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  • Afghanistan
    • Mar 12, 2024 The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson (Random House)
    • Mar 11, 2022 Soldiers of God : With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Robert D. Kaplan (Vintage)
    • Sep 9, 2021 And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead)
    • Jul 1, 2021 The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad (Virago)
    • Feb 7, 2021 Above Us the Milky Way by Fowzia Karimi (Deep Vellum Publishing)
  • Angkor Wat
    • Jul 31, 2024 Mistapim in Cambodia by Christopher Pym (Hodder & Stoughton)
    • Jul 27, 2024 The Red Chapels of Banteai Srei by Sachaverell Sitwell (Weidenfeld and Nicolson)
    • Jul 14, 2024 The Road to Angkor by Christopher Pym (John Beaufoy Publishing)
  • Asian American
    • Oct 21, 2024 The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston (Knopf)
    • Oct 14, 2024 Ordinary Disasters by Anne Anlin Cheng (Pantheon Books)
    • Mar 8, 2021 How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C. Pam Zhang (Riverhead Books)
    • Feb 21, 2021 Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong (One World, Random House)
    • Feb 18, 2021 A Cab Called Reliable by Patti Kim (St. Martin's)
  • Bangkok
    • Aug 7, 2024 Bangkok Babylon by Jerry Hopkins (Tuttle Publishing)
    • Jul 27, 2024 The Red Chapels of Banteai Srei by Sachaverell Sitwell (Weidenfeld and Nicolson)
    • Jun 22, 2023 Bangkok Shophouses by Louis Sketcher
    • May 29, 2023 The Glass Kingdom by Lawrence Osborne (Hogarth)
    • Apr 25, 2022 Another Bangkok: Reflections on the City by Alex Kerr (Penguin Random House UK)
    • Jul 17, 2021 Welcome to the Bangkok Slaughterhouse by Father Joseph Maier (Periplus Editions)
    • Jun 24, 2021 Bangkok 8 by John Burdett (Vintage)
    • Apr 22, 2021 Red-Light Nights, Bangkok Daze : Chronicles of Sexuality Across Asia by William Sparrow (Monsoon Books)
    • Mar 15, 2021 Vanishing Bangkok: The Changing Face of the City by Ben Davies (River Books)
    • Sep 15, 2020 What Could Be Saved by Liese O'Halloran Schwarz (Simon & Schuster, forthcoming, January 2021)
    • Jul 23, 2020 Tone Deaf in Bangkok and Other Places by Janet Brown (ThingsAsian Press)
    • May 17, 2019 Tour Bangkok Legacies by Eric Lim (available at Amazon in paperback and on Kindle)
    • Nov 22, 2017 Bangkok's Top Fifty Street Food Stalls by Chawadee Nualkhair (Wordplay)
    • Nov 22, 2017 Mindfulness and Murder by Nick Wilgus (Crime Wave Press)
    • Jan 30, 2008 Bangkok Blondes by The Bangkok Women's Writers Group (Bangkok Book House)
  • Bangladesh
    • Jun 9, 2022 The Newlyweds by Nell Freudenberger (Penguin)
  • Beijing
    • Sep 9, 2023 Beijing Sprawl by Xie Zechen, translated by Jeremy Tiang and Eric Abrahamsen (Two Lines Press)
    • Aug 13, 2012 Midnight in Peking by Paul French (Penguin Books)
    • Jul 14, 2008 The Last Days of Old Beijing by Michael Meyer (Walker)
  • Bhutan
    • Dec 15, 2022 A Field Guide to Happiness : What I Learned in Bhutan about Living, Loving and Waking Up by Linda Leaming (Hay House)
    • Nov 8, 2021 Married to Bhutan by Linda Leaming (Hay House)
    • Sep 24, 2010 Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan by Jamie Zeppa (Riverhead Books)
  • Burma
    • Oct 15, 2023 Elephant Company by Vicki Constantine Croke (Random House)
    • Oct 7, 2021 Clash of Honour by Robert Mendelsohn (Prion)
  • Cambodia
    • Dec 24, 2024 Landbridge: life in fragments by Y-Dang Troeng (Duke University Press)
    • Dec 7, 2024 Koan Khmer by Bunkong Tuon (Northwestern University Press)
    • Nov 21, 2024 Between this World and the Next by Praveen Herat (Restless Books)
    • Oct 28, 2024 Dogs at the Perimeter by Madeleine Thien (W.W. Norton & Company)
    • Jul 31, 2024 Mistapim in Cambodia by Christopher Pym (Hodder & Stoughton)
    • Jul 27, 2024 The Red Chapels of Banteai Srei by Sachaverell Sitwell (Weidenfeld and Nicolson)
    • Jul 14, 2024 The Road to Angkor by Christopher Pym (John Beaufoy Publishing)
    • Apr 16, 2024 Under the Naga Tail by Mae Bunseng Taing, with James Taing (Greenleaf Book Group Press)
    • Mar 30, 2024 Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes by Chantha Nguon, with Kim Green (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
    • Feb 19, 2024 The Golden Voice: The Ballad of Cambodian Rock's Lost Queen by Gregory Cahill and Kat Baumann (Life Drawn by Humanoids)
    • Jan 25, 2024 Songs on Endless Repeat by Anthony Veasna So (HarperCollins)
    • Jun 14, 2022 Ma and Me: A Memoir by Putsata Reang (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
    • Nov 25, 2021 Behind the Fire by Steven D. Salinger (Warner)
    • Aug 16, 2021 Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So (Ecco, HarperCollins)
    • Jan 1, 2021 The Heaven Stone by David Daniel (St. Martin's Press)
    • May 16, 2020 A Nail the Evening Hangs on by Monica Sok (Copper Canyon Press)
    • Sep 21, 2012 In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner (Simon & Schuster)
    • Aug 15, 2008 The Road of Lost Innocence by Somaly Mam (Spiegel & Grau)
    • Aug 18, 2007 The Gate by Francois Bizot (Vintage Books/Random House)
  • Central Asia
    • Apr 30, 2022 Walking to Samarkand: The Great Silk Road from Persia to Central Asia by Bernard Ollivier, translated by Dab Golembski (Skyhorse Publishing)
  • China
    • Mar 30, 2025 World Class by Teru Clavel (Simon & Schuster)
    • Mar 23, 2025 The Leftover Woman by Jean Kwok (HarperCollins)
    • Mar 14, 2025 The Peking Express by James M. Zimmerman ( Hachette Publishing Group)
    • Mar 5, 2025 City of Fiction by Yu Hua, translated by Todd Foley (Europa, April 8, 2025)
    • Feb 27, 2025 A Song to Drown Rivers by Ann Liang (St. Martin's Press)
    • Jan 15, 2025 Sister Snake by Amanda Lee Koe (HarperCollins)
    • Dec 30, 2024 Masquerade by Mike Fu (Tin House)
    • Sep 24, 2024 Off the Books by Soma Mei Sheng Frazier (Henry Holt)
    • Sep 20, 2024 Shanghailanders by Juli Min (Spiegel and Grau)
    • Aug 31, 2024 Waiting to be Arrested at Night by Tahir Hamut Izgil, translated by Joshua L. Freeman (Penguin Press)
    • Aug 26, 2024 Factory Girls by Leslie T. Chang (Random House)
    • Aug 15, 2024 Other Rivers by Peter Hessler (Penguin Press)
    • Jul 10, 2024 Lords of the Rim by Sterling Seagrave (Corgi Books, out of print)
    • Jun 26, 2024 Written on Water by Eileen Chang (New York Review of Books)
    • Jun 16, 2024 Coming Home Crazy by Bill Holm (Milkweed Editions)
    • Apr 19, 2024 Searching for Billie by Ian Gill (Blacksmith Books)
    • Apr 14, 2024 Where Strange Gods Call: Harry Hervey's 1920s Hong Kong, Macau and Canton Sojourns (Blacksmith Books)
    • Apr 13, 2024 Wanderings in China: Hong Kong and Canton, Christmas and New Year 1878-1879 by Constance Gordon-Cumming (Blacksmith Books)
    • Apr 8, 2024 The Dragon's Pearl by Sirin Phathanothai (Simon & Schuster)
    • Nov 9, 2023 Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong (Sceptre)
    • Oct 10, 2023 The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo (Henry Holt and Company)
    • Oct 1, 2023 Falling Leaves : The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah (Broadway Books)
    • Sep 9, 2023 Beijing Sprawl by Xie Zechen, translated by Jeremy Tiang and Eric Abrahamsen (Two Lines Press)
    • Aug 30, 2023 The Woman Back from Moscow by Ha Jin (Other Press)
    • Aug 24, 2023 The Apology by Jimin Han (Little, Brown and Company)
    • Jul 7, 2023 Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City by Jane Wong (Tin House)
    • Jun 27, 2023 Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang (Flatiron Books)
    • Jun 8, 2023 Mott Street by Ava Chin (Penguin Press)
    • Apr 27, 2023 Activities of Daily Living by Lisa Hsiao Chen (W.W. Norton & Company)
    • Apr 20, 2023 Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea by Rita Chang-Eppig (Bloomsbury Publishing)
    • Apr 13, 2023 A Loyal Character Dancer by Qiu Xiaolong (Soho Crime)
    • Apr 6, 2023 Chinese Prodigal by David Shih (Atlantic Monthly Press)
    • Mar 28, 2023 Have You Eaten Yet? by Cheuk Kwan (Pegasus Books)
    • Jan 9, 2023 When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433 by Louise Levathes (Oxford University Press)
    • Dec 27, 2022 Little Soldiers by Lenora Chu (HarperCollins)
    • Oct 30, 2022 Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng (Penguin Press)
    • Oct 13, 2022 Lust, Caution by Eileen Chang, translated by Julia Lovell (Anchor Books)
    • Sep 29, 2022 All the Right Places : Traveling Light Through China, Japan, and Russia by Brad Newsham (Vintage)
    • Sep 14, 2022 Ghost Music by An Yu (Grove Press, release date January 2023)
    • Aug 22, 2022 The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford (Atria Books)
    • Aug 16, 2022 A Map for the Missing by Belinda Huijuan Tang (Penguin Press)
    • Jul 7, 2022 Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian (Flamingo)
    • Jun 29, 2022 Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking by Fuchsia Dunlop (W. W. Norton & Company)
    • Jun 22, 2022 Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen (William Morrow)
    • Apr 13, 2022 Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch by Dai Sijie (Knopf)
    • Apr 10, 2022 Take No Names by Daniel Nieh (HarperCollins, release date July 5, 2022)
    • Mar 30, 2022 The Artisans: A Vanishing Chinese Village by Shen Fuyu, trans. Jeremy Tiang (Astra House)
    • Jan 28, 2022 Fate: The Lost Decades of Uncle Chow Tung by Ian Hamilton (Spiderline, House of Anansi Press)
    • Jan 15, 2022 Ava Lee: The Triad Years : A Series by Ian Hamilton (House of Anansi Press)
    • Dec 30, 2021 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie (Vintage)
    • Dec 29, 2021 Death’s End by Cixin Liu (Tor)
    • Dec 20, 2021 The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu (Tor)
    • Dec 14, 2021 The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (Tor)
    • Nov 4, 2021 American Shaolin by Matthew Polly (Gotham Books)
    • Oct 28, 2021 Shanghai Baby by Wei Hui (Pocket Books)
    • Oct 7, 2021 The Amur River: Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron (HarperCollins Publishers)
    • Sep 28, 2021 Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang (Doubleday)
    • Sep 16, 2021 Five Spice Street by Can Xue (Yale University)
    • Jul 30, 2021 The Road to Sleeping Dragon by Michael Meyer (Bloomsbury Publishing)
    • Jul 22, 2021 The People's Republic of Desire by Annie Wang (Harper)
    • Jul 9, 2021 City Gate, Open Up by Bei Dao, translated by Jeffrey Yang (New Directions Books)
    • Jun 30, 2021 Stilwell and the American Experience in China: 1911-1945 by Barbara W. Tuchman (Random House)
    • Jun 21, 2021 The China Option: A Guide for Millennials by Sophia Erickson (Travelers’ Tales)
    • Jun 17, 2021 Before the Deluge : The Vanishing World of the Yangtze's Three Gorges by Deirdre Chetham (Palgrave Macmillan)
    • Jun 7, 2021 The Shenzhen Experiment: The Story of China’s Instant City by Juan Du (Harvard University Press)
    • May 13, 2021 Xi’an Famous Foods by Jason Wang with Jessica K. Chou, photographs by Jenny Huang (Abrams Books)
    • May 6, 2021 The Binding Chair by Kathryn Harrison (4th Estate)
    • Apr 1, 2021 The Red Thread by Nicholas Jose (Hardie Grant Books)
    • Jan 22, 2021 Drunk in China by Derek Sandhaus (Potomac Books)
    • Jan 10, 2021 Ship of Fates by Caitlin Chung (Lanternfish Press)
    • Jan 3, 2021 Block Chain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside by Xiaowei Wang (FSG Originals X Logic)
    • Dec 24, 2020 Barefoot in the Boardroom by Bill Purves (Allen & Unwin)
    • Dec 18, 2020 Wuhan Diary by Fang Fang, translated by Michael Berry (HarperCollins)
    • Nov 23, 2020 Chasing Hepburn by Gus Lee (Harmony Books, Random House)
    • Oct 8, 2020 Almost Home : The Asian Search of a Geographic Trollop by Janet Brown (ThingsAsian Press)
    • Sep 24, 2020 The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan (Del Rey)
    • Sep 7, 2020 A Tiger's Heart: The Story of a Modern Chinese Woman by Aisling Juanjuan Shen (Soho Press)
    • May 23, 2020 China Syndrome by Karl Taro Greenfield (Harper Perennial)
    • Apr 16, 2020 A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li (Picador)
    • Apr 9, 2020 Dragon Dance by Peter Tasker (Kodansha)
    • Mar 20, 2020 China Correspondent by Agnes Smedley (Pandora Books)
    • Feb 28, 2020 Three Tigers, One Mountain by Michael Booth (St. Martin's Press, April 2020)
    • Nov 30, 2019 Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister by Jung Chang (Knopf)
    • Sep 5, 2019 The White Devil's Daughters by Julia Flynn Siler (Knopf)
    • Aug 4, 2019 Beijing Payback by Daniel Nieh (HarperCollins)
    • Jul 1, 2019 The Shanghai Free Taxi by Frank Langfitt (Public Affairs)
    • Oct 8, 2018 The Winter Station by Jody Shields (Little, Brown & Co.)
    • Apr 21, 2018 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin (Little Brown)
    • Nov 22, 2017 Shanghai Grand by Taras Grescoe (St. Martin's Press)
    • Aug 13, 2012 A Spoonful of Promises by T. Susan Chang (Lyons Press)
    • Aug 13, 2012 Midnight in Peking by Paul French (Penguin Books)
    • Aug 30, 2010 Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love and Language by Deborah Fallows (WalkerBooks)
    • Aug 1, 2010 English by Wang Gang (Penguin)
    • Jun 16, 2010 UFO in Her Eyes by Xiaolu Guo (Vintage Books)
    • Mar 6, 2010 Chinese Lessons: An American, His Classmates, and the Story of the New China by John Pomfret (Holt)
    • Jan 15, 2010 Brothers by Yu Hua (Picador Asia)
    • Nov 9, 2009 Where East Eats West: The Street-Smarts Guide to Business in China by Sam Goodman (BookSurge)
    • Oct 7, 2009 Leaving Mother Lake by Yang Erche Namu and Christine Mathieu (Back Bay Books)
    • Mar 29, 2009 Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong (Penguin)
    • Mar 20, 2009 The Vagrants by Yiyun Li (Random House)
  • Constantinople
    • Feb 27, 2020 The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • Egypt
    • Nov 18, 2021 A Border Passage by Leila Ahmed (Penguin)
    • Aug 5, 2021 The Book of Saladin by Tariq Ali (Verso)
  • Hawaii
    • Sep 26, 2023 Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers by Lois-Ann Yamanaka (Picador)
  • Hmong
    • Feb 28, 2021 The Song Poet by Kao Kalia Yang (Henry Holt and Company)
  • Hong Kong
    • Mar 30, 2025 World Class by Teru Clavel (Simon & Schuster)
    • Apr 14, 2024 Where Strange Gods Call: Harry Hervey's 1920s Hong Kong, Macau and Canton Sojourns (Blacksmith Books)
    • Apr 13, 2024 Wanderings in China: Hong Kong and Canton, Christmas and New Year 1878-1879 by Constance Gordon-Cumming (Blacksmith Books)
    • Feb 27, 2024 Black Ghosts: A Journey into the Lives of Africans in China by Noo Saro-Wiwa (Canongate)
    • Sep 21, 2023 The Future by Naomi Alderman (Simon & Schuster]
    • Mar 28, 2023 Have You Eaten Yet? by Cheuk Kwan (Pegasus Books)
    • Mar 28, 2023 Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly (Grand Central Publishing)
    • Oct 26, 2022 On Java Road by Lawrence Osborne (Penguin Random House UK)
    • Mar 10, 2022 The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir by Karen Cheung (Random House)
    • Jan 28, 2022 Fate: The Lost Decades of Uncle Chow Tung by Ian Hamilton (Spiderline, House of Anansi Press)
    • Jan 15, 2022 Ava Lee: The Triad Years : A Series by Ian Hamilton (House of Anansi Press)
    • Oct 17, 2021 Drawing on the Inside: Kowloon Walled City 1985 by Fiona Hawthorne (Blacksmith Books)
    • Sep 23, 2021 The Sun in My Eyes : Two-Wheeling East by Josie Dew (Time Warner Books)
    • Dec 4, 2020 Hong Kong Local: Cult Recipes from the Streets that Make the City by ArChan Chan (Smith Street Books, Simon & Schuster, Australia)
    • Jun 15, 2020 White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway (Black Cat/Grove Atlantic)
    • Aug 31, 2019 Hong Kong Holiday by Emily Hahn (Doubleday & Company, out of print)
    • Apr 21, 2018 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin (Little Brown)
    • Dec 14, 2017 Swimming in Hong Kong by Stephanie Han (Willow Spring Books)
    • Nov 22, 2017 Good Chinese Wife by Susan Blumberg-Kason
    • Jun 18, 2012 Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong by Gordon Mathews (University of Chicago Press)
    • Apr 15, 2011 John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow by Karen Fang (Hong Kong University Press)
    • Jan 31, 2010 Exploring Hong Kong: A Visitor’s Guide to Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and the New Territories by Steven K. Bailey with photographs by Jill C. Witt (ThingsAsian Press)
    • Sep 25, 2007 Asian Godfathers by Joe Studwell (Atlantic Monthly Press)
  • India
    • Feb 18, 2025 Rosarita by Anita Desai (Scribner)
    • Jan 21, 2025 Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East by Gita Mehta (Vintage Books)
    • Sep 9, 2024 A Distant Heart by Sonali Devi (Kensington)
    • Jul 31, 2024 Five Point Someone: What Not To Do at ITT by Chetan Bhagat (Rupa Books)
    • Jul 17, 2024 Feasting, Fasting by Anita Desai (Vintage)
    • Jun 26, 2024 A Passage to India by E.M. Forster (Penguin)
    • Feb 19, 2024 The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (Atlantic Monthly Press)
    • Dec 21, 2023 Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Counterpoint)
    • Dec 5, 2023 If an Elephant Loses Weight, It is Still an Elephant by Aftab Seth (Keio University Press)
    • Oct 22, 2023 Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore (UBS Publishers)
    • Aug 17, 2023 In Search of Amrit Kaur by Livia Manera Sambuy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
    • Jul 23, 2023 The River by Rumer Godden (out of print)
    • Jul 6, 2023 Last Man in Tower by Aravind Adiga (Knopf)
    • Mar 24, 2023 The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America by Saket Soni (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
    • Mar 8, 2023 The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise by Pico Iyer (Riverhead Books)
    • Mar 5, 2023 Nine Lives : In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple (Bloomsbury)
    • Feb 19, 2023 A Backward Place by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Fireside Book)
    • Feb 14, 2023 The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff (Ballantine Books)
    • Nov 29, 2022 The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara (W.W. Norton & Company)
    • Nov 10, 2022 The Windfall by Diksha Basu (Crown)
    • Oct 6, 2022 A Beautiful Lie by Irfan Master (Albert Whitman & Co.)
    • Jul 10, 2022 In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri, translated by Ann Goldstein (Vintage Books)
    • Apr 28, 2022 Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga (Free Press)
    • Apr 5, 2022 The Prince, the Demon King, and the Monkey Warrior retold by Janet Brown (ThingsAsian Press)
    • Mar 24, 2022 Better to Have Gone: Love, Death and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville by Akash Kapur (Scribner)
    • Feb 22, 2022 Curried Cultures: Globalization, Food, and South Asia edited by Krishnendu Ray and Tulasi Srinivas (University of California Press)
    • Feb 17, 2022 The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri (Harper)
    • Jan 18, 2022 Around India in 80 Trains by Monisha Rajesh (Nicholas Brealey Publishers, Hachette UK)
    • Jan 3, 2022 Mother Land by Leah Franqui (HarperCollins)
    • Dec 23, 2021 The Weary Generations by Abdullah Hussein (Peter Owen)
    • Dec 9, 2021 The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck by Rory Nugent (Open Road)
    • Nov 18, 2021 The Householder by Ruth Pravwer Jhabvala (Penguin)
    • Oct 14, 2021 Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda (Harper)
    • Sep 30, 2021 In Beautiful Disguises by Rajeev Balasubramanyam (Bloomsbury)
    • Aug 26, 2021 Storywallah by Neelesh Misra's Mandali (Penguin)
    • Jul 15, 2021 BPO-Sutra : True Stories from India's BPO & Call Centres edited by Sudhindra Mokhasi (Rupa & Co.)
    • Jun 3, 2021 Animal's People by Indra Sinha (Simon & Schuster)
    • May 20, 2021 Life isn't all ha ha hee hee by Meera Syal (Anchor Books)
    • Apr 8, 2021 Born Into Brothels by Zana Briski (Umbrage)
    • Mar 4, 2021 Lanterns on Their Horns by Radhika Jha (Beautiful Books)
    • Feb 11, 2021 Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer (Pantheon)
    • Dec 25, 2020 Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian (Penguin Press, April 2021)
    • Oct 15, 2020 The Fire Sacrifice by Susham Bedi (Heinemann)
    • Jul 30, 2020 Original Letters from India by Eliza Fay (New York Review of Books)
    • Jul 19, 2020 Kingfishers Catch Fire by Rumer Godden (Viking, out of print)
    • Jul 16, 2020 Quest for Kim : In Search of Kipling's Great Game by Peter Hopkirk (John Murray)
    • Jun 29, 2020 One Last Look by Susanna Moore (Knopf)
    • Jun 4, 2020 Kim by Rudyard Kipling (Everyman's Library)
    • May 14, 2020 Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup (Penguin)
    • Mar 31, 2020 All the Way to the Tigers by Mary Morris (Doubleday, release date June 6, 2020)
    • Jan 16, 2020 Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language by Katherine Russell Rich (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
    • Dec 26, 2019 Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh (John Murray)
    • Aug 13, 2012 Mumbai Noir (Akashic Books)
    • Apr 10, 2010 Tigers in Red Weather: A Quest for the Last Wild Tigers by Ruth Padel (Walker)
    • Feb 13, 2010 An Indian Attachment by Sarah Lloyd (Eland Books)
    • Feb 23, 2009 Monsoon Diary: A Memoir with Recipes by Shoba Narayan (Random House)
    • Nov 29, 2008 The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (Atlantic Books)
    • Jan 16, 2008 Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra (HarperCollins)
  • Indonesia
    • Jan 6, 2009 The Year of Living Dangerously by Christopher J. Koch (Vintage)
    • Mar 20, 2008 The Girl from the Coast by Pramoedya Ananta Toer (Hyperion Books)
  • Iran
    • Mar 8, 2023 The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise by Pico Iyer (Riverhead Books)
  • Iraq
    • Feb 25, 2021 Mayada : Daughter of Iraq by Jean Sasson (Dutton)
  • Japan
    • May 19, 2025 Jungle Emperor Leo : Leo Edition by Osamu Tezuka (Jitsugyono Nihon-sha)
    • May 5, 2025 Mighty Atom : Best Selection by Osamu Tezuka (Jitsugyono Nihon-sha)
    • Apr 29, 2025 The Reason I Jump : One Boy's Voice from the Silence of Autism by Naoki Higashida, translated by KA Yoshida & David Mitchell (Scepter)
    • Apr 27, 2025 Ishibumi by Hiroshima Television Corporation, tranlated by Yasuko Claremont and Roman Rosenbaum (POPLAR Publishing)
    • Apr 3, 2025 Momoko's Illustrated Book of Living Things by Momoko Sakura, translated by James M. Vardaman, Jr. (Shueisha)
    • Mar 31, 2025 毎日は冒険 (Mainichi ga Boken) by 高橋歩 (Ayumu Takahashi) Japanese Text Only
    • Mar 30, 2025 World Class by Teru Clavel (Simon & Schuster)
    • Jan 30, 2025 Aflame by Pico Iyer (Riverhead Books)
    • Jan 29, 2025 First Love by Rio Shimamoto, translated by Louise Heal Kawai (Honford Star)
    • Jan 27, 2025 ももこの話 (Momoko's Story) by Momoko Sakura *Japanese Text Only (Shueisha)
    • Jan 27, 2025 Sunny by Colin O'Sullivan
    • Jan 11, 2025 Since Fukushima by Wago Ryoichi, translated by Jody Halebsky & Takahashi Ayako (Vagabond Press)
    • Dec 12, 2024 Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka, translated by Sam Melissa (Vintage)
    • Dec 11, 2024 My Humorous Japan Part 3 by Brian W. Powle (NHK Shuppan)
    • Nov 29, 2024 Cruising the Anime City : An Otaku's Guide to Neo Tokyo by Patrick Macias and Tomohiro Machiyama (Stone Bridge Press)
    • Nov 28, 2024 The Little House by Kyoko Nakajima, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori (Darf Publishers)
    • Nov 18, 2024 What you are looking for Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama, translated by Alison Watts (Penguin Books)
    • Nov 7, 2024 Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight by Riku Onda, translated by Alison Watts (Bitter Lemon Press)
    • Oct 28, 2024 Cannibals by Shinya Tanaka, translated by Kalau Almony (Honford Star)
    • Oct 28, 2024 Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks by Natsuko Imamura, translated by Lucy North (Faber & Faber)
    • Oct 3, 2024 A Perfect Day to Be Alone by Nanae Aoyama, translated by Jesse Kirkwood (MacLehose Press)
    • Oct 2, 2024 Mata Tabi (またたび) by Sakura Momoko (Shinchosha) Japanese text only
    • Sep 25, 2024 Mio The Beautiful by Kinota Braithwaite, translated by Setsuko Miura (Self-Published)
    • Sep 15, 2024 Houses with a Story by Seiji Yoshida, translated by Jan Mitsuko Cash (Amulet Books)
    • Sep 9, 2024 海峡の記憶:青函連絡船 (Kaikyo no Kioku : Seikan Rensakusen) by Asako Shirai (Kajisha) Japanese text only
    • Sep 2, 2024 The Mantis by Kotaro Isaka, translated by Sam Malissa (Vintage)
    • Sep 1, 2024 Kiki's Delivery Service (Volumes 1-4) by Hayao Miyazaki (Viz Media)
    • Aug 26, 2024 The Flowers of Buffoonery by Osamu Dazai, translated by Sam Bett (New Directions)
    • Jul 14, 2024 Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami, translated by Stephen Snyder (Kodansha)
    • Jul 4, 2024 Honeybees and Distant Thunder by Riku Onda, translated by Philip Gabriel (Doubleday)
    • Jun 29, 2024 Evergreen by Naomi Hirahara (Soho)
    • Jun 21, 2024 The Ainu and the Bear : The Gift of the Cycle of Life by Ryo Michico, illustrated by Kobayashi Toshiya, translated by Deborah Davidson and Owaki Noriyoshi (R.I.C. Publications)
    • May 23, 2024 Yokai Attack! The Japanese Monster Survival Guide by Hiroko Yoda and Matt Alt, illustrated by Tatsuya Morino (Kodansha)
    • May 22, 2024 Foreigners Who Loved Japan by Makoto Naito and Ken Naito (Kodansha)
    • May 15, 2024 Osamu Dazai's The Setting Sun : The Manga Edition by Osamu Dazai, translated by Makiko Itoh (Tuttle)
    • May 13, 2024 Getting Closer to Japan : Getting Along with the Japanese by Kate Elwood (ASK Co., Ltd.)
    • Apr 23, 2024 Arcade Mania! The Turbo-Charged World of Japan's Game Centers by Brian Ashcroft (Kodansha)
    • Apr 23, 2024 Japan : The Toothless Tiger by Declan Hayes (Tuttle)
    • Apr 11, 2024 Doraemon : Gadget Cat from the Future (Selection 6) by Fujiko F. Fujio (Shogakukan)
    • Mar 19, 2024 The Samurai and the Prisoner by Honobu Yonezawa, translated by Giuseppe di Martino (Yen On)
    • Mar 11, 2024 世界の路地裏100 (Sekai no Rojiura 100) by Nozomu Kato, pictures by P.I.E. Tsushinsha (PIE Books) Japanese text only
    • Feb 27, 2024 No Longer Human : Complete Edition by Usamaru Furuya (Kodansha)
    • Feb 6, 2024 Rental Person Who Does Nothing by Shoji Morimoto, translated by Don Knotting (Hanover Square Press)
    • Jan 30, 2024 The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai (G.P. Putnam's Sons, release date February 13, 2024)
    • Jan 22, 2024 The Boy and the Dog by Seishu Hase, translated by Alison Watts (Scribner)
    • Jan 20, 2024 Tezcatlipoca by Kiwamu Sato, translated by Stephen Paul (Yen On)
    • Jan 11, 2024 君たちはどう生きるか (Kimitachi wa Dou Ikiruka?) by Genzaburo Yoshino, manga by Shoichi Haga (Magazine House) Japanese text only
    • Dec 27, 2023 The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura, translated by Lucy North (Faber & Faber)
    • Dec 19, 2023 Finger Bone by Hiroki Takahashi, translated by Takami Nieda (Honford Star)
    • Dec 11, 2023 Idol, Burning by Rin Usami, translated by Asa Yoneda (Canongate)
    • Dec 5, 2023 If an Elephant Loses Weight, It is Still an Elephant by Aftab Seth (Keio University Press)
    • Dec 1, 2023 Funaosa Nikki : A Captain's Diary by Hirochika Ikeda, translated by Richard F. Szippl (Chunichi Publishing)
    • Oct 29, 2023 Romaji Diary and Sad Toys by Takuboku Ichikawa, translated by Sanford Goldstein and Seishi Shinoda (Tuttle)
    • Oct 23, 2023 The Girl with the White Flag by Tomiko Higa, translated by Dorothy Britton (Kodansha International)
    • Oct 14, 2023 The Dark Side : Infamous Japanese Crimes and Criminals by Mark Schreiber (Kodansha International)
    • Oct 10, 2023 Totto-chan's Children : A Goodwill Journey to the Children of the World by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, translated by Dorothy Britton (Kodansha International)
    • Oct 5, 2023 Kwaidan : Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn (ICG Muse)
    • Sep 7, 2023 Shutting Out the Sun : How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation by Michael Zielenziger (Vintage)
    • Aug 25, 2023 Monkey Brain Sushi : New Tastes in Japanese Fiction edited by Alfred Birbaum (Kodansha International)
    • Aug 2, 2023 The Beast Warrior by Nahoko Uehashi, translated by Cathy Hirano (Pushkin)
    • Jul 30, 2023 Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goosen (Knopf)
    • Jul 18, 2023 Salamander and Other Stories by Masuji Ibuse, translated by John Bester (Kodansha International)
    • Jun 27, 2023 Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki (Viz Media)
    • Jun 15, 2023 Points and Lines by Seicho Matsumoto, translated by Makiko Yamamoto and Paul C. Blum (Kodansha International)
    • Jun 8, 2023 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running : A Memoir by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel (Vintage)
    • May 4, 2023 The Beast Player by Nahoko Uehashi, translated by Cathy Hirano (Pushkin)
    • May 4, 2023 Nisei Daughter by Monica Sone (University of Washington Press)
    • Apr 27, 2023 Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura, translated by Phlip Gabriel (Penguin)
    • Apr 20, 2023 The Scent of Sake by Joyce Lebra (Avon)
    • Apr 17, 2023 Life Ceremony : Stories by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori (Granta)
    • Apr 13, 2023 Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa, translated by Eric Ozawa (Harper Perennial)
    • Mar 16, 2023 The Great Passage by Shion Miura, translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter (Amazon Crossing)
    • Mar 14, 2023 The Miracles of the Namiya General Store by Keigo Higashino, translated by Sam Bett (Yen One)
    • Mar 9, 2023 The Easy Life in Kamusari by Shion Miura, translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter (Amazon Crossing)
    • Feb 21, 2023 Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, translated by Geoffrey Trousselot (Picador)
    • Feb 8, 2023 その本は (Sonohonwa) by ヨシタケシンスケ (Shinsuke Yoshitaka) and 又吉直樹 (Naoki Matayoshi) (ポプラ社)
    • Feb 7, 2023 Not Yo' Butterfly by Nobuko Miyamoto (University of California Press)
    • Jan 29, 2023 The Thorn Puller by Hiromi Ito, translated by Jeffrey Angles (Stonebridge Press)
    • Jan 19, 2023 Journey Under the Midnight Sun by Keigo Higashino, translated by Alexander O. Smith (Abacus)
    • Jan 12, 2023 The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda, translated by Alison Watts (Bitter Lemon Press)
    • Jan 5, 2023 Kamusari Tales Told at Night by Shion Miura, translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter (Amazon Crossing)
    • Dec 29, 2022 Penance by Kanae Minato, translated by Philip Gabriel (Mulholland Books)
    • Dec 27, 2022 Ghosts of the Tsunami by Richard Lloyd (MacMillan)
    • Dec 22, 2022 Confessions by Kanae Minato, translated by Stephen Snyder (Mulholland Books)
    • Dec 6, 2022 The Silent Dead by Tetsuya Honda, translated by Giles Murray (Minotaur Books)
    • Dec 1, 2022 All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami, translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd (Picador)
    • Nov 17, 2022 Earthlings by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori (Granta)
    • Sep 29, 2022 All the Right Places : Traveling Light Through China, Japan, and Russia by Brad Newsham (Vintage)
    • Sep 29, 2022 The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa, translated by Louise Heal Kawai (HarperVia)
    • Sep 22, 2022 Kenji Miyazawa Picture Book Series by Kenji Miyazawa (International Foundation for the Promotion of Languages and Cultur
    • Aug 29, 2022 Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (Ballantine Books)
    • Aug 25, 2022 Three Paper Charms by Shosuke Kita and Seion Yamaguchi translated by M. Owaki and S. Ballard (Shinseken)
    • Aug 4, 2022 No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai translated by Donald Keene (Tuttle)
    • Jul 28, 2022 Heaven by Mieko Kawakami, translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd (Picador) Heaven by Mieko Kawakami, translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd (Picador)
    • Jul 21, 2022 69 Sixty-Nine by Ryu Murakami translated by Ralph M. McCarthy (Kodansha)
    • Jul 16, 2022 Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara (Soho Press)
    • Jul 14, 2022 The Japanese Lover by Rani Manicka (Hodder & Stoughton)
    • Jun 23, 2022 T is for Tokyo by Irene Akio (ThingsAsian Press)
    • Jun 5, 2022 Malice by Keigo Higashino, tranlated by Alexander O. Smith (Abacus)
    • May 26, 2022 The Inugami Clan by Seishi Yokomizo, translated by Yumiko Yamazaki (ICG Muse)
  • Kazakhstan
    • Jul 29, 2021 The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years by Chingiz Aitmatov (Indiana University Press)
  • Korea
    • Apr 8, 2025 The Hive and the Honey by Paul Yoon (Simon & Schuster)
    • Nov 30, 2024 Woman of Interest by Tracy O’Neill
    • Nov 18, 2024 Dallergut Dream Department Store by Miye Lee, translated by Sandy Joosun Lee (Wildfire)
    • Oct 28, 2024 Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum, translated by Shanna Tan (Bloomsbury)
    • Oct 5, 2024 We Do Not Part by Han Kang, translated by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris (Hogarth, Random House, release date 1/21/2025)
    • Sep 27, 2024 The Foreign Student by Susan Choi (HarperCollins)
    • Sep 25, 2024 Recitation by Bae Suah, translated by Deborah Smith (Deep Vellum)
    • Jul 18, 2024 Forgotten Country by Catherine Chung (Riverhead Books)
    • May 2, 2024 Ocean’s Godori by Elaine U. Cho (Hillman Grad Books)
    • Nov 19, 2023 The Liberators by E. J. Koh (Tin House)
    • Nov 9, 2023 Once the Shore by Paul Yoon (Sarabande Books)
    • Sep 1, 2022 Nuclear Blues by Bradley K. Martin (Great Leader Books)
    • Aug 18, 2022 The Curse of Kim's Daughters by Park Kyong-ni, translated by Choonwan Knag, Myung-hee Lee, Kay Ho Lee, and S. Keyron McDermott (Homa & Sekey Books)
    • May 30, 2022 Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin (Knopf)
    • Sep 2, 2021 Comfort Woman by Nora Okja Keller (Viking)
    • May 7, 2021 If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha (Ballantine Books)
    • Apr 23, 2021 Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (Knopf)
    • Feb 18, 2021 A Cab Called Reliable by Patti Kim (St. Martin's)
    • Jan 26, 2021 The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-eun, translated by Lizzie Buehler (Counterpoint)
    • Nov 30, 2020 Snow Hunters by Paul Yoon (Simon & Schuster)
    • Nov 17, 2020 The Magical Language of Others by E.J. Koh (Tin House Books)
    • Oct 25, 2020 Without You, There is No Us by Suki Kim (Broadway Books)
    • Aug 9, 2020 All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung (Catapult)
    • Apr 10, 2020 The Plotters by Un-Su Kim (4th Estate)
    • Feb 28, 2020 Three Tigers, One Mountain by Michael Booth (St. Martin's Press, April 2020)
    • Apr 7, 2018 The Good Son by You-Jeong Jeong (Penguin Books)
    • Jul 25, 2011 Kimchi & Calamari by Rose Kent (Harper)
  • Kurdistan
    • Dec 8, 2022 Triage by Scott Anderson (Pan Books)
  • Kyoto
    • Jan 30, 2024 The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai (G.P. Putnam's Sons, release date February 13, 2024)
    • Aug 27, 2007 Untangling My Chopsticks by Victoria Abbott Riccardi (Broadway Books/Random House)
  • Laos
    • Feb 11, 2024 Where Rivers Part by Kao Kalia Yang (Simon & Schuster)
    • Jun 14, 2021 The Delightful Life of an Expat Crime Writer: Fifteen Journeys with Colin Cotterill and Dr. Siri (Soho Press)
    • Feb 28, 2021 The Song Poet by Kao Kalia Yang (Henry Holt and Company)
    • Dec 8, 2020 Run Me to Earth by Paul Yoon (Simon & Schuster)
    • Nov 12, 2020 The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill (Soho Crime)
    • Jun 26, 2020 Eternal Harvest : The Legacy of American Bombs in Laos by Karen J. Coates (ThingsAsian Press)
    • Oct 21, 2008 In Laos and Siam by Marthe Bassene (White Lotus)
    • Mar 31, 2008 Ant Egg Soup by Natacha Du Pont De Bie (Sceptre Books)
  • Macau
    • Apr 14, 2024 Where Strange Gods Call: Harry Hervey's 1920s Hong Kong, Macau and Canton Sojourns (Blacksmith Books)
  • Malaysia
    • Sep 16, 2023 The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan (Simon & Schuster)
    • Aug 9, 2023 The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng (Bloomsbury Publishing)
    • Feb 27, 2023 The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit and Peril by Sarah Stodola (HarperCollins)
    • May 8, 2022 The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka (Sceptre)
    • Apr 29, 2021 The Consul's File by Paul Theroux (Washington Square Press)
    • Nov 5, 2020 The Crocodile Fury by Beth Yahp (Angus & Robertson)
    • Oct 23, 2019 Into the Heart of Borneo by Redmond O'Hanlon (Vintage Departures)
    • Jan 31, 2009 Evening Is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan (Houghton Mifflin)
    • Apr 30, 2008 The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng (Weinsten Books)
  • Middle East
    • Mar 12, 2024 The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson (Random House)
    • Sep 27, 2023 The Refugee Ocean by Pauls Toutonghi (Simon & Schuster, release date October 2023)
    • Jul 11, 2023 A Walk in the Darkness by Jon Land (Tor)
    • Jun 7, 2023 Spirit of the Phoenix : Beirut and the Story of Lebanon by Tim Llewellyn (I.B. Taurus)
    • Apr 6, 2023 Agent Storm : My Life Inside Al Qaeda by Mortem Storm (Penguin Viking)
    • Nov 3, 2022 On the Front Line : The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin by Marie Colvin (Harper)
    • Oct 29, 2022 Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell (Doubleday)
    • Oct 20, 2022 Wanting Mor by Rukhsana Khan (Groundwood Books)
  • Mongolia
    • Dec 29, 2019 Empire of Horses by John Man (Pegasus Books)
    • Nov 8, 2019 Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer (Catapult)
  • Myanmar
    • Oct 10, 2022 After the Last Border by Jessica Goudeau (Viking)
    • Jun 6, 2022 You’ve Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from Myanmar by Pyae Moe Thet War (Catapult)
    • Oct 7, 2021 Clash of Honour by Robert Mendelsohn (Prion)
    • Sep 3, 2020 Gold Leaf and Terra-Cotta : Burmese Crafts throughout History by Ma Thanegi (ThingsAsian Press)
    • Nov 26, 2017 Miss Burma by Charmaine Craig (Grove Atlantic)
    • Nov 23, 2017 Defiled on the Ayeyarwaddy by Ma Thanegi (ThingsAsian Press)
    • Nov 22, 2017 Burmese Light by Tom Vater and Hans Kemp (Visionary Press)
    • Sep 21, 2012 Burma: Rivers of Flavor by Naomi Duguid (Artisan Books)
    • May 16, 2009 To Myanmar With Love: A Travel Guide for the Connoisseur edited by Morgan Edwardson and photographs by Steve Goodman (ThingsAsian Press)
    • Nov 16, 2008 Myanmar Architecture: Cities of Gold by Ma Thanegi and photographs by Barry Broman (Marshall Cavendish)
    • Jul 29, 2007 The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday)
  • Nepal
    • Feb 13, 2025 Darkmotherland by Samrat Upadhyay (Soho Press)
    • Jan 30, 2023 Aama in America : A Pilgrimage of the Heart by Broughton Coburn (Anchor Books)
    • Oct 30, 2021 Ayo Gorkhali by Tim I. Gurung (Blacksmith Books)
    • Feb 22, 2009 Yak Butter Blues: A Tibetan Trek of Faith by Brandon Wilson (Pilgrim’s Tales)
  • Pakistan
    • Nov 20, 2023 Brick Lane by Monica Ali (Scribner)
    • Jan 9, 2023 We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib (Viking, Penguin Random House Canada)
    • Sep 9, 2022 Meatless Days by Sara Suleri (Penguin)
    • Mar 11, 2022 Soldiers of God : With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Robert D. Kaplan (Vintage)
    • Jan 13, 2022 The 13th House by Adam Zameenzad (Fourth Estate)
    • Dec 23, 2021 The Weary Generations by Abdullah Hussein (Peter Owen)
    • Feb 15, 2021 Homeland Elegies: A Novel by Ayad Akhtar (Little, Brown and Company)
    • Jan 28, 2021 I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai (Back Bay Books)
    • Oct 22, 2020 Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen and David Oliver Relin (Penguin)
    • Jan 16, 2020 The Dancing Girls of Lahore : Selling Love and Saving Dreams in Pakistan's Pleasure District by Louise Brown (Harper Perennial
    • Dec 12, 2019 In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin (Norton)
    • Dec 3, 2018 The Most Dangerous Place : Pakistan’s Lawless Border by Imtiaz Gul (Penguin Books)
  • Penang
    • Aug 9, 2023 The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng (Bloomsbury Publishing)
  • Philippines
    • Sep 7, 2022 The Betrayed by Reine Arcache Melvin (Europa Editions)
    • May 19, 2022 Tall Story by Candy Gourlay (David Fickling Books)
    • Aug 8, 2021 Malaya: Essays on Freedom by Cinelle Barnes (Little a)
    • Aug 20, 2020 Mindanao : From Samal to Surallah by Ronald de Jong (ThingsAsian Press)
    • Dec 23, 2017 Liberace's Filipino Cousin by David R. Brubaker (ThingsAsian Press)
  • Russia
    • Nov 15, 2024 The Border by Erika Fatland, translated by Kari Dickson (Pegasus Books)
  • SEA
    • Nov 8, 2024 Lost Cities of Asia by Wim Swaan (Elek London, out of print)
    • Jul 27, 2024 The Red Chapels of Banteai Srei by Sachaverell Sitwell (Weidenfeld and Nicolson)
    • May 19, 2024 Strange Foods: Bush Meat, Bats, and Butterflies by Jerry Hopkins, photographs by Michael Freeman (Tuttle)
    • Nov 22, 2023 Read Me a Story! : Magic Mango and Many Other Stories from Asia and the Pacific by Various authors (Asian Cultural Centre for UNESCO)
    • Sep 15, 2023 Two Blankets, Three Sheets by Rodaan Al Galidi (World Editions)
    • Feb 27, 2023 The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit and Peril by Sarah Stodola (HarperCollins)
    • Apr 22, 2021 Red-Light Nights, Bangkok Daze : Chronicles of Sexuality Across Asia by William Sparrow (Monsoon Books)
    • May 7, 2020 This Way More Better : Stories and Photos from Asia's Back Roads by Karen J. Coates (ThingsAsian Press)
    • Nov 22, 2017 Romancing the East by Jerry Hopkins (Tuttle)
    • Nov 22, 2017 The Man with a Golden Mind by Tom Vater (Crime Wave Press)
    • Aug 24, 2012 The Map of Lost Memories by Kim Fay (Ballantine Books)
    • Apr 10, 2010 Tigers in Red Weather: A Quest for the Last Wild Tigers by Ruth Padel (Walker)
    • Nov 1, 2009 Carpe Diem by Autumn Cornwell (Square Fish)
    • Dec 31, 2007 Hot Sour Salty Sweet by Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid (Artisan)
    • Sep 25, 2007 Asian Godfathers by Joe Studwell (Atlantic Monthly Press)
  • Shanghai
    • Dec 30, 2024 Masquerade by Mike Fu (Tin House)
    • Oct 28, 2021 Shanghai Baby by Wei Hui (Pocket Books)
    • Jul 1, 2019 The Shanghai Free Taxi by Frank Langfitt (Public Affairs)
    • Nov 22, 2017 Shanghai Grand by Taras Grescoe (St. Martin's Press)
  • Silk Road
    • Nov 22, 2022 Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road by Kate Harris (HarperCollins Publishers)
    • Apr 30, 2022 Walking to Samarkand: The Great Silk Road from Persia to Central Asia by Bernard Ollivier, translated by Dab Golembski (Skyhorse Publishing)
    • May 13, 2021 Xi’an Famous Foods by Jason Wang with Jessica K. Chou, photographs by Jenny Huang (Abrams Books)
  • Singapore
    • Jan 15, 2025 Sister Snake by Amanda Lee Koe (HarperCollins)
    • Jan 18, 2023 The Interpreter's Daughter by Teresa Lim (Pegasus Books)
    • Nov 15, 2022 The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng (Riverhead Books)
    • Oct 7, 2021 Clash of Honour by Robert Mendelsohn (Prion)
    • Nov 22, 2017 Singapore Noir edited by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan (Akashic Press)
  • Sri Lanka
    • Nov 8, 2024 Lost Cities of Asia by Wim Swaan (Elek London, out of print)
    • Sep 12, 2024 A Year of Last Things by Michael Ondaatje (Knopf)
    • Nov 3, 2022 On the Front Line : The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin by Marie Colvin (Harper)
    • Jul 25, 2021 Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala (Knopf)
    • Aug 14, 2009 Bringing Tony Home by Tissa Abeysekara (Scala House Press)
    • May 25, 2008 Mosquito by Roma Tearne (HarperCollinsAustralia)
    • Oct 30, 2007 Running In the Family by Michael Ondaatje (Vintage Books)
  • Syria
    • Jun 16, 2022 Nujeen : One Girl's Incredible Journey from War-Torn Syria in a Wheelchair by Nujeen Mustafa with Christina Lamb (Harper)
    • Aug 5, 2021 The Book of Saladin by Tariq Ali (Verso)
    • Mar 31, 2021 The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories that Carried Them Through a War by Delphine Minou (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • Taiwan
    • May 11, 2025 The Satisfaction Cafe by Kathy Wang (Simon & Schuster, release date July 2025)
    • Oct 14, 2024 Ordinary Disasters by Anne Anlin Cheng (Pantheon Books)
    • Apr 27, 2023 Activities of Daily Living by Lisa Hsiao Chen (W.W. Norton & Company)
    • Oct 18, 2022 Ghost Town by Kevin Chen, translated by Darryl Sterk (Europa Editions)
    • Apr 15, 2021 Stories of the Sahara by Sanmao, translated by Mike Fu (Bloomsbury Publishing)
    • Feb 20, 2020 The Foreigner by Francie Lin (Picador)
    • Jul 16, 2019 The Unpassing by Chia-Chia Lin (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
    • Apr 21, 2018 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin (Little Brown)
    • Jan 22, 2018 Taiwan Tattoo by Brian M. Day (ThingsAsian Press)
  • Thailand
    • Feb 7, 2025 Thai Food by David Thompson, photography by Earl Carter (Ten Speed Press)
    • Aug 7, 2024 Bangkok Babylon by Jerry Hopkins (Tuttle Publishing)
    • Jul 27, 2024 The Red Chapels of Banteai Srei by Sachaverell Sitwell (Weidenfeld and Nicolson)
    • May 19, 2024 Strange Foods: Bush Meat, Bats, and Butterflies by Jerry Hopkins, photographs by Michael Freeman (Tuttle)
    • Apr 8, 2024 The Dragon's Pearl by Sirin Phathanothai (Simon & Schuster)
    • Jun 22, 2023 Bangkok Shophouses by Louis Sketcher
    • Jun 15, 2023 Real Thai Cooking by Chawadee Nualkhair, photographs by Lauren Lulu Taylor (Tuttle Publishing)
    • May 29, 2023 The Glass Kingdom by Lawrence Osborne (Hogarth)
    • May 11, 2023 Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon (HarperCollins)
    • Mar 14, 2023 Welcome Me to the Kingdom by Mai Nardone (Random House)
    • Feb 27, 2023 The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit and Peril by Sarah Stodola (HarperCollins)
    • May 9, 2022 Memories of the Memories of the Black Rose Cat by Veeraporn Nittiprapha, translated by Kong Rithdee (River Books)
    • Apr 25, 2022 Another Bangkok: Reflections on the City by Alex Kerr (Penguin Random House UK)
    • Oct 7, 2021 Clash of Honour by Robert Mendelsohn (Prion)
    • Sep 19, 2021 Comrade Aeon’s Field Guide to Bangkok by Emma Larkin (Granta Books)
    • Sep 8, 2021 Flavors of Empire: Food and the Making of Thai America by Mark Padoongpatt (University of California Press)
    • Mar 18, 2021 The Stone Council by Jean-Christophe Grange (Vintage)
    • Mar 15, 2021 Vanishing Bangkok: The Changing Face of the City by Ben Davies (River Books)
    • Feb 28, 2021 The Song Poet by Kao Kalia Yang (Henry Holt and Company)
    • Jan 21, 2021 Phra Farang : An English Monk in Thailand by Phra Peter Pannapadipo (Arrow Books)
    • Oct 8, 2020 Almost Home : The Asian Search of a Geographic Trollop by Janet Brown (ThingsAsian Press)
    • Sep 15, 2020 What Could Be Saved by Liese O'Halloran Schwarz (Simon & Schuster, forthcoming, January 2021)
    • Sep 10, 2020 Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
    • Aug 24, 2020 Siam: or The Woman Who Shot a Man by Lily Tuck (Overlook Press)
    • Jul 23, 2020 Tone Deaf in Bangkok and Other Places by Janet Brown (ThingsAsian Press)
    • Jul 9, 2020 A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat (Candlewick Press)
    • Jun 10, 2020 Leaving Thailand: A Memoir by Steve Rosse
    • May 17, 2019 Tour Bangkok Legacies by Eric Lim (available at Amazon in paperback and on Kindle)
    • May 9, 2019 The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth by Veeraporn Nitiprapha (River Books)
    • Nov 22, 2017 Thailand's Best Street Food by Chawadee Nualkhair (Tuttle)
    • Nov 22, 2017 Bangkok's Top Fifty Street Food Stalls by Chawadee Nualkhair (Wordplay)
    • Nov 22, 2017 Mindfulness and Murder by Nick Wilgus (Crime Wave Press)
    • Nov 22, 2017 Bizarre Thailand by Jim Algie (Marshall Cavendish)
    • Sep 9, 2017 On the Night Joey Ramone Died by Jim Algie
    • Sep 21, 2012 Opium Fiend by Steven Martin (Villard Books)
    • Oct 21, 2008 In Laos and Siam by Marthe Bassene (White Lotus)
    • Sep 28, 2008 Dream of a Thousand Lives by Karen Connelly (Seal Press)
    • Jan 30, 2008 Bangkok Blondes by The Bangkok Women's Writers Group (Bangkok Book House)
    • Dec 31, 2007 Hot Sour Salty Sweet by Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid (Artisan)
  • Tokyo
    • Jul 14, 2024 Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami, translated by Stephen Snyder (Kodansha)
    • Apr 13, 2023 Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa, translated by Eric Ozawa (Harper Perennial)
    • Mar 21, 2022 Tokyo on Foot : Travels in the City's Most Colorful Neighborhoods by Florent Chavouet (Tuttle)
    • Jan 20, 2022 Shopping by Gavin Kramer (Fourth Estate)
    • Dec 2, 2021 My Falling Down House by Jayne Joso (Seren Books)
    • Sep 14, 2021 A Tokyo Romance by Ian Buruma (Penguin Press)
    • Aug 19, 2021 Mistress Oriku : Stories from a Tokyo Teahouse by Matsutaro Kawaguchi (Tuttle)
    • May 27, 2021 Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri {Riverhead Books)
    • May 21, 2020 Getting Genki in Japan : The Adventures and Misadventures of an American Family in Tokyo by Karen Pond (Tuttle)
    • Jul 29, 2019 Tabloid Tokyo : 101 Tales of Sex, Crime and the Bizarre from Japan's Wild Weeklies compiled by Mark Schreiber (Kodansha International)
    • Feb 23, 2018 Pretty Good Number One : An American Family Eats Tokyo by Matthew Amster-Burton (Viaduct Music)
    • Jul 11, 2010 The Earthquake Bird by Susanna Jones (Picador)
    • Apr 24, 2010 マイ・アイズ・トウキョウ [My Eyes Tokyo] by 徳橋 功 (Isao Tokuhashi) 「幻冬舎 ルネッサンス」 (Gentosha Renaissance)
    • Jan 26, 2010 Tokyo Vice : An American Reporter On The Police Beat In Japan by Jake Adelstein (Pantheon Books)
    • Jul 4, 2009 Tokyo: City on the Edge by Todd Crowell and Stephanie Forman Morimura (Asia2000)
    • Nov 11, 2007 Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace (Knopf)
  • Vietnam
    • Jul 15, 2023 Banyan Moon by Thao Thai (Mariner Books, HarperCollins)
    • May 18, 2023 Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin (Henry Holt and Company)
    • May 14, 2023 Fragrant Heart : A Tale of Love, Life and Food in Asia by Miranda Emmerson (Summersdale)
    • Mar 23, 2023 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (Penguin Books)
    • Feb 27, 2023 The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit and Peril by Sarah Stodola (HarperCollins)
    • Dec 14, 2022 Such a Lovely Little War: Saigon 1961-63 by Marcelino Truong, translated by David Homel (Arsenal Pulp)
    • Nov 24, 2022 The Dragon Hunt : Five Stories by Tran Vu, translated by Nina McPherson and Phan Huy Duong (Hyperion]
    • Nov 8, 2022 Daughters of the New Year by E. M. Tran (Hanover Square Press)
    • Jul 31, 2022 Secrets from My Vietnamese Kitchen: Simple Recipes from My Many Mothers by Kim Thuy (Penguin Random House Canada)
    • Jul 19, 2022 Em by Kim Thuy, translated by Sheila Fischman (Seven Stories Press)
    • Mar 3, 2022 The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli (Harper)
    • Jan 28, 2022 Monsoon by Di Morrissey (Macmillan)
    • Nov 25, 2021 Behind the Fire by Steven D. Salinger (Warner)
    • Aug 30, 2021 Catfish and Mandala by Andrew X. Pham (Picador)
    • Aug 24, 2021 Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith (Random House)
    • May 31, 2021 Things We Lost to the Water by Eric Nguyen (Knopf)
    • Mar 23, 2021 You Don't Belong Here by Elizabeth Becker (PublicAffairs)
    • Sep 30, 2020 Of Monkey Bridges and Banh Mi Sandwiches by Oanh Ngo Usadi (O&O Press)
    • Sep 24, 2020 Family in Six Tones by Lan Cao and Harlan Margaret Van Cao (Penguin Random House)
    • Jun 22, 2020 A Dangerous Friend by Ward Just (Houghton Mifflin)
    • May 29, 2020 From a Chinese City by Gontran de Poncins (Trackless Sands Press)
    • Dec 10, 2019 The Mindful Moment by Tim Page (Thames & Hudson)
    • Oct 3, 2019 A War Away by Tess Johnston (Earnshaw Books)
    • Jun 2, 2019 On the Other Side: 23 Days with the Viet Cong by Kate Webb (out of print)
    • May 20, 2010 Communion: A Culinary Journey Through Vietnam by Kim Fay (ThingsAsian Press)
    • Feb 16, 2009 Highways to a War by Christopher J. Koch (Minerva)
    • Oct 30, 2008 The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh (Riverhead Books)
    • Sep 10, 2008 To Vietnam With Love: A Travel Guide for the Connoisseur edited and with contributions by Kim Fay (ThingsAsian Press)
    • Jun 30, 2008 The House on Dream Street by Dana Sachs (Seal Press)
    • Oct 11, 2007 The Father of All Things by Tom Bissell (Pantheon)
    • Jul 8, 2007 Ho Chi Minh: A Biography by Pierre Brocheux/translated by Claire Duiker (Cambridge)
  • Xinjiang
    • Aug 31, 2024 Waiting to be Arrested at Night by Tahir Hamut Izgil, translated by Joshua L. Freeman (Penguin Press)
  • Yemen
    • Nov 22, 2021 The Woman Who Fell from the Sky by Jennifer Steihl (Broadway Paperbacks)

 

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