Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (2041)
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A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD “5 UNDER 35” NOMINEE • NEW YORK’S “ONE BOOK, ONE NEW YORK” PICK Named One of the Best Books of the Year: Washington Post • NPR • People • Refinery29 • Parade • BuzzFeed “Mirza writes with a mercy that encompasses all things.”—Ron Charles, Washington Post Hailed as “a book for our times” (Christiane Amanpour), A Place for Us is a deeply moving and resonant story of love, identity, and belonging. As an Indian wedding gathers a family back together, parents Rafiq and Layla must reckon with the choices their children have made. There is Ha... continue
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In the Time of Our History by Susanne Pari EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
“Beautifully written. . . . I’m still thinking about the women who inhabited these pages, the choices they made, and the love between them.” –Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author of The Island of Sea Women “I fell in love with this jewel of a novel from the first page.” –Amy Tan, New York Times bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club Indie Next List Pick | Target Book Club Pick | Publisher’s Marketplace Buzz Books Selection | San Francisco Bay Time Top of Your Stack Selection | Booklist Queen Most Popular Book Releases | Bar/Heart Substack 18 New Books to Read | Literally by Scribd Best... continue
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The Contract with God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie Avenue by Will Eisner EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Frimme Hersh breaks his contract with God and ends up as a Depression-era slumlord, while Jacob Shtarkah strives to help an old friend trapped in Nazi Germany and struggles with poverty and the corruption of the residents of Dropsie Avenue.
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Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
She's written off more than she can chew... Romance author Sophie Lyon's secret just went viral: she's never been in love. With a manuscript deadline looming, Sophie makes an ambitious plan to overcome her writer's block: reunite with her exes to learn why she's never fallen in love. Luckily, Sophie's reclusive landlord, Dash Montrose - a former teen heartthrob with his own complicated history - has social media all figured out and is willing to help. As Sophie and Dash grow closer, they discover a heat between them that rivals anything they've ever known. But Sophie needs to figure out who sh... continue
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The Correspondent by Virginia Evans EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
“Subtly told and finely made, The Correspondent is a portrait of a small life expanding. Virginia Evans shows how one woman changes at a point when change had seemed impossible. That change, like this novel, turns out to be a cause for celebration.”—Ann Patchett LIBRARYREADS APRIL PICK • NAMED A GOOD HOUSEKEEPING (UK) MOST ANTICIPATED DEBUT “Imagine, the letters one has sent out into the world, the letters received back in turn, are like the pieces of a magnificent puzzle, or, a better metaphor, if dated, the links of a long chain, and even if those links are never put back together, which the... continue
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Una Mujer en la Oscuridad by Dashiell Hammett ES
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Una casa solitaria, un camino oscuro, una mujer que aparece… ¿quién? ¿De dónde? ¿Y por qué la persiguen?
Un relato redescubierto de 1933, del autor de El halcón maltés y La llave de cristal.
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El Puente de San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder ES
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) es uno de los escritores más importantes e influyentes del siglo xx. Profesor en las universidades de Harvard y Chicago, en toda su obra se refleja su cosmopolitismo, una amplia y sólida formación humanística y unas extraordinarias dotes de observación de la vida cotidiana. Su primera novela, La Cábala (1926) obtuvo ya un notable éxito de crítica, pero fue El puente de San Luis Rey (1927), por la que obtuvo su primer Premio Pulitzer, la que le situó en primera línea de las letras en lengua inglesa. Sin embargo, fueron sus obras teatrales, y en particular Nuestro Pue... continue
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All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
All the Pretty Horses is an acknowledged masterpiece and a grand love story: a novel about childhood passing, along with innocence and a vanished American age. Steeped in the wisdom that comes only from loss, it is a magnificent parable of responsibility, revenge and survival.
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Conscious : A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind by Annaka Harris EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
As concise and enlightening as Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, this mind-expanding dive into the mystery of consciousness is an illuminating meditation on the self, free will, and felt experience. What is consciousness? How does it arise? And why does it exist? We take our experience of being in the world for granted. But the very existence of consciousness raises profound questions: Why would any collection of matter in the universe be conscious? How are we able to think about this? And why should we? In this wonderfully accessible book, Annaka Harris gu... continue