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Abdul-Ahad, Ghaith, A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War, Knopf, 2023

 

Babur, Annette Susannah Beveridge, The Babur Nama: Introduction by William Dalrymple (Everyman's Library Classics Series), Everyman's Library, 2020

 

Baumer, Christoph, History of Central Asia, I.B. Tauris, 2014

 

Becker, Elizabeth, When The War Was Over: Cambodia and The Khmer Rouge Revolution, PublicAffairs; Revised edition, 1998

 

Bergreen, Laurence, Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu, Quercus, 2009

 

Bevins, Vincent, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World, PublicAffairs, 2020

 

Booth, Michael, Three Tigers, One Mountain, Picador Paper, 2021

 

Brands, Hal, The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World, W. W. Norton & Company, 2026

 

Captivating History, History of East Asia: A Captivating Guide to the History of China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan (Asian History), Captivating History, 2020

 

Chen, Kuan-Hsing, Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization, Duke University Press, 2010

 

Clements, Jonathan, A Brief History of China: Dynasty, Revolution and Transformation: From the Middle Kingdom to the People's Republic (Brief History of Asia Series), Tuttle Publishing, 2019

 

Clifford, Mark, The Greening of Asia: The Business Case for Solving Asia's Environmental Emergency (Columbia Business School Publishing), Columbia Business School Publishing; Reprint edition, 2019

 

Cooley, Alexander, Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia, Oxford University Press; Illustrated edition, 2014

 

Dalai Lama, Voice for the Voiceless: Over Seven Decades of Struggle with China for My Land and My People – A New York Times Bestselling Memoir of Spiritual Exile and Freedom, William Morrow Large Print, 2025

 

Dalrymple, Sam, Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia, W. W. Norton & Company, 2026

 

DaSilva, Raven Todd, The Other Ancient Civilisations: Decoding Archaeology’s Less Celebrated Cultures (History Gifts, Ancient World History), Mango, 2025

 

Diggs, Karen Wang, Becca Anderson, The Book of Awesome Asian Women: Empresses, Warriors, Scientists, and Mavericks (Famous Asian Women in History), Books That Save Lives, 2025

 

Drèze, Jean and Amartya Sen, An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions, Penguin Books, 2013

 

Ebrey, Patricia, Anne Walthall, Modern East Asia from 1600: A Cultural, Social, and Political History, Vol. 2, 3rd Edition, Cengage Learning, 2013

 

Evangelista, Patricia, Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country, Random House, 2023 

 

Fatland, Erika, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, Pegasus Books, 2021

 

Favereau, Marie, The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World, Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2021

 

Frahm, Eckart, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire, Basic Books, 2024

 

French, Howard W., Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2018

 

Garcia, Myles A., Thirty Years Later . . .: Catching Up with the Marcos-Era Crimes, MAG Publishing, 2016

 

Gordon, Stewart, When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the ""Riches of the ""East"", Grand Central Publishing, 2009

 

Guha, Ramachandra, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy, Harper Perennial; Reprint edition, 2008

 

Harl, Kenneth W., Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization – A Central Asia Nonfiction Masterpiece About Genghis Khan and the Huns, Hanover Square Press, 2024

 

Harris, Kate, Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road – An RBC Taylor Prize-Winning Cycling Memoir and Meditative Adventure, Dey Street Books, 2019

 

Holcombe, Charles, A History of East Asia: From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century, Cambridge University Press; 2nd edition, 2017

 

Hopkirk, Peter, On Secret Service East of Constantinople: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire, John Murray, 2006

 

Hopkirk, Peter, The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe), Kodansha International, 1992

 

hopkirk, peter, Trespassers on the Roof of the World, Hodder Pb, 2006

 

Kang, David, East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute (Contemporary Asia in the World), Columbia University Press, 2012

 

Kaplan, Robert D., Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific, Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition, 2015

 

Keay, John, India: A History. Revised and Updated, Grove Press; Rev Exp edition, 2011

 

Khalid, Adeeb, Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present, Princeton University Press, 2022

 

Khan, Yasmin, India At War: The Subcontinent and the Second World War, Oxford University Press, 2015

 

Khanna, Parag, Future Is Asian, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2019

 

Khilnani, Sunil, Incarnations: A History of India in Fifty Lives, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016

 

Kwan, Kevin, The Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy Box Set, Anchor, 2018

 

Law, Nathan, Evan Fowler, Freedom: How We Lose It and How We Fight Back, The Experiment, 2021

 

Lee, Corky, Chee Wang Ng (Editor), Mae Ngai (Editor), Hua Hsu (Foreword), Corky Lee's Asian America: Fifty Years of Photographic Justice, Clarkson Potter, 2024

 

Lee, Erika, The Making of Asian America: A History, Simon & Schuster, 2016

 

Li, Jianglin, Susan Wilf, Tibet in Agony: Lhasa 1959, Harvard University Press; Illustrated edition, 2016

 

Lintner, Bertil, Burma In Revolt: Opium And Insurgency Since 1948, Silkworm Books; 2nd edition, 1999

 

Mabute-Louie, Bianca, Unassimilable: An Asian Diasporic Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century – A Hard-Hitting Scholar-Activist Memoir on Revolutionary Politics, Harper 2025

 

Mahbubani, Kishore, Living the Asian Century: An Undiplomatic Memoir, PublicAffairs, 2024

 

McGregor, Richard, Asia's Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century, Penguin Books; Reprint edition, 2018

 

Meredith, Robyn, The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us, W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition, 2008

 

Mishra, Pankaj, From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia, Picador; Reprint edition, 2013

 

Moffett, Samuel Hugh, A History of Christianity in Asia: Volume I: Beginnings to 1500, Orbis Books, 1998

 

Morris, Benny, Dror Ze'evi, The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924, Harvard University Press, 2019

 

Nadeau, Randall L., Asian Religions: A Cultural Perspective, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014

 

Norberg-Hodge, Helena, H.H. The Dalai Lama, Ancient Futures, 3rd Edition, Local Futures; Updated edition, 2016

 

Paine, S. C. M., The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949, Cambridge University Press, 2014

 

Pinpin-Feinstein, Vicky, A Thousand Little Deaths: Growing Up Under Martial Law in the Philippines, Vicky Pinpin-Feinstein, 2013

 

Rachman, Gideon, Easternization: Asia's Rise and America's Decline From Obama to Trump and Beyond, Other Press; Reprint edition, 2018

 

Reid, Anthony, Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680: Volume One: The Lands Below the Winds (Revised), YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1988

 

Reid, T.R., Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West, Vintage; Reprint edition, 2000

 

Roy, Arundhati, The Doctor and the Saint: Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste, the Debate Between B.R. Ambedkar and M.K. Gandhi, Haymarket Books, 2017

 

Rush, James R., Southeast Asia: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2018

 

Salguero, C. Pierce, A Lamp unto Yourself: A Beginner's Guide to Asian Spiritual Practices, from Advaita and Buddhism to Yoga and Zen, Beacon Press, 2025

 

Scott, James C., The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)  Yale University Press; Illustrated edition, 2010

 

Scott, James C., The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia, Yale University Press; 8.11.1977 edition, 1977

 

Seth, Michael J., A Brief History of Korea: Isolation, War, Despotism and Revival: The Fascinating Story of a Resilient But Divided People (Brief History of Asia Series), Tuttle Publishing, 2019

 

Shambaugh, David, Where Great Powers Meet: America and China in Southeast Asia, Oxford University Press, 2020

 

Slater, Dan, Joseph Wong, From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia, Princeton University Press, 2022

 

Soliman, Mohammed, West Asia: A New American Grand Strategy in the Middle East, Polity, 2026

 

Spector, Ronald H., A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945–1955, W. W. Norton & Company, 2022

 

Starr, S. Frederick, Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane, Princeton University Press, 2015

 

Starr, S. Frederick, The Genius of their Age: Ibn Sina, Biruni, and the Lost Enlightenment, Oxford University Press, 2023

 

Steves, Rick, On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer, Rick Steves, 2026

 

Strangio, Sebastian, Cambodia: From Pol Pot to Hun Sen and Beyond, Yale University Press, 2020

 

Strangio, Sebastian, In the Dragon's Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century, Yale University Press, 2020

 

Studwell, Joe, How Asia Works, Grove Press, 2014

 

Thompson, Christina, Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific, William Collins, 2020

 

Tsang, Steve, Modern History of Hong Kong: 1841-1997, Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

 

Ung, Loung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, Harper Perennial, 2006

 

Weatherford, Jack, Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China, Bloomsbury Continuum, 2026

 

Weatherford, Jack, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Broadway Books, 2005

 

Wellman, Billy, History of Laos: An Enthralling Guide to New Traditions and Beginnings (Asia), Billy Wellman, 2026

 

Welsh, Frank, History of Hong Kong, Harpercollins Pub Ltd; 2nd edition, 1997

 

Woeser, Tsering, Robert Barnett, Forbidden Memory: Tibet during the Cultural Revolution, Potomac Books, 2020

 

Yang, Kao Kalia, Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life, Atria Books, 2025

 


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