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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Tastes Like War : A Memoir by Grace M. Cho EN

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Country: Asia / South Korea flag South Korea
Description:
A powerful account of a Korean American daughter's exploration of food and family history to understand her mother's schizophrenia.

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Tattered Starts by Catherine Cowles EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
Be brave. Just for sixty seconds. Twenty breaths. One night changed them both forever. Their lives shattered, beyond repair, with jagged edges and pieces askew. Now, Everly has a chance to make things right. To bring healing to the place where everything fell apart. But it means facing the family her father almost destroyed, and the boy with the dark eyes-now grown-who still haunts her dreams. Just one breath away from having your life ripped out from under you. The last thing Hayes wants is another reminder of all the ways he failed sixteen years ago. When Everly drives back into Wolf Gap, hi... continue

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Tauhou : A Novel by Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall EN

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Finalist, 2024 Amazon Canada First Novel Award Dear grandmother, I am writing this song, over and over again, for you. I am a stranger in this place, he tauhou ahau, reintroducing myself to your land. Tauhou is an inventive exploration of Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities by Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall, a writer of Māori and Coast Salish descent. This innovative hybrid novel envisions a shared past between two Indigenous cultures, set on reimagined versions of Vancouver Island and Aotearoa New Zealand that sit side by side in the ocean. Each chapter is a fable, ... continue

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Teaching My Mother how to Give Birth by Warsan Shire EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Somalia flag Somalia
Description:
"Arts Council England"--Page facing title page.

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Tears of Amber by Sofia Segovia EN

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Arno Schipper and Ilse Hahlbrock grow up, unaware of each other, in different parts of Prussia during World War II, and take flight with their families when the region ceases to exist as a part of Germany at the end of the war.

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Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Africa / Zimbabwe flag Zimbabwe
Description:
THE SECOND BOOK IN THE BELOVED NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY SERIES The one where Precious gains a new family . . . Mma Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is hoping to set up home with Mr J.L.B. Maketoni. But first she must deal with his scheming, misbehaving maid. She also has to confront the most difficult case of her career so far: that of an American who went missing ten years ago, and about whom all leads have long since dried up. Then there are not one, but two sudden additions to Mma's family . . .

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Teine Samoa by Dahlia Malaeulu EN

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Teine Samoa means Samoan girl. It's a label that carries with it an unspoken duty to obey, serve and respect your family and Samoan culture. But who can be teine Samoa? When should you be teine Samoa? And how can you be teine Samoa outside of Samoa? Lani is an afakasi, and is unsure of her Samoan heritage and what being Samoan even means. But one thing she knows for sure is that she's afraid of Vai and the 'Real Samoans'. Masina, the free-spirited daughter of a Church Minister, is bound by parental expectations and struggling to fulfill the destiny set by her parents. Teuila is the good Island... continue

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Telesa by Lani Wendt Young EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Oceania / Samoa flag Samoa
Description:
When Leila moves to Samoa, all she wants is a family, a place to belong. Instead she discovers the local ancient myths of the telesa spirit women are more than just scary stories. The more she finds out about her heritage, the more sinister her new home turns out to be. Embraced by a Covenant Sisterhood of earth's elemental guardians - what will Leila choose? Her fiery birthright as a telesa? Or will she choose the boy who offers her his heart? Daniel - stamped with the distinctive tattoo markings of a noble Pacific warrior and willing to risk everything for the chance to be with her. Can thei... continue

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Tell me about it by Sacha Naspini EN

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Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
Nives has recently lost her husband of fifty years. She didn't cry when she found him dead in the pig pen, she didn't cry at the funeral, but now loneliness has set in. When she decides to bring her favourite chicken inside for company, she is surprised to discover that the chicken's company is a more than adequate replacement for her dead husband.

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Tell Me how it Ends : An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
A damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children seeking a new life in the US.


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