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诚品选书 | eslite Recommends (May 2026)

01 May 2026 - 31 May 2026

The Optimists: A Novel

Author | Brian Platzer
Publisher | LITTLE BROWN AND COMPANY
In his classroom, you felt it: the quiet conviction that teaching, in its highest form, could change everything.

 

Light and Thread

Author | Han Kang
Publisher |Hamish Hamilton
Inside my chest, in my beating heart. Between our hearts. The golden thread that joins – a thread that emanates light. 
 

 

The Face: A Cultural History

Author | Fay Bound-Alberti
Publisher | Allen Lane
The face, in the end, is both everything and nothing.

 

The Story of Stories: The Million-Year History of a Uniquely Human Art

Author | Kevin Ashton
Publisher | HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
Language did not give us stories; stories gave us language.
 

Why We Click : The Hidden Dynamics of Connection

Author | Kate Murphy
Publisher | VIKING
Interpersonal synchrony, above all, reminds us that we are not unto ourselves in this world.

 

Nasib Cikgu Sam Masuk Kampung

Pengarang | Aidil Ghazali
Penerbit | RUMAA BOOKS
Belum pun sejam Sam menjalani tugas sebagai guru tetapi sudah banyak ranjaunya. Ini bukan satu permulaan yang baik untuk kerjayanya sebagai guru di Pos Besau.

 

非此地,非此時

作者| 安東尼·鄧恩、菲歐娜·拉比
譯者| 何樵暐
出版| digital medicine tshut-pán-siā
這些設計不作爲解方,而是作爲用以激發進一步思考與想像的提示。

 

矛盾

作者| 梁貴子
譯者| 胡椒筒
出版| 漫游者文化
人生有時會讓我們甘願選擇邪惡,迫不得已與矛盾共存嗎?
 

Seven Million Steps

Author|Derrick Barnes/Christian Gregory
Illustrator|Frank Morrison
Publisher|Amistad Books for Young Readers
This run is for the penniless, for the hopeless, and the love of humanity. For the culture.

 

I’m So Happy You’re Here

Author|Mychal Threets
Illustrator|Lorraine Nam
Publisher|Random House Books for Young Readers
Thank you for visiting! Come back soon! I’ll be so happy you’re here!

 

Forty the Fortune Teller

Author| Drew Daywalt
Illustrator| Kevin Cornell
Publisher| Philomel Books
I thought Forty was short for “fortune teller”. But now I’m thinking… it’s short for “fortitude”—it means you’re brave and strong when things get scary or rough.

 

Leave the Trees, Please

Author| Benjamin Zephaniah
Illustrator| Melissa Castrillon
Publisher| Clarion Books
Leave the trees, please. Because the trees work with the breeze… to put all living things at ease. So, leave the trees, please.