Books from Scotland
109 popular scottish books
Travel the world without leaving your chair.
The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Europe Challenge" were written by authors from Scotland.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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Melal : A Novel of the Pacific by Robert Barclay EN
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On Good Friday, 1981, Rujen Keju and his two sons come face to face with their complicated inheritance--one that includes years of atomic testing and the continued military presence of the U.S. in the Pacific. In this highly original work of history and adventure, novelist Robert Barclay weaves together characters and stories from mythological times with those of the present-day to give readers a rare and unsparing look at life in the contemporary Pacific.
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Mrs S by K. Patrick EN
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An Observer Best Debut of the Year A Granta Best Young British Novelist 'I loved this book' Julia Armfield 'Exhilarating' Monica Heisey 'Astonishing' ANDREA LAWLOR 'Should be on everyone's summer reading list' iNEWS A powerful, sensual novel of the forbidden love between a young woman and the headmaster's wife, unfolding across a single a heatwave summer. In an elite English boarding school where the girls kiss the marble statue of the famous dead author who used to walk the halls, a young Australian woman arrives to take up the antiquated role of 'matron'. There she meets Mrs S, the headmaste... continue
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Not to Disturb by Muriel Spark EN
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Household servants and accidental guests must wait out the orders of the lords of the house: not to disturb.
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Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall EN
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Presents a history of England, Scotland, and the collective British Empire, which includes areas of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and India; and begins with the stories of Albion and Brutus and ends with the life of Queen Victoria.
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J. M. Barrie’s classic children's story is reimagined in this delightful full-color deluxe edition filled with all-new illustrations and ten removable features specially designed by MinaLima, the award-winning design studio behind the graphics for the Harry Potter films. For more than a century, the adventures of Peter Pan—the boy who can fly and never grows up—and Wendy Darling have captured the hearts of generations of readers. In this enchanting illustrated volume, the fantastical world of Neverland and its magical inhabitants, including the Lost Boys, Captain Hook, Tiger Lily, and the belo... continue
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Pine by Francine Toon EN
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'It's both eerie and thrilling at once, and had me under its spell until the end.' Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure They are driving home from the search party when they see her. The trees are coarse and tall in the winter light, standing like men. Lauren and her father Niall live alone in the Highlands, in a small village surrounded by pine forest. When a woman stumbles out onto the road one Halloween night, Niall drives her back to their house in his pickup. In the morning, she's gone. In a community where daughters rebel, men quietly rage, and drinking is a means of forgetting, m... continue
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Poor Things by Alasdair Gray EN
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What strange secret made rich, beautiful, tempestuous Bella Baxter irresistible to the poor Scottish medical student Archie McCandless? Was it her mysterious origin in the home of his monstrous friend Godwin Baxter, the genius whose voice could perforate eardrums? This story of true love and scientific daring whirls the reader from the private operating-theatres of late-Victorian Glasgow through aristocratic casinos, low-life Alexandria and a Parisian bordello, reaching an interrupted climax in a Scottish church.
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Poor Things [Movie Tie-In] : A Novel by Alasdair Gray EN
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Basis for the Major Motion Picture starring Emma Stone, Ramy Youssef, Mark Ruffalo, and Willem Dafoe, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. "Witty and delightfully written" (New York Times Book Review), Alasdair Gray's Poor Things echoes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in this novel of a young woman freeing herself from the confines of the suffocating Victorian society she was created to serve. Winner of the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize In the 1880s in Glasgow, Scotland, medical student Archibald McCandless finds himself enchanted with the intriguing creature known as Bella Baxter. Suppo... continue
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Porno by Irvine Welsh RO
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La zece ani dupa evenimentele care au marcat actiunea din Trainspotting, Simon „Sick Boy” Williamson se intoarce in Edinburgh dupa o lunga perioada petrecuta la Londra. Esuind spectaculos ca escroc, peste, sot, tata si om de afaceri, Sick Boy profita de ceea ce i se pare a fi ultima lui sansa: pornografia. Pe de alta parte, pentru a-si infaptui visul de a produce si a regiza un film porno, Sick Boy trebuie sa faca echipa cu vechiul lui prieten, Mark Renton, exilat in ultimii ani la Amsterdam, si cu o gasca pestrita care ii include pe unul dintre cei mai mari obsedati sexual, fiul f... continue