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Central Asia Books
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The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe)
by (shelved 148 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,321 ratings — published 1990
Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.28 — 8,921 ratings — published 2014
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.16 — 50,617 ratings — published 2015
Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,291 ratings — published 2013
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.07 — 85,993 ratings — published 2004
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,571 ratings — published 1980
Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,364 ratings — published 2008
Jamilia (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.90 — 10,710 ratings — published 1958
Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.27 — 433 ratings — published
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,553,513 ratings — published 2003
The Lost Heart of Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,649 ratings — published 1994
The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.33 — 8,655 ratings — published 1980
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 3.59 — 825 ratings — published 2009
Shadow of the Silk Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,504 ratings — published 2007
The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.11 — 364 ratings — published 1939
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,864 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 4.22 — 1,063 ratings — published 1984
Inside Central Asia: A political and cultural history of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 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 — 877 ratings — published 2012
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,777,386 ratings — published 2007
Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.79 — 382 ratings — published 2019
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.32 — 19,334 ratings — published 2004
A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.08 — 877 ratings — published 2010
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 — 4,810 ratings — published 2010
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.35 — 5,182 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 — 359,155 ratings — published 2006
Central Asia in World History (New Oxford World History)
by (shelved 30 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.66 — 234 ratings — published 2010
The Road to Oxiana (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,444 ratings — published 1937
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 — 2,645 ratings — published 2007
Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.75 — 552 ratings — published 2002
Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.72 — 288 ratings — published 2017
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 — 719 ratings — published 1999
Samarkand (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.24 — 32,294 ratings — published 1988
The Silent Steppe: The Memoir of a Kazakh Nomad Under Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.09 — 210 ratings — published 2006
Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia (Vintage Departures)
by (shelved 28 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.86 — 724 ratings — published 2003
Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.89 — 981 ratings — published 2004
The Places in Between (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.99 — 21,215 ratings — published 2004
The Bookseller of Kabul (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.77 — 57,804 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 — 4,072 ratings — published 2007
The Devils' Dance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.98 — 314 ratings — published 2012
Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.27 — 782 ratings — published 1994
The Railway (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.21 — 257 ratings — published 2006
China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.15 — 255 ratings — published 2005
Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.00 — 137 ratings — published 2006
Restless Valley: Revolution, Murder, and Intrigue in the Heart of Central Asia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.11 — 259 ratings — published 2013
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 — 1,354 ratings — published 1982
Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.33 — 66 ratings — published 2015
The Dead Lake (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,049 ratings — published 2014
Life Along the Silk Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.71 — 515 ratings — published 1999
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.95 — 7,142 ratings — published 1958
“They say it is possible to see stars from the bottom of a well when the sun is shining.”
― The Road to Oxiana
― The Road to Oxiana
“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
