Read Around North America Challenge

Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.

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Recommended Challenge Books (213)
191.
Rubyfruit Jungle
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Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown EN

Rating: 3.6     29 Votes
Description:
Classic modern American novel orig. pub. 1973. Celebrates lesbian sexuality.
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Recommended: 27 Dec 2022

192.
My Monticello
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My Monticello : Fiction by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson EN

Rating: 4     8 Votes
Description:
A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a white militia. A university professor studying racism by conducting a secret social experiment on his own son. A single mother desperate to buy her first home even as the world hurtles toward catastrophe. Each fighting to survive in America. Tough-minded, vulnerable, and brave, Jocelyn Nicole Johnson’s precisely imagined debut explores burdened inheritances and extraordinary pursuits of belonging. Set in the near future, the eponymous novella, “My Monticello,” tells of a diverse group of Charlotte... continue

193.
The Age of Innocence
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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton EN

Rating: 3.5     33 Votes
Description:
Engaged to marry socialite May Welland, Newland Archer meets Countess Ellen Olenska, a woman unbound by convention and surrounded by scandal, and is forced to decide between happiness and the social code that has ruled his life.

194.
The Seed Keeper
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The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson EN

Rating: 4.4     9 Votes
Description:
"Compelling . . . The Seed Keeper invokes the strength that women, land, and plants have shared with one another through the generations." --ROBIN WALL KIMMERER
Recommended: 27 Dec 2022

195.
Braiding Sweetgrass
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Braiding Sweetgrass : Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer EN

Rating: 5     2 Votes
Description:
Explains how developing a wider ecological consciousness can foster an increased understanding of both nature's generosity and the reciprocal relationship humans have with the natural world.

196.
The Birds of Opulence
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The Birds of Opulence by Crystal Wilkinson EN

Rating: 4.5     2 Votes
Description:
From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Blackberries, Blackberries and Water Street comes an astonishing new novel. A lyrical exploration of love and loss, The Birds of Opulence centers on several generations of women in a bucolic southern black township as they live with and sometimes surrender to madness. The Goode-Brown family, led by matriarch and pillar of the community Minnie Mae, is plagued by old secrets and embarrassment over mental illness and illegitimacy. Meanwhile, single mother Francine Clark is haunted by her dead, lightning-struck husband and forced to fight agai... continue

197.
Don't Tell a Soul
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Don't Tell a Soul by Kirsten Miller EN

Rating: 4.5     2 Votes
Description:
Stay up all night with this modern day Rebecca! Perfect for fans of Truly Devious--a haunting story about a new girl in an old town filled with dark secrets . . . that might just kill her. People say the house is cursed. It preys on the weakest, and young women are its favorite victims. In Louth, they're called the Dead Girls. All Bram wanted was to disappear--from her old life, her family's past, and from the scandal that continues to haunt her. The only place left to go is Louth, the tiny town on the Hudson River where her uncle, James, has been renovating an old mansion. But James is haunte... continue

198.
The Bear and the Nightingale
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The Bear and the Nightingale : A Novel by Katherine Arden EN

Rating: 4     111 Votes
Description:
Katherine Arden’s bestselling debut novel spins an irresistible spell as it announces the arrival of a singular talent with a gorgeous voice. “A beautiful deep-winter story, full of magic and monsters and the sharp edges of growing up.”—Naomi Novik, bestselling author of Uprooted Winter lasts most of the year at the edge of the Russian wilderness, and in the long nights, Vasilisa and her siblings love to gather by the fire to listen to their nurse’s fairy tales. Above all, Vasya loves the story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon. Wise Russians fear him, for he claims unwary souls, and they h... continue
Recommended: 03 Jan 2023

199.
Carnet de Voyage
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Carnet de Voyage by Craig Thompson EN

Rating: 4     19 Votes
Description:
Craig Thompson - the award-winning creator of Blankets and Good-Bye, Chunky Rice - spent three months travelling through Barcelona, the Alps, and France, as well as Morocco, where he was researching his next graphic novel, Habibi. Spontaneous sketches and a travelogue diary document his adventures and quiet moments, creating a raw and intimate portrait of countries, culture and the wandering artist.

200.
Conflict Resolutions for Holly Beings

Conflict Resolutions for Holly Beings by Joy Harjo EN

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Recommended: 21 Jan 2023

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