AJ's 2022 Magic Squares

[AJ]

I've lapsed in my groups and Goodreads in general the last (mumble mumble) years. So I'm going to try to identify potential matches off my growing TBR and see how many BINGOs! I can get in 2022... happy reading!

[AJ]

Potential
A1 - Sci-Fi: Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
A2 - Bio or Autobio: Empire of Pain
A3 - MC with disability: Happy Valley Road?
A4 - Caribbean author:
A5 - Nonbinary or trans author: Thinking Again: A Diary by Jan Morris

B1 - Food-themed:
B2 - Publ in last 3 years: Fuzz, Mary Roach
B3 - Set in Africa:
B4 - Nobel Laureate:
B5 - Book by Local author:

C1 - Set in Canada or Canadian author: Snow Child (close enough?)
C2 - Classic Horror: At the Mountains of Madness, HP Lovecraft (voting this least likely category!)
C3 - Sports and/or Recreation: Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside, Nick Offerman
C4 - Between 100 and 200 pgs:
C5 - Translated woman author: Portrait in Sepia, Isabel Allende

D1 - Debut novel: The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (it's 700 pp +!)
D2 - 19th century classic:
D3 - Historical Fiction: The Personal Librarian, Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
D4 - Translated from Korean:
D5 - Epistolary: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong

E1 - Country not read in 2021: Amur River
E2 - Book about a journey: Best Ravel Writing 2021
E3 - Rivers, lakes, or swamps: Disappointment River
E4 - Medieval woman author: CHRISTINE DE PIZAN - Le Livre de la Cité des Dames (The Book of the City of Ladies)
E5 - Set in Southern Hemisphere: Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh

[AJ]

COMPLETED (and let me vent that the app doesn't let me edit!)

B2 - Published in last 3 years: Fuzz, Mary Roach
E3 - Rivers, lakes, or swamps: Disappointment River, Brian Castner

[Ruth]

Inspired to read your choice for E4, heard part of it on BBC radio 4 a few years ago.