Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (2031)
301.
Sucker Punch by Scaachi Koul EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
The long-awaited follow-up from one of the most original and hilarious voices writing today. Scaachi Koul’s first book was a collection of raw, perceptive, and hilarious essays reckoning with the issues of race, body image, love, friendship, and growing up the daughter of immigrants. When the time came to start writing her next book, Scaachi assumed she’d be updating her story with essays about her elaborate four-day wedding, settling down to domestic bliss, and continuing her never-ending arguments with her parents. Instead, the Covid-19 pandemic hit, Scaachi’s marriage fell apart, she lost h... continue
302.
The Knowing by Tanya Talaga EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
From Tanya Talaga, the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of Seven Fallen Feathers, comes a riveting exploration of her family's story and a retelling of the history of the country we now call Canada For generations, Indigenous People have known that their family members disappeared, many of them after being sent to residential schools, "Indian hospitals" and asylums through a coordinated system designed to destroy who the First Nations, Métis and Inuit people are. This is one of Canada's greatest open secrets, an unhealed wound that until recently lay hidden by shame and abandonmen... continue
303.
The Nowhere Places by Susan LeBlanc EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
An incisive, skilful debut historical novel tracing the lives of a middle-aged woman and a teenaged girl through one pivotal year (1979-80) in North End Halifax. It's 1979, and June has raised her son, Gerald, into adulthood as an unwed mother. She is in middle life now, sandwiched between Gerald--who is developmentally disabled and still lives in the family Hydrostone rowhouse--and her aging mother, Margie. When Gerald goes missing, it throws the family into chaos, leaving June shaken and open to the advances of a long-ago ex who's back in Halifax and looking to reunite. Teenaged Lulu, too, w... continue
304.
River of Shadows by Karina Halle EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
When 24-year old Hanna Heikkinen's estranged father dies, she reluctantly makes the trip to Northern Finland for his funeral. Being in the enchanting land of ice and snow feels miles away from Hanna's busy life back in Los Angeles, especially under the complicated circumstances. But when Hanna discovers that her father's body is missing, that's when things really get weird. A mysterious man, Rasmus, tells Hanna the truth; her father was a powerful shaman who went into Tuonela, the Realm of the Dead, in order to barter for more life, and has been held captive by Tuoni, the God of Death. The onl... continue
305.
Everyone Here is Lying by Shari Lapena EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'The most addictive book I've read in ages...Just brilliant.' LISA JEWELL 'Fast paced, tightly-plotted and with twists so well executed they floored me. Loved every word!' CLAIRE DOUGLAS 'Genius. I loved it.' ANDREA MARA ------- Welcome to Stanhope - a safe neighbourhood. A place for families. William Wooler is a family man, on the surface. But he's been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So, when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter Avery unexpectedly hom... continue
306.
Death Interrupted : How Modern Medicine Is Complicating the Way We Die by Blair Bigham EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
In Death Interrupted, ICU doctor Blair Bigham shares his first-hand experiences of how medicine has complicated the way we die and offers a road map for dying in the modern era. Doctors today can call on previously unimaginable technologies to help keep our bodies alive. In this new era, most organs can be kept from dying almost indefinitely by machines. But this unprecedented shift in end-of-life care has created a major crisis. In the widening grey zone between life and death, doctors fight with doctors, families feel pressured to make tough decisions about their loved ones, and lawyers are ... continue
307.
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
Once every year, Scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a weekend camping trip. This year, something is waiting in the darkness. Something wicked ... An intruder stumbles upon their campsite like a wild animal. He is shockingly thin, disturbingly pale, and voraciously hungry. Within his body is a bioengineered nightmare, a horror that spreads faster than fear. One by one, the boys will do things no person could ever imagine ...
308.
In the Company of Witches by Auralee Wallace EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
The cozy, magical TikTok sensation! When a guest dies in the B&B she helps her aunts run, a young witch must rely on some good old-fashioned investigating to clear her aunt's name in this magical and charming cozy mystery. For four hundred years, the Warren witches have used their magic to quietly help the citizens of the sleepy New England town of Evenfall thrive. There’s never been a problem they couldn’t handle. But then Constance Graves—a local known for being argumentative and demanding—dies while staying at the bed and breakfast Brynn Warren maintains with her aunts. At first, it seems l... continue
309.
The Beggar Maid : Stories of Flo and Rose by Alice Munro EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
“An exhilarating collection” (The New York Times Book Review) of ten blended stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro “The rich texture of its narrative and the author’s graceful style make [The Beggar Maid] a considerable accomplishment.”—Joyce Carol Oates, Ms. In this vibrant series of interweaving stories, Alice Munro recreates the evolving bond—one that is both constricting and empowering—between two women in the course of almost forty years. One is Flo, practical, suspicious of other people’s airs, at times dismayingly vulgar. The other is Rose, Flo’s stepdaughter, a clumsy, sh... continue
