2023年必看英文小說推薦，讀好書、培養英文閱讀習慣

更新時間：2023/01/30

想加強英文閱讀能力，沒有什麼事比讀英文小說更好的辦法了！比起練習參考書題目、背單字書、看報紙，閱讀小說最大的好處是...它能幫你愛上閱讀英文。透過閱讀英文小說，你會發現原來學英文其實也可以很有趣。這篇文章要跟大家推薦2023年必看英文小說推薦，書單根據不同的英文程度作區別，分為初級、中級到高級等三個級別，方便大家根據自己的英文程度來挑選合適的書籍。

這個世界上許多國家的人們使用英文創作，從濕冷的霧都到蔥蔥郁郁的熱帶森林，從星際到海底，英文小說的主題有千萬種，只要有能力閱讀英文小說，而不再侷限在華文小說的範圍，你的眼界就能擴大好幾倍，有數倍的樂趣值得你去挖掘。當你能夠使用英文來閱讀有趣的東西，心中對英文的成見就能逐漸改變，變成主動學習英文，閱讀英文也不再是苦差事，而是日常的休閒跟娛樂。

今天要推薦給大家的英文小說榜單來自英語系國家最大的閱讀心得平台—「Goodreads」，它總結了2022年各種類型中，評價最高的小說名單。

2023年必看英文小說推薦

2023年必看英文小說推薦—初級

對於第一次閱讀整本英文小說的人來說，直接看一整本好幾百頁的純文字內容可能有困難，所以建議新手可以從英文的圖文小說來入手，圖文小說/漫畫有大量的圖片，就算有些英文單字看不懂，你也可以透過圖片看懂內容。

圖文小說&漫畫 Graphic Novels & Comics

《Oddball》 by Sarah Andersen

The fourth book in the enormously popular graphic novel series, the latest collection of Sarah's Scribbles comics explores the evils of procrastination, the trials of the creative process, the cuteness of kittens, and the beauty of not caring about your appearance as much as you did when you were younger. When it comes to humorous illustrations of the awkwardness and hilarity of millennial life, Sarah's Scribbles is without peer.

正如這本書封面可愛又搞怪的風格，《Oddball》 的內容是幽默、輕鬆、搞怪的，它是由許多四格漫畫所組成的漫畫，每個故事都是獨立的、簡單易懂，所以即使這本書是作者系列作的其中之一也不必擔心跟不上前面的劇情。

正因為它的內容獨立、簡短、文字不多但豐富又有趣，對於閱讀英文小說的新手來說可以一天只看個幾篇適應，再逐漸增加閱讀量。它的內容是關於千禧一代（1984-1995年出生）在美國的日常生活，描述了主人翁跟她的貓咪與她日常生活中的點點滴滴，包含了許多美國年輕人的梗，總之就是看得很輕鬆，看完心情很好的一本圖文小說。

推薦給想讀點英文，又不想看嚴肅的內容的人。

青少年小說 Young Adult Fiction

《See You Yesterday》 by Rachel Lynn Solomon

Barrett Bloom is hoping college will be a fresh start after a messy high school experience. But when school begins on September 21st, everything goes wrong. She’s humiliated by the know-it-all in her physics class, she botches her interview for the college paper, and at a party that night, she accidentally sets a frat on fire. She panics and flees, and when she realizes her roommate locked her out of their dorm, she falls asleep in the common room.

The next morning, Barrett’s perplexed to find herself back in her dorm room bed, no longer smelling of ashes and crushed dreams. It’s September 21st. Again. And after a confrontation with Miles, the guy from Physics 101, she learns she’s not alone—he’s been trapped for months.

When her attempts to fix her timeline fail, she agrees to work with Miles to find a way out. Soon they’re exploring the mysterious underbelly of the university and going on wild, romantic adventures. As they start falling for each other, they face the universe’s biggest unanswered question yet: what happens to their relationship if they finally make it to tomorrow?

這本書講述了大一新生 Barrett Bloom 在開始了她的大學生涯之後，發生了一連串怪異的意外。她發現自己總會不斷回到9月21日，也就是開學的那一天，不論做了什麼，最後總會在睜眼後不斷輪迴、無法逃脫。

某一次的9月21日，她遇見了 Miles，另一個同樣困在時間中的人。他們共同為了回到正常的生活而做了許多努力，在這個過程中，兩人的心也逐漸靠近...

這本小說很適合想要想去美國留學的人閱讀，因為主人翁正是從高中剛升大學的新生，而整本小說的場景圍繞著學校的生活展開，對於想了解美國大學生活的人來說是個很好的入門介紹。除此之外，這本書的情節本身就相當緊湊，既有解謎又有浪漫的情節，同時兩位主角一位是猶太裔女性，一位是日裔男性，因此也可以帶大家一窺美國族群的多元文化。

2023年必看英文小說推薦—中級

邁進到中級的階段，對於閱讀英文的忍受度應該有所提升，可以試著閱讀整本英文小說了。只要是你認為有興趣的小說都不妨試一試，建議可以挑選題材有趣的，或懸疑小說來閱讀，這些書籍的題材比較有趣，情節也更緊湊，所以讀起來會很有趣。

小說 Fiction

《Remarkably Bright Creatures》 by Shelby Van Pelt

For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus.

After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago.

Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn't dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors--until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.

Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova's son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it's too late.

Shelby Van Pelt's debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.

人與動物之間的友誼總是讓人感動，不過普遍來說，我們常看到人與狗、貓，甚至狼、老虎、獅子、猴子、大象等等之間的互動，卻很少見到其他種類的動物。因此這本小說就非常特別了，因為本書的主角之一是...章魚。

這本小說述說了一位喪夫喪子的女性水族館員工與一隻深海大章魚之間奇妙而溫馨的友誼。你很難想像一隻章魚能知道多少事，但 Marcellus 真的懂很多很多，包括 Tova 兒子30年前失蹤的真相。

為了回報這段友誼，Marcellus 決定要運用全身所有觸手，努力表達事實真相給 Tova，希望這一切還不會太晚...

懸疑&驚悚 Mystery & Thriller

《The Violin Conspiracy》 by Brendan Slocumb

A mystery about a Black classical musician whose family heirloom violin is stolen on the eve of the most prestigious classical music competition in the world.

Ray McMillian loves playing the violin more than anything, and nothing will stop him from pursuing his dream of becoming a professional musician. Not his mother, who thinks he should get a real job, not the fact that he can't afford a high-caliber violin, not the racism inherent in the classical music world. And when he makes the startling discovery that his great-grandfather's fiddle is actually a priceless Stradivarius, his star begins to rise. Then with the international Tchaikovsky Competition—the Olympics of classical music—fast approaching, his prized family heirloom is stolen. Ray is determined to get it back. But now his family and the descendants of the man who once enslaved Ray's great-grandfather are each claiming that the violin belongs to them. With the odds stacked against him and the pressure mounting, will Ray ever see his beloved violin again?

你有沒有想過一個黑人想要進入西洋古典樂界需要付出多少努力，並且，他會因為自己的膚色而受到多大的阻力？壓力除了來自頑固守舊的古典樂界，也來自主角認為黑人就該老實工作別搞音樂的家人。

在一場重要的小提琴獨奏會之前，男主角 Ray 的小提琴被偷並被勒索要求贖金，到底誰是兇手？當所有人都不能信任，你自己的家人也有嫌疑時，你應該相信誰？

這本小說為對西洋古典樂界不熟悉的人提供了簡單的介紹，學音樂需要大量的金錢，但主角的家庭並不富裕，只能憑藉自己滿腔的熱情與天賦才華來打拚，更雪上加霜的是，充滿白種有錢人的西洋樂界對於黑人的歧視讓他的努力更難達成。

與其說這本小說是懸疑小說，不如說它是一本關於種族歧視、青少年成長的勵志小說。

2023年必看英文小說推薦—高級

在高級的階段想必讀一整本英文小說對你來說已經是小菜一碟，因此在選題的時候，建議挑一些歷史、科學類型的小說或非小說，一來是因為這類型的書籍本身難度就高，會出現很多知識內容、新概念與專有名詞，即便是中文譯本你也得費力閱讀。

推薦想要考托福或雅思等留學考試的人在挑書的時候，挑選與美國歷史、地理相關的故事，或是科學、社會等主題的內容，這些內容都是托福或雅思喜歡出的題型。

非小說 Nonfiction

《The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human》 by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Named a New York Times Notable Book of 2022 and a Best Book of the Year by Oprah Daily, BookPage, Book Riot, the New York Public Library, and more!

From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, an exploration of medicine and our radical new ability to manipulate cells. Rich with Mukherjee’s revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors, and the patients whose lives may be saved by their work, The Song of the Cell is the third book in this extraordinary writer’s exploration of what it means to be human.

Mukherjee begins this magnificent story in the late 1600s, when a distinguished English polymath, Robert Hooke, and an eccentric Dutch cloth-merchant, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek looked down their handmade microscopes. What they saw introduced a radical concept that swept through biology and medicine, touching virtually every aspect of the two sciences, and altering both forever. It was the fact that complex living organisms are assemblages of tiny, self-contained, self-regulating units. Our organs, our physiology, our selves—hearts, blood, brains—are built from these compartments. Hooke christened them “cells”.

The discovery of cells—and the reframing of the human body as a cellular ecosystem—announced the birth of a new kind of medicine based on the therapeutic manipulations of cells. A hip fracture, a cardiac arrest, Alzheimer’s dementia, AIDS, pneumonia, lung cancer, kidney failure, arthritis, COVID pneumonia—all could be reconceived as the results of cells, or systems of cells, functioning abnormally. And all could be perceived as loci of cellular therapies.

In The Song of the Cell, Mukherjee tells the story of how scientists discovered cells, began to understand them, and are now using that knowledge to create new humans. He seduces you with writing so vivid, lucid, and suspenseful that complex science becomes thrilling. Told in six parts, laced with Mukherjee’s own experience as a researcher, a doctor, and a prolific reader, The Song of the Cell is both panoramic and intimate—a masterpiece.

細胞的發現—改變了科學的歷史，改變了人類對世界的認知。這本書講述了科學家如何發現細胞、開始理解細胞以及現在利用這些知識創造新人類的故事。它不但是一本醫學歷史書，同時也是一本有趣的故事書。

這本書最棒的部分是作者善用巧妙的故事與論述將科學知識說得很有趣，即便是缺乏醫學知識的讀者也能讀懂。《The Song of the Cell》是對細胞生物學世界的深入研究。它從我們都知道和認識的高中細胞模型開始，然後開始增加該基本概念的深度和廣度。這本書最令人驚嘆的部分是延長人類壽命的發現和發明背後的人類故事。

歷史&傳記 History & Biography

《American Midnight: Democracy's Forgotten Crisis, 1917-1921》 by Adam Hochschild

From award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian Adam Hochschild, a fast-paced, revelatory new account of a pivotal but neglected period in American history: World War I and its stormy aftermath, when bloodshed and repression on the home front nearly doomed American democracy.

The nation was on the brink. Angry mobs burned Black churches to the ground and chased down pacifists and immigrants. Well over a thousand men and women were jailed solely for what they had written or said, even in private. An astonishing 250,000 people joined a nationwide vigilante group—sponsored by the Department of Justice.

This was America during and after the Great War: a brief but appalling era blighted by torture, censorship, and killings. Adam Hochschild brings to life this troubled period, which stretched from 1917 to 1921, through the interwoven tales of a colorful cast of characters: some well-known, among them the sphinxlike Woodrow Wilson and the ambitious young bureaucrat J. Edgar Hoover; others less familiar, such as the fiery antiwar advocate Kate Richards O’Hare and the outspoken Leo Wendell, a labor radical who was frequently arrested and wholly trusted by his comrades—but who was in fact Hoover’s star undercover agent.

A groundbreaking work of narrative history, American Midnight recalls these horrifying yet inspiring four years, when some brave Americans strove to keep their fractured country democratic, while ruthless others stimulated toxic currents of racism, nativism, red-baiting, and contempt for the rule of law—poisons that feel ominously familiar today.

第一次世界大戰後的美國社會充滿了衝突、撕裂、不安與動盪，戰爭結束後大量青年軍人回國，造成市場上勞動力大於需求，青年失業率大增，使美國在繁榮的1920年代過後迅速迎來經濟大蕭條。同時這也是種族衝突頻發、女權運動興盛、白人至上的 3k 黨活躍、孤立主義興起的年代。混亂、暴力、血腥、衝突與保守主義就是美國這個時代的幾個關鍵字。

推薦對美國歷史有興趣的人閱讀這本書，它以流暢的筆法帶讀者重回那個混亂的年代，並且藉由檢閱當年發生的事情，來理清這些思想、歷史事件對於美國現代社會的影響。作者希望通過審視「長期以來貫穿美國生活的種族主義、孤立主義、保守思想和蔑視法治的有害潮流」，期許美國人可以「在未來更好地抵禦它們。」。