Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (1137)
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Conversations with Tom Petty (Expanded Edition) by Paul Zollo EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
This expanded edition of the first authorized book on Tom Petty, and the only one in his own words, includes additional interviews, articles and reviews.
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Daisy Jones & The Six : A Novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup—from the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Malibu Rising, and Carrie Soto Is Back REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • COMING SOON AS AN ORIGINAL STREAMING SERIES EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY REESE WITHERSPOON “An explosive, dynamite, down-and-dirty look at a fictional rock band told in an interview style that gives it irresistible surface energy.”—Elin Hilderbrand ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF ... continue
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Imperador Deus de Duna : livro 4 by Frank Herbert PT
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Milênios se passaram em Arrakis desde os eventos narrados em Duna, e o planeta, que antes era desértico, agora está verdejante e vigoroso. O Imperador Deus de Duna, que garantiu uma paz forçada em todos os planetas, consegue entender o futuro, e sabe, com uma terrível certeza, que sua raça será extinta a menos que ele crie novas qualidades para a espécie. As regras do Imperador não são benevolentes. Sua transformação não deixou apenas sua aparência desumana, mas também seu senso de moral. Nasce então uma rebelião para se opor ao déspota, liderada por Siona, da família Atreides. Mas Siona não s... continue
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If I Had Your Face in: A Novel by Frances Cha EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
"Kyuri is a heartbreakingly beautiful woman with a hard-won job at a "room salon," an exclusive bar where she entertains businessmen while they drink. Though she prides herself on her cold, clear-eyed approach to life, an impulsive mistake with a client may come to threaten her livelihood. Her roomate, Miho, is a talented artist who grew up in an orphanage but won a scholarship to study art in New York. Returning to Korea after college, she finds herself in a precarious relationship with the super-wealthy heir to one of Korea's biggest companies. Down the hall in their apartment building lives... continue
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Starter Villain by John Scalzi EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Now a New York Times bestseller! Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie. But becoming a supervillain isn't all giant laser death rays and lava pits. Jake had enemies, and... continue
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Her Body and Other Parties : Stories by Carmen Maria Machado EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction “[These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange.”—Roxane Gay “In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women’s memories and hunger and desire. I couldn’t put it down.”—Karen Russell In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is al... continue
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The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu : And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Describes how a group of Timbuktu librarians enacted a daring plan to smuggle the city's great collection of rare Islamic manuscripts away from the threat of destruction at the hands of Al Qaeda militants to the safety of southern Mali.
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This side of paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
This Side of Paradise is a novel about post-World War I youth and their morality. Amory Blaine is a young Princeton University student with an attractive face and an interest in literature. His greed and desire for social status warp the theme of love weaving through the story.
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A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories. Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, he's been cast from home. He's found a new one on the banks of the bottomless lake. Nina and Oli have no idea the other exists. But a catastrophic event on Earth, and a strange sickness that befalls Oli's best friend, will drive their worlds together in ways they haven't been in centuries. And there are some who will kill to keep them apart. Darcie Little Badger introduced herself ... continue
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents. Geography and biography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians