Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (2040)
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Devil is Fine by John Vercher EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION • LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE • INDIE NEXT PICK • NAMED A BEST NOVEL OF THE YEAR BY ELECTRIC LIT • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2024 • A CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF 2024 • FEATURED IN THE LA TIMES, THE ROOT, AND THE CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS • Still reeling from a sudden tragedy, our biracial narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he has just inherited a plot of land from his estranged white grandfather. He travels to a beach town several hours south of his home with the intention of selling the la... continue
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The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
'The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing.' Written with barely controlled fury after she was confined to her room for 'nerves' and forbidden to write, Gilman's pioneering feminist horror story scandalized nineteenth-century readers with its portrayal of a woman who loses her mind because she has literally nothing to do. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries... continue
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Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Terrifying…buckle up for a chilling summer read.” —People (Best Books of the Week) “The perfect thriller! A must-read.” —Gillian Flynn “Stunning and relentless. This is Jaws at 35,000 feet.” —Don Winslow You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the ... continue
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The Fantasies of Future Things by Doug Jones EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
In this powerful debut reminiscent of Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight, two men in Atlanta reconcile their human dignity against the price of their professional ambitions working for a real estate development company displacing Black residents in preparation for the 1996 Olympics. Daily interactions between Jacob and Daniel are a powder keg of sexual tension and uncertainty. A recent Morehouse graduate and Brooklyn transplant, Jacob fears that accepting the truth of his sexuality will disappoint the hopes his parents have for him to lead a respectable life. Grieving the death of his mother while sear... continue
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The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
An aged woman discovers herself as she reflects upon her life in the 20th century.
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My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Written with grace, wisdom, and sensitivity, this novel is about a teen who was conceived as a bone marrow match for her sister Kate, and what happens when she begins to question who she really is.
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A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteer and the men and women he meets in Italy with total conviction. But A Farewell to Arms is not only a novel of war. In it Hemingway has also created a love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion.
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Zeal by Morgan Jerkins EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
The New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing and Caul Baby returns with an epic, multi-generational novel that illuminates the legacy of slavery and the power of romantic love. Harlem, 2019. Ardelia and Oliver are hosting their engagement party. As the guests get ready to leave, he hands her a love letter on a yellowing, crumbling piece of paper . . . Natchez, 1865. Discharged from the Union Army as a free man after the war's end, Harrison returns to Mississippi to reunite with the woman he loves, Tirzah. Upon his arrival at the Freedmen's Bureau, though, he catches the eye... continue
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The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
The definitive paperback editions of L.M. Montgomery's beloved novels get a brand-new look for the next hundred years -- now with beautiful covers from renowned paper artist Elly MacKay! At twenty-nine, Valancy has never been in love, and it seems romance has passed her by. Living with her overbearing mother and meddlesome aunt, she finds her only consolations in the "forbidden" books of John Foster and her daydreams of the Blue Castle. Then a letter arrives from Dr. Trent--and Valancy decides to throw caution to the winds. For the first time in her life Valancy does and says exactly what she ... continue