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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir

265 members

7 reviews

4

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by Nikita Lalwani

55 members

4.1

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3

Yokainoshima: Island of Monsters

by Charles Fréger

30 members

1 review

½ 4.7

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4

by Megha Majumdar

1,226 members

65 reviews

3.9

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5

A Matter of Honour: An Account of the Indian Army, Its Officers and Men

by Philip Mason

62 members

3.8

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by Aravind Adiga

274 members

19 reviews

3.1

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Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India

by Sujatha Gidla

198 members

7 reviews

3.2

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A People's History of Heaven

by Mathangi Subramanian

141 members

6 reviews

3.9

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by Rick Stanton

26 members

1 review

½ 4.4

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10

A Room Where The Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard: A Novel in Three Parts

21 members

1 review

2.8

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11

Ask a North Korean: Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the World's Most Secretive Nation

by Daniel Tudor

43 members

1 review

3.9

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12

A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World

by Erika Rappaport

63 members

½ 2.5

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13

At the End of the Century: The stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

44 members

3.8

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14

Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

257 members

7 reviews

3.9

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15

Blue-Skinned Gods

156 members

4 reviews

3.9

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160 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

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by Kamila Shamsie

949 members

80 reviews

4

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18

Bury What We Cannot Take

by Kirstin Chen

92 members

3 reviews

½ 3.4

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19

Castaway Mountain: Love and Loss Among the Wastepickers of Mumbai

26 members

1 review

5

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148 members

4 reviews

3.9

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21

Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back

by Janice P. Nimura

243 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

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22

Curry and Rice on Forty Plates. Or the Ingredients of Social Life at "Our Station" in India

by George Francklin Atkinson

12 members

3

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23

Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor

96 members

7 reviews

3.8

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Man-Eaters of Kumaon

589 members

18 reviews

4.1

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25

River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze

by Peter Hessler

1,678 members

52 reviews

4.2

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26

She Who Became the Sun

by Shelley Parker-Chan

2,065 members

57 reviews

4

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27

Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir

by Elizabeth Miki Brina

108 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

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28

The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta

by Kushanava Choudhury

66 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

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29

The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays

121 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

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30

White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India

by William Dalrymple

1,322 members

16 reviews

3.9

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31

Woman Running in the Mountains

by Yūko Tsushima

174 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

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32

Which Side Are You On

by Ryan Lee Wong

65 members

3 reviews

½ 3.4

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33

Where the Wild Ladies Are

by Aoko Matsuda

337 members

11 reviews

3.9

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34

Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey

by Marie Mutsuki Mockett

120 members

3 reviews

3.9

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We Two Alone: Stories

53 members

2 reviews

3.8

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We That Are Young

by Preeti Taneja

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37

Water Tossing Boulders: How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in the Jim Crow South

by Adrienne Berard

71 members

29 reviews

4

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38

Turbulence: A True Story of Survival

by Annette Herfkens

27 members

4

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39

Tokyo Ueno Station

727 members

23 reviews

½ 3.6

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40

The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

by Jisheng Yang

121 members

1 review

4.8

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41

The Wangs vs. the World

845 members

51 reviews

3.2

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42

The Things They Carried

14,702 members

392 reviews

4.2

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43

The Parted Earth

by Anjali Enjeti

78 members

2 reviews

4

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44

The Phoenix Years: Art, Resistance, and the Making of Modern China

by Madeleine O'Dea

22 members

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45

The Road of Lost Innocence

495 members

24 reviews

4

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46

The Siege of Krishnapur

by J. G. Farrell

2,128 members

68 reviews

4

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47

The Story of a Goat

by Perumal Murugan

174 members

7 reviews

½ 3.4

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48

The Lives of Others

by Neel Mukherjee

541 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

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49

The Magical Language of Others: A Memoir

215 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

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50

The Mistress of Spices

by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

1,911 members

53 reviews

½ 3.4

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1,471 members

56 reviews

3.8

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52

The Last Exiles

57 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

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The Last Empress, Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China

by Hannah Pakula

227 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

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54

The Kingdom of Women: Life, Love and Death in China's Hidden Mountains

by Choo Wai Hong

17 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

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The incendiaries

820 members

45 reviews

½ 3.4

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The Henna Artist

1,455 members

81 reviews

4

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by Madhuri Vijay

477 members

19 reviews

3.9

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58

The Dragonfly Sea: A novel

by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

105 members

7 reviews

3.8

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by Dominique Lapierre

1,439 members

23 reviews

4

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The Color of Our Sky

246 members

31 reviews

3.9

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by John Burnham Schwartz

751 members

40 reviews

½ 3.5

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62

The Court Dancer

by Kyung-sook Shin

180 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

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63

The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

60 members

1 review

4.1

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64

The China Reader: The Reform Era

by Orville Schell

72 members

2.9

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65

Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond

by Pankaj Mishra

247 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

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by Sudeep Chakravarti

28 members

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The Boat People

260 members

23 reviews

4

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68

The Boy Who Escaped Paradise: A Novel

37 members

½ 4.3

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69

The Breath of God: A Novel of Suspense

by Jeffrey Small

145 members

3 reviews

3.8

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by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto

96 members

8 reviews

3.2

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907 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

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72

The Tears of the Rajas: Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India 1805-1905

by Ferdinand Mount

99 members

3.9

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73

Seven Years of Darkness: A Novel

by Jeong You Jeong

105 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

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74

Setsuko's Secret: Heart Mountain and the Legacy of the Japanese American Incarceration

by Shirley Ann Higuchi

11 members

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75

Second Sister: A Novel

52 members

5 reviews

4

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76

Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship

by Michelle Kuo

325 members

46 reviews

4

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77

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

4,133 members

139 reviews

3.9

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78

The Great Mutiny

by Christopher Hibbert

343 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

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79

Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War

by Susan Southard

305 members

9 reviews

4.1

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80

Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up

137 members

7 reviews

4.2

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81

745 members

22 reviews

½ 3.6

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82

Not Quite Not White: Losing and Finding Race in America

by Sharmila Sen

55 members

3 reviews

½ 3.4

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83

Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road

290 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

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84

Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution

267 members

6 reviews

4.1

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85

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir

by T Kira Madden

312 members

11 reviews

4.1

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86

The Mountains Sing

by Nguyen Phan Que Mai

755 members

53 reviews

4

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87

Genghis Khan : his conquests, his empire, his legacy

by Frank McLynn

234 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

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88

Girls Burn Brighter

696 members

36 reviews

½ 3.7

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89

Home of the Floating Lily

by Silmy Abdullah

31 members

1 review

3.8

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90

House of Sticks: A Memoir

167 members

6 reviews

4.1

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91

Death in Shangri-La (A Dotan Naor Thriller)

22 members

5 reviews

½ 3.3

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92

Eat a Peach: A Memoir

442 members

25 reviews

½ 3.7

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93

Empress Dowager Cixi: China's Last Dynasty and the Long Reign of a Formidable Concubine : Legends and Lives During the D

10 members

4

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94

Everything Belongs to Us

by Yoojin Grace Wuertz

114 members

15 reviews

3.2

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by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

58 members

½ 4.3

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96

17 members

4

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by Christy Lefteri

296 members

16 reviews

4.1

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The Sleeping Dictionary

by Sujata Massey

158 members

9 reviews

4

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Letters from India (Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia) (Volume 2)

by Hon. Emily Eden

1 member

1 review

½ 2.5

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Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

by Cathy Park Hong

783 members

30 reviews

4

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