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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Other People's Clothes : A Novel by Calla Henkel EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
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Two American ex-pats obsessed with the Amanda Knox trial find themselves at the nexus of murder and celebrity in glittering late-aughts Berlin in this “hugely entertaining” (The New York Times) debut with a wicked sense of humor. “Darkly funny, psychologically rich and utterly addictive... [a] harrowing tale of twisty female friendships, slippery identity and furtive secrets.” —Megan Abbott, best-selling author of The Turnout Hoping to escape the pain of the recent murder of her best friend, art student Zoe Beech finds herself studying abroad in the bohemian capital of Europe—Berlin. Rudderles... continue
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Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga EN

Rating: 4 (5 votes)
Country: Asia / Syria flag Syria
Description:
A gorgeously written, hopeful middle grade novel in verse about a young girl who must leave Syria to move to the United States, perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Aisha Saeed. Jude never thought she’d be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives. At first, everything in America seems too fast and too loud. The American movies that Jude has always loved haven’t quite prepared her for starting school in the US—and her new... continue

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Our Chemical Hearts by Krystal Sutherland EN

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Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
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"When high school senior Henry Page meets Grace Town, he finally experiences the ups and downs of first love"--

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Our Dead World by Liliana Colanzi Serrate EN

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"Originally published in Spanish by Almadâia as Nuestro mundo muerto in 2016"--Title page verso.
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Our Holocaust by Amir Gutfreund EN

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Country: Asia / Israel flag Israel
Description:
Amir and Effi collected relatives. With Holocaust survivors for parents and few other "real" relatives alive, relationships operated under a "Law of Compression" in which tenuous connections turned friends into uncles, cousins, and grandparents. Life was framed by Grandpa Lolek, the parsimonious and eccentric old rogue who put his tea bags through Selektion, and Grandpa Yosef, the neighborhood saint, who knew everything about everything, but refused to talk of his own past. Amir and Effi also collected information about what happened Over There. This was more difficult than collecting relative... continue

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Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga EN

Rating: 4 (4 votes)
Country: Africa / Rwanda flag Rwanda
Description:
Introducing Scholastique Mukasonga to the UK: a major international author and her brilliant and award-winning first novel.

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Our Lady of the Pillar by José Maria de Eça de Queiroz EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
Description:
In this classic of Portuguese literature, E�a de Queir�s's greatest incursion into the fantastic, a young nobleman falls in love with a married woman and is entrapped by her husband, but help comes from the unlikeliest of sources.


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Our Riches by Kaouther Adimi EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Country: Africa / Algeria flag Algeria
Description:
The powerful English debut of a rising young French star, Our Riches is a marvelous, surprising, hybrid novel about a beloved Algerian bookshop A Library Journal Best Book of the Year Finalist for the PEN Translation Prize Winner of the French American Foundation Prize



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