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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Fauna by Christiane Vadnais EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
In a near-future world ravaged by climate change, who will win in the struggle between humanity and nature? A thick fog rolls in over Shivering Heights. The river overflows, the sky is streaked with toxic green, parasites proliferate in torrential rains and once safely classified species - humans included - are evolving and behaving in unprecedented ways. Against this poetically hostile backdrop, a biologist, Laura, fights to understand the nature and scope of the changes transforming her own body and the world around her. Ten lush and bracing linked climate fictions depict a world gorgeous an... continue
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GermanyDescription:
READ THE MOST CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER OF 2018: 'You'll never see your neighbours in the same light again' OBSERVER 'Beautifully written, frightening and absorbing' THE TIMES 'As intellectually stimulating as it is gripping *****' DAILY TELEGRAPH '[An] uncomfortably close-to-home thriller' - SUNDAY TIMES 'Something we've not see before in contemporary crime fiction' GUARDIAN 'Takes you right into the heart of darkness' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'There's a twist at the end that is worth waiting for' INDEPENDENT 'A terrifying study of a family threatened by the tenant living downstairs' ... continue
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Fear and His Servant by Mirjana Novaković EN
SerbiaDescription:
Count Otto von Hausburg and his devoted servant are sent to Belgrade by the Austrian monarchy to investigate troubling reports of vampires. There they find a deeply frightened populace who are willing to believe the Count is the devil incarnate. Perhaps they are right. Novakovic brilliantly captures the atmosphere of the Balkans in the 18th century and offers up a playful twist on the Gothic imagination.
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Feathers by Haim Beʼer EN
IsraelDescription:
A classic of modern Israeli literature in English for the first time.
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Fem by Magda Carneci EN
RomaniaDescription:
The lyrical, feminist novel that exploded onto the Romanian literary scene: a 21st-century Scheherazade recounts her life to a man whom she fears might leave her forever.
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IndiaDescription:
"It was time for that tiny little dream that lay hidden all these years to gradually acquire a form and shape. The thought of making it come true was an audacious one. She dared not do it. On the other hand she dared a lot after all, she was Fateema Lokhandwala, a courageous young woman... " "As pots and words banged against each other, her two-wheeler would whizz past everything, leaving it all behind. Main road, Mashallah! Current-like, the city would course through her body... At such times, Fateema lived in the present, and in the future. " Thus begins Ila Arab Mehta s beautiful and skillf... continue
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Fermat's Last Theorem : The Story of a Riddle that Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years by Simon Singh EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
This is the story of the solving of a puzzle that has confounded mathematicians since the 17th century, but which every child can understand. It includes the fascinating story of Andrew Wiles who finally cracked the code.
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Fever by Jean Marie Le Clezio EN
FranceDescription:
In these nine unforgettable and impressionistic 'tales of little madness', the Nobel Prize-winning author Le Clézio explores how the physical sensations we experience every day can be as strong as feelings of love or hate, with their power to bring chaos to our lives. In 'The Day that Beaumont became Acquainted with his Pain', a man with toothache spends the night seeking ways to disown his throbbing jaw; in 'Fever', Roch finds his mind transported by sunstroke; while in 'A Day of Old Age' little Joseph tries to comprehend the physical suffering of a dying old woman. Set in a timeless, spacele... continue
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Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
It's late summer 1793, and the streets of Philadelphia are abuzz with mosquitoes and rumors of fever. Down near the docks, many have taken ill, and the fatalities are mounting. Now they include Polly, the serving girl at the Cook Coffeehouse. But fourteen-year-old Mattie Cook doesn't get a moment to mourn the passing of her childhood playmate. New customers have overrun her family's coffee shop, located far from the mosquito-infested river, and Mattie's concerns of fever are all but overshadowed by dreams of growing her family's small business into a thriving enterprise. But when the fever beg... continue
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