Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (2107)
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Here Goes Nothing by Eamon McGrath EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
Named a Fall 2020 Best Indie Read by the Globe and Mail From Eamon McGrath, award-winning musician and author of the widely acclaimed Berlin-Warszawa Express, comes a smart and gritty novel that explores the lives of touring musicians Here Goes Nothing, Eamon McGrath’s brave second offering and follow-up to 2017’s widely acclaimed Berlin-Warszawa Express, once again explores the world of touring musicians — but this time McGrath expands his scope and perspective from the inner dialogue of a traveling songwriter into the wider range of a multi-member touring band. Told in two interwoven narrati... continue
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The Body in Question by Jill Ciment EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
Florida. During a sensational murder trial involving a rich, white teenage girl-- a twin-- on trial for the horrific murder of her toddler brother, two of the sequestered jurors fall into a furtive affair. During deliberations Hannah and Graham learn they are on opposing sides of the case and realize that their fellow jurors are wise to their affair. After the trial's end, as Hannah returns home to her much older husband, an exploding media fury creates a frenzy of public outrage. The jury seems to have convicted the wrong twin. And the judge, having received an anonymous letter about the juro... continue
334.
6:40 to Montreal by Eva Jurczyk EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
No WiFi, no distractions. No way out... Agatha's husband has bought her a first-class ticket on the scenic six-hour train from Toronto to Montreal as a gift—a one-day writing retreat so she can get some serious work done on her new book, a highly-anticipated follow-up to Agatha's runaway bestseller debut novel. The first-class car is the perfect place to be productive, with only a handful of other passengers, plenty of snacks and drinks, and beautiful views flying by outside the window. But Agatha has other plans for her day out... plans that are unexpectedly derailed when the train breaks dow... continue
335.
Detective Aunty by Uzma Jalaluddin EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
With her daughter accused of murder, Kausar Khan goes from meddlesome aunty to Detective Aunty . . . 'I am such a fan' Emily Henry 'I'll read anything Uzma Jalaluddin writes' Kate Quinn _________ When her daughter Sana is accused of murdering the unpopular landlord of her clothing boutique, Kausar Khan returns to Toronto for the first time in twenty years. Back in the Golden Crescent suburb she once called home, Kausar finds that the thriving neighbourhood she remembered has changed. The murder of Sana's unpopular landlord is only the latest in a wave of local crimes which have gone unsolved. ... continue
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The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments—the second book of the internationally celebrated MaddAddam trilogy, set in the visionary world of Oryx and Crake, is at once a moving tale of lasting friendship and a landmark work of speculative fiction. The long-feared waterless flood has occurred, altering Earth as we know it and obliterating most human life. Among the survivors are Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, who is barricaded inside a luxurious spa. Amid shadowy, corrupt ruling powers... continue
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Madwoman of Gandoca by Anacristina Rossi EN
Country: North America / 
Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Description:
La Loca de Gandoca caused a national outcry in Costa Rica when it was published in 1992. It blew the whistle on a secret plot by government officials and private investors to develop the Gandoca-Manzanilla Wildlife Refuge, which is one of the most biologically diverse sites in the world and supposedly protected by the Costa Rican constitution. The novel is the largely autobiographical account of Anacristina Rossi's attempt to save the refuge from destruction.
338.
God was Looking the Other Way by José León SÁNCHEZ EN
Country: North America / Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Description:
"Thirty years on the Devil's Island of Latin America"--Jacket subtitle.
339.
El nudo : una fábula de fin de siglo by Rodrigo Soto ES
Country: North America / Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Description:
Publicado anteriormente: San Josae, Costa Rica: Ediciones Perro Azul, 2004.
340.
Gina : novela by Rodrigo Soto ES
Country: North America / Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Description:
This controversial but accurate portrait of a woman who is many women at once has love and sex, marriage and friendship, and motherhood and self-reliance as its main themes. Este retrato controvertido pero fiel de una mujer que es muchas mujeres tiene como temas principales el amor y el sexo, el matrimonio y la amistad, y la maternidad y la autosuficiencia. "