Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (2096)
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Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
A New York Times bestseller! Featured in its own episode in the Netflix original show Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices! Recipient of a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award Recipient of an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Children’s Literary Work From Academy Award–winning actress Lupita Nyong’o comes a powerful, moving picture book about colorism, self-esteem, and learning that true beauty comes from within. Sulwe has skin the color of midnight. She is darker than everyone in her family. She is darker than anyone in her school. Sulwe just wants to be beautiful and bright, like her mo... continue
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The Underdogs : A Novel of the Mexican Revolution by Mariano Azuela EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Considered by many to be the definitive novel of the Mexican Revolution, this is the story of a peace-loving Indian who is forced to side with the rebels to save his family.
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A Silent Fury : The El Bordo Mine Fire by Yuri Herrera EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Mine fire industrial disaster nonfiction: from the author of Signs Preceding The End of The World
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La invasión del pueblo del espíritu by Juan Pablo Villalobos ES
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Trece mil ochocientos millones de años despues del nacimiento de nuestro Universo, en una ciudad del poniente, dos amigos inmigrantes enfrentan una crisis vital. Max acaba de perder su restaurante porque el propietario no le ha renovado el contrato de alquiler; Gastón debe dormir a su perro, Gato, diagnosticado con una enfermedad terminal. Max se encierra en el local del restaurante a vegetar, mientras Gastón deambula por las páginas de esta novela intentando rescatarlo. El cierre del restaurante no es más que otro signo de la imparable transformación del barrio, que inquietay subleva a los ab... continue
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One Out of Two : A Novel by Daniel Sada EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Identical twin spinsters, Gloria and Constituciaon Gamal, enjoy their successful tailoring business in rural Mexico and take particular thrills in confusing people. When a new suitor arrives, one sister decides she wants all the benefits of true romance, and the competition between them boils.
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The Law of Love by Laura Esquivel EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
A cosmic love story, A Mexican Midsummer Night's Dream that stretches from the fall of Montezuma's Mexico to the 23rd century. By including the music that so perfectly accompanies the story, it weaves an enchanting spell that will absorb readers in ways no novel ever has before.
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Pedro Paramo. El llano en llamas by Juan Rulfo, Eduardo Galeano ES
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Pedro Páramo y El llano en llamas representan dos aportaciones fundamentales a la literatura contemporánea en lengua castellana. Tanto en la novela como en la colección de relatos, Juan Rulfo nos transporta con gran maestría de lo real a lo fantástico por medio de un estilo vigoroso y poético. Profundamente enraizada en lo popular, la narrativa de Juan Rulfo describe con conmovedora fuerza la cotidiana realidad de un mundo a la vez violento y lírico. Si los cuentos de El llano en llamas describen, con exquisita sobriedad, el mundo de los campesi... continue
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Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
A "wholly unique" and "uncompromising" literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man, and the people who love him in every form he takes (Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes) Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased eleven-year-old son Santiago's lung. Acting on fierce maternal instinct and the dubious logic of an old folktale, she nurtures the lung until it gains sentience, growing into the carnivorous little Monstrilio she keeps hidden within the walls of her family's decay... continue
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Empty Houses by Brenda Navarro EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Daniel disappeared three months, two days and eight hours after his birthday. He was three. He was my son.
Empty Houses unfolds in the aftermath of a child's disappearance. His mother is distraught. As her life begins to unravel, she is haunted by his absence but also by her own ambivalence: did she even want him in the first place?
In a working-class neighbourhood on the other side of Mexico City another woman protects her stolen child. After longing desperately to be a mother, her life is violently altered by its reality. Alternating between these two contrasting voices, Empty Hou... continue
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Los de abajo by Mariano Azuela ES
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Los de abajo, la novela más conocida del escritor Mariano Azuela, narra la formación y vicisitudes de un grupo de combatientes liderado por el caudillo Demetrio Macías durante la Revolución mexicana, así como las batallas contra los federales y su alianza con el general Natera para la toma de Zacatecas. El autor introduce en la obra al personaje del médico y periodista Luis Cervantes, que emplea para ilustrar los contrastes entre los ideales políticos de la clase ilustrada y el pragmatismo de los guerrilleros campesinos. Los de abajo es el ejemplo más destacado de la Novela de la Revolución, u... continue