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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The World According to Garp : A Novel by John Irving EN

Rating: 5 (3 votes)
Description:
The story of T.S. Garp, the bastard son of a feminist leader who is ahead of her time.

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The World of the End by Ofir Touché Gafla EN

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Country: Asia / Israel flag Israel
Description:
The American debut of a bestselling Israeli novel about a man who crosses into another world for the sake of love.

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The World of Yesterday: An Autobiography by Stefan Zweig EN

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Country: Europe / Austria flag Austria
Description:
Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expressed his full genius, recreating for his international audience the Elizabethan age, the French Revolution, the great days of voyages and discoveries. In this autobiography he holds the mirror up to his own age, telling the story of a generation that "was loaded down with a burden of fate as was hardly any other in the course of history." Zweig attracted to himself the best minds and loftiest souls of his era: Freud, Yeats, Borgese, Pirandello, Gorky, Ravel, Joyce, Toscanini, Jane Addams, Anatole... continue

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The Wren, the Wren : From the Booker Prize-Winning Author by Anne Enright EN

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Country: Europe / Ireland flag Ireland
Description:
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 WINNER OF THE WRITERS' PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 Carmel had been alone all her life. The baby knew this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother's loneliness had been. 'A magnificent novel' SALLY ROONEY Nell is a young woman with adventure on her mind. As she sets out into the world, she finds her family history hard to escape. For her mother, Carmel, Nell's leaving home opens a space in her heart, where the turmoil of a lifetime begins to churn. Over them both falls the long shadow of Carmel's famo... continue


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The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany EN

Rating: 4 (7 votes)
Country: Africa / Egypt flag Egypt
Description:
Reveals the political corruption, sexual repression, religious extremism, and modern hopes of Egypt today through the lives of several people who live in the Yacoubian building.
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The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna EN

Rating: 1 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Finland flag Finland
Description:
The wacky, satirical adventures of a journalist and his rabbit friend.

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The Year of the Rabbit by Tian Veasna EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Cambodia flag Cambodia
Description:
One family's quest to survive the devastation of the Khmer Rouge Year of the Rabbit tells the true story of one family’s desperate struggle to survive the murderous reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. In 1975, the Khmer Rouge seized power in the capital city of Phnom Penh. Immediately after declaring victory in the war, they set about evacuating the country’s major cities with the brutal ruthlessness and disregard for humanity that characterized the regime ultimately responsible for the deaths of one million citizens. Cartoonist Tian Veasna was born just three days after the Khmer Rouge take... continue

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The Years by Annie Ernaux EN

Rating: 4 (6 votes)
Country: Europe / France flag France
Description:
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work and a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008 The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present—even projections into the future—photos, books, songs, radio, television and decades of advertising, headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and writing notes from 6 decades of diaries. Local dialect, words of the times, slogans, brands and n... continue



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