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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Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
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WINNER OF THE BBC SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2010 A spectacularly revealing and harrowing portrait of ordinary lives in the world's least ordinary country, North Korea North Korea is Orwell's 1984 made reality: it is the only country in the world not connected to the internet; Gone with the Wind is a dangerous, banned book; during political rallies, spies study your expression to check your sincerity. After the death of the country's great leader Kim Il Sung in 1994, famine descended, and Nothing to Envy - winner of the 2010 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction - weaves together ... continue

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Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson EN

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A New York Times Bestseller - A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, People, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, TIME, The A.V. Club, Buzzfeed, and PopSugar "I can't believe how good this book is.... It's wholly original. It's also perfect.... Wilson writes with such a light touch.... The brilliance of the novel [is] that it distracts you with these weirdo characters and mesmerizing and funny sentences and then hits you in a way you didn't see coming. You're laughing so hard you don't even realize that you... continue

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Notre Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo EN

Rating: 5 (4 votes)
Country: Europe / France flag France
Description:
This translation of Notre-Dame de Paris offers Victor Hugo's epic view of mankind's history, which assumes even more importance than the novel's compelling story.

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Novel and other poems by George Seferis EN

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Country: Europe / Greece flag Greece
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Often compared during his lifetime to T.S. Eliot, whose work he translated and introduced to Greece, George Seferis is noted for his spare, laconic, dense and allusive verse in the Modernist idiom of the first half of the twentieth century. At once intensely Greek and a cosmopolitan of his time (he was a career-diplomat as well as a poet), Seferis better than any other writer expresses the dilemma experienced by his countrymen then and now: how to be at once Greek and modern. The translations that make up this volume are the fruit of more than forty years, and many are published here for the ... continue

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Now You See Us by Balli Kaur Jaswal EN

Rating: 4 (4 votes)
Country: Asia / Singapore flag Singapore
Description:
We are invisible: we clean your houses, we look after your children, we know your secrets. But now you know one of ours...

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Nowhere Man : The Pronek Fantasies by Aleksandar Hemon EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Description:
The author of the celebrated debut, "The Question of Bruno, " returns with the engrossing and hilarious mind- and language-bending adventures of his endearing hero, Jozef Pronek.
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Numero Zero by Umberto Eco EN

Rating: 2 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
From the best-selling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, a novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder

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Nutcracker by E. T. A. Hoffmann EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Country: Europe / Russia flag Russia
Description:
In Nutcracker, the premier children's book illustrator of our time adds his own magic to a story that has long enchanted children and grown-ups alike. Maurice Sendak created this illustrated version of Hoffmann's wonderful tale, basing his illustrations on the sets and costumes he designed for a dance production staged by the Pacific Northwest Ballet. Illustrations.

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Nutcracker and Mouse King by E. T. A. Hoffmann EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Russia flag Russia
Description:
The original stories behind everyone's favorite Christmas ballet It wasn't until the 1950s that seeing The Nutcracker at Christmastime became an American tradition. But the story itself is much older and its original intent more complex. This eye-opening new volume presents two of the tale's earliest versions, both in new translations: E.T.A. Hoffmann's Nutcracker and Mouse King (1816), in which a young girl is whisked away to the Land of Toys to help her animated nutcracker defeat the Mouse King, and Alexandre Dumas's 1845 adaptation, The Tale of the Nutcracker, based on Hoffmann's popular wo... continue


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