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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The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera Garza EN
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
On a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator’s house, where they proceed to ruthlessly question their host’s gender and identity. The increasingly frantic protagonist fails to defend his supposed masculinity and eventually finds himself in a sanatorium. A Gothic tale of destabilized male-female binaries and subverted literary tropes, this is the book's first English publication.
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Umami by Laia Jufresa EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
It started with a drowning. Deep in the heart of Mexico City, where five houses cluster around a sun-drenched courtyard, lives Ana, a precocious twelve-year-old still coming to terms with the mysterious death of her little sister years earlier. Over the rainy, smoggy summer she decides to plant a vegetable garden in the courtyard, and as she digs the ground and plants her seeds, her neighbors in turn delve into their past. As the ripple effects of grief, childlessness, illness and displacement saturate their stories, secrets seep out and questions emerge - Who was my wife? Why did my mom leave... continue
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Jetzt ergebe ich mich und das ist alles by Alvaro Enrigue DE
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Janos, Mexiko, 1835: Als Apachen eine junge Witwe entführen, bekommt Leutnant Zuloaga den Auftrag, nach ihr zu suchen. In seinem Gefolge reiten unter anderem eine scharfschießende Nonne, ein alter Tanzlehrer und zwei ehemalige Gefangene aus dem Stamm der Yaqui. Als sie die Frau schließlich finden, machen sie eine verblüffende Entdeckung. New York, 2017: Ein mexikanischer Schriftsteller hadert mit der amerikanischen Politik. Aus Angst, nach einem Besuch in seiner Heimat nicht mehr einreisen zu dürfen, verbringt er den Familienurlaub im Grenzgebiet zu Mexiko, wo sich einst Géronimo, der letzte H... continue
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Last Date in El Zapotal by Mateo García Elizondo EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
A junkie looking for one last fix in a town full of ghosts . This is a ghost story. A junkie has gone to El Zapotal to die – to rent a room in this crumbling backwater, melt into one last fix, and not come back. For someone so ready to no longer be alive, though, he can’t stop clinging to the past. His old dog, Kid, who he abandoned. His love, Valerie, who he introduced to drugs. There’s no such thing as a good memory. El Zapotal doesn’t want him either. The people aren’t welcoming, the streets are empty except for strays, and he’s having trouble pacing his supply. As the drugs run out, the li... continue
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Un dulce olor a muerte by Guillermo Arriaga Jordán ES
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Tale of deception, passion, and violence fused together by the tragic killing of a young girl in a small Mexican village.
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Tears of Amber by Sofia Segovia EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Arno Schipper and Ilse Hahlbrock grow up, unaware of each other, in different parts of Prussia during World War II, and take flight with their families when the region ceases to exist as a part of Germany at the end of the war.
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The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, a sinister haunting, and the woman pulled into their clutches... During the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz’s father was executed and her home destroyed. When handsome Don Rodolfo Solórzano proposes, Beatriz ignores the rumors surrounding his first wife’s sudden demise, choosing instead to seize the security that his estate in the countryside provides. She will have her own home again, no matter the cost. But Hacienda San Isidro is ... continue
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Les quatre accords toltèques by Don Miguel Ruiz FR
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Découvrez ou redécouvrez Les quatre accords toltèques, et prenez comme des millions de lecteurs en France et à travers le monde, la voie de la liberté personnelle. Dans ce livre, Don Miguel révèle la source des croyances limitatrices qui nous privent de joie et créent des souffrances inutiles. Il montre en des termes très simples comment on peut se libérer du conditionnement collectif - le "rêve de la planète", basé sur la peur - afin de retrouver la dimension d'amour inconditionnel qui est à notre origine et constitue le fondement des enseignements toltèques que Castenada fut le premier à fai... continue
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