Around the World in 80 Books discussion

I'll go for all the 25.

PROGRESS: 25/25

⚀Mystery: The Crime at Black Dudley
⚀Translated from Spanish: Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World
⚀Set in South America: Raza de bronce
⚀Memoir: El amante
⚀Caribbean Author: Escalera para Electra

⚀Over 500 pages: Expediente 64
⚀Set in Africa: Things Fall Apart
⚀Sci-Fi/Fantasy: Timeline
⚀Set during a war: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
⚀Graphic Novel: Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

⚀Translated from French: Nuestra Señora de París
⚀Historical Fiction: El prisionero del cielo
⚀W. C. Nonfiction: The Colonizer and the Colonized
⚀Set in Oceania: The Piano
⚀Translated from Portuguese: Borges and The Eternal Orangutans

⚀Set in Asia: In the Footsteps of Marco Polo
⚀Award winning: El perfume: Historia de un asesino
⚀Translated from Chinese: Red Sorghum
⚀YA or children's: The Brownies
⚀Set on an island: Kidnapped

⚀Immigrant experience: The Cry of the Dove
⚀Woman author: Jazz
⚀Classic: He
⚀Translated from Japanese: The Devotion of Suspect X
⚀Set in a MENA country: Finding Nouf

My first book:

Historical Fiction: El prisionero del cielo by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Set in Barcelona (Spain), during the years after the Spanish Civil War.

Progress: 2/25

Set on an island: Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Set in Scotland and the Inner Hebrides Islands (Isle of Mull and Erraid)

Progress: 3/25

Woman author: Jazz by Toni Morrison

Set in New York

Progress: 4/25

Mystery: The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham

Set in England (Suffolk, London and Essex)

Progress: 5/25

Children's: The Brownies by Palmer Cox (Canadian author)

Progress: 6/25

Caribbean author: by Aída Cartagena Portalatín (Dominican author)

Progress 7/25

Translated from French: Nuestra Señora de París by Victor Hugo
Original Title: Notre-Dame de Paris

Progress 9/25

Set during a war (Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988): Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Graphic Novel: Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
by Marjane Satrapi

Progress: 10/25

Set in Africa: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Set in Nigeria

Progress: 11/25

Nonfiction (Wild Card): The Colonizer and the Colonized by Albert Memmi (Frech-Tunisian author)

Progress: 12/25

Set in Oceania: The Piano by Jane Campion

Set in New Zealand

Progress: 13/25

Over 500 pages: Expediente 64 by Jussi Adler-Olsen
(Set in Denmark)

Progress: 14/25

Sci-Fi: Timeline by Michael Crichton
(Set in USA (Arizona), France, and England)

Progress: 15/25

Set in a MENA country: Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris (Saudi Arabia)

Progress: 16/25

Set in Asia: In the Footsteps of Marco Polo by Denis Belliveau

Progress: 17/25

Set in South America: Raza de bronce by Alcides Arguedas

Progress 18/25

Immigrant experience: The Cry of the Dove by Fadia Faqir

Progress 19/25

Classic: He by Rabindranath Tagore

Progress: 20/25

Award winning: El perfume: Historia de un asesino by Patrick Süskind
World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (1987)

Progress: 21/25

Translated from Japanese: The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

Progress: 22/25

Memoirs: El amante by Marguerite Duras

Progress: 23/25

Translated from Portuguese: Borges and The Eternal Orangutans by Luis Fernando Verissimo

Progress: 24/25

Translate from Chinese: Red Sorghum by Mo Yan

Progress: 25/25

Translated from Spanish: Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano