Books from United States of America
611 popular american books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around North America Challenge" were written by authors from United States of America.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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Egg and Spoon by Gregory Maguire EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
In 1905 czarist Russia, an impoverished country girl Elena and the aristocratic Ekatrina meet and set in motion an escapade that includes mistaken identity, a monk locked in a tower, a prince traveling incognito, and the witch Baba Yaga.
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Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
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Shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize and chosen by David Sedaris as his recommended book for his Fall 2016 tour. So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. I think of it now as what it really was for all intents and purposes—a prison for boys. I will call it Moorehead. Delvin Moorehead was a terrible landlord I had years later, and so to use his name for such a place feels appropriate. In a week, I would ... continue
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El crimen del lago by Charlie Donlea ES
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Algunos lugares parecen demasiado hermosos para ser tocados por el horror. Summit Lake, ubicado en las montañas de Carolina del Norte, es ese tipo de lugar con atractivas casas a lo largo de la costa al borde de un lago de agua prístina. Pero hace dos semanas, Becca Eckersley, una joven estudiante de derecho fue brutalmente asesinada en una de esas casas. Hija de un poderoso abogado, Becca era una chica brillante y ambiciosa. Ahora, mientras la ciudad se tambalea por el dolor y los conmocionados residentes especulan e intercambian sus teorías, la policía se encuentra perdida. La periodista Kel... continue
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El príncipe cruel by Holly Black ES
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Jude tenía siete años cuando sus padres fueron asesinados y, junto con sus dos hermanas, fue trasladada a la traicionera Corte Suprema del Reino Feérico. Diez años más tarde, lo único que Jude desea, a pesar de ser una mera mortal, es sentir que pertenece a ese lugar. Pero muchos de los habitantes desprecian a los humanos. Especialmente el Príncipe Cardan, el hijo más joven y perverso del Alto Rey. Para hacerse un hueco en la Corte, Jude deberá enfrentarse a él. Y afrontar las consecuencias. Como resultado, se verá envuelta en las intrigas y engaños del palacio, ademas de descubrir su propia h... continue
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El Salvador in the Aftermath of Peace : Crime, Uncertainty, and the Transition to Democracy by Ellen Moodie EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
El Salvador's civil war, which left at least 75,000 people dead and displaced more than a million, ended in 1992. The accord between the government and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) has been lauded as a model post-Cold War peace agreement. But after the conflict stopped, crime rates shot up. The number of murder victims surpassed wartime death tolls. Those who once feared the police and the state became frustrated by their lack of action. Peace was not what Salvadorans had hoped it would be. Citizens began saying to each other, "It's worse than the war." El Salvador in t... continue
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El viejo y el mar by Ernest Hemingway ES
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Escrito por encargo de la revista Life, y más tarde llevada al cine con un magnífico Spencer Tracy, que encarnaba a este viejo pescador falto de suerte, que, como última carta del destino, se juega a vida y muerte en alta mar. El hombre enfrentado a su límite, la tragedia esencial de la obra y la vida de este gran escritor.
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Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
A stunning debut young adult novel about two misfits falling in love for the first time
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Ella Minnow Pea : A Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable by Mark Dunn EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Ella Minnow Pea is an epistolary novel set on the fictional island of Nollop, situated off the coast of South Carolina and home to the inventor of the pangram The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog. The islanders have erected a monument to honor their late hero, but one day a tile with the letter "Z" falls from the statue. The leaders interpret the fallen tile as a message from beyond the grave and the letter is banned from use. On an island where the residents pride themselves on their love of language, this is seen as a tragedy. They are still reeling from the shock, when another tile f... continue
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Every True Pleasure : LGBTQ Tales of North Carolina by Wilton Barnhardt EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
"North Carolina's finest fiction and non-fiction writers come together in [this book], including David Sedaris, Kelly Link, Allan Gurganus, Randall Kenan, and more. Within the volume--featuring writers who identify as gay, trans, bisexual, and straight--are stories and essays that show the full spectrum of contemporary life though an LGBTQ lens. These writers, some native to the state, others born elsewhere, but all with ties to North Carolina, show the multifaceted challenges and joys of LBGTQ life: religion and how it's wielded, young love and gay panic, surrogate pregnancies, military servi... continue
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Everything Is Illuminated : A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man -- also named Jonathan Safran Foer -- sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war; an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior; and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past.