Read Around North America Challenge
- Part of the "Read Around The World Challenge"
- Join book lovers like you from all over the world who want to read at least one book written by an author from each of the 23 countries in North America.
- Track your progress reading around the world on a world map which is automatically created for you
- Leave your reading comfort zone and expand your reading horizon.
- Make 2024 the year you:
- will read more books,
- discover new authors,
- learn more about North America.
- Register to join the "Read Around North America Challenge"
23 countries in North America means 23 books to read for this challenge
Reading progress by all challenge participants
90.5%
Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Recommended Challenge Books (394)
1.
Lucy : A Novel by Jamaica Kincaid EN
Country: North America / 
Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda
Description:
Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to America to work as an au pair for a wealthy couple. She begins to notice cracks in their beautiful façade at the same time that the mysteries of own sexuality begin to unravel. Jamaica Kincaid has created a startling new heroine who is destined to win a place of honor in contemporary fiction.
2.
The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid EN
Country: North America / Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda
Description:
After her mother dies at birth, Xuela is left by her father with his laundress for the next seven years in a home where she feels no love or affection, so when she moves in with her father's friends, the LaBattes, she finds pleasure however she can. Reprint.
3.
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid EN
Country: North America / Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda
Description:
The classic coming-of-age story of a precocious young girl's deteriorating relationship with her mother, as she enters adolescence and leaves her childhood behind on the idyllic island of Antigua.
4.
A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid EN
Country: North America / Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda
Description:
The author of such books as At the Bottom of the River and My Brother returns to Antigua, the ten-by-twelve mile Caribbean island where she grew up, to explore the effects of colonialism. Reprint.
5.
Am Grunde des Flusses by Jamaica Kincaid DE
Country: North America / Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda
Description:
Nicht wie geschrieben, sondern wie mit Sprache gemalt wirken Jamaica Kincaids Erzählungen, in denen sie Bilder und Stimmungen ihrer Kindheit auf der karibischen Insel Antigua heraufbeschwört. Mit eigenwilligem Strich malt sie die äußere Welt, die Blumen, die Tiere, das Meer, und die innere, die Ängste und Sehnsüchte des heranwachsenden Mädchens, das mit der Wucht seiner Gefühle ringt, mit der Übermacht der Mutter, mit dem Auseinanderklaffen von Phantasie, Traum und Wirklichkeit. Und niemand hätte Jamaica Kincaids Sprache in der deutschen Übersetzung so gerecht werden können wie die große Dicht... continue
6.
My Brother by Jamaica Kincaid EN
Country: North America / Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda
Description:
Kincaid's poetic and often shockingly frank account of Devon's life is also the story of their family on the island of Antigua.
7.
Autobiografía de mi madre by Jamaica Kincaid ES
Country: North America / Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda
Description:
El nacimiento de Xuela coincidió con la muerte de su madre. Su padre, carcelero de fondo y de forma, le abandona siendo un bebé entregándola a una lavandera. Xuela crece y decide no tener hijos; decide incluso no formar parte de ninguna de las experiencias vitales asumidas por el resto de las personas.
8.
At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid EN
Country: North America / Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda
Description:
At the Bottom of the River is Jamaica Kincaid's first published work, a selection of inter-connected prose poems told from the perspective of a young Afro-Caribbean girl.
Collecting pieces written for the New Yorker and the Paris Review between 1978 and 1982, including the seminal 'Girl', these stunning works announced a fully-formed, generational talent and firmly established the themes that Kincaid would continue to return to in her later work: the loss of childhood, the fractious nature of mother-daughter relationships, the intangible beauty of the natural world, and the s... continue
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10.
Woman Take Two by Telcine Turner EN
Country: North America / 
Bahamas
Bahamas
Description:
A three-act play that deals with love and greed. Set in The Bahamas, it tells the tale of a few people forging alliances for themselves - for love and/or money. Suspenseful and intriguing, it provides a glimpse into the darker side of the human character.
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