Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (2099)
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Country: North America / 
Cuba
Cuba
Description:
From beloved Cuban science fiction author Yoss comes a bitingly funny space-opera homage to Raymond Chandler, about a positronic robot detective on the hunt for some extra-dangerous extraterrestrial criminals. On the intergalactic trading station William S. Burroughs, profit is king and aliens are the kingmakers. Earthlings have bowed to their superior power and weaponry, though the aliens--praying-mantis-like Grodos with pheromonal speech and gargantuan Collosaurs with a limited sense of humor--kindly allow them to do business through properly controlled channels. That's where our hero comes ... continue
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El vizconde demediado by Italo Calvino ES
Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
El vizconde demediado es la primera incursion de Italo Calvino en lo fabuloso y lo fantastico. Cuenta Calvino la historia del vizconde de Terralba, quien fue partido en dos por un canonazo de los turcos y cuyas dos mitades continuaron viviendo por separado. Simbolo de la condicion humana dividida, Medardo de Terralba sale a caminar por sus tierras.A su paso, las peras que colgaban de los arboles aparecen todas partidas por la mitad. B+Cada encuentro de dos seres en el mundo es un desgarrarseB; , le dice la mitad mala del vizconde a la mujer de quien se ha enamorado. Pero es seguro que se trate... continue
423.
The Aguero Sisters by Cristina Garcia EN
Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
When Cristina García's first novel, Dreaming in Cuban, was published in 1992, The New York Times called the author "a magical new writer...completely original." The book was nominated for a National Book Award, and reviewers everywhere praised it for the richness of its prose, the vivid drama of the narrative, and the dazzling illumination it brought to bear on the intricacies of family life in general and the Cuban American family in particular. Now, with The Agüero Sisters, García gives us her widely anticipated new novel. Large, vibrant, resonant with image and emotion, it tells a mesmerizi... continue
424.
The Sugar Island by Ivonne Lamazares EN
Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
Tanya is constantly at odds with her unreliable mother, so she is reluctant to follow her when she decides to move the family from Cuba to America.
425.
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys EN
Country: North America / 
Dominica
Dominica
Description:
Antoinette Cosway is a Creole heiress - product of an inbred, decadent, expatriate community - a sensitive girl at once beguiled and repelled by the lush Jamaican landscape. Soon after her marriage to Rochester rumours of madness in the Cosway family poison Rochester's mind against her.
426.
Country: North America / Dominica
Dominica
Description:
In Jean Rhys's stunning debut novel, a young woman finds herself alone and penniless in Paris when her husband is arrested. She is taken in by a kind English couple--and finds herself drawn inexorably into a world both fascinating and strange. Love and obsession intertwine in this captivating and sinister tale.
427.
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys EN
Country: North America / Dominica
Dominica
Description:
The last of the four novels Jean Rhys wrote in interwar Paris, Good Morning, Midnight is the culmination of a searing literary arc, which established Rhys as an astute observer of human tragedy. Her everywoman heroine, Sasha, must confront the loves-- and losses-- of her past in this mesmerizing and formally daring psychological portrait.
428.
It Falls Into Place: The Short Stories of Phyllis Shand Allfrey by Phyllis Shand Allfrey EN
Country: North America / Dominica
Dominica
Description:
These tantalizing stories - set in Dominica, New York, and London yet always steeped in an unmistakably West Indian identity - probe beneath the surface of colonial life, often drawing on autobiographical experience.
429.
Das Orchideenhaus by Phyllis Shand Allfrey DE
Country: North America / Dominica
Dominica
Description:
"The novel, as narrated by the old nurse Lally, revolves around the return of three Creole sisters to their native island after years abroad: Stella, drawn to the lush tropical by an impassioned yearning; Joan, a grass-roots political activist in London; and Natalie, a wealthy old man's hedonistic widow..."
430.
Island Man by Joanne Skerrett EN
Country: North America / Dominica
Dominica
Description:
Island Man is a story about a father and son who struggle to forge a relationship out of generations of family trauma, secrets, and loss.