Recommended English books

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The Read Around The World Challenge is a global challenge. Anyone can join the challenge from anywhere in the world in any language they want. This is the list of all English books added by participants of this reading challenge.

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Admiring Silence by Abdulrazak Gurnah EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Tanzania flag Tanzania
Description:
A man who has escaped from his native Zanzibar and built a new life in England is finally able to return to visit his native land where he finds a changed country and is able to view his life with a new clarity

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Adolfo Kaminsky : A Forger's Life by Sarah Kaminsky EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Algeria flag Algeria
Description:
The gripping true story of a life-long forger working for the French Resistance and clandestine organizations, told to his daughter.

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Adonis : Selected Poems by Adūnīs EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Syria flag Syria
Description:
"Frontispiece: Poem and calligraphy by Adonis, XXXX. Translated by Bassam Frangieh" --T.p. verso.

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Adua by Igiaba Scego EN

0 Ratings
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
A searing novel about a young immigrant woman's dream of freedom in Rome and the legacies of her African past.

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Adultery by Paulo Coelho EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Description:
#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the extraordinary author of the international bestselling sensation The Alchemist comes a provocative novel that explores the question of what it means to live life fully and happily. "A compelling tale of existential angst, marital betrayal and sexual sin.” —The Chicago Tribune I want to change. I need to change. I'm gradually losing touch with myself. Adultery, the novel by Paulo Coelho, best-selling author of The Alchemist and Eleven Minutes, searches for the balance between life's routine and the desire for something new. “Propulsive.... A compelling tale... continue

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Adventure at Brimstone Hill by Carol Ottley-Mitchell EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
Mark, Kyle and Ingrid embark on their very first adventure as they follow a mischievous monkey through a secret passage at the Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park in St. Kitts. They find themselves transported to the 18th century, captured as spies and thrown into a fierce battle between the British and the French for this famous fort. About Brimstone HillBrimstone Hill is a UNESCO world heritage site located in St. Kitts. It was built by the English in the early 18th century to defend the island. It stands today as one of the best preserved historical fortifications in the Americas. www.bri... continue

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Aesop's Fables by Aesop EN

Rating: 4 (7 votes)
Country: Europe / Greece flag Greece
Description:
A collection of familiar short moral tales.

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Afakasi Woman by Lani Wendt Young EN

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Country: Oceania / Samoa flag Samoa
Description:
A collection of 24 short stories; the joys and tribulations of being a woman in Samoa and the struggles brought to an island nation by climate change.

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Affections : A Novel by Rodrigo Hasbún EN

Rating: 3 (6 votes)
Description:
The award-winning and haunting novel from Rodrigo Hasbún, the literary star Jonathan Safran Foer calls, “a great writer,” about an unusual family’s breakdown—set in South America during the time of Che Guevara and inspired by the life of Third Reich cinematographer Hans Ertl. Inspired by real events, Affections is the story of the eccentric, fascinating Ertl clan, headed by the egocentric and extraordinary Hans, once the cameraman for the Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl. Shortly after the end of World War II, Hans and his family flee to Bolivia to start over. There, the ever-restless Hans d... continue

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Afghanistan : A Lexicon by Mariam Ghani, Ashraf Ghani EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Afghanistan flag Afghanistan
Description:
"In the form of a lexicon, artist Mariam Ghani describes, together with her father, the renowned anthropologist and political scientist Ashraf Ghani, the cycle of repeated collapse and recovery that Afghanistan has undergone over the course of the twentieth century. The lexicon comprises seventy-one mostly illustrated terms that include central figures and places, words that carry a specific (political) meaning in the Afghan context, and entries on recurring events and defining themes."--Documenta 13 website, viewed Oct. 5, 2011.


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