Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (1163)
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Freedom's Mirror : Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution by Ada Ferrer EN
Country: North America / 
Cuba
Cuba
Description:
During the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804, arguably the most radical revolution of the modern world, slaves and former slaves succeeded in ending slavery and establishing an independent state. Yet on the Spanish island of Cuba barely fifty miles distant, the events in Haiti helped usher in the antithesis of revolutionary emancipation. When Cuban planters and authorities saw the devastation of the neighboring colony, they rushed to fill the void left in the world market for sugar, to buttress the institutions of slavery and colonial rule, and to prevent "another Haiti" from happening in their ... continue
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Dark Dude by Oscar Hijuelos EN
Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
He didn't say good-bye. He didn't leave a phone number. And he didn't plan on coming back - ever. In Wisconsin, Rico could blend in. His light hair and lighter skin wouldn't make him the "dark dude" or the punching bag for the whole neighborhood. The Midwest is the land of milk and honey, but for Rico Fuentes, it's really a last resort. Trading Harlem for Wisconsin, though, means giving up on a big part of his identity. And when Rico no longer has to prove that he's Latino, he almost stops being one. Except he can never have an ordinary white kid's life, because there are some things that can'... continue
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Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
The most successful and controversial Cuban Science Fiction writer of all time, Yoss (aka José Miguel Sánchez Gómez) is known for his acerbic portraits of the island under Communism. In his bestselling A Planet for Rent, Yoss pays homage to Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles and 334 by Thomas M. Disch. A critique of Cuba in the nineties, after the fall of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, A Planet for Rent marks the debut in English of an astonishingly brave and imaginative Latin American voice. Praise for Yoss “One of the most prestigious science fiction authors of t... continue
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Navajo Justice by Aimée Thurlo EN
Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
As top operative of the Gray Wolf Pack, Burke Silentman took on the most dangerous cases. His current assignment: protect Laura Santos. However, his client never said from what. So Burke moved in next to the beautiful target to provide personal surveillance, both day and night…. But could this woman be the true savior of the Navajo loner? Even while Burke was fighting an adversary that threatened to leave them both at death’s/em> door?
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Avant la nuit : autobiographie by Reinaldo Arenas FR
Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
De l'enfant nu qui mange de la terre dans une vieille ferme de Holguin à l'exilé cubain qui, à quarante-sept ans, malade, se donne la mort à New York, l'existence de Reinaldo Arenas est guidée par l'anticonformisme viscéral de qui a osé prendre tous les risques. Vibrant témoignage sur les exactions de la dictature castriste, Avant la nuit est une œuvre littéraire à part entière composée avec fureur et poésie. Elle est traversée de ses principaux thèmes de prédilection : une recherche éperdue de beauté, encore la lune, toujours la mer, et une sexualité débridée comme manifestation absolue de li... continue
267.
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys EN
Country: North America / 
Dominica
Dominica
Description:
Antoinette Cosway is a Creole heiress - product of an inbred, decadent, expatriate community - a sensitive girl at once beguiled and repelled by the lush Jamaican landscape. Soon after her marriage to Rochester rumours of madness in the Cosway family poison Rochester's mind against her.
268.
Country: North America / Dominica
Dominica
Description:
In Jean Rhys's stunning debut novel, a young woman finds herself alone and penniless in Paris when her husband is arrested. She is taken in by a kind English couple--and finds herself drawn inexorably into a world both fascinating and strange. Love and obsession intertwine in this captivating and sinister tale.
269.
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys EN
Country: North America / Dominica
Dominica
Description:
The last of the four novels Jean Rhys wrote in interwar Paris, Good Morning, Midnight is the culmination of a searing literary arc, which established Rhys as an astute observer of human tragedy. Her everywoman heroine, Sasha, must confront the loves-- and losses-- of her past in this mesmerizing and formally daring psychological portrait.
270.
It Falls Into Place: The Short Stories of Phyllis Shand Allfrey by Phyllis Shand Allfrey EN
Country: North America / Dominica
Dominica
Description:
Brings together, for the first time, the shorter fiction of Phyllis Shand Allfrey, one of Dominica's best-known writers. Her characters, of different races and cultures, find themselves in unpredictable encounters where miracles can happen.