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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The Poems of Octavio Paz by Octavio Paz EN
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Presents an extensive selection of poems by Spanish American poet Octavio Paz.
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The Visible Unseen : Essays by Andrea Chapela EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
From Andrea Chapela, one of Granta's Best Young Spanish Novelists of 2021, comes a profound, compact collection of essays drawing on the properties of glass, mirrors, and light to navigate the overlapping borders of science, literature, and self.
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Signal To Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
A beautiful new edition of Moreno-Garcia's stunning debut, featuring an illustrated cover by legendary artist Jim Tierney Mexico City, 1988. Long before iTunes or MP3s, you said "I love you" with a mixtape. Meche, awkward and fifteen, discovers how to cast spells using music, and with her friends Sebastian and Daniela will piece together their broken families, and even find love... Two decades after abandoning the metropolis, Meche returns for her estranged father's funeral, reviving memories from her childhood she thought she buried a long time ago. What really happened back then? Is there an... continue
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The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this eerie multigenerational horror saga from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic. “In Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s sure hands, every uncovered secret is fraught with intrigue and creeping horror.”—Tananarive Due, Bram Stoker Award–winning author of The Reformatory “Back then, when I was a young woman, there were still witches”: That was how Nana Alba always began the stories she told her great-granddaughter Minerva—stories that have stayed with Minerva all her life. Perhaps that’s why Mi... continue
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Dancing with Cuba by Alma Guillermoprieto EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
In 1970 a young dancer named Alma Guillermoprieto left New York to take a job teaching at Cuba’s National School of Dance. For six months, she worked in mirrorless studios (it was considered more revolutionary); her poorly trained but ardent students worked without them but dreamt of greatness. Yet in the midst of chronic shortages and revolutionary upheaval, Guillermoprieto found in Cuba a people whose sense of purpose touched her forever. In this electrifying memoir, Guillermoprieto–now an award-winning journalist and arguably one of our finest writers on Latin America– resurrects a time whe... continue
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Untamed Shore by Silvia Moreno-Garcia EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
In this dark coming-of-age noir, a “Patricia Highsmith-like tale of grifts and con artists” (Crime Time), a young woman becomes embroiled in a web of lies and deceit—with potentially deadly consequences—from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night "Untamed Shore is a fever dream of a thriller, a coming-of-age tale set amidst disturbing and dangerous circumstances."—Book Page Baja California, 1979: Viridiana spends her days under the harsh sun, watching the fishermen pulling in their nets and the dead sharks piled beside the seashore. Her head is filled ... continue
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The Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
A reimagining of Dracula's voyage to England, filled with Gothic imagery and queer desire. It's an ordinary assignment, nothing more. The cargo? Fifty boxes filled with Transylvanian soil. The route? From Varna to Whitby. The Demeter has made many trips like this. The captain has handled dozens of crews. He dreams familiar dreams: to taste the salt on the skin of his men, to run his hands across their chests. He longs for the warmth of a lover he cannot have, fantasizes about flesh and frenzied embraces. All this he's done before, it's routine, a constant, like the tides. Yet there's something... continue
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Das Labyrinth der Einsamkeit by Octavio Paz DE
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Belletristik : Mexiko ; kulturelle Identität.
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The Country Under My Skin : A Memoir of Love and War by Gioconda Belli EN
Country: North America / 
Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Description:
"A passionate, lyrical, tough-minded account of an extraordinary life in art, revolution, and love. It's a book to relish, to read and re-read. Unforgettable." --Salmon Rushdie An electrifying memoir from the acclaimed Nicaraguan writer (“A wonderfully free and original talent”—Harold Pinter) and central figure in the Sandinista Revolution. Until her early twenties, Gioconda Belli inhabited an upper-class cocoon: sheltered from the poverty in Managua in a world of country clubs and debutante balls; educated abroad; early marriage and motherhood. But in 1970, everything changed. Her growing dis... continue