Around the World in 80 Books discussion

A. . . . . 5.
B. . . 3. . .
C. . . . . .
D. . . . . 5.
E. . . 3. . .

Possibles & Completions

✔A1) Afro-futurism - African Speculative Fiction - Dawn Octavia E. Butler - (4 stars) 12/26/24
✔A2) Immigrant Experience - Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows - Balli Kaur Jaswal (4 stars) 6/7/24
✔A3) Set in Asia - The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane – Lisa See (4 stars) 10/26/24
✔A4) Set During a War - set during WWI
A Duty to the Dead (Bess Crawford, #1) – Charles Todd (4 stars) 1/26/24
A5) Translated from Arabic - Celestial Bodies - Jokha Alharthi - available WPL FICTION ALH (PB)

✔B1) Country Not Read in 2023 - Denmark
Meet Me at the Museum – Anne Youngson (4 stars) 1/21/24
✔B2) Romance - MPG Romance
The Ghost Bride – Yangsze Choo (3 stars) 3/26/24
B3) Women in Translation -
✔B4) Set in Scandinavia - Norway
The Orange Girl - Jostein Gaarder (4 stars) 1/23/24
✔B5) Third Book in a Series
The Singles Table (Marriage, #3) – Sara Desai (4 stars) 2/15/24

✔C1) Latin American Author - Dominican (Dominican Republic)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz (2 stars) 7/27/24
✔C2) Published in the 1920s - publ 1923
Whose Body? - Dorothy L. Sayers - (3 Stars) 1/19/24
✔C3) Set During Winter - set in Nov & Dec
Once Upon a Wardrobe - Patti Callahan Henry - (4 stars) 1/17/24
✔C4) LGBTQ Main Character - Women of the Silk (Women of the Silk, #1) – Gail Tsukiyama (4 stars) 8/10/24 - MC has lesbian relationship
✔C5) Set on an Island - My Sister, the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite (4 stars) 7/18/24 - set on Lagos Island in Nigeria

✔D1) Greater than 500 pages
Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver (3 stars) 3/11/24 - 546 pages
✔D2) Poetry
The Leaf and the Cloud: A Poem – Mary Oliver (4 stars) 6/9/24
✔D3) Animal on Cover - dog on cover
All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great & Small, #1-2) – James Herriot (4 stars) 1/31/24
✔D4) Set in Oceania - A Disappearance in Fiji - Nilima Rao (4 stars) 7/24/24 - Fiji
D5) NYRB Classics - The World I Live In - Helen Keller - kindle

✔E1) Orange Cover - Marked - Elisabeth Naughton - (3 stars) 4/20/24
✔E2) Author from a Country Starting with a B - My Friend Maigret - Georges Simenon - (3 stars) 6/14/24 - Belgian author
E3) Memoir or Biography of a World Leader -
✔E4) Author of Color - Chinese
The Hollow of Fear - Sherry Thomas - (4 stars) 2/4/24
✔E5) Food Item in Title - Saffron
Love & Saffron - Kim Fay - (5 stars) 4/13/24

Five left for a coverall and a month to go.

Well that's it. Read all but 4 books.
Got Bingos on 1, 2, and 4 down and C across, also the Diagonal left top to right bottom