Let‘s read in English 2015

You are a fan of reading in English or want to read more English books? We have the perfect reading challenge for you: our ‘Let’s read in English’ Challenge! Read English books, join the fun and win great prices!

Etta and Otto and Russell and James

I've gone. I've never seen the water, so I've gone there. I will try to remember to come back.Etta's greatest unfulfilled wish, living in the rolling farmland of Saskatchewan, is to see the sea. And so, at the age of eighty-two she gets up very early one morning, takes a rifle, some chocolate, and her best boots, and begins walking the 2, 000 miles to water. Meanwhile her husband Otto waits patiently at home, left only with his memories. Their neighbour Russell remembers too, but differently More - and he still loves Etta as much as he did more than fifty years ago, before she married Otto.

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14th Deadly Sin

Detective Lindsay Boxer and her three best friends are back and recovering from the events that pushed them all to the edge. After her near-death experience, Yuki is seeing her life from a new perspective and is considering a change in her law career. San Francisco Chronicle reporter Cindy has healed from her gunshot wound and has published a book on the infamous serial killers she helped to bring down. Lindsay is just happy that the gang are all still in one piece. But a new terror is sweeping the streets of San Francisco. A gang dressed as cops are ransacking the city, and leaving a string of dead bodies in their wake. Lindsay is on the case to track them down and needs to discover whether these killers could actually be police officers.

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Half Wild

The stunning sequel to Sally Green's breathtaking debut novel - HALF BAD! After finally meeting his elusive father, Marcus, and receiving the three gifts that confirm him as a full adult witch, Nathan is still on the run. He needs to find his friend Gabriel and rescue Annalise, now a prisoner of the powerful Black witch Mercury. Most of all he needs to learn how to control his Gift - a strange, wild new power that threatens to overwhelm him. Meanwhile, Soul O'Brien has seized control of the Council of White Witches and is expanding his war against Black witches into Europe. In response, an unprecedented alliance has formed between Black and White witches determined to resist him.

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Blood on Snow

Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer. When you 'fix' people for a living - terminally - it's hard to get close to anyone. Now he's finally met the woman of his dreams. But there are two problems. She's his boss's wife. And Olav's just been hired to kill her. From the bestselling author of BAFTA-nominated Headhunters, comes Jo Nesbo's Blood on Snow.

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A God in Ruins

Kate Atkinson's dazzling Life After Life, the bestselling adult book this year to date in the UK, explored the possibility of infinite chances, as Ursula Todd lived through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. In A God in Ruins, Atkinson turns her focus on Ursula's beloved younger brother Teddy - would-be poet, RAF bomber pilot, husband and father - as he navigates the perils and progress of the 20th century. For all Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge will be to face living in a future he never expected to have. A God in Ruins is a masterful companion to Life After Life, and will prove once again that Kate Atkinson is one of the finest novelists of our age.

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Finding Audrey

A laugh-out-loud romance from the bestselling author of the Shopaholic series. Meet Audrey: an ordinary teenage girl with not so ordinary problems. Aside from her completely crazy and chaotic family, she suffers from an anxiety disorder which makes talking to her brother's hot new best friend a bit of a challenge. But Audrey has a plan to help her face her fears and take on the world again. First stop: Starbucks.

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Go Set a Watchman

Go Set a Watchman is set during the mid-1950s and features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Scout (Jean Louise Finch) has returned to Maycomb from New York to visit her father Atticus. She is forced to grapple with issues both personal and political as she tries to understand both her father's attitude toward society, and her own feelings about the place where she was born and spent her childhood.

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Black Eyed Susans

A chilling new thriller that gets into the heart and mind of the killer, and the victim. Seventeen-year-old Tessa, dubbed a 'Black-Eyed Susan' by the media, became famous for being the only victim to survive the vicious attack of a serial killer. Her testimony helped to put a dangerous criminal behind bars - or so she thought. Now, decades later the black-eyed susans planted outside Tessa's bedroom window seem to be a message from a killer who should be safely in prison. Haunted by fragmented memories of the night she was attacked and terrified for her own teenage daughter's safety, can Tessa uncover the truth about the killer before it's too late?

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Make Me

Jack Reacher has no place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, so a remote railroad stop with the curious name of Mother's Rest seems perfect for an aimless one-day stopover. He expects to find a lonely tombstone in a sea of nearly-ripe wheat but instead there is a woman waiting for a missing private investigator, a cryptic note about two hundred deaths, and a small town full of silent, watchful people. Reacher’s one-day stopover turns into an open-ended stay. Fasten your seatbelt for another nailbiting ride from the kick ass master of the thriller genre!

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Join and win!

Every month you have the chance to join a reading group for a fun, thrilling or romantic novel, discuss it in German with other readers and collect points for writing a review. You can get further points for every review you write about an English book (either in German or English) and win fantastic prices at the end of the year. Join the fun and start the challenge with Penguin Random House UK!

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Accept the Challenge

You want to take part in the ‘Let’s read in English’ Challenge? Great! Just go to the Review Topic and enter the competition by posting a short comment to let us know that you are in for reading loads of inspiring English books!

Collect points

You can gain points during the whole year by writing review of English books on LovelyBooks.de. You can chose for yourself which books you want to read and review — there are no limitations concerning genre, publishing date, author or publisher. You get 25 points for your review on LovelyBooks.de and 25 extra points, if you post your review on your blog or any other website. This means you can get maximum 50 points (2x25 points) per review. The review can be either in English or German. You can take part in the English reading group every month and use the review of the monthly books for gaining points. It is important that you post the link to every review (plus the link to the additional website) into the Review Topic so that we can count your points.

Win

Every month we will go through the topic and count your points. The monthly results will be published here. The reader who gained the most points during the whole year is the champion of the 'Let's read in English' Challenge 2015 and wins a Tolino and eBooks of free choice worth 300 Euros. The second place wins a Tolino and eBooks of free choice worth 150 Euros, the third to the tenth place gets a package full of books from Penguin Random House UK!

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