man Is (David Szalay)
The Noise of Time (Julian Barnes)
Fingersmith (Sarah Waters)
Atonement (Ian Mcewan)
Train Dreams (Denis Johnson)
The Zone of Interest (Martin Amis)
You Don't Have to Live Like This (Benjamin Markovits)
Mothering Sunday: A Romance (Graham Swift)
Digging to America (Anne Tyler)
Small Island (Andrea Levy)
Breath (Tim Winton)
The White Tiger (Aravind Adiga)
Little Fires Everywhere (Celeste Ng)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Junot Diaz)
The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)
The Secret Scripture (Sebastian Barry)
The Year of the Runaways (Sunjeev Sahota)
The Son (Philipp Meyer)
English Passengers (Matthew Kneale)
The Interestings (Meg Wolitzer)
Home Fire (Kamila Shamsie)
Gilead (Marilynne Robinson)
True History of the Kelly Gang (Peter Carey)
Star of the Sea (Joseph O'Connor)
Stay With Me (Ayobámi Adébáyo)
The Constant Gardener (John Le Carre)
Midwinter Break (Bernard Maclaverty)
Harvest (Jim Crace)
Wolf Hall (Hilary Mantel)
Home (Toni Morrison)
The Siege (Helen Dunmore)
How to Be Good (Nick Hornby)
Lincoln in the Bardo (George Saunders)
The Line of Beauty (Alan Hollinghurst)
The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead)
Darkmans (Nicola Barker)
Dissolution (C. J. Sansom)
The Book of the Heathen (Robert Edric)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Michael Chabon)
I'll Go to Bed at Noon ( Gerard Woodward)
The Neapolitan Novels (Elena Ferrante)
Suite Française (Irène Némirovsky)
All for Nothing (Walter Kempowski)
The Yacoubian Building (Alaa Al Aswany)
Limonov (Emmanuel Carrere)
Alone in Berlin (Hans Fallada)
Submission (Michel Houellebecq)
War and Turpentine (Stefan Hertmans)
Lullaby (Leïla Slimani)
The Unseen (Roy Jacobsen)
Your Face Tomorrow (Avier Harias)
Frog (Mo Yan)
The Great Swindle (Pierre Lemaitre)
Flights (Olga Tokarczuk)
Austerlitz (W.G. Sebald)
The Explosion Chronicles (Yan Lianke)