Popular North American Contemporary Fiction Books
Find contemporary fiction books written by authors from North America for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (98)
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Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
A stunning debut novel that explores the emotional terrain of motherhood, loss, identity and culture, witnessed through the lives of two families, one Indian, one American, and the daughter who indelibly binds them. On the eve of the monsoons, in a remote Indian village, Kavita gives birth to a baby girl. But in a culture that favors sons, the only way for Kavita to save her newborn daughter’s life is to give her away. It is a decision that will haunt her and her husband for the rest of their lives, even after the arrival of their cherished son. Halfway around the globe, Somer, an American doc... continue
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Set on You by Amy Lea EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
One of... Amazon's Best Romances of 2022 Bustle's Most Anticipated Books of May Goodreads' Most Anticipated May Romances SheReads' Best Romance Books Coming in 2022 A gym nemesis pushes a fitness influencer to the max in Amy Lea’s steamy debut romantic comedy. Curvy fitness influencer Crystal Chen built her career shattering gym stereotypes and mostly ignoring the trolls. After her recent breakup, she has little stamina left for men, instead finding solace in the gym – her place of power and positivity. Enter firefighter Scott Ritchie, the smug new gym patron who routinely steals her favorite ... continue
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Seven Days in June by Tia Williams EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
"Seven Days in June had me laughing out loud and crying with the characters as their hearts are broken and healed. Tia Williams's book is a smart, sexy testament to Black joy, to the well of strength from which women draw, and to tragic romances that mature into second chances. I absolutely loved it." --JODI PICOULT, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Two Ways and Small Great Things Seven days to fall in love, fifteen years to forget, and seven days to get it all back again... Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane... continue
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Severina by Rodrigo Rey Rosa EN
Country: North America / 
Guatemala
Guatemala
Description:
A bookseller becomes infatuated with an alluring woman who shoplifts from his store and finds himself entangled in her mystery, until, disoriented, the border between rational and irrational blurs.
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Shades of Grey by Garth St. Omer EN
Country: North America / 
St. Lucia
St. Lucia
Description:
As Stephenson, who almost accidentally finds himself as a mature student at university, comes closer to his girl-friend Thea, with her easy talk of her family, he has to acknowledge that he has never known his father, not lived with his mother, and cannot remember what his grandparents looked like. He knows, too, that his failure to come clean about a disreputable episode in his past threatens their relationship. The Lights on the Hill, the first of two interdependent short novels in Shades of Grey, is a moving and inward portrait of a man trying in his halting way to construct his own story. ... continue
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Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
'This debut show more than mere promise: it is a fine achievement in its own right.' -- Guardian One of the most widely talked about debuts of 2 005, Sightseeing is a masterful storytelling by an award-winning young author. In poignant, tough, heart-catching episodes, Rattawut Lapcharoensap takes his readers beneath the surface of Thailand to a place that is dynamic and corrupt, full of pride and passion and fear. In these inter-generational stories of luck and loss, mother and son, Thai and tourist, healthy and sick are bound together. Sightseeing introduces its readers to the young boy and h... continue
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Soleil à coudre by Jean d'Amérique FR
Country: North America / 
Haiti
Haiti
Description:
C'est une lecture difficile tant pour le sujet abordé que pour le style d'écriture qui contribue à alourdir une histoire déjà chargée. On est dans le tragique du début à la fin et il n'y a aucun moyen de reprendre son souffle. J'ai trouvé ça un peu pénible.
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The Black Cathedral by Marcial Gala EN
Country: North America / 
Cuba
Cuba
Description:
Haunting and transcendently twisted, this English-language debut from a Cuban literary star is a tale of race, magic, belief, and fate The Stuart family moves to a marginal neighborhood of Cienfuegos, a city on the southern coast of Cuba. Arturo Stuart, a charismatic, visionary preacher, discovers soon after arriving that God has given him a mission: to build a temple that surpasses any before seen in Cuba, and to make of Cienfuegos a new Jerusalem. In a neighborhood that roils with passions and conflicts, at the foot of a cathedral that rises higher day by day, there grows a generation marked... continue
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The Body Where I was Born by Guadalupe Nettel EN
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
The first novel to appear in English by one of the most talked-about and critically acclaimed writers of new Mexican fiction. From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood—in which she was born with an abnormality in her eye into a family intent on fixing it. In a world without the time and space for innocence, the narrator intimately recalls her younger self—a fierce and discerning girl open to life’s pleasures and keen to its ruthless cycle of tragedy. With raw language and a brilliant sense of humor, both delicate and unafraid, Nettel strings together hard-w... continue