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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A Burning by Megha Majumdar EN

Rating: 4 (4 votes)
Country: Asia / India flag India
Description:
For readers of Tommy Orange, Yaa Gyasi, and Jhumpa Lahiri, an electrifying debut novel about three unforgettable characters who seek to rise-to the middle class, to political power, to fame in the movies-and find their lives entangled in the wake of a catastrophe in contemporary India. This is an electrifying debut novel about three unforgettable characters who find their lives entangled in the wake of a catastrophe. They seek to rise-to the middle class, to political power, to fame in the movies. One is Jivan, a Muslim girl from the slums accused of executing a terrorist attack on a train bec... continue

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A Burnt-out Case by Graham Greene EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / England flag England
Description:
Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case', a leper who has gone through a stage of mutilation.


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A Call for Revolution by Dalai Lama EN

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Country: Asia / China flag China
Description:
A small book with a very large message. In this impassioned, eloquent manifesto for the future of the world, the Dalai Lama appeals to us to rethink the way we live: * Become 'elite athletes of compassion' * Support each other to solve economic and social injustice * Women, take up the special role that's yours * Love the earth by sharing - not destroying - it. * Encourage peace both within, and all around, you Bringing his wisdom and experience to the complex problems he sees all around, the Dalai Lama challenges us to solve them through nothing less than a radical revolution.

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A Call to Action

A Call to Action : Women, Religion, Violence, and Power by Jimmy Carter EN

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Description:
In the highly acclaimed bestselling A Call to Action, President Jimmy Carter addresses the world’s most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: the ongoing discrimination and violence against women and girls. President Carter was encouraged to write this book by a wide coalition of leaders of all faiths. His urgent report covers a system of discrimination that extends to every nation. Women are deprived of equal opportunity in wealthier nations and “owned” by men in others, forced to suffer servitude, child marriage, and genital cutting. The most vulnerable and their c... continue

66.

A Cambodian Prison Portrait. One Year in the Khmer Rouge's S-21 by Vann Nath EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Asia / Cambodia flag Cambodia
Description:
Account of an artist's experiences in prison during the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.

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A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / England flag England
Description:
Miss Jane Marple investigates the death of Major Palgrave, an old soldier with an unfortunate weakness for reliving the past.

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A Carnival of Snackery : Diaries (2003-2020) by David Sedaris EN

Rating: 2 (1 vote)
Description:
Picking up where his previous volume of diaries, Theft by Finding, left off, David Sedaris chronicles the years 2003-2020.

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A Carpet Ride to Khiva : Seven Years on the Silk Road by Christopher Aslan Alexander EN

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Country: Asia / Turkey flag Turkey
Description:
The Silk Road conjures up images of the exotic and the unknown, but whereas most travellers simply pass along it Chris Alexander chose to live there. 'A Carpet Ride to Khiva' is his personal account of life in an immensely alluring walled city in a remote desert oasis in Uzbekistan.

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A Castle in the Clouds by Kerstin Gier EN

Rating: 4 (5 votes)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
Description:
Witty and charming, New York Times bestselling author Kerstin Gier's contemporary young adult novel A Castle in the Clouds follows a girl as she navigates secrets, romance, and danger in an aging grand hotel. Way up in the Swiss mountains, there's an old grand hotel steeped in tradition and faded splendor. Once a year, when the famous New Year's Eve Ball takes place and guests from all over the world arrive, excitement returns to the vast hallways. Sophie, who works at the hotel as an intern, is busy making sure that everything goes according to plan. But unexpected problems keep arising, and ... continue


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