Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (2060)
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The Dead Girls by Jorge Ibarguengoitia EN
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
1960s Central Mexico, two sisters, Delfina and María de Jesús González, known as 'Las Poquianchis', run a small-town brothel. Kidnapped, drugged and beaten, their young workers are desperate for escape. The Dead Girls is the discovery of these young women, buried in the back yard. In the laconic tones of a police report, Jorge Ibargüengoitia investigates these horrific murders and their motives. A black comedy, both moving and cruelly funny, Ibargüengoitia's work is a potent and entertaining blend of sex and mayhem.
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Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER! Vampires, vaqueros, and star-crossed lovers face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatural western from the author of The Hacienda. As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters—her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north. But something more sinister lurks near the ranch at night, something that drains men of their blood and leaves them for dead. Something that once attacked Nena nine years ago. Believing Nena dead, Néstor has been on the run from his grief ever since, movin... continue
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Señales que precederán al fin del mundo by Yuri Herrera ES
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Señales que precederán al fin del mundo es, sin duda, una de las novelas más singulares de entre todas las que se han escrito en español en este cambio de siglo. Y también una de las más bellas y precisas. Como ya sucedía en su anterior novela: Trabajos del reino, Yuri Herrera no escribe «simplemente» sobre México y la frontera, sino que crea su México a través de historias y leyendas del pasado y del presente. Y traza con exactitud el mapa de un territorio que es aún más gigantesco, hecho tanto de lo que está sobre la tierra y en lo real como de lo que está bajo ella y pertenece a lo mitológi... continue
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A Ballad of Love and Glory by Reyna Grande EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
"A Long Petal of the Sea meets Luis Alberto Urrea's The House of Broken Angels in this epic historical romance about a Mexican woman and an Irish-American soldier who fall in love in the thick of the Mexican-American War"--
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Las grandes aguas by Luis Spota ES
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Esta novela es un vívido testimonio de la brutalidad y la obcecación del hombre frente a la vida, a la naturaleza, al destino, y sirven como símil a tantos momentos que han caracterizado a nuestras historias contemporáneas; también es una muestra de la reconocida destreza narrativa de su autor para atraer sin reparo, rotundamente, la curiosidad de sus lectores y manejar la anécdota a placer. En la selva tamaulipeca, el ingeniero Carlos Rivas ha hecho del deber su razón de existir: construir la presa es su único afán, mientras relega a la esposa y al pequeño hijo que padecen el ambiente inhóspi... continue
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The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera Garza EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Surreal and gothic, The Iliac Crest is a masterful excavation of forgotten Mexican women writers, illustrating the myriad ways that gendered language can wield destructive power. On a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator’s house, where they proceed to ruthlessly question their host’s identity. The women are strangely intimate―even inventing together an incomprehensible, fluid language―and harass the narrator by repeatedly claiming that they know his greatest secret: that he is, in fact, a woman. As the increasingly frantic protagonist fails to defend his suppo... continue
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Umami by Laia Jufresa EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
It started with a drowning. Deep in the heart of Mexico City, where five houses cluster around a sun-drenched courtyard, lives Ana, a precocious twelve-year-old still coming to terms with the mysterious death of her little sister years earlier. Over the rainy, smoggy summer she decides to plant a vegetable garden in the courtyard, and as she digs the ground and plants her seeds, her neighbors in turn delve into their past. As the ripple effects of grief, childlessness, illness and displacement saturate their stories, secrets seep out and questions emerge - Who was my wife? Why did my mom leave... continue
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Jetzt ergebe ich mich und das ist alles by Alvaro Enrigue DE
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Janos, Mexiko, 1835: Als Apachen eine junge Witwe entführen, bekommt Leutnant Zuloaga den Auftrag, nach ihr zu suchen. In seinem Gefolge reiten unter anderem eine scharfschießende Nonne, ein alter Tanzlehrer und zwei ehemalige Gefangene aus dem Stamm der Yaqui. Als sie die Frau schließlich finden, machen sie eine verblüffende Entdeckung. New York, 2017: Ein mexikanischer Schriftsteller hadert mit der amerikanischen Politik. Aus Angst, nach einem Besuch in seiner Heimat nicht mehr einreisen zu dürfen, verbringt er den Familienurlaub im Grenzgebiet zu Mexiko, wo sich einst Géronimo, der letzte H... continue
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Last Date in El Zapotal by Mateo García Elizondo EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
A junkie looking for one last fix in a town full of ghosts . This is a ghost story. A junkie has gone to El Zapotal to die – to rent a room in this crumbling backwater, melt into one last fix, and not come back. For someone so ready to no longer be alive, though, he can’t stop clinging to the past. His old dog, Kid, who he abandoned. His love, Valerie, who he introduced to drugs. There’s no such thing as a good memory. El Zapotal doesn’t want him either. The people aren’t welcoming, the streets are empty except for strays, and he’s having trouble pacing his supply. As the drugs run out, the li... continue