Books Set in Asia

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Hosseini, Khaled
- A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khadra, Yasmina
- The Swallows of Kabul

Ung, Loung
- First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

Gilman, Susan Jane
- Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven: A Memoir

Hongci, Xu
- No Wall Too High: One Man’s Daring Escape from Mao’s Darkest Prison

Min, Anchee
- Empress Orchid

Park, Yeonmi
- In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom

Xiaolong, Qiu
- Death of a Red Heroine

Adiga, Avarind
- The White Tiger

Basu, Diksha
- The Windfall

Boo, Katherine
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

James, Tania
- The Tusk That Did the Damage

Mahajan, Karan
- The Association of Small Bombs

Theroux, Paul
- The Elephanta Suite

Umrigar, Thrity
- The Space Between Us

Gelman, Rita Golden
- Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World

Kurniawan, Eka
- Man Tiger

Zuckoff, Mitchell
- Lost in Shangri-La

Hersey, John
- Hiroshima

Kawabata, Yasunari
- Snow Country

Mockett, Marie Mutsuki
- Picking Bones from Ash

Murakami, Haruki
- Norwegian Wood

Obata, Fumio
- Just So Happens

Steinbach, Alice
- Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman

Yoshimoto, Banana
- The Lake

Cotterill, Colin
- The Coroner's Lunch

Samarasan, Preeta
- Evening is the Whole Day

Williams, Paige
- The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy

Croke, Vicki Constantine
- Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II

Larkin, Emma
- Finding George Orwell in Burma

Demick, Barbara
- Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Kim, Suki
- Without You There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite

Park, Yeonmi
- In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom

Hamid, Mohsin
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Yousafzai, Malala
- I Am Malala

Batacan, F.H.
- Smaller and Smaller Circles

Alexander, Robert
- The Kitchen Boy

Bronsky, Alina
- The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine

Eichar, Donnie
- Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

Towles, Amor
- A Gentleman in Moscow

Kwan, Kevin
- Crazy Rich Asians

Cha, Frances
- If I Had Your Face

Kang, Han
- The Vegetarian

Arudpragasam, Anuk
- The Story of a Brief Marriage

Thúy, Kim
- Ru

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