Around the World in 80 Books discussion

This worked for me last year, so I am going to try it again. The first list contains popular books set around the world, but aren't written by native authors. The second list features native authors from various countries and most of the books are set in the author's country of origin, as well.

List A:
1. The Alice Network
2. American Dirt
3. The Bear and the Nightingale
4. Beautiful Ruins
5. The Beekeeper of Aleppo
6. Beneath a Scarlet Sky
7. China Rich Girlfriend
8. City of Thieves
9. Daughter of Smoke & Bone
10. In a Sunburned Country
11. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
12. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
13. Love & Gelato
14. The Miniaturist
15. Next Year in Havana
16. Cloud Cuckoo Land
17. The Paris Apartment
18. The Paris Wife
19. People of the Book
20. Salt to the Sea
21. Shantaram
22. Shōgun
23. A Tale for the Time Being
24. We Were the Lucky Ones

List B
1. The Angel's Game
2. Anxious People
3. Blood of Elves
4. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
5. Conversations with Friends
6. The Dark Forest
7. The Dinner
8. Force of Nature
9. The Forty Rules of Love
10. The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
11. The Henna Artist
12. The Husband's Secret
13. The Likeness
14. The Keeper of Lost Causes
15. Long Walk to Freedom
16. The Luminaries
17. The Memory Police
18. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
19. The Perfect Nanny
20. The Poppy War
21. The Searcher
22. The Snowman
23. Tender is the Flesh
24. Violeta

Read in January: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and The Husband's Secret

Read in February: American Dirt and Anxious People

Finished The Angel's Game and The Alice Network.

Finished The Forty Rules of Love and Daughter of Smoke & Bone

Finished The Paris Wife and My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry.

Finished The Beekeeper of Aleppo and Conversations with Friends.

Finished Salt to the Sea and The Poppy War.

Finished The Bear and the Nightingale and Blood of Elves

Finished The Memory Police and The Paris Apartment.