15. The Remains of the Day By Kazuo Ishiguro; 245 pages
《長日留痕》，石黑一雄著（245頁）

Because the anguish of unrequited love makes for riveting reading.
推薦理由：單戀的苦楚讓此書引人入勝。

This quiet, heart-piercing novel showed us the cost of misplaced loyalties and missed opportunity, and reminded us of the happiness we must claim for ourselves.
這部安靜而撕扯人心的小說向我們展示了錯付忠心、錯失良機付出的代價，也提醒著我們那份一定要為自己爭取的幸福。

16. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks By Rebecca Skloot; 381 pages
《永生的海拉》，麗貝卡·思科魯特著（381頁）

Because we would have never known the truth without it.
推薦理由：多虧了這本小說，我們才知道這一事實。

Henrietta Lacks was a poor, Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells -- taken without her knowledge -- became one of the most important tools in medicine.
海瑞塔·拉克斯是美國南方一位貧窮煙農(nóng)。而在她不知情的情況下（其過世后），她的細胞被醫(yī)生取走，成為了最為重要的醫(yī)學(xué)工具之一。

（來源：滬江英語 編輯：丁一）