Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (1211)
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Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova EN
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
A "wholly unique" and "uncompromising" literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man, and the people who love him in every form he takes (Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes) Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased eleven-year-old son Santiago's lung. Acting on fierce maternal instinct and the dubious logic of an old folktale, she nurtures the lung until it gains sentience, growing into the carnivorous little Monstrilio she keeps hidden within the walls of her family's decay... continue
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Empty Houses by Brenda Navarro EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Daniel disappeared three months, two days and eight hours after his birthday. He was three. He was my son.
Empty Houses unfolds in the aftermath of a child's disappearance. His mother is distraught. As her life begins to unravel, she is haunted by his absence but also by her own ambivalence: did she even want him in the first place?
In a working-class neighbourhood on the other side of Mexico City another woman protects her stolen child. After longing desperately to be a mother, her life is violently altered by its reality. Alternating between these two contrasting voices, Empty Hou... continue
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Promesas de Oro by José Olivarez EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD “How many bad lovers have gotten poems? How many crushes? No disrespect to romantic love—but what about our friends ? Those homies who are there all along—cheering for us and reminding us that love is abundant.” In this groundbreaking collection of poems, José Olivarez explores every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural. Grappling with the contradictions of the American Dream with unflinching humanity, he lays bare the ways in which “love is complicated by forces larger than our hearts.” Whether readers enter this collection in ... continue
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Los de abajo by Mariano Azuela ES
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Los de abajo, la novela más conocida del escritor Mariano Azuela, narra la formación y vicisitudes de un grupo de combatientes liderado por el caudillo Demetrio Macías durante la Revolución mexicana, así como las batallas contra los federales y su alianza con el general Natera para la toma de Zacatecas. El autor introduce en la obra al personaje del médico y periodista Luis Cervantes, que emplea para ilustrar los contrastes entre los ideales políticos de la clase ilustrada y el pragmatismo de los guerrilleros campesinos. Los de abajo es el ejemplo más destacado de la Novela de la Revolución, u... continue
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La leyenda de los soles by Homero Aridjis ES
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
La leyenda de los soles es una historia situada en el a o 2027 en la ciudad de M xico. la urbe agoniza; no hay rboles ni agua y escasea la energ a el ctrica. el sol ya no es visible en las calles y la contaminaci n hace de los crep sculos manchones de luz ocre. el terror cubre la ciudad. En sus calles, una pareja es testigo de una trama c smica y realista urdida con los mitos aztecas y el panorama poco halag e o de la ciudad m s grande del mundo.
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Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Un centro turístico caribeño especializado en secuestros falsos de cárteles es el lugar donde se desarrolla el profundo y satírico misterio del asesinato de Villoro.
En medio de escenificaciones de guerra de guerrillas, rumores de abejas asesinas y actividad de cárteles invasores, el ex rockero en recuperación Tony Góngora intenta resolver el misterio del asesinato de un buzo estadounidense. Mientras intenta reconstruir los acontecimientos del crimen, Tony descubre sus propios recuerdos extraños y esclarecedores: de una infancia sin padr... continue
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Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Julio Valdivieso, intelectual mexicano emigrado a Europa, vuelve a su país después de una larga ausencia. El PRI ha perdido al fin las elecciones y se inicia un peculiar período de transición. Julio vuelve a ese tiempo extraño de los regresos, donde se reencuentra con lo que pudo ser. En ese retorno extático y terrible se enfrenta a las claves de un amor perdido, la leyenda viva del poeta Ramón López Velarde, un episodio de la guerra cristera que depende de su propio nombre. En un singular rito de paso, regresa a una Ítaca azotada por el crimen organizado, la política entendida como conspiraci... continue
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Selected Poems by Octavio Paz, G. Aroul EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Octavio Paz, asserts Eliot Weinberger in his introduction to these Selected Poems, is among the last of the modernists "who drew their own maps of the world." For Latin America's foremost living poet, his native Mexico has been the center of a global mandala, a cultural configuration that, in his life and work, he has traced to its furthest reaches: to Spain, as a young Marxist during the Civil War; to San Francisco and New York in the early 1940s; to Paris, as a surrealist, in the postwar years; to India and Japan in 1952, and to the East again as his country's ambassador to India from 1962 t... continue
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Migratory Birds by Mariana Oliver EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
A sensitive, stunning debut on movement, migration, and loss, in the vein of Valeria Luiselli's Sidewalks.