Around the World in 80 Books discussion

I kept meaning to get to this and now it is December. I plugged in books that I read this year.

2020 Card:


Mystery: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder by Shamini Flint
Over 500 Pages: The Swarm by Frank Schätzing
Translated from French: Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant
Set in Asia: The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
Immigrant Experience: Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
Translated from Spanish: The House of Ulloa by Emilia Pardo Bazán
Set in Africa: The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Historical Fiction: The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
Award-Winning: The Gathering by Anne Enright
Woman Author: My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Set in South America: Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
Sci-Fi/Fantasy: Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Wild Card: The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Translated from Chinese: Monkey: The Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en
Classic: Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
Memoir: Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
Set During a War: The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
Set in Oceania: Frangipani by Célestine Hitiura Vaite
YA or Children's: Adventures with Waffles by Maria Parr
Translated from Japanese: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Caribbean Author: Slave Old Man by Patrick Chamoiseau
Graphic Novel: Poem Strip by Dino Buzzati
Translated from Portuguese: The Devil to Pay in the Backlands by João Guimarães Rosa
Set on an Island: Marshall Islands Legends and Stories by Daniel A. Kelin
Set in a MENA Country: Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi