Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (2098)
2061.
The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
The poems of Emily Dickinson, published in a series of three volumes at various intervals after her death in 1886, and in a volume entitled "The Single Hound", published in 1914, with the addition of a few before omitted, are here colledted in a final complete edition.
2062.
Bound to Please by Michael Dirda EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
This new work features scores of Dirda's most engaging essays, all intended to introduce readers to wonderful writers, from the anecdotal Herodotus and James Boswell to the sensuous Colette and Steven Millhauser and European masters including Joseph Roth, Flann O'Brien, and Penelope Fitzgerald.
2063.
International Human Rights by Jack Donnelly EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
A definitive and concise introduction to international human rights, updated with two new chapters addressing globalism and terrorism
2064.
Strangers on a Bridge by James Donovan EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
"The subject of the major motion picture Bridge of Spies"--Cover.
2065.
A Love Observed by Lyle W. Dorsett EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
In this definitive biography of Joy Davidman, we read the real love story that the major motion picture, Shadowlands, could not tell. Lyle Dorsett reveals Davidman's profound influence on C.S. Lewis's life and writings.
2066.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
The impassioned abolitionist and eloquent orator provides graphic descriptions of his childhood and horrifying experiences as a slave as well as a harrowing record of his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom. Published in 1845 to quell doubts about his origins, the Narrative is admired today for its extraordinary passion, sensitive descriptions, and storytelling power.
2067.
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
“When a girl leaves home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse.” With Sister Carrie, first published in 1900, Theodore Dreiser transformed the conventional “fallen woman” story into a genuinely innovative and powerful work of fiction. As he hurled his impressionable midwestern heroine into the throbbing, amoral world of the big city, he revealed, with brilliant insight, the deep and driving forces of American culture: the restless idealism, glamorous materialis... continue
2068.
Story Painter by John Duggleby EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
A biography of the African American artist who grew up in the midst of the Harlem Renaissance and became one of the most renowned painters of the life of his people.
2069.
The Tall Woman by Wilma Dykeman EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Portrait of a North Carolina woman, a tower of strength for her family during the days of civil war and reconstruction who rises above a harsh environment to affirm her ideals.
2070.
Tears We Cannot Stop by Michael Eric Dyson EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES, PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY, INDIEBOUND, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, CHRONICLE HERALD, SALISBURY POST, GUELPH MERCURY TRIBUNE, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER | NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: The Washington Post • Bustle • Men's Journal • The Chicago Reader • StarTribune • Blavity • The Guardian • NBC New York's Bill's Books • Kirkus • Essence “One of the most frank and searing discussions on race ... a deeply serious, urgent book, which should take its place in the tradition of Baldwin's The Fire Next Time and King's Why We Can't Wait." —The New York Times Boo... continue