Popular North American Historical Fiction Books
Find historical fiction books written by authors from North America for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (356)
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Cambridge by Caryl Phillips EN
Country: North America / 
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Description:
" ... A prim and increasingly apprehensive Englishwoman observing the peculiarities -- and barely veiled brutality -- of a sugar plantation in the nineteenth-century West Indies. A devout black slave whose profoundly Christian sense of justice is about to cost him his life ... As a suspenseful and inescapably damming portrait of the schizophrenia of slavery, Caryl Phillip's book belongs in the company of Beloved and The Confessions of Nat Turner." From the book jacket.
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Carrie Soto Is Back : A Novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An epic adventure about a female athlete perhaps past her prime, brought back to the tennis court for one last grand slam” (Elle), from the author of Malibu Rising, Daisy Jones & The Six, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo “The perfect novel to close out your summer.”—The Washington Post “Gorgeous. The kind of sharp, smart, potent book you have to set aside every few pages just to catch your breath. I’ll take a piece of Carrie Soto forward with me in life and be a little better for it.”—Emily Henry, author of Book Lovers and Beach Read Carrie Soto is fierce, ... continue
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Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Catch-22 is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a new term to the dictionary. At the heart of Catch-22 resides the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero endlessly inventive in his schemes to save his skin from the horrible chances of war. His efforts are perfectly understandable because as he furiously scrambles, thousands of people he hasn't even met are trying to kill him. His problem is Colonel Cathcart, who keeps raising the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. ... continue
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Child of God by Cormac McCarthy EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • In this taut, chilling story, Lester Ballard—a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape—haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail. While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brilliance. "Like the novelists he admires-Melville, Dostoyevsky, Faulkner-Cormac McCarthy has created an imaginative oeuvre greater and deeper than any single book. Such writers wrestle with the gods themsel... continue
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City of Girls : A Novel by Elizabeth Gilbert EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! From the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and The Signature of All Things, a delicious novel of glamour, sex, and adventure, about a young woman discovering that you don't have to be a good girl to be a good person. "A spellbinding novel about love, freedom, and finding your own happiness." - PopSugar "Intimate and richly sensual, razzle-dazzle with a hint of danger." -USA Today "Pairs well with a cocktail...or two." -TheSkimm "Life is both fleeting and dangerous, and there is no point in denying yourself pleasure, or being anything o... continue
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Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat EN
Country: North America / 
Haiti
Haiti
Description:
"The interconnected secrets of a coastal Haitian town are revealed when one little girl, the daughter of a fisherman, goes missing"--
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Como agua para chocolate / Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel ES
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Mexico zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts. Als jüngste von drei Töchtern darf Tita nicht heiraten, sondern muss bis zu deren Tod ihre Mutter versorgen. Pedro, ihre grosse Liebe, heiratet die ältere Schwester, um wenigstens in ihrer Nähe zu bleiben. Ihren Gefühlen kann sie allein in der Küche Ausdruck geben: die Gäste erleben beim Essen nach, was Tita beim Kochen empfunden hat - mit zum Teil grotesken Folgen.
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Copila de zǎpadǎ by Eowyn Ivey RO
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Ajunşi la jumătatea vieţii, Jack şi Mabel se luptă să-şi clădească o viaţă nouă în Alaska anilor ’20, însă durerea pricinuită de lipsa copiilor sapă o prăpastie tot mai adâncă între ei. Într-o clipă de exaltare, la căderea primei zăpezi din an, cei doi clădesc o copilă de zăpadă cu chip delicat, buze trandafirii şi păr bălai. Nu mică le este însă mirarea a doua zi, când descoperă că fetiţa de zăpadă a prins viaţă, ca şi cum povestea Snegurocikăi, ce încântase copilăria lui Mabel, ar fi devenit dintr-odată realitate. Din acea clipă, Fa... continue
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Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips EN
Country: North America / Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Description:
In a vastly ambitious and intensely moving novel, the author of Cambridge creates a many-tongued chorus of the African diaspora in the complex and riveting story of a desperate father who sells his three children into slavery.
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Dancing in the Dark by Caryl Phillips EN
Country: North America / Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Description:
In this searing novel, Caryl Phillips reimagines the life of the first black entertainer in the U.S. to reach the highest levels of fame and fortune.After years of struggling for success on the stage, Bert Williams (1874—1922), the child of recent immigrants from the Bahamas, made the radical decision to don blackface makeup and play the “coon.” Behind this mask he became a Broadway headliner–as influential a comedian as Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, and W. C. Fields, who called him “the funniest man I ever saw, and the saddest man I ever knew.” It is this dichotomy at Williams’ core that Phillip... continue