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For Reading Addicts Reading Challenge 2017 – November

By October 28, 2017Cwts Club Book Club

Here at For Reading Addicts we wanted to create another reading challenge for ourselves and our followers, something a little different, something that perhaps takes us all out of our reading comfort zone and so we have decided that the For Reading Addicts reading challenge for 2017 will feature authors from around the world.

Each month we will select books written by authors who hail from a specific country and will then share that list on our Social Media pages and groups. We will then set up a discussion event for those who are taking part to chat about the books they read and to share their experiences of reading books from authors they may not ever have come across otherwise. We will also create a poll question asking for suggestions of authors for the next month’s country.

For our November challenge we asked our Cwts Book Club members for suggestions of authors from South America. The list this vote produced was very long, these are the five books we have chosen, by the authors who received most votes, for our For Reading Addicts Reading Challenge 2017 November edition.

Maya’s Notebook – Isabel Allende

Teenage Maya is in trouble. She’s an alcoholic, an addict and deeply involved with a criminal gang. How did it all go so wrong? Abandoned by her parents as a baby, Maya has been brought up by her tough grandmother Nini and her gentle grandfather Popo. At school, the teenage Maya finds herself drawn towards the wrong crowd. Before she knows what’s happened, Maya’s life has turned into one of drug addiction and crime.

Maya’s Notebook US
Maya’s Notebook UK

One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buendia family and of Macondo, the town they have built. Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Macondo has its wars and disasters, even its wonders and its miracles.

One Hundred Years of Solitude US
One Hundred Years of Solitude UK

Twenty Love Poems: And A Song of Despair – Pablo Neruda

The Chilean Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) was probably the greatest and certainly the most prolific of twentieth-century Latin American poets. He brought out his first collection at the age of seventeen, and quickly developed an assured and distinctive poetic voice.

Twenty Love Poems US
Twenty Love Poems UK



Adultery – Paulo Coelho

Linda knows she’s lucky. Yet every morning when she opens her eyes to a so-called new day, she feels like closing them again. Her friends recommend medication. But Linda wants to feel more, not less. And so she embarks on an adventure as unexpected as it is daring, and which reawakens a side of her that she – respectable wife, loving mother, ambitious journalist – thought had disappeared.

Adultery US
Adultery UK

Captains of the Sands – Jorge Amado

They call themselves ‘Captains of the Sands’, a gang of orphans and runaways who live by their wits and daring in the torrid slums and sleazy back alleys of Bahia. Led by fifteen-year-old ‘Bullet’, the band – including a crafty liar named ‘Legless’, the intellectual ‘Professor’, and the sexually precocious ‘Cat’ – pulls off heists and escapades against the privileged of Brazil.

Captain of the Sands US
Captain of the Sands UK

This month’s books are by the authors that received the most votes, we hope that you can find something from the list to read and enjoy. If you’ve already read one of the books, you can still join in the discussion in the middle of November over in the discussion group.

We hope our reading challenge for 2017 will introduce you to authors you’ve never heard of and writing styles you’ve not encountered previously. We have kept the challenge as simple as possible and hopefully, each month you will be able find at least one book that you will enjoy reading.



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One Comment

  • Marisa Galli says:

    Dear Sirs, I’ve read tham all, when they were published, apart from the last one that I know nothing about. I live in a small town the North of Italy, Modena. When I read about new novels being published I order them, in English, if it’s the original Language or in Italian at the local bokshop we have in the centre of this beautiful town. I truly recommend reading them all, as the narrative voice gives the feelin of being inside the atmosphere of time and place. Thank you for your choice. Marisa Galli

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