Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (2037)
1701.
The Lightning Dreamer : Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist by Margarita Engle EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Newbery Honor-winner Margarita Engle tells the story of Cuban folk hero, abolitionist, and women's rights pioneer Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda in this powerful YA historical novel in verse.
1702.
The Summer That Melted Everything : A Novel by Tiffany McDaniel EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
The devil comes to Ohio in Tiffany McDaniel's breathtaking and heartbreaking literary debut novel, The Summer That Melted Everything. *Winner of The Guardian's 2016 "Not the Booker" Prize and the Ohioana Readers' Choice Award *Goodreads Choice Award nominee for "Best Fiction" and "Best Debut" “A wonderfully original, profoundly unsettling, deeply moving novel that delivers both the shock of fully realized reality and the deep resonance of parable...A remarkable debut.” —Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain “A haunting Appalachian Gothic nove... continue
1703.
The River Is Waiting by Wally Lamb EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Oprah Bookclub Picks I Know This Much Is True and She's Come Undone comes the heart wrenching story of a young father who, after an unbearable tragedy, reckons with the possibility of atonement for the unforgivable"--
1704.
Frida, a Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
An in-depth biography of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo details her haunting and original painting style, her turbulent marriage to muralist Diego Rivera, her association with communism, and her love of Mexican culture and folklore
1705.
Great Black Hope : A Novel by Rob Franklin EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
A young Black man is caught between worlds of race and class, glamour and tragedy a friend's mysterious death and his own arrest.
1706.
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
An Award-winning AuthorWhen a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the dog he left behind. Now her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of a huge Great Dane, and by the threat of eviction. Increasingly obsessed with the dog's care, she comes dangerously close to unraveling. Elegiac and searching, The Friend is both a meditation on loss and a celebration of human-canine devotion.
1707.
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
The bestselling sensation—and one of the most outstanding crime novels of the 20th century—that was banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, and acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for The Stranger. The basis for the acclaimed 1946 film. An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one grisly solution—a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve. First published in 1934, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic of the roman noir. It established James M. Cain as a major nove... continue
1708.
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's. In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape—her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm. This volume also includes three of Capote's best-known stories, “House of Flowers,” “A Diamond Guitar,” and “A Christmas Memory,” which the Saturday Review called “one of the most moving stories in our language.” It is a tale of two innocents—a small boy and the old woman who is his best friend—whose sweetness cont... continue
1709.
Forfængelighedens bål by Tom Wolfe EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
En moderne amerikansk klassiker og den ultimative New Yorker- roman Forfængelighedens bål er en skånselsløs satire over den amerikanske skinverden, som medierne og magthaverne i fællesskab har skabt. Baggrunden er New York i 1980'erne, og hovedpersonen er en ung børsmægler, der tilfældigt bliver offer for systemet. Tom Wolfe ( 1931-2018) var amerikansk journalist og forfatter med et stort forfatterskab bag sig. Med sin stil, der lånte fra både litteratur og livsstilsjournalistik, var han med til at introducere skrivegenren new journalism.
1710.
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
IN September of the year during the February of which Hawthorne had completed "The Scarlet Letter," he began "The House of the Seven Gables." Meanwhile, he had removed from Salem to Lenox, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where he occupied with his family a small red wooden house, still standing at the date of this edition, near the Stockbridge Bowl. "I sha'n't have the new story ready by November," he explained to his publisher, on the 1st of October, "for I am never good for anything in the literary way till after the first autumnal frost, which has somewhat such an effect on my imaginati... continue