角谷的藏书架 – Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread by Michiko Kakutani

角谷美智子（Michiko Kakutani，1955—） 英文世界最具影响力的文学评论家，普利策评论奖得主，《纽约时报》前首席书评人。

角谷的文风冷静犀利，我行我素，不惮于批评文学大咖，也帮助很多新人作家建立起个人声誉。作为一个令人生畏且难以预测的书评人，她的影响力之深，使其名字成为了一个动词——作家们用“我被角谷了”来形容自己的作品被角谷评论，用以定位自己在文学界的声誉。

《角谷的藏书架》是一本非常私人化和专业化的书单，凝聚了作者角谷美智子数十年的阅读心得和精华。作为一名专业书评人，她以独特的阅读角度和理性的思考方式，审视生活和时代，挖掘出那些契合经历又极具触动的经典著作。这本书单不仅仅是一份阅读清单，更是一本具有深刻思想和人文关怀的阅读指南。它为读者提供了一扇通向不同文化、不同历史时期的视角，让我们在阅读中不断成长和获得启迪。

现今社会，获取信息的途径变得更加丰富、便捷。经典作品久负盛名，新编著优秀不断。但怎样才能在有限时间内从海量的文字中获得有益的内容，将其转化为对自己的改进，是一个需要思考的难题。

《角谷的藏书架 》包含文学经典、畅销小说、诗集、历史政治、大众社科、戏剧研究、名人传记、演讲集回忆录、儿童文学等多种体裁，都是有质量保障的文坛佳作，为读者提供了一份可以参考阅读的权威书单。

Pulitzer Prize–winning literary critic Michiko Kakutani shares 100 personal, thought-provoking essays about books that have mattered to her and that help illuminate the world we live in today—with beautiful illustrations throughout.

In the introduction to her new collection of essays, Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread, Michiko Kakutani writes: “In a world riven by political and social divisions, literature can connect people across time zones and zip codes, across cultures and religions, national boundaries and historical eras. It can give us an understanding of lives very different from our own, and a sense of the shared joys and losses of human experience.”

Readers will discover novels and memoirs by some of the most gifted writers working today; favorite classics worth reading or rereading; and nonfiction works, both old and new, that illuminate our social and political landscape and some of today’s most pressing issues, from climate change to medicine to the consequences of digital innovation. There are essential works in American history (The Federalist Papers, The Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.); books that address timely cultural dynamics (Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale); classics of children’s literature (the Harry Potter novels, Where the Wild Things Are); and novels by acclaimed contemporary writers like Don DeLillo, William Gibson, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Ian McEwan.

With richly detailed illustrations by lettering artist Dana Tanamachi that evoke vintage bookplates, Ex Libris is an impassioned reminder of why reading matters more than ever.