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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Our Chemical Hearts by Krystal Sutherland EN

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Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
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"When high school senior Henry Page meets Grace Town, he finally experiences the ups and downs of first love"--

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Our Dead World by Liliana Colanzi Serrate EN

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"Originally published in Spanish by Almadâia as Nuestro mundo muerto in 2016"--Title page verso.
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Our Holocaust by Amir Gutfreund EN

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Country: Asia / Israel flag Israel
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Amir and Effi collected relatives. With Holocaust survivors for parents and few other "real" relatives alive, relationships operated under a "Law of Compression" in which tenuous connections turned friends into uncles, cousins, and grandparents. Life was framed by Grandpa Lolek, the parsimonious and eccentric old rogue who put his tea bags through Selektion, and Grandpa Yosef, the neighborhood saint, who knew everything about everything, but refused to talk of his own past. Amir and Effi also collected information about what happened Over There. This was more difficult than collecting relative... continue

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Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga EN

Rating: 4 (4 votes)
Country: Africa / Rwanda flag Rwanda
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Introducing Scholastique Mukasonga to the UK: a major international author and her brilliant and award-winning first novel.

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Our Lady of the Pillar by José Maria de Eça de Queiroz EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
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In this classic of Portuguese literature, E�a de Queir�s's greatest incursion into the fantastic, a young nobleman falls in love with a married woman and is entrapped by her husband, but help comes from the unlikeliest of sources.


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Our Riches by Kaouther Adimi EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Country: Africa / Algeria flag Algeria
Description:
The powerful English debut of a rising young French star, Our Riches is a marvelous, surprising, hybrid novel about a beloved Algerian bookshop A Library Journal Best Book of the Year Finalist for the PEN Translation Prize Winner of the French American Foundation Prize


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Our Share of Night : A Novel by Mariana Enriquez EN

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“A masterpiece of supernatural horror.”—The Washington Post “An enchanting, shattering, once-in-a-lifetime reading experience.”—The New York Times (Editors’ Choice) ONE OF TIME AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S TEN BEST HORROR BOOKS OF THE YEAR • LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK A woman’s mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family in the first novel to be translated into English by the International Booker Prize–shortlisted author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed—“th... continue

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Our Souls at Night : A novel by Kent Haruf EN

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A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future. In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf’s inimitable fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters. Her husband died years ago, as did his wife, and in such a small town they naturally have known of each other for decades; in fact, Addie was quite fond of Louis’s wife. His daughter lives hours away in Colorado Springs, her son even farther away in... continue


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