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.
1981.
Limberlost by Robbie Arnott EN
AustraliaDescription:
The much-anticipated third novel by award-winning Australian author Robbie Arnott, Limberlost is a story of family and land, loss and hope, fate and the unknown, and love and kindness
1982.
Linea Nigra : An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes by Jazmina Barrera EN
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
"Personal essays about pregnancy interwoven with references to pregnancy in art and literature"--
1983.
SomaliaDescription:
Returning to Mogadishu, Somalia, from New York after a twenty-year exile, Jeebleh finds a troubled and devastated city ruled by clan warlords and patrolled by violent gangs of thugs, as he works to settle his late mother's outstanding accounts and aids an old friend whose youngest child has been abducted. Reprint.
1984.
Liquid Gold: Bees and the Pursuit of Midlife Honey by Roger Morgan-Grenville EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
'This delightful memoir is an inspiring account of changing direction in mid-life, and a passionate plea on behalf of the honeybee.' Daily Mail 'A light-hearted account of midlife, a yearning for adventure, the plight of bees, the quest for "liquid gold" and, above all, friendship.' Sunday Telegraph After a chance meeting in the pub, Roger Morgan-Grenville and his friend Duncan decide to take up beekeeping. Their enthusiasm matched only by their ignorance, they are pitched into an arcane world of unexpected challenges. Coping with many setbacks along the way, they manage to create a colony of ... continue
1985.
Lisbon Poets : Camoes, Cesario, Sa-Carneiro, Florbela, Pessoa by Camoes, Cesario, Sa-Carneiro, Florbela, Pessoa EN
PortugalDescription:
This bilingual and illustrated edition offers to all English-speaking readers interested in poetry, and in the cultural legacy of Lisbon, verses written by great poets who were born or lived in Portugal's legendary capital city. The globally celebrated Luis De Camoes and Fernando Pessoa, along with the latter's heteronyms, are joined by three other poets widely praised within the Portuguese-speaking world - Cesario Verde, Mario de Sa-Camerio and Florbela Espanca-, whom we have the pleasure of introducing to you.
1986.
Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik EN
DenmarkDescription:
Little Bear's four adventures include taking a trip to the moon and having a birthday party.
1987.
Peru1988.
Little black bird by Anna Kirchner EN
PolandDescription:
Magic is dying out, but it will not disappear without a fight.Wiktoria is a seventeen year old with a secret: she has psychic powers. Her uncontrollable telekinesis hurts her and others, setting fires and throwing objects in the air, no matter how hard she tries to hold it back. All she wants to have is a peaceful, average life, but it's difficult when you've been cursed to destroy the magical world. Her carefully maintained facade of normality starts to unravel when she's hunted down by local sorcerers and their Guardian, and accused of unleashing banished demons back into the human realm. Wh... continue
1989.
Little Boys Come from the Stars by Emmanuel Boundzéki Dongala EN
CongoDescription:
Sardonic, subtle, and sweetly scathing, Little Boys Come from the Stars is satire at its best. Set in an unnamed country in equatorial Africa, it tells the story of Michel, a precocious teen dubbed Matapari (“trouble”) because of his extraordinary birth. Though his father is a reclusive scholar, his mother a pious though confused Catholic, and his uncle a shameless opportunist determined to gain power in the shifting politics of their post-colonial nation, Matapari remains an unsullied child who wears Reeboks, drinks Coke, reads Japanese comics, and watches Rambo. But when his family becomes t... continue
1990.
Little Brother : A Refugee's Odyssey by Ibrahima Balde, Amets Arzallus Antia EN
GuineaDescription:
Based on the author's own life, this heartbreaking novel about an African migrant takes you inside the refugee crisis—for readers of The Lost Children's Archive and The Girl with the Louding Voice. Ibrahima is still a boy when his father dies, but as the eldest son he must leave their home village in the Guinean countryside in search of work to support his family. Eventually apprenticed to a trucker in the capital, he learns that his younger brother has dropped out of school and fled to Libya to pursue the dream of finding work in Europe. Leaving behind everything, Ibrahima sets off with the a... continue
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