The Most Recommended Books is a term Bookdao uses to indicate books that are worth reading. Through our data processing tools, the book lists are formed by professional readers’ collective opinions, rather than sales figures. For approach and methodology, see What Is a Good Book. The translated literature category contains popular literature works introduced from overseas. This month's list features 20 books by authors from 11 different countries in Europe, America, and Asia, including two Nobel Laureates in Literature, Henryk Sienkiewica and François Maurias, and Anton Chekhova who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time from short stories to biographies, as well as prose and poetry.
Lila: An Inquiry into Morals
Author: [US] Robert M. Pirsig
Publisher: Chongqing Publishing House
Publication Date: November 2022
Lila: An Inquiry into Morals is the sequel to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. The answer to the latter's undefined "good quality" is found in his book. The map of the universe centered on "good quality" provides an incredibly clear interpretation of the development of society and the evolution of mankind, clearing away the fog of metaphysics and other unresolved issues.
Exposure： Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer’s Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont
Author: [US] Robert Bilott
Publisher: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press
Publication Date: October 2022
Robert Billott was originally a corporate lawyer， he crawled through a sea of files and found a chemical called perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), an additive needed to make the star product Teflon. This toxic chemical, which can cause many diseases including cancer, was constantly flowing into the Ohio River, the water supply for the region. DuPont, owner of the chemical plant, surprisingly already knew the inside story. The number of victims grew from one family to countless others. Billott fights for the victims' rights under tremendous pressure, digging for the truth with tenacity in isolation, evasion, and answering questions.
Collected Poems
Author: [US] Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House
Publication Date: December 2022
This book contains nearly one hundred poems by Vladimir Nabokov, many of which have never before been published in the English-speaking world, translated from Russian by Nabokov's son, Dmitri Nabokov. Most notable is the autobiographically tinged University Poems, in which the poet looks back on his time spent at Cambridge, incorporating dinners, competitions, romances, and memories into poems that are funny and rich in detail.
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Author: [US] Tracy Chevalier
Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House
Publication Date: September 2022
In the 17th century, the outstanding Dutch Golden Age painter Vermeer has painted such a young girl, she turned sideways, lips slightly open, quietly out of the ordinary, wearing a pearl earring between blue wrapped headscarf and rough clothes. This person in the painting that the world is still in awe of, only the smiling Mona Lisa is comparable. Who is she? How did she enter the light and color of Vermeer?
The Kiss to the Leper
Author: [France] François Mauriac
Publisher: Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing
Publication Date: October 2022
Jean Perrault and Noémie, the main characters, are united by their parents' order and matchmaking, but their marriage is only one of duty and responsibility, not love. For Noémie to leave him and be happy, Jean starts to try to resist the pressure exerted by people around them, and even pays with his life, but in the end, Noémie does not escape from the worldly framework and runs to happiness.
Nothing Erases You
Author: [France] Michel Bussi
Publisher: People's Literature Publishing House
Publication Date: October 2022
Concerning My Daughter
Author: [Korea] Kim Hye-jin
Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press
Publication Date: October 2022
Chekhov's Collection
Author: [Russia] Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House
Publication Date: October 2022
Before the End
Author: [Argentina] Ernesto Sabato
Publisher: Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House
Publication Date: November 2022
The Cavern of Ideas
Author: [Spain] Jose Carlos Somoza
Publisher: Yinlin Press
Publication Date: November 2022
Thomas Mann: Life as a Work of Art
Author: [Germany] Hermann Kurzke
Publisher: Zhejiang University Press
Publication Date: October 2022
Lemon
Author: [Korea] Kwon Yeo-Sun
Publisher: Huacheng Publishing House
Publication Date: November 2022
In brief: Anthology
Author: [Mexico] José Emilio Pacheco
Publisher: Beijing United Publishing
Publication Date: October 2022
Revolt Against Poetry
Author: [France] Antonin Artaud
Publisher: Sichuan People's Publishing House
Publication Date: October 2022
Good as Gold
Author: [US] Joseph Heller
Publisher: Yinlin Press
Publication Date: November 2022
Fevre Dream
Author: [US] George R. R. Martin
Publisher: Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House
Publication Date: November 2022
Eleventh 11, Book 18
Author: [Norway] Dag Solstad
Publisher: Beijing Daily Press
Publication Date: October 2022
Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D.H.Lawrence
Author: [UK] Geoff Dyer
Publisher: Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
Publication Date: October 2022
Annette
Author: [Germany] Anne Weber
Publisher: Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing
Publication Date: October 2022
The Third Woman
Author: [Ploland] Henryk Sienkiewicz
Publisher: Lijiang Publishing House
Publication Date: November 2022