Around the World in 80 Books discussion

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Mystery: Der nasse Fisch (Babylon Berlin) by Volker Kutscher - Germany
Over 500 Pages: The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert - Tahiti
Translated from French: Les Fourberies de Scapin (The Impostures of Scapin: or Scapin the Schemer) by Molière - France
Set in Asia: Phoolan Devi : Reine des bandits (Phoolan Devi, Rebel Queen) by Claire Fauvel - India
Immigrant experience: Khalil by Yasmina Khadra - Belgium

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Translated from Spanish: A Luminous Republic by Andrés Barba - Somewhere in South America
Set in Africa: Tropique de la violence (Tropic of Violence) by Nathacha Appanah - Comoros
Historical fiction: Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz - Italy
Award winning : Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (Booker Prize 2019) - UK
Woman author: The Greenhouse by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir - Iceland

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Set in South America: Nietzsche au Paraguay by Christophe Prince and Nathalie Prince
Sci-fi/fantasy: Circe by Madeline Miller - Greece
Wild card - Romance : Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin - Canada
Translated from Chinese: Deux brûle-parfums by Eileen Chang - Hong Kong
Classic: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston - USA

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Memoir: We Were the Future by Yael Neeman - Israel
Set during a war: The Pope's Daughter by Dario Fo - Vatican City
Set in Oceania: The Lost Man by Jane Harper - Australia
YA/Children's: How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse by Cressida Cowell - Scandinavia
Translated from Japanese: The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino - Japan

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Caribbean author: Gouverneurs De La Rosée (Masters of the Dew) by Jacques Roumain - Haiti
Graphic novel: Confidences à Allah by Marie Avril and Eddy Simon after Saphia Azzeddine - Morocco
Translated from Portuguese: Un château à Ipanema by Martha Batalha - Brazil
Set on an island: Cesaria Evora, la voix du Cap-Vert by Veronique Mortaigne - Cape Verde
Set in a MENA country: Désorientale (Disoriental) by Négar Djavadi - Iran