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North America Read Around the World Challenge- Possible Titles Please note: these are not required titles; they are optional suggestions from the MARINet system. Some of these books are not at the Mill Valley Library, but can easily be requested from another library. See the reference desk to request a book. (* indicates library staff recommendation) North America Antigua and Barbuda: 1. Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid (Storage Fiction Kincaid) 2. My Brother by Jamaica Kincaid (Bio Kincaid, J) 3. Antigua and my life before : a novel by Marcela Serano (Fiction Serano) 4. Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid (Fiction Kincaid) The Bahamas: 1. Dolphin diaries : my 25 years with spotted dolphins in the Bahamas by Denise L. Herzing (599.53 Herzing ) 2. Bahama burnout : a novel by Don Bruns (Fiction Bruns) 3. Killer Cruise by Jennifer Shaw (Fiction Shaw) 4. A Deeper Blue by John Ringo (Fiction Ringo) Barbados: 1. The sugar barons : family, corruption, empire, and war in the West Indies by Matthew Parker (338.17 Parker) 2. Triangular road : a memoir by Paule Marshall (Bio Marshall) 3. Soul Clap Hands and Sing by Paule Marshall (Fiction Marshall) 4. Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl by Kate McCafferty (Fiction McCafferty) Belize: 1. In the Heat by Ian Vasquez (Fiction Vasquez, I) 2. The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman’s Fight to Save the World’s Most Beautiful Bird by Bruce Barcott (333.95 Barcott) 3. The Temple of the Jaguar: Travels in the Yucatan by Donald Schueler (917.26 Schueler) 4. Sastun: One Woman’s Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer and Their Efforts to Save the Vanishing Traditions of Rainforest Medicine by Rosita Arvigo Canada: 1. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (Fiction Atwood)* 2. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx (Fiction Proulx)* 3. Crow Lake by Mary Lawson (Fiction Lawson)* 4. Still Life by Louise Penny (Mystery Penny)* 5. Girl, Unwrapped by Gabriella Goliger (Fiction Goliger) 6. A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews (Fiction Toews) 7. The End of East by Jen Sookfong Lee (Fiction Lee) 8. What is Left the Daughter by Howard Norman (Fiction Norman) 9. The Outlander by Gil Adamson (Fiction Adamson) 10. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro (Fiction Munro) Costa Rica: 1. Culture Shock! Costa Rica by Claire Wallerstein (917.286 Culture 2011) 2. Midnight rainbow by Linda Howard (Fiction Howard) 3. Wishbones by Carolyn Haines (Fiction Haines) 4. Monkeys are made of chocolate: exotic and unseen Costa Rica by Jack Ewing (508.72 Ewing) Cuba: 1. Ruins by Achy Obejas (Fiction Obejas) 2. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Fiction Hemingway) 3. Adios Hemingway by Leonardo Padura Fuentes (Mystery Padura) 4. Monkey Hunting by Christina Garcia (Fiction Garcia) 5. Cuba by Stephen Coonts (Fiction Coonts) 6. Cuba Libre by Elmore Leonard (Fiction Leonard) 7. Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire (Bio Eire) 8. Es Cuba: Life and Love on an Illegal Island by Lea Aschkenas (917.291 Aschkenas) 9. No Way Home: a Dancer’s Journey from the Streets of Havana to the Stages of the World by Carlos Acosta (792.8 Acosta) 10. Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene (Fiction Greene) Dominica: 1. Unburnable by Marie-Elena John (Fiction John) 2. The autobiography of my mother by Jamaica Kincaid (Fiction Kincaid) 3. Jean Rhys : life and work by Carole Angier (PR6035.H96 Z62 1991) Dominican Republic: 1. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Fiction Diaz)* 2. In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (Fiction Alvarez) 3. The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Dantiact (Fiction Danticat) 4. The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa (Fiction Vargas Llosa) 5. Red heat : conspiracy, murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean by Alex von Tunzelmann (972.9 Von Tunzelmann) 6. The last playboy : the high life of Porfirio Rubirosa by Shawn Levy (Bio Rubirosa, P by Levy) 7. Dead man in paradise : unraveling a murder from a time of revolution by J.B. MacKinnon (364.152 MacKinnon) El Salvador: 1. Tyrant memory by Horacio Castellanos (Fiction Castellanos, Moya, H.) 2. The tenth door : an adventure through the jungles of enlightenment by Michele Hébert (294.3444 Herbert) 3. The Weight of All Things by Sandra Benitez (Fiction Benitez) Grenada: 1. Urgent fury : the battle for Grenada by Mark Adkin (972.98 Adkin) 2. Grenada: an eyewitness account of the U.S. invasion and the Caribbean history that provoked it by Hugh O’Shaughnessy (972.9845 O’Shaughnessy) Guatemala: 1. I, Rigoberta Menchu: an Indian in Guatemala by Rigoberta Menchu (972.81 Menchu) 2. Between light and shadow : a Guatemalan girl's journey through adoption / Jacob Wheeler (362.734 Wheeler) 3. Maya roads : one woman's journey among the people of the rainforest by Mary Jo McConahay (978.812 McConahay) 4. Gringo : coming-of-age in Latin America by Chesa Boudin (918.04 Boudin or Bio Boudin) 5. Journey of dreams by Marge Pellegrino (Teen or YA Fiction Pellegrino) 6. The art of political murder : who killed the Bishop? by Francisco Goldman (972.81 Gerardi, J by Goldman) 7. Hummingbird House by Patricia Henley (Fiction Henley) 8. Rattlesnake by Arturo Arias (Fiction Arias) 9. Unfinished Conquest: the Guatemalan Tragedy by Victor Perera (972.81 Perera) Haiti: 1. Haiti noir edited by Edwidge Danticat (SC Haiti) 2. After the dance : a walk through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti by Edwidge Danticat (394.25 Danticat) 3. Avengers of the New World : the story of the Haitian Revolution by Laurent Dubois ( F1923 .D82 2004 ) 4. All souls' rising by Madison Smart Bell (Fiction Bell) 5. Haiti: the Aftershocks of History by Laurent Dubois (972.94 Dubois) 6. Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende (Fiction Allende) 7. Love, Anger, madness: a Haitian Triptych by Marie Vieux-Chauvet (Fiction Vieux-Chauvet) Honduras: 1. Enrique's journey by Sonia Nazario (305.23 Nazario, S) 2. The Mosquito Coast : a novel by by Paul Theroux (Fiction Theroux, P) 3. Scribes, warriors and kings : the city of Copán and the ancient Maya by William L. Fash (972.015 Fash) Jamaica: 1. The natural mystics : Marley, Tosh, and Wailer by Colin Grant ( 782.421646 Grant, C ) 2. The dead yard: a story of modern Jamaica by Ian Thomson (972.92 Thomson, I ) 3. The long song by Andrea Levy (Fiction Levy, A) 4. The other side of paradise : a memoir by Staceyann Chin (Bio Chin) Mexico: 1. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (Fiction Kingsolver)* 2. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (Fiction Esquivel)* 3. The Femicide Machine by Sergio González Rodríguez (972.084 Gonzalez Rodriguez, S) 4. The Jade Notebook by Laura Resau (Fiction Resau) 5. The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz (972 Paz) 6. The Pearl by John Steinbeck (Fiction Steinbeck)* 7. The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes (Fiction Fuentes) 8. Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr (Fiction Doerr) 9. The Black Minutes by Martin Solares (Fiction Solares) Nicaragua: 1. Nicaraguan Sketches by Julio Cortazar (972.8505 Cortazar) 2. Gringo nightmare : a young American framed for murder in Nicaragua by Eric Volz (364.152 Volz) 3. Trojan odyssey by Clive Cussler (PB Fiction Cussler) 4. The Country Under my Skin: a Memoir of Love and War by Gioconda Belli (972.8505 Belli) Panama: 1. The big ditch : how America took, built, ran, and ultimately gave away the Panama Canal by Noel Maurer & Carlos Yu (F1569.C2 M38 2011) 2. The world in half by Cristina Henríquez (Fiction Henriquez) 3. Seducing the spirits by Louise Young (Fiction Young) 4. The sack of Panamá : Captain Morgan and the battle for the Caribbean by Peter Earle (972.87 Earle) St. Kitts & Nevis: 1. Quitting America: the departure of a Black man from his native land by Randall Robinson (973.049) St. Lucia: 1. The Fallen by Jassy Mackenzie (Fiction Mackenzie) 2. Homeland and other stories by Barbara Kingsolver (LT Fiction Kingsolver) St. Vincent & the Grenadines: 1. King's captain : an Alan Lewrie naval adventure by Dewey Lambdin (Fiction Lambdin) Trinidad & Tobago: 1. The white woman on the green bicycle by Monique Roffey (Fiction Roffey) 2. Bruised hibiscus by Elizabeth Nunez (Fiction Nunez) 3. A perfect pledge by Rabindranath Maharaj (Fiction Maharaj) South America: Argentina: 1. Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton (Fiction Thornton) 2. Argentina: a Traveler’s Literary Companion edited by Jill Gibian (SC Argentina) 3. My Name is Victoria: the Extraordinary Story of One Woman’s Struggle to Reclaim Her True Identity by Victoria Donada (Bio Donada) 4. Rayuela/ Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar (Fiction Cortazar) 5. The Foreigners by Maxine Swann (Fiction Swann) 6. The Peron Era by Robert Alexander (982 Alexander) 7. The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander (Fiction Englander) 8. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges (Fiction Borges) 9. Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar (Fiction Cortazar) Bolivia: 1. A young man's guide to late capitalism by Peter Mountford (Fiction Mountford) 2. The last of the tribe : the epic quest to save a lone man in the Amazon by Monte Reel 3. Andean express : a novel by Juan de Recacoechea 4. Lost in the jungle : a harrowing true story of survival by Yossi Ghinsberg (918.4 Ghinsberg)* Brazil: 1. State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (Fiction Patchett)* 2. River of Doubt by Candice Millard (Biography Roosevelt)* 3. A father's love : one man's unrelenting battle to bring his abducted son home by David Goldman (362.82 Goldman) 4. My two worlds by Sergio Chejfec (Fiction Chejfec) 5. Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado (Fiction Amado) 6. The War at the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa (Fiction Vargas Llosa) Chile: 1.
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