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The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe)
by (shelved 152 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,632 ratings — published 1990
Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,729 ratings — published 2014
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.16 — 52,924 ratings — published 2015
Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,337 ratings — published 2013
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 71 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.07 — 88,423 ratings — published 2004
Jamilia (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,344 ratings — published 1958
Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,393 ratings — published 2008
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 — 1,611 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 — 489 ratings — published
The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,047 ratings — published 1980
The Lost Heart of Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,678 ratings — published 1994
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,628,042 ratings — published 2003
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 3.57 — 862 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 — 371 ratings — published 1939
Shadow of the Silk Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,569 ratings — published 2007
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,931 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 — 1,103 ratings — published 1984
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 — 357 ratings — published 2009
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,832,405 ratings — published 2007
The Silk Road: A New History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.77 — 903 ratings — published 2012
Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.79 — 407 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 — 923 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 — 19,784 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 — 4,933 ratings — published 2010
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 — 359,673 ratings — published 2006
Central Asia in World History (New Oxford World History)
by (shelved 30 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.65 — 240 ratings — published 2010
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.36 — 5,297 ratings — published 2013
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 — 2,661 ratings — published 2007
Samarkand (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.24 — 33,256 ratings — published 1988
Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.75 — 560 ratings — published 2002
The Road to Oxiana (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,501 ratings — published 1937
The Silent Steppe: The Memoir of a Kazakh Nomad Under Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.08 — 223 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 3.88 — 729 ratings — published 1999
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 — 732 ratings — published 2003
The Devils' Dance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.97 — 337 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 — 1,008 ratings — published 2004
The Places in Between (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.99 — 21,820 ratings — published 2004
The Bookseller of Kabul (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.78 — 58,736 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 — 4,228 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 — 806 ratings — published 1994
The Railway (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.23 — 276 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 — 268 ratings — published 2013
China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.15 — 260 ratings — published 2005
Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.01 — 143 ratings — published 2006
The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,223 ratings — published 2021
Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.34 — 70 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 — 1,379 ratings — published 1982
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.95 — 7,312 ratings — published 1958
The Dead Lake (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,105 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
