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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Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia EN
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
From Silvia Moreno-Garcia, the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic, comes Certain Dark Things, a pulse-pounding neo-noir that reimagines vampire lore. Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is just trying to survive its heavily policed streets when a jaded vampire on the run swoops into his life. Atl, the descendant of Aztec blood drinkers, is smart, beautiful, and dangerous. Domingo is mesmerized. Atl needs to quickly escape the city, far from the rival narco-vampire clan relentlessly pursuing her. Her plan doesn... continue
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Swift as Desire by Laura Esquivel EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
As the millions of fans of Like Water for Chocolate know, Laura Esquivel is a romanticist whose novels explore the power of love and the truths of the human heart. She returns to those themes in Swift as Desire, the story of a loving and passionate man who has the gift of bringing happiness to everyone except his own wife. The hero of this novel is Júbilo Chi, a telegraph operator who is born with the ability to “hear” people’s true feelings and respond to their most intimate, unspoken desires. His life changes forever the day he falls deeply and irrevocably in love with Lucha, the beautiful d... continue
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Daughter of Fire : A Novel by Sofia Robleda EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
For a young woman coming of age in sixteenth-century Guatemala, safeguarding her people's legacy is a dangerous pursuit in a mystical, empowering, and richly imagined historical novel. Catalina de Cerrato is being raised by her widowed father, Don Alonso, in 1551 Guatemala, scarcely thirty years since the Spanish invasion. A ruling member of the oppressive Spanish hierarchy, Don Alonso holds sway over the newly relegated lower class of Indigenous communities. Fiercely independent, Catalina struggles to honor her father and her late mother, a Maya noblewoman to whom Catalina made a vow that onl... continue
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Linea Nigra : An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes by Jazmina Barrera EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
"Personal essays about pregnancy interwoven with references to pregnancy in art and literature"--
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Aquí no es Miami / This Is Not Miami by Fernanda Melchor ES
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Las crónicas de Fernanda Melchor dan cuenta de la degradación humana en uno de sus aspectos más sórdidos. Lo que su libro hace es manifestar la ignominia en toda esta rudeza. Aquí no es Miami es un libro de crónicas devastador, luminoso y emotivo. Con facilidad nos lleva de la mano por toda una gama de sentimientos que van de la compasión al asombro, de la dulzura a la impiedad. Parece que está escrito por un sobreviviente, o, digamos, por un exconvicto. El ojo de Fernanda Melchor es implacable. Mira por nosotros. Nos ahorra el trabajo de desplazarnos a Veracruz y de atisbar en las oquedades m... continue
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The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a lavish historical drama reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico. “This is historical science fiction at its best: a dreamy reimagining of a classic story with vivid descriptions of lush jungles and feminist themes. Some light romance threads through the heavier ethical questions concerning humanity.”—Library Journal (starred review) “The imagination of Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a thing of wonder, restless and romantic, fearless in the... continue
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Tell Me how it Ends : An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
A damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children seeking a new life in the US.
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Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic comes a fabulous meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film—and awakens one woman’s hidden powers. “No one punctures the skin of reality to reveal the lurking, sinister magic beneath better than Silvia Moreno-Garcia.”—Kiersten White, #1 bestselling author of Hide Montserrat has always been overlooked. She’s a talented sound editor, but she’s left out of the boys’ club running the film industry in ’90s Mexico City. And she’s all ... continue
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Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Still Born, Guadalupe Nettel's fourth novel, treats one of the most consequential decisions of early adulthood - whether or not to have children - with the intelligence and originality that have won her international acclaim. Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family. Laura has taken the drastic decision to be sterilized, but as time goes by Alina becomes drawn to the idea of becoming a mother. When Alina's daughter survives childbirth - after a diagnosis that predicted the opposite - a... continue
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The Burning Plain and Other Stories by Juan Rulfo EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
A major figure in the history of post-Revolutionary literature in Mexico, Juan Rulfo received international acclaim for his brilliant short novel Pedro Páramo (1955) and his collection of short stories El llano en llamas (1953), translated as a collection here in English for the first time. In the transition of Mexican fiction from direct statements of nationalism and social protest to a concentration on cosmopolitanism, the works of Rulfo hold a unique position. These stories of a rural people caught in the play of natural forces are not simply an interior examination of the phenomena of thei... continue