Every Country I've Read a Book from- Part 1: the Americas

Chatting about all the books I've read from the Americas and the Caribbean. I'd love to hear any recommendations, especially for countries I haven't read from

✨Books Mentioned✨
Canada
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
The Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood
Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki
The Book of Form and Emptiness - Ruth Ozeki

USA
A Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Go Tell it on the Mountain - James Baldwin
Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
White Noise - Don Delillo
The Sellout - Paul Beatty
The White Boy Shuffle - Paul Beatty
Ducks, Newburyport- Lucy Ellman

Mexico
Sudden Death - Alvaro Enrigue
You Dreamed of Empires - Alvaro Enrigue
Hurricane Season - Fernanda Melchor
Paradais - Fernanda Melchor
Still Born - Guadalupe Nettel

Colombia
Nobody writes to the Colonel - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Chile
The House of the Spirits- Isabel Allende
Ways of Going Home- Alejandro Zambra
Chilean Poet- Alejandro Zambra
When We Cease to Understand the World - Benjamin Labatut

Argentina
Elena Knows - Claudia Pineiro
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed - Mariana Enriquez
Things We Lost in the Fire- Mariana Enriquez
Mona - Pola Oloixarac
Fever Dream - Samanta Schweblin

Brazil
The Alchemist - Paulo COehlo
The Hour of the Star - Clarice Lispector

Jamaica
A Brief History of Seven Killings- Marlon James
The Book of Night Women - Marlon James
Black Leopard, Red Wolf - Marlon James
This One Sky Day - Leone Ross

Dominica
Wide Sargasso Sea- Jean Rhys

Trinidad & Tobago
Sequins for a Ragged Hem - Amryl Johnson
Love After Love - Ingrid Persaud

Barbados
In the Castle of My Skin - George Lamming

Guadeloupe
Segu - Maryse Conde

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