Asia

Books that are set in Asia. Some popular settings for Asian books are China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Japan, Phillipines, Vietnam, Iran, and Thailand

The Girl with a Thousand Faces
Behind Five Willows
The Last Mandarin
The Rainshadow Orphans (Rainshadow, #1)
The Young Will Remember
The Outer Country
Japanese Gothic
I Could Give You the Moon
Boring Asian Female
Honey in the Wound
Deathly Fates
Burn the Sea
Livonia Chow Mein
Tailbone
Questions 27 & 28
Strange Houses (Strange Houses, #1)
Strange Pictures
Crying in H Mart
The Last Mandarin
Strange Buildings (Strange Houses, #2)
The Poet Empress
The Covenant of Water
Mother Mary Comes to Me
Lady Tan's Circle of Women
A Guardian and a Thief
We'll Prescribe You a Cat (We'll Prescribe You a Cat, #1)
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Daughters of the Sun and Moon
Flashlight
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The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryThe White Queen by Philippa GregoryThe Constant Princess by Philippa GregoryThe Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa GregoryNefertiti by Michelle    Moran
Royal Fiction
550 books — 246 voters
The Quiet American by Graham GreeneThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienFirst They Killed My Father by Loung UngMatterhorn by Karl MarlantesDispatches by Michael Herr
Cambodia and Vietnam
220 books — 164 voters

The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienThe Sorrow of War by Bảo NinhThe Full Circle for Mick by Michael G. KramerHuế  1968 by Mark BowdenWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. Moore
Plight of a Nation
1,139 books — 454 voters

Pachinko
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Vegetarian
Convenience Store Woman
Norwegian Wood
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians, #1)
The Kite Runner
The Joy Luck Club
82년생 김지영
Kafka on the Shore
The God of Small Things
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)

The systemic suppression of non-European culture and history in education may not seem important, but it is a part of the same ethos which permits the everyday culture of ethnic minority life to be totally ignored in schools.
Jaspreet Kaur, Brown Girl Like Me

. In 1289 Kublai Khan sent ambassadors to Java, demanding tribute and submission to the Yuan dynasty. Kertanegara arrested the envoys, branded their faces, cut off their ears and sent them back to China. As will be revealed later, what happened next had profound consequences for the Majapahit empire. ” “. In 1289 Kublai Khan sent ambassadors to Java, demanding tribute and submission to the Yuan dynasty. Kertanegara arrested the envoys, branded their faces, cut off their ears and sent them back t ...more
Herald van der Linde, Majapahit: Intrigue, Betrayal and War in Indonesia's Greatest Empire

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