Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (701)
101.
Pageboy : A Memoir by Elliot Page EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
'Can I kiss you?' It was two months before the world premiere of Juno, and Elliot Page was in his first-ever queer bar. The hot summer air hung heavy around him as he looked at her. And then it happened. In front of everyone. The unthinkable. Here he was on the precipice of discovering himself as a queer person. Getting closer to his desires, his dreams, himself. But for Elliot two steps forward always came with one step back. With Juno's phenomenal success, Elliot became one of the world's most beloved actors - but at what cost? Now he was forced to play the part of the glossy young starlet, ... continue
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Mi vida querida by Alice Munro ES
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
La gran autora canadiense nos sorprende de nuevo con Mi vida querida, una colección de cuentos donde vemos a hombres y mujeres obligados a traficar con la vida sin más recursos que su humanidad. Comienzos, finales, virajes del destino ... y de repente, cuando creíamos que el relato llegaría a su obvia conclusión, Munro nos invita a dar otra vuelta de tuerca que cambia el fluir de los acontecimientos y emociona al lector, mostrando hasta qué punto esa vida cotidiana que tanto nos cansa puede llegar a ser extraordinaria. Cierran el volumen unas páginas que Munro dedica a su propia vida, unas not... continue
103.
Amistad de juventud by Alice Munro ES
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
A collection of ten short stories deals with such subjects as a woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother; an adulterous couple; and a widow discovering unpleasant truths about her husband's past.
104.
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
Elizabeth Smart’s passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as ‘Like MADAME BOVARY blasted by lightning ... A masterpiece’.
105.
Ravelstein (Spanish Edition) by Saul Bellow ES
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
Profundamente introspectiva y conmovedora, el premio Nobel Saul Bellow nos sorprende con una novela valiente, oscura y desoladamente divertida: una elegía a la amistad y a la vida. Abe Ravelstein es un profesor de una eminente universidad del Oeste Medio que se vanagloria de haber enseñado a todos los que manejan la política mundial. Ha vivido de manera fastuosa, muy por encima de sus posibilidades. Su buen amigo Chick le ha sugerido que escriba un libro con sus opiniones sobre las ideas que sostienen al ser humano, o le matan, y ante la sorpresa de Ravelstein es un gran éxito que le convierte... continue
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El planeta de Mr. Sammler by Saul Bellow ES
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
Ganadora del National Book Award, El planeta de Mr. Sammler (1970) es una meditación, tan audaz como serena, sobre el futuro de la civilización occidental. Siguiendo a Artur Sammler, un intelectual educado en la filosofía y la literatura occidentales y superviviente del Holocausto, Bellow pasea por las peligrosas calles del West Side neoyorquino, prestando la misma atención a los carteristas de autobús que a las teorías sobre la consecución de la utopía ―o la inminente llegada del Apocalipsis― recién generadas por la llegada del ho... continue
107.
Herzog by Saul Bellow ES
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
A sus cuarenta y siete años Moses Herzog, profesor universitario de cierto prestigio y acreditado espíritu crítico en materia intelectual, afronta algo que creía del todo imposible: un nuevo fracaso matrimonial. Dominado por la necesidad de explicarse, de expresarse, de justificarse, de ponerlo todo en perspectiva, de aclararse, de corregirse, devorado por el odio y una voraz ansia de venganza empieza a escribir a amigos, parientes y conocidos, a los más renombrados inquisidores del alma humana, y en su desesperada búsqueda de sentido incluso al mismísimo Dios, aun cuando sabe que sus palabras... continue
108.
The Home for Unwanted Girls : The heart-wrenching, gripping story of a mother-daughter bond that could not be broken – inspired by true events by Joanna Goodman EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
Philomena meets Orphan Train in this suspenseful, provocative novel filled with love, secrets, and deceit—the story of a young unwed mother who is forcibly separated from her daughter at birth and the lengths to which they go to find each other. In 1950s Quebec, French and English tolerate each other with precarious civility—much like Maggie Hughes’ parents. Maggie’s English-speaking father has ambitions for his daughter that don’t include marriage to the poor French boy on the next farm over. But Maggie’s heart is captured by Gabriel Phénix. When she becomes pregnant at fifteen, her parents f... continue
109.
The Forgotten Home Child by Genevieve Graham EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
The Home for Unwanted Girls meets Orphan Train in this unforgettable novel about a young girl caught in a scheme to rid England’s streets of destitute children, and the lengths she will go to find her way home—based on the true story of the British Home Children. 2018 At ninety-seven years old, Winnifred Ellis knows she doesn’t have much time left, and it is almost a relief to realize that once she is gone, the truth about her shameful past will die with her. But when her great-grandson Jamie, the spitting image of her dear late husband, asks about his family tree, Winnifred can’t lie any long... continue
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Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
From a writer whom the New York Times dubbed Canada’s “Generation X laureate” comes a quartet of haunting, unforgettable tales of young people stuck in the inescapable prison of family A New York Times Notable Book and winner of Britain’s prestigious Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, Traplines is the book that introduced the world to Canadian author Eden Robinson. In three stories and a novella, Robinson explodes the idea of family as a nurturing safe haven through a progression of domestic horrors experienced by her young, often helpless protagonists. With her mesmerizing, dark skill, the autho... continue