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The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe)
by (shelved 151 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,538 ratings — published 1990
Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,470 ratings — published 2014
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.16 — 52,134 ratings — published 2015
Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,323 ratings — published 2013
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 72 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.06 — 87,603 ratings — published 2004
Jamilia (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,136 ratings — published 1958
Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,381 ratings — published 2008
The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.33 — 8,906 ratings — published 1980
Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.28 — 468 ratings — published
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,592 ratings — published 1980
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,605,543 ratings — published 2003
The Lost Heart of Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,666 ratings — published 1994
Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.58 — 850 ratings — published 2009
The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.10 — 370 ratings — published 1939
Shadow of the Silk Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,543 ratings — published 2007
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,907 ratings — published 2000
Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,091 ratings — published 1984
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,815,013 ratings — published 2007
Inside Central Asia: A political and cultural history of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.63 — 356 ratings — published 2009
The Silk Road: A New History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.77 — 896 ratings — published 2012
Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.79 — 404 ratings — published 2019
A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.08 — 902 ratings — published 2010
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.32 — 19,616 ratings — published 2004
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,898 ratings — published 2010
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.35 — 5,261 ratings — published 2013
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.66 — 359,440 ratings — published 2006
Central Asia in World History (New Oxford World History)
by (shelved 30 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.66 — 238 ratings — published 2010
Descent into Chaos: The United States & the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan & Central Asia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,656 ratings — published 2007
Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.75 — 557 ratings — published 2002
The Road to Oxiana (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,487 ratings — published 1937
The Silent Steppe: The Memoir of a Kazakh Nomad Under Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.09 — 216 ratings — published 2006
Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game & the Race for Empire in Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.87 — 723 ratings — published 1999
Samarkand (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.24 — 32,907 ratings — published 1988
Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia (Vintage Departures)
by (shelved 29 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.86 — 730 ratings — published 2003
The Devils' Dance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.98 — 330 ratings — published 2012
Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.71 — 292 ratings — published 2017
Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,000 ratings — published 2004
The Places in Between (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.99 — 21,566 ratings — published 2004
The Bookseller of Kabul (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.77 — 58,411 ratings — published 2002
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,175 ratings — published 2007
Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.28 — 799 ratings — published 1994
The Railway (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.22 — 267 ratings — published 2006
Restless Valley: Revolution, Murder, and Intrigue in the Heart of Central Asia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.10 — 263 ratings — published 2013
China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.14 — 257 ratings — published 2005
Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.00 — 141 ratings — published 2006
Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.33 — 69 ratings — published 2015
Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet (Kodansha Globe)
by (shelved 21 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,370 ratings — published 1982
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.95 — 7,230 ratings — published 1958
The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,194 ratings — published 2021
The Dead Lake (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,091 ratings — published 2014
“According to a medival Turkic saying, "a Turk is never without a Persian [Tat, a sedentary Iranian], just as a cap is never without a head." The relationship was mutually beneficial.”
― Central Asia in World History
― Central Asia in World History
“Still other rumors held that the ultimate aim of Bolshevik policy, seen in the combination of unveiling and collectivization, was to have all women held in common. In the kolkhoz, peasants ware warned, men and women slept together under giant blanket, and wives became common property.”
― Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia
― Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia
