Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (1210)
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz EN
Country: North America / 
Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic
Description:
The Long-Awaited First Novel From One Of Today S Most Original And Electrifying Literary Voices. Things Have Never Been Easy For Oscar. A Ghetto Nerd Living With His Dominican Family In New Jersey, He S Sweet But Disastrously Overweight. He Dreams Of Becoming The Next J. R. R. Tolkien And He Keeps Falling Hopelessly In Love. Poor Oscar May Never Get What He Wants, Thanks To The Fukú - The Ancient Curse That Has Haunted His Family For Generations, Dooming Them To Prison, Torture, Violent Accidents And, Above All, Ill-Starred Love. With Dazzling Energy And Insight Díaz Immerses Us In The Tumultu... continue
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Country: North America / Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic
Description:
Set at a magical school for girls, a funny and heartwarming middle-grade graphic novel adventure about friendship, defying expectations, and finding your place. Manu and her best friend, Josefina, live at a magical school for girls, and Manu is always getting into trouble. The headmistress believes that Manu has the potential to help people with her magic, but Manu would rather have fun than fall in line. One day, a prank goes seriously wrong, and Josefina gets angry and wishes for Manu's magic to disappear... and it does. Manu uses a dangerous spell to restore it, but it makes her magic too p... continue
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The Cemetery of Untold Stories : A Novel by Julia Alvarez EN
Country: North America / Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic
Description:
"When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a mysterious sanctuary for their true narratives."--
304.
Un día en la vida by Manlio Argueta ES
Country: North America / 
El Salvador
El Salvador
Description:
Esta obra refleja las dramáticas condiciones sociales que afrontaban los salvadoreños en los años ochenta, bajo el asedio y la persecución política, en una interiorización de situaciones y caracteres humanos de logrado perfil narrativo. No solo es una excelente novela, sino un testimonio en donde el lenguaje y la verdad se encuentran para descubrir y mostrar la existencia de seres dolientes y, a la vez, heroicos en su desnuda anonimidad. Con esta novela, Argueta logra imponer su condición de escritor lúcido, comprometido, en la mejor l&ia... continue
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Solito (Spanish Edition) by Javier Zamora ES
Country: North America / El Salvador
El Salvador
Description:
RECOMENDADO POR JENNA BUSH EN SU CLUB DE LECTURA DEL TODAY SHOW «En esta conmovedora autobiografía que no podrás soltar, un joven poeta relata la inolvidable historia de su desgarradora migración hacia Estados Unidos desde El Salvador a los nueve años, considerada 'el viaje mítico de nuestra era'.» —Sandra Cisneros Viaje. Mis padres empezaron a usar esa palabra hace más o menos un año: “un día vas a hacer un viaje para estar con nosotros. Como una aventura”. La aventura de Javier es una travesía de tres mil millas desde su pequeño pueblo en El Salvador, a través de Guatemala y México, hacia la... continue
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Country: North America / El Salvador
El Salvador
Description:
New York Times Bestseller • Read With Jenna Book Club Pick as seen on Today • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography • Winner of the American Library Association Alex Award A young poet tells the inspiring story of his migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this “gripping memoir” (NPR) of bravery, hope, and finding family. Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction • One of the New York Public Library’s Ten Best Books of the Year Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the PEN/Open B... continue
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Stories and Poems of a Class Struggle / Historias y poemas de una lucha de clase s by Roque Dalton EN
Country: North America / El Salvador
El Salvador
Description:
Poems of revolution by one of Latin America’s most beloved poets One of Latin America’s greatest poets, Roque Dalton was a revolutionary whose politics were inseparable from his art. Born in El Salvador in 1935, Dalton dedicated his life to fighting for social justice, while writing fierce, tender poems about his country and its people. In Stories and Poems of a Class Struggle, he explores oppression and resistance through the lens of five poetic personas, each with their own distinct voice. These poems show a country caught in the crosshairs of American imperialism, where the few rule the man... continue
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Slash and Burn by Claudia Hernandez EN
Country: North America / El Salvador
El Salvador
Description:
A woman fights to keep her daughters safe in the wake of war and political trauma in Central/ Latin America.
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They Have Fired Her Again by Claudia Hernández EN
Country: North America / El Salvador
El Salvador
Description:
They Have Fired Her Again is the ominous and compelling tale of a Central American immigrant in New York, narrated by the voices surrounding Lourdes during the exhausting rituals of her workday. Following a myriad of other working immigrants, Lourdes finds herself immersed in an ongoing pursuit of a job, while also being hunted down by peculiar animals-a light moth, a motmot bird, the cats in the shadows, a little crystalline dog, a wolf of stone-among other spectacular collections of animals that steal away, or liberate, lonely women into the perpetual night of the city. They Have Fired Her A... continue