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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Who Is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
"Stylish and sharp, with wicked hairpin turns, Who Is Maud Dixon? is part Patricia Highsmith, part All About Eve and pure fun." (Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette?) Florence Darrow is a low-level publishing employee who believes that she's destined to be a famous writer. When she stumbles into a job as writer's assistant to Maud Dixon, a world-famous, enigmatic novelist whose true identity is a secret, Florence believes that the universe is finally providing her big chance. The arrangement seems perfect. Maud Dixon (whose real name, Florence discovers, is Helen Wilcox) can be ... continue

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Who Killed My Father by Édouard Louis EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / France flag France
Description:
Who Killed My Father is the story of a tough guy - the story of the little boy I never was. The story of my father. 'What a beautiful book' MAX PORTER In Who Killed My Father, douard Louis explores key moments in his father's life, and the tenderness and disconnects in their relationship. Told with the fire of a writer determined on social justice, and with the compassion of a loving son, the book urgently and brilliantly engages with issues surrounding masculinity, class, homophobia, shame and social poverty. It unflinchingly takes aim at systems that disadvantage those they seek to exclude -... continue

5203.

Who Killed Palomino Molero? by Mario Vargas Llosa EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: South America / Peru flag Peru
Description:
In Peru in the 1950s, two unglamourous detectives, Lieutenant Silva and Officer Lituma, find that everyone is indifferent to the murder investigation of a young airman


5205.

Why Goats Smell Bad by Raouf Mama EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Country: Africa / Benin flag Benin
Description:
A collection of twenty folk stories from the Fon people of Benin, about orphans and twins with magical associations, spirits, animals, royalty, and farmers.

5206.

Why I Killed My Best Friend by Amanta Michalopoulou EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Greece flag Greece
Description:
A young girl named Maria is lifted from her beloved Africa and relocated to her native Greece. She struggles with the transition, hating everything about Athens: the food, the air, the school, her classmates and the language. Just as she resigns herself to misery, Anna arrives. Though Anna's refined, Parisian upbringing is the exact opposite of Maria's, the two girls instantly bond over their common foreignness, becoming inseparable in their relationship as each other's best friend, but also as each other's fiercest competition; with boys, talents and politics.

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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
'Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent. This book is an attempt to speak' *Updated edition featuring a new afterword* The book that sparked a national conversation. Exploring everything from eradicated black history to the inextricable link between class and race, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race is the essential handbook for anyone who wants to understand race relations in Britain today. THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION NARRATIVE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK O... continue

5208.

Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta by Aglaja Veteranyi EN

0 Ratings
Country: Europe / Romania flag Romania
Description:
A nomadic family of circus performers, refugees from Romania, travels through Europe and Africa by caravan. The mother's death-defying act causes constant anxiety for her two daughters, who voice their fears through a grisly communal fairy tale about a child being cooked alive in polenta--but their real life is no less of a dark fable, and one that seems just as unlikely to have a happy ending. An actor and performance artist as well as a poet and novelist, Veteranyi was acclaimed for her seemingly "artless" narrative voice, in which pain and hilarity always vie for the upper hand--a voice at ... continue

5209.

Why We Kneel How We Rise by Michael Holding EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
A powerful look at the history of racism through the prism of sport, showing how we can change things through education and understanding

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Why We Took the Car by Wolfgang Herrndorf EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
Description:
An American debut by a best-selling German author follows the darkly comic coming-of-age story of misfits Mike and Tschick, whose decided unpopularity and exclusion from a gorgeous girl's party trigger a fateful road trip.


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