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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Growing Up Queer in Australia by Benjamin Law EN

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Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
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'No amount of YouTube videos and queer think pieces prepared me for this moment.' 'The mantle of "queer migrant" compelled me to keep going - to go further.' 'I never "came out" to my parents. I felt I owed them no explanation.' 'All I heard from the pulpit were grim hints.' 'I became acutely aware of the parts of myself that were unpalatable to queers who grew up in the city.' 'My queerness was born in a hot dry land that was never ceded.' 'Even now, I sometimes think that I don't know my own desire.' Compiled by celebrated author and journalist Benjamin Law, Growing Up Queer in Australiaasse... continue

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Grown Ups by Marian Keyes EN

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Country: Europe / Ireland flag Ireland
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INSTANT #1 BESTSELLER! A brand-new book from the #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Woman Who Stole My Life. They're a glamorous family, the Caseys. Johnny Casey, his two brothers Ed and Liam, their beautiful, talented wives and all their kids spend a lot of time together--birthday parties, anniversary celebrations, weekends away. And they're a happy family. Johnny's wife, Jessie--who has the most money--insists on it. Under the surface, though, conditions are murkier. While some people clash, other people like each other far too much . . . Still, everything manages to stay under contr... continue

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Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Description:
The story of an elemental existence in rural Norway.


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Guapa by Saleem Haddad EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Kuwait flag Kuwait
Description:
Rasa works as an interpreter for Western journalists by day and divides his nights between the Guapa, an underground LGBTQ nightclub, and his secret lover Taymour. When Rasa's grandmother finds them in bed together on the eve of Taymour's wedding day, all hell breaks loose. That same day Rasa learns his best friend, the famous drag queen Majid, has been arrested. Unable to go home, afraid for Majid's fate, and heartbroken by Taymour's double life, Rasa's fragile balance collapses amidst the regime's repression and the rise of the hard-line Islamist movement.

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Guarded Treasure by Mae Lovette EN

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Follow a librarian with something to prove, and a scoundrel with nothing to lose through the catacombs of a cursed tomb built for a pharaoh's first love in this steamy mystery romance.

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Guarding Temptation by Talia Hibbert EN

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Protective. Obsessive. And rough around the edges. James Foster knows the rules: you don't fall for your best friend's little sister. Nina is too young, too reckless, and too busy saving the world to be tied down by the commitment he craves. If he was smart, he'd stop wanting her. But she's the one thing on earth James just can't quit. Fierce. Principled. And impossible to resist. Political campaigner Nina Chapman is sick of one-time things. She wants forever, and she wants it with her brother's best friend-but James still sees her as a child to be coddled. So when a controversial article land... continue

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Guerrillas by Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul EN

Rating: 2 (1 vote)
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A novel of colonialism and revolution, death, sexual violence and political and spiritual impotence. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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Gun Island : A spellbinding, globe-trotting novel by the bestselling author of the Ibis trilogy by Amitav Ghosh EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / India flag India
Description:
Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one which turns Deen Datta's world upside down. A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but as his once-solid beliefs begin to shift, he is forced to set out on an extraordinary journey; one that takes him from India to Los Angeles and Venice via a tangled route through the memories and experiences of those he meets along the way. There is Piya, a fellow Bengali-American who sets his journey in motion; Tipu, an entrepreneurial young man who opens Deen's eyes to the realities of growing up in today's world; Rafi, with his desperate at... continue

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond EN

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This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents. Geography and biography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians


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