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Last week it was African books, but there are many good books from Asia. I did not list all that I have read and there are many good ones for you all to share. Many of my books did not make the goodreads list, but the list has lots of interesting titles to consider.
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The list:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1144.Best_Books_on_Asia
My list:
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The Joy Luck Club
by
Amy Tan
Norwegian Wood
by
Haruki Murakami
From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet, Two Lives (bio)
and
A Suitable Boy
by
Vikram Seth
Kingfishers Catch Fire by Rumer Godden
The Gobi Desert by Mildred Cable and Francesca French
Silk Road: Xi'an to Kashgar by Judy Bonavia
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
by
Dai Sijie
Hiroshima
by
John Hersey
The Coroner's Lunch (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #1) and sequels
by
Colin Cotterill
The Namesake and Interpreter of Maladies
by
Jhumpa Lahiri
Jade Dragon Mountain
The White Mirror
City of Ink
by Elsa Hart
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Under Heaven
My review at Bookflurries
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/5/12/20918/6475
and River of Stars (Song dynasty) by Guy Gavriel Kay
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Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye
The Gift of Rain
by
Tan Twan Eng
Anna and the King of Siam
by
Margaret Landon
Ginger Tree
by
Oswald Wynd
Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
and Street of a Thousand Blossoms
Selected Poems of Li Po trans by David Hinton
Shabanu: Daughter Of The Wind and Haveli
by
Suzanne Fisher Staples
Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
Small Woman… Gladys Aylward
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_Aylward
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Sunflower Splendor...Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry by Wu-Chi Liu, Irving Y. Lo (Editors)
The Man Who Would Be King : The First American in Afghanistan by Ben Macintyre
Dream of the Walled City by Lisa Huang Fleischmann
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
by
Chanrithy Him
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori, #1) and sequels
by
Lian Hearn
A Corpse in the Koryo (Inspector O) by James Church and sequels
Cat from Hue by John Laurence
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
In the Sea there are Crocodiles: Based on the True Story of Enaiatollah Akbari…Fabio Geda (Afghanistan)
Lake with No Name: A True Story of Love and Conflict in Modern China…Diane Wei Liang (Dong Yi) Tiananmen Square
Sewing Circles of Herat by Christina Lamb (Afghanistan)
A Tiger for Malgudi and The Man Eater of Malgudi and
Malgudi Days by R. K. Narayan
The Hospital at the End of the World by Joe Niemczura (DKos guavaboy)
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