Southeast Asia


First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
The Quiet American
The Garden of Evening Mists
In the Shadow of the Banyan
The Gift of Rain
Burmese Days
The Mountains Sing
The Glass Palace
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma
The Things They Carried
Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians, #1)
Bumi Manusia (Tetralogi Buru, #1)
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
Tenggelamnya Kapal Van Der Wijck by HamkaThe Merchant of Stories by Dipa SanataniBefriending China by Dee KnightFloating on a Malayan Breeze by Sudhir Thomas VadakethThis Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Best Southeast Asia Nonfiction
160 books — 75 voters

The Steampowered Globe by Rosemary LimThe Windup Girl by Paolo BacigalupiThe Ayam Curtain by J.Y.  YangAlexander's Infinity by Lidija StankovikjThe Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho
Speculative Fiction of Southeast Asia
91 books — 40 voters
Until Our Voices Meet by Biswatosh SinhaA Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder by Shamini FlintKrakatoa by Simon WinchesterThe Naga's Journey by Tew BunnagDeath of an Oil Rig by Arthur Catherall
Books set in Southeast Asia
53 books — 17 voters

เบื้องหลังสัญญาเบาริ่งและประวัติภาคพิสดารของ Sir John Bowring by ไกรฤกษ์ นานาการเมืองไทยสมัยพระเจ้ากรุงธนบุรี by นิธิ เอียวศรีวงศ์รุกตะวันออก  by สุเจน กรรพฤทธิ์ขุนนางอยุธยา by มานพ ถาวรวัฒน์สกุลการเปลี่ยนแปลงโลกทัศน์ของชนชั้นผู้นำไทยตั้งแต่รัชกาลที่ 4 ถึง... by อรรถจักร์ สัตยานุรักษ์
Thailand History Books
14 books — 1 voter
Thai Food by David ThompsonMaangchi's Real Korean Cooking by MaangchiLand of Plenty by Fuchsia DunlopJapanese Cooking by Shizuo TsujiThai Street Food by David Thompson
Best Asian Cookbooks
174 books — 32 voters

Michael G. Kramer
This stated, “Dear Mr. Prime Minister, I am delighted by the decision of your government to provide an infantry battalion for service in South Vietnam at the request of the Government of South Vietnam” The simple fact about this was that no such request was ever received by the Australian Government.
Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

Michael G. Kramer
The adrenaline rush subsides as it becomes harder to catch your breath. You become light headed, then dizzy and confused as the air runs out. Reason and sense evaporate as the darkness claims you. That is how it felt to be a Tunnel Rat.
Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

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