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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A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen EN

Rating: 4 (15 votes)
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Description:
Ibsen's 1879 play shocked its first audiences with its radical insights into the social roles of husband and wife. His portrayal of the caged 'songbird' in his flawed heroine Nora remains one of the most striking dramatic depictions of the late 19th century woman. This revised edition contains introductory commentary and notes by Sophie Duncan, which offer a contemporary lens on the play's gender politics and consider seminal productions of the play into the 21st century. METHUEN DRAMA STUDENT EDITIONS are expertly annotated texts of a wide range of plays from the modern and classic repertoire... continue
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A Dream of a Woman by Arsenal Pulp Press, Casey Plett EN

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Award-winning novelist Casey Plett (Little Fish) returns with a poignant suite of stories that center transgender women.

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A Dry White Season by Andre Brink EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Description:
As startling and powerful as when first published more than two decades ago, André Brink's classic novel, A Dry White Season, is an unflinching and unforgettable look at racial intolerance, the human condition, and the heavy price of morality. Ben Du Toit is a white schoolteacher in suburban Johannesburg in a dark time of intolerance and state-sanctioned apartheid. A simple, apolitical man, he believes in the essential fairness of the South African government and its policies—until the sudden arrest and subsequent "suicide" of a black janitor from Du Toit's school. Haunted by new questions and... continue

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A Feminist Theory of Violence : A Decolonial Perspective by Françoise Vergès EN

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Country: Europe / France flag France
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The State will not protect us from gender violence. Our feminism must be anti-racist and decolonial, and must fight for everyone's safety

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A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry EN

Rating: 5 (7 votes)
Country: Asia / India flag India
Description:
"A novel set in India during the Emergency, by the author of Such a Long Journey."

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A Fish Caught in Time : The Search for the Coelacanth by Samantha Weinberg, Fourth Estate EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
The coelacanth (see-lo-canth) is no ordinary fish. Five feet long, with luminescent eyes and limb like fins, this bizarre creature, presumed to be extinct, was discovered in 1938 by an amateur icthyologist who recognized it from fossils dating back 400 million years. The discovery was immediately dubbed the "greatest scientific find of the century," but the excitement that ensued was even more incredible. This is the entrancing story of that most rare and precious fish -- our own great-uncle forty million times removed.
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A Fist Or a Heart by Kristín Eiríksdóttir EN

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Country: Europe / Iceland flag Iceland
Description:
"Previously published as Elâin, âymislegt by Forlagid ... in Iceland in 2017"--Copyright page.

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A Fort of Nine Towers : An Afghan Family Story by Qais Akbar Omar EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Country: Asia / Afghanistan flag Afghanistan
Description:
A carpet designer in Kabul describes his childhood before the Mujahedin took over, his family's struggle for survival after fleeing their home and how his secret carpet factory provided both employment and education for neighborhood girls.

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A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz EN

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Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
Meet the Deans. 'The fact is, the whole of Australia despises my father more than any other man, just as they adore my uncle more than any other man. I might as well set the story straight about both of them.' Heroes or criminals? Crackpots of visionaries? Relatives or enemies? It's a simple family story... From the New South Wales bush to bohemian Paris, from sports fields to strip clubs, from the jungles of Thailand to a leaky boat in the Pacific, A Fraction of the Wholefollows the Deans on their freewheeling, scathingly funny and finally deepy moving quest to leave their mark on the world. ... continue



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