Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (2097)
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Country: North America / 
Haiti
Haiti
Description:
An award-winning, lyrically written, beautifully haunting saga of a Haitian family's fight against a curse spanning four generations.
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Ayiti by Roxane Gay EN
Country: North America / Haiti
Haiti
Description:
The powerful debut collection exploring the Haitian diaspora experience from New York Times-bestselling powerhouse Roxane Gay, now widely available for the first time in Grove Press paperback.
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God Loves Haiti by Dimitry Elias Leger EN
Country: North America / Haiti
Haiti
Description:
A native of Haiti, Dimitry Elias Léger makes his remarkable debut with this story of romance, politics, and religion that traces the fates of three lovers in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and the challenges they face readjusting to life after an earthquake devastates their city. Reflecting the chaos of disaster and its aftermath, God Loves Haiti switches between time periods and locations, yet always moves closer to solving the driving mystery at its center: Will the artist Natasha Robert reunite with her one true love, the injured Alain Destiné, and live happily ever after? Warm and constantly surpr... continue
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Anacaona: Golden Flower, Haiti, 1490 by Edwidge Danticat EN
Country: North America / Haiti
Haiti
Description:
With her signature narrative grace, Edwidge Danticat brings Haiti's beautiful queen Anacaona to life. Queen Anacaona was the wife of one of her island's rulers, and a composer of songs and poems, making her popular among her people. Haiti was relatively quiet until the Spanish conquistadors discovered the island and began to settle there in 1492. The Spaniards treated the natives very cruelly, and when the natives revolted, the Spanish governor of Haiti ordered the arrests of several native nobles, including Anacaona, who was eventually captured and executed, to the horror of her people.
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We're Alone: Essays by Edwidge Danticat EN
Country: North America / Haiti
Haiti
Description:
A collection of exceptional new essays by one of the most significant contemporary writers on the world stage Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat’s childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in Haiti, the essays gathered in We’re Alone include personal narrative, reportage, and tributes to mentors and heroes such as Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Gabriel García Márquez, and James Baldwin that explore several abiding themes: environmental catastrophe, the traumas of colonialism, motherhood, and the complexities of resilience. From hurricanes to political violence, from her days ... continue
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The Nine : The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany by Gwen Strauss EN
Country: North America / Haiti
Haiti
Description:
"[A] narrative of unfathomable courage" —Wall Street Journal The Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of WWII from Germany back to Paris. The nine women were all under thirty when they joined the resistance. They smuggled arms through Europe, harbored parachuting agents, coordinated communications between regional sectors, trekked escape routes to Spain and hid Jewish children in scattered apartments. They were arrest... continue
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L'énigme du retour by Dany Laferrière FR
Country: North America / Haiti
Haiti
Description:
"Il m'a donné naissance. / Je m'occupe de sa mort. / Entre naissance et mort / on s'est à peine croisés" (p. 276). Prose et vers libre entremêlés, l'auteur raconte l'histoire d'un Haïtien immigré à Montréal qui retourne dans son pays natal, 33 ans après l'avoir quitté. C'est l'annonce de la mort de son père, lui-même exilé à New York, qu'il n'avait pas revu depuis la petite enfance et qu'il lui faut maintenant enterrer, qui l'amène à accomplir ce voyage qui est par bien des côtés une façon symbolique de (se) rapatrier son père. Selon Danielle Laurin, le livre le plus achevé de Laferrière à ce ... continue
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Heading South by Dany Laferrière EN
Country: North America / Haiti
Haiti
Description:
Six beautiful middle-aged women travel to the island of Haiti looking for the passion they no longer find at home.
