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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Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingslover EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
From the acclaimed Barbara Kingsolver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and twice winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 'Animals dream about the things they do in the daytime just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.' So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd's advice is painfully out of her reach. Dreamless and at the end of her rope, Codi comes back to Grace, Arizona, to confront her past and face her ailing, distant father. What she finds is a town threatened by a sile... continue

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Animal Farm by George Orwell EN

Rating: 4 (156 votes)
Country: Asia / India flag India
Description:
A satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government.

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Animal Life by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir EN

Rating: 3 (4 votes)
Country: Europe / Iceland flag Iceland
Description:
From winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize and the Icelandic Literature Prize, Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, comes a dazzling novel about a family of midwives set in the run-up to Christmas in Iceland In the days leading up to Christmas, Dómhildur delivers her 1,922nd baby. Beginnings and endings are her family trade; she comes from a long line of midwives on her mother's side and a long line of undertakers on her father's. She even lives in the apartment that she inherited from her grandaunt, a midwife with a unique reputation for her unconventional methods. As a terrible storm races towards... continue
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Anna ʹEdes by Dezső Kosztolányi EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Hungary flag Hungary
Description:
Kosztolanyi, Anna Edes. Cruelty and emptiness of Bourgeois life permeate this novel.

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Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins EN

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Description:
“Stephanie Perkins’s characters fall in love the way we all want to, in real time and for good.” -Rainbow Rowell, #1 New York Times bestselling author Anna can’t wait for her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. So she’s less than thrilled when her father unexpectedly ships her off to boarding school in Paris—until she meets Étienne St. Clair, the perfect boy. The only problem? He's taken, and Anna might be, too, if anything comes of her crush back home. Will a year of romantic near-misses end in the French kiss Anna... continue


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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy EN

Rating: 4 (43 votes)
Country: Europe / Russia flag Russia
Description:
Presents the classic nineteenth-century Russian novel in which a young woman is destroyed when she attempts to live outside the moral law of her society.

588.

Annapurna by Maurice Herzog EN

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Country: Europe / France flag France
Description:
This day-by-day account of the French expedition that first conquered a 26,493-foot peak in the Himalayas presents the thrills and dangers of such a venture.

589.

Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
Anne of Green Gables #2.

590.

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery EN

Rating: 5 (73 votes)
Description:
An abridged version of the tale of Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, who comes to live on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.


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