Books Set in Asia
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Afghanistan
Hosseini, Khaled
- A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khadra, Yasmina
- The Swallows of Kabul
Cambodia
China
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
India
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
Indonesia
Gelman, Rita Golden
- Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World
Kurniawan, Eka
- Man Tiger
Zuckoff, Mitchell
- Lost in Shangri-La
Japan
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
Laos
Cotterill, Colin
- The Coroner's Lunch
Malaysia
Samarasan, Preeta
- Evening is the Whole Day
Mongolia
Myanmar (Burma)
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
North Korea
Pakistan
Hamid, Mohsin
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Yousafzai, Malala
- I Am Malala
Philippines
Batacan, F.H.
- Smaller and Smaller Circles
Russia
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
Singapore
Kwan, Kevin
- Crazy Rich Asians
South Korea
Cha, Frances
- If I Had Your Face
Kang, Han
- The Vegetarian
Sri Lanka
Arudpragasam, Anuk
- The Story of a Brief Marriage
Vietnam
Thúy, Kim
- Ru
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