Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (1214)
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The Great Divide : A Novel by Cristina Henriquez EN
Country: North America / 
Panama
Panama
Description:
"A novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, following the intersecting lives of the local families fighting to protect their homeland, the West Indian laborers recruited to dig the waterway, and the white Americans who gained profit and glory for themselves"--
543.
The Golden Horse : A Novel about Triumph and Tragedy Building the Panama Railroad by Juan David Morgan EN
Country: North America / Panama
Panama
Description:
"The Golden Horse by Juan David Morgan is a sweeping saga, painting a vivid, personal portrayal of the events that transpired as a result of the rivalry between New York shipping magnates, William Aspinwall and Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the enormous personal cost that was borne by the people involved in the construction of the Panama Railroad-- the first transcontinental train in the Americas-- built during the California Gold Rush. Thousands of people died during the construction, succumbing to tropical diseases and natural disasters. Despite the danger, the lust of gold fever and the challen... continue
544.
Hydra Head by Carlos Fuentes EN
Country: North America / Panama
Panama
Description:
Carlos Fuentes, Mexico's leading novelist, author of The Old Gringo, Terra Nostra and The Death of Artemio Cruz, has produced what is probably the first Third World spy thriller, an action-filled, quick-paced novel of intrigue as contemporary as a headline. The Hydra Head has a constant political reality as backdrop: the permanent tension in the Middle East and the vast new oil resources of Mexico, the setting for a brilliant attempt to portray the diversity of one man's experience.
545.
Delia's Way by Olga Berrocal Essex EN
Country: North America / Panama
Panama
Description:
Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Growing up in Panama City in the 1950s, young Delia Pineda is aware of a strained relationship because of her mother's past. Delia's growth is marked by a blossoming compassion for her tormented family and a firm conviction to lead a different life, free from unspeakable bonds of deception that keep the family together. "A quintessential coming-of-age novel... a haunting tale of sibiling rivalry"--Booklist
546.
Laberintos de orgullo by Rosa Maria Britton ES
Country: North America / Panama
Panama
Description:
Le livre commence en force avec l'enfance et la jeunesse du protagoniste, mais malheureusement, son histoire d'amour impossible alors qu'il est marié et père de deux enfants s'éternise péniblement dans la deuxième partie du livre. J'ai tout de même bien aimé et j'ai constaté ma profonde ignorance de l'histoire du Panama. Bref, une bonne lecture, mais qui aurait pu avoir 100 pages de moins!
547.
Only God Can Make a Tree by Bertram Roach EN
Country: North America / 
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Description:
Adrian is the son of a black Caribbean woman and an Irish immigrant father, and is blessed with the pale skin and European features to allow him social mobility in the rigidly hierarchical society of twentieth-century Caribbean life. He falls in love, but is offered the opportunity to improve his social standing, and thus the rest of his life, if he can suppress his heart's desire and decide with his head. Will he choose Julia, the only woman he has ever really loved, and settle for being an overseer, or will he opt for the plantation- owner's daughter, Alice Mills, who could provide him with ... continue
548.
Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips EN
Country: North America / Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Description:
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Caryl Phillips' ambitious and powerful novel spans two hundred and fifty years of the African diaspora. It tracks two brothers and a sister on their separate journeys through different epochs and continents- one as a missionary to Liberia in the 1830s, one a pioneer on a wagon trail to the American West later that century, and one a GI posted to a Yorkshire village in the Second World War. 'Epic and frequently astonishing' The Times 'Its resonance continues to deepen' New York Times
549.
Dancing in the Dark by Caryl Phillips EN
Country: North America / Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Description:
In this searing novel, Caryl Phillips reimagines the life of the first black entertainer in the U.S. to reach the highest levels of fame and fortune.After years of struggling for success on the stage, Bert Williams (1874—1922), the child of recent immigrants from the Bahamas, made the radical decision to don blackface makeup and play the “coon.” Behind this mask he became a Broadway headliner–as influential a comedian as Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, and W. C. Fields, who called him “the funniest man I ever saw, and the saddest man I ever knew.” It is this dichotomy at Williams’ core that Phillip... continue
550.
Caribbean Chemistry: Tales from St. Kitts by Christopher Vanier EN
Country: North America / Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Description:
Charming and vividly evocative... I feel as if I have got to know these islands, and almost to have been there.' Helena Drysdale, author of Strangerland Ah, to be an embryo again. Christopher Vanier's story begins where we all do, conception. Set in 1940s and 1950s on the Caribbean island of St Kitts and beset by a troubled colonial legacy, both Christopher and his island yearn for independence. Vanier recalls the mischief of an island childhood: giving his baby brother to an ungrateful monkey, sneaking out to the cinema after school hours, hair-raising jaunts on a volcano, disastrous experime... continue