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.


3842.

The Garden of Departed Cats by Bilge Karasu EN

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Country: Asia / Turkey flag Turkey
Description:
A surreal, utterly unique Turkish novel about a human chess game.

3843.

The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Country: Asia / Malaysia flag Malaysia
Description:
A mesmerizing new novel of love and betrayal from the critically acclaimed author of "The Gift of Rain," which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2008.

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The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
Twenty-one stories depict the dangers and complexities of modern life and the conflict between men and women


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The Garlic Ballads : A Novel by Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt EN

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Country: Asia / China flag China
Description:
The farmers of Paradise County have been leading a hardscrabble life unchanged for generations. The Communist government has encouraged them to plant garlic, but selling the crop is not as simple as they believed. Warehouses fill up, taxes skyrocket, and government officials maltreat even those who have traveled for days to sell their harvest. A surplus on the garlic market ensues, and the farmers must watch in horror as their crops wither and rot in the fields. Families are destroyed by the random imprisonment of young and old for supposed crimes against the state. The prisoners languish in h... continue

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The Gathering by Anne Enright EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Ireland flag Ireland
Description:
'Witty, original, inventive...utterly compelling' Daily Mail Winner of the Man Booker Prize The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house, in the winter of 1968. The Gathering is a novel about love and disappointment, about thwarted lust and limitless desire, and how our fate is written in the body, not in the stars. 'It is clearly the product of a remarkable intelligence, combined with a gift for o... continue
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The Gene : An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / India flag India
Description:
Prologue: Families -- "The missing science of heredity" 1865-1935 -- "In the sum of the parts, there are only the parts" 1930-1970 -- "The dreams of geneticists" 1970-2001 -- "The proper study of mankind is man" 1970-2005 -- Through the looking glass 2001-2015 -- Post-genome 2015- ... -- Epilogue: Bheda, Abheda

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The General of the Dead Army by Ismail Kadare EN

Rating: 4 (5 votes)
Country: Europe / Albania flag Albania
Description:
The General of the Dead Army is a moving and timely meditation on war and its consequences by the winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize, available again in paperback. Twenty years after World War II, an Italian general—armed with maps, measurements, and dental records—is sent to Albania to recover the remains of his country’s fallen soldiers. A quarrelsome priest joins him, and in rain and sleet they dig up the Albanian countryside—once a battlefield, now a graveyard—checking teeth and dog tags, assembling a dead army in pine-box uniforms. In addition to the brutal weather, th... continue
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The Genius Under the Table : Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Eugene Yelchin EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Russia flag Russia
Description:
Eugene Yelchin recounts growing up in Cold War Russia.


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