Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Recommended Challenge Books (319)
181.
One Out of Two : A Novel by Daniel Sada EN
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Identical twin spinsters, Gloria and Constituciaon Gamal, enjoy their successful tailoring business in rural Mexico and take particular thrills in confusing people. When a new suitor arrives, one sister decides she wants all the benefits of true romance, and the competition between them boils.
182.
The Country Under My Skin : A Memoir of Love and War by Gioconda Belli EN
Country: North America / 
Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Description:
"A passionate, lyrical, tough-minded account of an extraordinary life in art, revolution, and love. It's a book to relish, to read and re-read. Unforgettable." --Salmon Rushdie An electrifying memoir from the acclaimed Nicaraguan writer (“A wonderfully free and original talent”—Harold Pinter) and central figure in the Sandinista Revolution. Until her early twenties, Gioconda Belli inhabited an upper-class cocoon: sheltered from the poverty in Managua in a world of country clubs and debutante balls; educated abroad; early marriage and motherhood. But in 1970, everything changed. Her growing dis... continue
183.
The Inhabited Woman by Gioconda Belli EN
Country: North America / Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Description:
When the spirit of an Indian woman warrior from the time of the Conquistadors inhabits the mind of Lavinia, a middle class woman, she joins a conspiracy against her nation's ruthless dictator
184.
Infinity in the Palm of Her Hand : A Novel of Adam and Eve by Gioconda Belli EN
Country: North America / Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Description:
In a novel based on the Bible and ancient traditions, Adam and Eve discover the world around them, react to their punishment, and learn to adjust to the outside world, where it is necessary to kill to survive.
185.
El país de las mujeres by Gioconda Belli ES
Country: North America / Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Description:
Un hipotetico pais latinoamericano es gobernado por una mujer. Relata la historia del Partido de la Izquierda Erotica (PIE). Un gobierno unico compuesto exclusivamente por mujeres.
186.
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez EN
Country: North America / 
Panama
Panama
Description:
When Alma Rivera arrives in Delaware she is full of the promise and possibilities of her new home. Hope that her daughter Maribel will be helped by the specialist support US education can provide, and faith that her husband Arturo will flourish in a country that celebrates the hard-working. But life without status, money, family and friends soon becomes unmanageable and violent. Told through a range of perspectives written with compassion and grace, Cristina Henríquez gives voice to the displaced and the unknown, and shows what it means to uproot your life in search of something better.
187.
The Closer by Mariano Rivera and Wayne Coffey EN
Country: North America / Panama
Panama
Description:
Mariano Rivera never dreamed of becoming a professional athlete. He didn't grow up collecting baseball cards, playing Little League, or cheering on his home team at the World Series. He had never heard of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, or Mickey Mantle. One day, that all changed. From a childhood playing pickup games in Panama to an epic career with the New York Yankees, Mariano's rise to greatness has been anything but ordinary. He's the guy on the mound who doesn't hear the crowd, just the sound of the ump calling, Strike! The teammate you can rely on, even when the bases are loaded in... continue
188.
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
189.
Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips EN
Country: North America / Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Description:
A Booker shortlisted novel by one of the finest writers of his generation. A voice speaking out of a distant past, describes the consequences of his desperation- his daughter and two sons are condemned to the hold of an English slave ship bound for America in 1753. Here are the stories of these children- Nash, Martha, and Travis. Yet as the narrative unfolds, we come to understand that although they are his children, they are also all of slavery's children. Nash, returning to Africa in the 1830's a Christian-educated adult, a missionary to the new territory of Liberia, slowly becoming a part o... continue
190.
Omeros by Derek Walcott EN
Country: North America / 
St. Lucia
St. Lucia
Description:
A poem of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, which simultaneously charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events -- the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African enslavement -- and the interior, unwritten epic fashioned from the suffering of the individual in exile.
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