Books from United States of America
623 popular american books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around North America Challenge" were written by authors from United States of America.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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El viejo y el mar by Ernest Hemingway ES
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
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Escrito por encargo de la revista Life, y más tarde llevada al cine con un magnífico Spencer Tracy, que encarnaba a este viejo pescador falto de suerte, que, como última carta del destino, se juega a vida y muerte en alta mar. El hombre enfrentado a su límite, la tragedia esencial de la obra y la vida de este gran escritor.
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Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
A stunning debut young adult novel about two misfits falling in love for the first time
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Ella Minnow Pea : A Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable by Mark Dunn EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Ella Minnow Pea is an epistolary novel set on the fictional island of Nollop, situated off the coast of South Carolina and home to the inventor of the pangram The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog. The islanders have erected a monument to honor their late hero, but one day a tile with the letter "Z" falls from the statue. The leaders interpret the fallen tile as a message from beyond the grave and the letter is banned from use. On an island where the residents pride themselves on their love of language, this is seen as a tragedy. They are still reeling from the shock, when another tile f... continue
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Every True Pleasure : LGBTQ Tales of North Carolina by Wilton Barnhardt EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
"North Carolina's finest fiction and non-fiction writers come together in [this book], including David Sedaris, Kelly Link, Allan Gurganus, Randall Kenan, and more. Within the volume--featuring writers who identify as gay, trans, bisexual, and straight--are stories and essays that show the full spectrum of contemporary life though an LGBTQ lens. These writers, some native to the state, others born elsewhere, but all with ties to North Carolina, show the multifaceted challenges and joys of LBGTQ life: religion and how it's wielded, young love and gay panic, surrogate pregnancies, military servi... continue
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Everything Is Illuminated : A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man -- also named Jonathan Safran Foer -- sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war; an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior; and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past.
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Evicted : Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting on poverty” (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review). In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of pove... continue
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Evidence of Red : Poems and Prose by LeAnne Howe EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
WINNER OF THE 2006 OKLAHOMA BOOK AWARDS Evidence of Red: Prose and Poems rails against lost lands and lovers, heralds death and mad warriors, and celebrates a doomed love affair between Hollywood’s invented characters: “Noble Savage” and “Indian Sports Mascot.” The author, a Choctaw Indian from Oklahoma writes about modern life in America, as well as the strange and humorous encounters she’s had with Arabs in Syria, and Jews in Israel. She writes of growing up in a family of native storytellers who tell of their lives and experiences.
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Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
The adventures of an English killer who has sex with corpses and eats them. After escaping from jail he kills an American tourist, takes his identity and flees to the U.S. He teams up with a local necrophile and together they feast on a Vietnamese teenager.
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
The terrifyingly prophetic novel of a post-literate future... Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the source of all discord and unhappiness, the printed book.
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Faithful Place by Tana French EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
'Breathtaking -- an elaborately twisted ballad of class resentments, family burdens, regret and passion' The Washington Post 'An author of exceptional talent and insight' Sunday Independent 'In all your life, only a few moments matter. I was lucky. I got to see one of mine face to face, and recognise it for what it was.' The course of Frank Mackey's life is set by one defining moment when he was nineteen. The time his girlfriend, Rosie Daly, failed to turn up for their rendezvous in Faithful Place, failed to run away with him to London as planned. Frank never heard from, or of, her again. Twen... continue