Around the World in 80 Books discussion

Joy D's Magic Squares 2022:

Remaining: A5

✅A1 - Sci-Fi: I, Robot by Isaac Asimov - 1/17/22 - 4* - My Review
✅A2 - Bio or Autobio: My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir by Katherine G. Johnson - 1/8/22 - 4* - My Review
✅A3 - MC with disability: What Willow Says by Lynn Buckle - 1/2/22 - 4* - My Review (deaf child)
✅A4 - Caribbean author: The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat - 3/15/22 - 5* - My Review
✅A5 - Nonbinary or trans author: The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi - 8/15/22 - 4* - My Review

✅B1 - Food-themed: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway - 5/31/22 - 4* - My Review
✅B2 - Publ in last 3 years: Learwife: A Novel by J.R. Thorpe - 1/3/22 - 4* - My Review
✅B3 - Set in Africa: The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing - 1/13/22 - 4* - My Review
✅B4 - Nobel Laureate: Miramar by Naguib Mahfouz - 1/26/22 - 4* - My Review
✅B5 - Book by Local author: Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin - 2* - My Review

✅C1 - Set in Canada or Canadian author: Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson - 2/7/22 - 4* - My Review
✅C2 - Classic Horror: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson - completed 5/22/22 - 3* - My Review
✅C3 - Sports and/or Recreation: The Head Game: Baseball Seen from the Pitcher's Mound by Roger Kahn - 1/31/22 - 4* - My Review
✅C4 - Between 100 and 200 pgs: Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky - 1/4/22 - 3* - My Review
✅C5 - Translated woman author: The Girl Who Reads on the Métro by Christine Féret-Fleury -- 2/9/22 - 3* - My Review

✅D1 - Debut novel: Outlander by Diana Gabaldon - 1/9/22 - 2* - My Review
✅D2 - 19th century classic: Adam Bede by George Eliot - 3/13/22 - 4* - My Review
✅D3 - Historical Fiction: Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys - 1/1/22 - 3* - My Review
✅D4 - Translated from Korean: The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story by Hyeonseo Lee - 6/4/22 - 4* - My Review
✅D5 - Epistolary: The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver - 1/27/22 - 4* - My Review

✅E1 - Country not read in 2021: (Samoa) Leaves of the Banyan Tree by Albert Wendt - 1/19/22 - 2* My Review
✅E2 - Book about a journey: If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O'Brien - 1/4/22 - 4* - My Review
✅E3 - Rivers, lakes, or swamps: The Secret River by Kate Grenville - 1/24/22 - 4* - My Review
✅E4 - Medieval woman author: The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu - 7/23/22 - 3* - My Review
✅E5 - Set in Southern Hemisphere: A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey by Jonathan Meiburg - 1/15/22 - 4* - My Review

Challenge completed: 8/15/22

Congratulations! Looks like some good books.

Congratulations! Quite a good variety of books, and I like your non-European choice for a medieval woman author; I'd forgotten about Lady Murasaki.

Thank you!

Congratulations Joy!

congratulations. I love the variety of titles we find for these categories

Thanks, Nancy and Linda!