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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Foiled by Amyna EN

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Country: Asia / Maldives flag Maldives
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Matters of the heart are rarely simple and straightforward, and nothing could be truer for Fiona. In Foiled, a romantic thriller, the heroine of the novel is falling in love. However, what should be the best and happiest period of her life becomes a dark and dangerous time. Author Amyna is a first-time novelist whose lifelong affinity for crime, romance, and thriller stories has taken root in the form of Foiled. The book is a complex tale of a woman with a troubled past. Her family life was marred by an abuse so earthshattering she grew into a woman with deep but invisible scars. Fiona has tri... continue

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Folk Tales of the Maldives by Xavier Romero-Frias EN

Rating: 2 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Maldives flag Maldives
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A collection of 80 traditional short stories and legends from the local oral tradition. These folk tales offer insights into the history, culture and beliefs of the people of the Maldives and into the world they live in.

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Folk-Tales of Bengal - With 32 Illustrations in Colour by Warwick Goble by Behari Day EN

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Country: Asia / India flag India
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Pook Press celebrates the great Golden Age of Illustration in children's literature. Many of the earliest children's books, particularly those dating back to the 1850s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pook Press are working to republish these classic works in affordable, high quality, colour editions, using the original text and artwork so these works can delight another generation of children.

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Folktales Of Bhutan by Kunzang Choden EN

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Country: Asia / Bhutan flag Bhutan
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From the author of Bhutanese Tales of the Yeti another dip into the library of the storytellers from the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan.Folktales of Bhutan is a collection of thirty-eight folktales and legends and is a first attempt by a Bhutanese to record in English the oral tradition of this kingdom in the eastern Himalayas. All of the stories recounted here were heard by the author when she was a child living in Bumthang in the central part of Bhutan and are the ones that she passes on to her children today, in the spirit of the oral tradition.In Bhutan's centuries of self-imposed isolation b... continue

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Follow Me to Ground : A Novel by Sue Rainsford EN

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Country: Europe / Ireland flag Ireland
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Palm Beach Post, BuzzFeed, and LitHub’s Most Anticipated of 2020 A haunted, surreal debut novel about an otherworldly young woman, her father, and her lover that culminates in a shocking moment of betrayal—one that upends our understanding of power, predation, and agency. Ada and her father, touched by the power to heal illness, live on the edge of a village where they help sick locals—or “Cures”—by cracking open their damaged bodies or temporarily burying them in the reviving, dangerous Ground nearby. Ada, a being both more and less than human, is mostly uninterested in the Cures, until she m... continue

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Follow the Rabbit-proof Fence by Doris Pilkington EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
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Three mixed-race Australian girls, having been taken from their Aboriginal families, escape and return home on foot, without supplies or gear, while trying to evade recapture, in an account based on a true story.

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Food of Ghosts by Marianne Wheelaghan EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Description:
Nothing ever happens on Tarawa, a coral atoll in the middle of the Pacific. Then a mutilated body is found in a children's nursery hut. Detective Sergeant Louisa Townsend from Edinburgh is on the island, helping train local police officers in basic detecting skills. She is asked to find the killer and jumps at the chance to be in charge of her first murder investigation. She marvels at the simplicity of the task ahead - after all, how difficult can it be to find the murderer on a desert island the size of a postage stamp and with only one road? But nothing on Tarawa is what it seems.

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Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
Horrified when she spots her husband--who was reported dead weeks earlier--playing with their toddler on her nanny cam, former special ops pilot Maya confronts deep secrets and deceit in her own past in order to discern the truth.


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Football in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano EN

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'Football is a pleasure that hurts' This unashamedly emotional history of football is a homage to the romance and drama, spectacle and passion of a 'great pagan mass'. Through stories of superstition, heartbreak, tragedy, luck, heroes and villains, those who lived for football and those who died for it, Eduardo Galeano celebrates the glory of a game that - however much the rich and powerful try to control it - still retains its magic. 'The Uruguayan whose writing got right to the heart of football ... readers were never in doubt of the warmth of the blood running through his veins' Guardian 'G... continue


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