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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 140 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,094 ratings — published 1990
Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.28 — 8,388 ratings — published 2014
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.17 — 48,404 ratings — published 2015
Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,253 ratings — published 2013
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 67 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.06 — 83,536 ratings — published 2004
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 — 1,562 ratings — published 1980
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,479,248 ratings — published 2003
Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,341 ratings — published 2008
The Lost Heart of Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,605 ratings — published 1994
Jamilia (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.90 — 10,165 ratings — published 1958
Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.59 — 811 ratings — published 2009
Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.26 — 389 ratings — published
The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.33 — 8,286 ratings — published 1980
Shadow of the Silk Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,438 ratings — published 2007
The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.11 — 355 ratings — published 1939
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,800 ratings — published 2000
Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,091 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 — 352 ratings — published 2009
The Silk Road: A New History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.77 — 862 ratings — published 2012
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,727,359 ratings — published 2007
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 4.31 — 18,798 ratings — published 2004
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.35 — 5,034 ratings — published 2013
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,695 ratings — published 2010
A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.07 — 829 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 — 2,644 ratings — published 2007
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.66 — 358,630 ratings — published 2006
Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.78 — 369 ratings — published 2019
Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.72 — 278 ratings — published 2017
The Road to Oxiana (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,386 ratings — published 1937
Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.74 — 549 ratings — published 2002
Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game & the Race for Empire in Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.87 — 711 ratings — published 1999
Samarkand (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.24 — 31,524 ratings — published 1988
Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.86 — 721 ratings — published 2003
Central Asia in World History (New Oxford World History)
by (shelved 27 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.67 — 227 ratings — published 2010
The Bookseller of Kabul (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.77 — 56,881 ratings — published 2002
The Places in Between (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.99 — 20,694 ratings — published 2004
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 3.99 — 3,936 ratings — published 2007
Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.89 — 956 ratings — published 2004
The Silent Steppe: The Memoir of a Kazakh Nomad Under Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.03 — 227 ratings — published 2006
Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.26 — 818 ratings — published 1994
The Devils' Dance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.98 — 305 ratings — published 2012
The Railway (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.23 — 243 ratings — published 2006
Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.00 — 134 ratings — published 2006
China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.17 — 248 ratings — published 2005
Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet (Kodansha Globe)
by (shelved 21 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,358 ratings — published 1982
Restless Valley: Revolution, Murder, and Intrigue in the Heart of Central Asia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.11 — 256 ratings — published 2013
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.95 — 7,013 ratings — published
The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,105 ratings — published 2021
The Dead Lake (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,001 ratings — published 2014
On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,009 ratings — published 2013
“Even under Stalin, Soviet state power, acting through law and the courts, confronted serious limits in its efforts to govern, much less transform, its colonial Central Asian periphery.”
― Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia
― Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia
“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
