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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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami EN
JapanDescription:
A mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and 1Q84 Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning ‘red pine’, and Oumi, ‘blue sea’, while the girls’ names were Shirane, ‘white root’, and Kurono, ‘black field’. Tazaki was the only last name with no colour in it. One day Tsukuru Tazaki’s friends announced that they didn't want to see him, or talk to him, ever again. Since that day Tsukuru has been floating through life, unable to form intim... continue
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Colour Scheme by Ngaio Marsh EN
Country: Oceania / 
New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
It was a horrible death - lured into a pool of boiling mud and left there to die. Far from home on a wartime quest for German agents, Chief Inspector Alleyn knew that any number of people could have killed him.
853.
Come : A Memoir by Rita Therese EN
AustraliaDescription:
Bold, brave and darkly funny, COME is the extraordinary story of Melbourne sex worker Rita Therese and the love, sex and death she has experienced in her life so far.
854.
Come Rain Or Come Shine by Kazuo Ishiguro EN
Description:
In Kazuo Ishiguro's hands, a snapshot of domestic realism becomes a miniature masterpiece of memory and forgetting.
855.
Comfort Me with Apples by Catrin Morgan EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Family saga set in south Wales in 1920s.
856.
Coming of Age in Mississippi : The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South by Anne Moody EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
The unforgettable memoir of a woman at the front lines of the civil rights movement—a harrowing account of black life in the rural South and a powerful affirmation of one person’s ability to affect change. “Anne Moody’s autobiography is an eloquent, moving testimonial to her courage.”—Chicago Tribune Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till’s lynching. Before then, she had “known the fear of hun... continue
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Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje EN
Sri LankaDescription:
Bringing to life the fabulous, colorful panorama of New Orleans in the first flush of the jazz era, this book tells the story of Buddy Bolden, the first of the great trumpet players--some say the originator of jazz--who was, in any case, the genius, the guiding spirit, and the king of that time and place. In this fictionalized meditation, Bolden, an unrecorded father of Jazz, remains throughout a tantalizingly ungraspable phantom, the central mysteries of his life, his art, and his madness remaining felt but never quite pinned down. Ondaatje's prose is at times startlingly lyrical, and as he c... continue
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Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman EN
SwedenDescription:
Combined here are Maus I: A Survivor's Tale and Maus II - the complete story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living and surviving in Hitler's Europe. By addressing the Holocaust through cartoons the author captures the everyday reality of fear and the sensation of survival.
859.
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
U.S. poet/writer 1809-1849.
860.
Complete Works and Other Stories by Augusto Monterroso EN
Country: North America / 
Honduras
Honduras
Description:
These translations of short stories reveal Monterroso as a foundational author of the new Latin American narrative.
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