Trek through Asia

Take a Trek through Asia

Listed below are just a couple books from each country to get you started.

Afghanistan 
The Kite Runner or A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
When The Birds Fly South - Stanton Coblentz
The Lotus and The Wind - John Masters 

Armenia 
Passage to Ararat - Michael Arlen
Rise the Euphrates - Carol Edgarian
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut 

Azerbaijan 
Ali and Nino - Kurbain Said
Black City - Boris Akunin

Bahrain 
The Meeting Point - Lucy Caldwell

Bangladesh 
Bougainville - F. Springer
Golden Age and The Good Muslim - Tahmima Aman 

Bhutan 
Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth - Lisa Napoli
Bhutan: the land of Serenity - Ricard Matthieu

Brunei 
Brunei Rainforest Adventure - Peter Brown
Time and the River: Brunei Darussalam 1947 - 2000 - Mohamed Bolkiah

Cambodia 
Finding Moon - Tony Hillerman
Jungle Girl - Edgar Rice Burroughs
King's Last Song - Geoff Ryman 
 
China 
The Good Earth (and more) - Pearl S. Buck
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie
The Shanghai Moon - S.J. Rozan
  
Cyprus 
The Aphrodite Plot - Michael Jansen
Small Wars - Sadie Jones 
Death in Cyprus - M.M. Kaye 

Georgia  
The Goatibex Constellation or Rabbits and Boa Constrictors - Fazil Iskander 

Hong Kong 
Noble House -  James Clavell
The Painted Veil -  W. Somerset Maugham
  
India 
The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga 
The Iciest Sin - H.R.F. Keating
The Steam House - Jules Verne

Indonesia 
The Ten Thousand Things - Maria Demout
An Outcast of the Islands - Joseph Conrad

Iran 
The House of the Mosque - Kader Abdolah
Rooftops of Tehran - Mahbod Seraji

Iraq 
Cain -  Jose Saramago
Murder in Mesopotamia - Agatha Christie

Israel 
Exodus - Leon Uris
The Glory - Herman Wouk

Japan 
Gai-Jin - James Clavell 
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - David Mitchell 
   
Jordan 
Appointment with Death - Agatha Christie
Forbidden Love - Norma Khouri


Kazakhstan 
Apples are from Kazakhstan: the Land that Disappeared - Christopher Robbins
The Day Lasts More Than One Hundred Years - Chingiz Aitmatov 

Korea (North and South) 
The Book of Lights - Chaim Potok
The Crucible - Gong Ji-Young
 
Kuwait 
Small Kingdoms - Anastasia Hobbet
The Pearl of Kuwait: A Novel of the Gulf War - Tom Paine

Kyrgyzstan  
Kyrgyzstan: A Lonely World - Chingiz Aitmatov 
Kyrgyzstan: Central Asia's Island of Democracy? - John Anderson

Laos 
The Coroner's Lunch and Thirty Three Teeth -  Colin Cotterill 

Lebanon 
Beirut Blues - Hanan al-Shaykh
The Stone of Laughter - Hoda Barakat 

Malaysia 
Garden of Evening Mists - Tan Twan Eng
Evening is the Whole Day - Preeta Samarasan


Maldives 
On The Island - Tracey Garvis Graves 
The Maldive Mystery - Thor Heyerdahl 

Mongolia 
Warrior (Blades of the Rose#1) - Zoe Archer
Imperial Lady - Andre Norton



Nepal  
The Kingdom - Clive Cussler
Don't Let the Goats Eat the Loquat Trees - Thomas Hale

Pakistan 
A Case of Exploding Mangoes - Mohammed Hanif
Moth Smoke - Mohsin Hamin 

Philippines 
Bamboo in the Wind - Azucena Grajo Uranza 
The Tesseract - Alex Garland
 
Russia 
The Russia House - John Le Carre
The Hunger Angel - Herta Mueller (translated from Everything I Possess I Carry With Me) 

Saudi Arabia 
The Jewel of Medina - Sherry Jone 
East of the Mediterranean - Abdul Rahman Munif

Singapore 
River of Smoke - Amitav Ghosh
Saint Jake - Paul Theroux  

Sri Lanka 
Anil's Ghost - Michael Ondaatje
The Last Theorem - Arthur C. Clarke

Syria 
Death of a Monk - Alon Hilu
My Grandfather's Tale - Ulfat Idilbi
 
Taiwan  
Forget Sorry - Belle Yang
Orphan of Asia - Zhuoliu Wu


Thailand  
The Bridge over The River Kwai - Pierre Boulle
Anna and the King of Siam - Margaret Landon

Turkey 
Birds Without Wings - Louis de Bernieres
The Silent House - Orhan Pamuk 

Vietnam 
The Lotus Eaters - Tatjana Soli 
The Time in Between - David Bergen

Yemen 
The Woman Who Fell From the Sky - Jennifer Steil
A Land Without Jasmine - Wajdi Al-Ahdal