近日，《經濟學人》推出了"2015年度好書"。這份長長的書單涵蓋種類豐富，從時政、經濟、科技到歷史、文學皆有涉足。下面讓我們一起看看今年上榜好書都有哪些：

政治時事

《近鄰遠鄰：蘇聯情報新史》Near and Distant Neighbours: A New History of Soviet Intelligence
作者：Jonathan Haslam

A detailed appraisal of how the Soviet Union handled undercover operations from the communist revolution in 1917 until the end of the cold war. The most gripping chapters focus on the chaos that was unleashed by Josef Stalin.
詳盡評價了蘇聯自1917年革命到冷戰結束期間在秘密戰線的行動，最扣人心弦的篇章斯大林制造的混亂。

《我們的孩子：危機中的美國夢》Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
作者：Robert Putnam

The most important divide in America today is class, not race, and the place where it matters most is in the home. In a thoughtful and persuasive book, the former dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government analyses the growing gulf between how the rich and the poor raise their children, adding a liberal voice to long-standing conservative complaints about family breakdown.
今天美國最重要的鴻溝是階級而非種族，最要緊的地方是家里。在這部思想深刻、令人信服的作品中，哈佛大學肯尼迪政府學院的前主任分析了窮人富人怎樣撫養孩子時日益增大的差距。保守主義者長久以來對家庭分崩抱怨不斷，這部作品增加了自由主義的聲音。

《朝鮮秘聞：私人市場、時尚潮流、勞改營、異見者與叛國者》North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
作者：Daniel Tudor and James Pearson

Two knowledgeable journalists offer a bird's-eye view of everyday life that teases out how the famine of the 1990s prompted unexpected change in the attitudes, governance and lives of ordinary North Koreans, giving the lie to the simplistic view that Koreans are a homogenous people under the thumb of a power-crazed dictator.
兩位博聞強識的作者通觀日常生活，找出上世紀九十年代的饑荒如何讓普通朝鮮人的生活態度、政府治理和生活發生不期的變化，人們以為朝鮮人是一個嗜權獨裁者股掌中的同質人，這一簡單看法被證明是謊言。

《貧民窟：調查謀殺潮》Ghettoside: Investigating a Homicide Epidemic
作者：Jill Leovy

Black men are still dying at alarming rates in the toughest urban pockets even though, overall, America's murder rate is down. A study of one neighbourhood in Los Angeles has the power to change how people think about policing in America.
盡管美國謀殺率整體下降，但最惡劣的城市環境中，黑人還是以驚人的速度死去。對洛杉磯一個社區的研究將改變人們對美國警察執法的看法。

《曾經輝煌：底特律往事》Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story
作者：David Maraniss

One of America's finest non-fiction writers, a son of Detroit, offers a lively and meticulously researched account of how the city, once the engine room of America, began sputtering.
生于底特律的Maraniss是美國最好的非虛構作家，他詳盡、栩栩如生地描述了這個曾經是美國引擎的城市如何開始分崩離析。

歷史

《長崎：核劫余生》Nagasaki: Life after Nuclear War
作者：Susan Southard

The searing account of five teenage hibakusha ("explosion-affected people"): how they survived the atom bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki in 1945, and the terrible price they paid in the aftermath of the war.
五個"受輻射"少年的經歷令人心碎，1945年原子彈落在長崎后，他們怎么活下來的？他們在戰后付出了巨大的代價。

《滑鐵盧：四天三軍三戰史》Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles
作者：Bernard Cornwell

A great and terrible story of a battle that was fought 200 years ago, told with energy and clarity by a writer who has a deep understanding of men in combat and why they do what they do. "Waterloo" proves that Bernard Cornwell's non-fiction is as fine as his novels, if not finer.
200年前的偉大戰斗，如此磅礴、清晰。作者對戰斗中的人和動機有著深刻的理解。《滑鐵盧》證明Cornwell非虛構作品的功力不輸于虛構作品。

《奧斯曼衰亡：中東大戰》The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
作者：Eugene Rogan

How a multinational Muslim empire was destroyed by the first world war, by a historian of the 20th century who is director of the Middle East Centre at Oxford University.
一個橫跨多國的穆斯林帝國如何在第一次世界大戰中毀滅？劍橋大學中東中心主任娓娓道來。

《黑土地：作為歷史和警示的大屠殺》Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
作者：Timothy Snyder

A historian at Yale University has made a detailed study of where Jews were in most danger during the second world war. In France and Italy, three-quarters of the Jews survived. In eastern territories, which suffered "double occupation", first by the Soviets and then by the Nazis, at least 90% of them perished.
耶魯大學歷史學家詳盡研究了二戰中哪里的猶太人最危險。在法國和意大利，四分之三的猶太人存活了下來。在東部戰場，被蘇聯和納粹雙重占領的地區，至少90%的猶太人死亡。

《元老院與市民：古羅馬史》SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
作者：Mary Beard

A masterly new chronicle, by Britain's most engaging historian of the ancient world, about Rome from its myth-shrouded origins to the early third century. She shows that the key to its dominance was granting citizenship to so many people.
一部了不起的新編年史，英國最出色的古代史學家從羅馬的神秘起源講到三世紀早期。她證明統治的關鍵是給予更多人公民權。

《棉花帝國》Empire of Cotton: A Global History
作者：Sven Beckert

By focusing on a sector that until 1900 was the world's most important manufacturing industry, Sven Beckert offers a fine account of 900 years of globalisation.
直到1900年，棉花都是世界上最重要的制造產業，作者專注于其900年的全球化歷史。

《眼睛聽到什么？踢踏舞的歷史》What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing
作者：Brian Seibert

How tap-dancing entertained many, even as it had clear racist overtones. An engaging, warts-and-all history of one of America's greatest creative inventions by a dance critic at the New York Times.
踢踏舞如何娛樂人民，盡管它有著顯著的種族主義意味，這是《紐約時報》舞評家對美國最偉大創造毫無保留的精彩敘述。

《撲火：沙皇俄羅斯的帝國、戰爭與終結》Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia
作者：Dominic Lieven

How Russia went to war. A gripping, poignant and in some respects revolutionary contribution to European history by a distinguished British scholar who is descended from several of the protagonists he describes.
俄國人如何參戰。出色的英國學者對幾個主人公的描寫，給歐洲史帶來引人入勝、尖銳甚至革命性的貢獻。