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.

1891.

Kwaidan : Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn EN

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Country: Europe / Greece flag Greece
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Annotation "Kwaidan" translates from the Japanese as weird tales, which perfectly describes these haunting stories. This collection of supernatural tales includes a musician called upon to perform for the dead, man-eating goblins, and insects who uncannily mimic human behavior. A perfect treat for fans of the strange and otherworldly.

1892.

La babosa by Gabriel Casaccia EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
"Obra seleccionada por la Academia de la Lengua Paraguaya, como representativa de su literatura, para la coleccion ""Biblioteca Literaria lberoamericana y Filipina""."

1893.

La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono EN

Rating: 4 (8 votes)
Description:
This coming-of-age story from Equatorial Guinea chronicles a teenage girl's quest to find out who she is.

1894.

Labyrinth : A Novel by Burhan Sönmez EN

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Country: Asia / Turkey flag Turkey
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Notable International Crime Novel of the Year – Crime Reads / Lit Hub From a prize-winning Turkish novelist, a heady, political tale of one man’s search for identity and meaning in Istanbul after the loss of his memory. A blues singer, Boratin, attempts suicide by jumping off the Bosphorus Bridge, but opens his eyes in the hospital. He has lost his memory, and can't recall why he wished to end his life. He remembers only things that are unrelated to himself, but confuses their timing. He knows that the Ottoman Empire fell, and that the last sultan died, but has no idea when. His mind falters w... continue

1895.

Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
The only way to get her family back is to travel to a land in between, as dark as Limbo and as strange as Wonderland... Alex is a bruja, the most powerful witch in a generation...and she hates magic. At her Deathday celebration, Alex performs a spell to rid herself of her power. But it backfires. Her whole family vanishes into thin air, leaving her alone with Nova, a brujo boy she's not sure she can trust, but who may be Alex's only chance at saving her family. Brooklyn Brujas Series: Labyrinth Lost (Book 1) Bruja Born (Book 2) Praise for Labyrinth Lost: An NPR Best Young Adult Book of 2016 To... continue

1896.

Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Description:
First pub. 1950. Tale of the conquered of Mexico in 1521 and its aftermath.

1897.

Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Description:
Forty short stories and essays have been selected as representative of the Argentine writer's metaphysical narratives.

1898.

Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
The flaxen-haired beauty of the child-like Lady Audley would suggest that she has no secrets. But M.E. Braddon's classic novel of sensation uncovers the truth about its heroine in a plot involving bigamy, arson and murder. It challenges assumptions about the nature of femininity and investigates the narrow divide between sanity and insanity, using as its focus one of the most fascinating of all Victorian heroines.

1899.

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolaĭ Semenovich Leskov EN

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Country: Europe / Russia flag Russia
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In this powerful and brutal short story, Leskov demonstrates the enduring truth of the Shakespearean archetype joltingly displaced to the heartland of Russia. Chastened and stifled by her marriage of convenience to a man twice her age, the young Katerina Lvovna goes yawning about the house, missing the barefoot freedom of her childhood, until she meets the feckless steward Sergei Filipych. Sergei proceeds to seduce Katerina, as he has done half the women in the town, not realizing that her passion, once freed, will attach to him so fiercely that Katerina will do anything to keep hold of him. J... continue

1900.

Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Country: Asia / Iran flag Iran
Description:
Includes a short story entitled "A long conversation."
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