ASIA – Reading The World

Asia

Countries read are in bold blue

Potential books to be read are listed below each country. Books read are in red. An asterisk (*) indicates books I own but have not read yet.

1. Afghanistan (Kabul)

• A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini (finished 8 December 2007; rated 5/5; read my review)
• The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini (finished 13 June 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
• Earth and Ashes, Atiq Rahimi (finished 18 August 2010; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
• A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear, by Atiq Rahimi (finished 14 January 2011; rated 4.5/5; read my review)

2. Azerbaijan (Baku)

• Ali and Nino, by Kurban Said

3. Bahrain (Manama)

4. Bangladesh (Dhaka)

5. Bhutan (Thimphu)

6. Brunei (Bander Seri Begawan)

7. Burma/Myanmar (Yangon)

• The Lizard Cage, by Karen Connelly (finished 12 May 2010; rated 5/5; read my review)
• Everything is Broken, by Emma Larkin (finished 04 June 2010; rated 5/5; read my review)
• Bamboo People, by
• The Glass Palace, by Amitav Ghosh

8. Cambodia (Phnom Penh)

• Highways To A War, by Christopher J. Koch
• First They Killed My Father, by Loung Ung

9. China (Beijin)

• Balzac and The Little Chinese Seamstress, by Dai Sijie (finished 8 January 2007; rated 3.5/5; read my review)
• Peony in Love, by Lisa See (finished 18 June 2007; rated 3.75/5; read my review)
• The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck (finished 28 November 2007; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
• Wild Swans, by Jung Chang
• Oracle Bones, by Peter Hessler

10. Cyprus (Nicosia)

• Small Wars, by Sadie Jones (finished 6 February 2011, rated 4.5/5; read my review)

11. East Timor (Dili)

12. India (New Delhi)

• The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai (finished 16 March 2007; rated 4.25/5; read my review)
• The Space Between Us, by Thrity Umrigar (finished 21 April 2007; rated 3.5/5; read my review)
• The God of Small Things, by Arundhai Roy (finished 29 September 2007; rated 5/5; read my review)
• Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, by Kiran Desai (finished 21 December 2007; rated 3/5; read my review)
• The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga (finished 03 January 2009; rated 4/5; read my review)
• Shantaram, by Gregory David Roberts*

13. Indonesia (Jakarta)

• This Earth of Mankind, by Pramoedya Ananta Toer

14. Iran (Tehran)

• Laughing Without An Accent, by Firoozeh Dumas (finished 17 May 2008; rated 4/5; read my review)
• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, by Marjane Satrapi (finished 27 December 2009; rated 4/5; read my review)
• Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return, by Marjane Satrapi (finished 28 December 2009; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
• Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi*
• My Father’s Notebook, by Kader Abdolah
• Let Me Tell You Where I’ve Been: New Writing by Women of the Iranian Diaspora, by Persis M. Karim
• The Blood of Flowers, by Anita Amirrezvani

15. Iraq (Baghdad)

• A Thousand Veils, by D.J. Murphy (finished 13 June 2009; rated 3.5/5; read my review)

16. Israel (Jerusalem)

• Wherever You Go, by Joan Leegant (finished 21 January 2011; rated 4/5; read my review)
• A Woman in Jerusalem, by A.B. Yehoshua*

17. Japan (Tokyo)

• The Great Fire, by Shirley Hazzard (finished 8 August 2007; rated 4/5; read my review)
• Hiroshima in the Morning, by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto (finished 05 October 2010; rated 5/5; read my review)
• Picking Bones From Ash, by Marie Mutsuki Mockett (finished 18 March 2011; rated 4/5; read my review)
• Schoolgirl, by Osamu Dazai (finished 31 October 2011; rated 4/5; read my review)
• Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden*
• Shipwrecks, by Akira Yoshimura

18. Jordan (Amman)

• A Beggar at Damascus Gate, by Yasmine Zahran
• Pillars of Salt, by Fadia Faqir

19. Kazakstan (Astana)

20. Korea, North (Pyongyang)

• The Guest, by Hwang Sok-Yong

21. Korea, South (Seoul)

22. Kuwait (Kuwait City)

23. Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek)

24. Laos (Vientiane)

• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, by Anne Fadiman

25. Lebanon (Beirut)

• Gate of the Sun, by Elias Khoury*

26. Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur)

• The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng (finished 31 March 2012; rated 4.5/5; read my review)

27. Maldivs (Male)

28. Mongolia (Ulan Bator)

29. Nepal (Kathmandu)

30. Oman (Muscat)

31. Pakistan (Islamabad)

• The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid (finished 11 January 2008; rated 4/5; read my review)
• When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, by Cecilia Manquerra Brainard
• Maps For Lost Lovers, by Nadeem Aslam32. Philippines (Manila)

33. Quatar (Doha)

34. Saudi Arabia (Riyadh)

• Finding Nouf, by Zoe Ferraris (finished 24 July 2009; rated 4/5; read my review)
• City of Veils, by Zoe Ferraris (finished 24 August 2010; rated 4.5/5; read my review)

35. Singapore (Singapore City)

36. Sri Lanka (Colombo)

• A Disobedient Girl, by Ru Freeman (finished 28 September 2009; rated 5/5; read my review)

37. Syria (Damascus)

• A Lake Beyond the Wind, by Yahya Yakhlif

38. Tajikistan (Dushanbe)

39. Tibet (Lhasa)

• The Snow Leopard, by Peter Matthiesson

40. Thailand (Bangkok)

41. Turkey (Ankara)

• The Flea Palace, by Elif Shafak (finished 15 June 2007; rated 2.5/5; read my review)
• Birds Without Wings, by Louis De Bernieres (finished 28 July 2007; rated 4/5; read my review)
• Bliss, by O.Z. Livaeli*

42. Turkmenistan (Ashgabat)

43. United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi)

44. Uzbekistan (Tashkent)

45. Vietnam (Hanoi)

• The Lotus Eaters, by Tatjana Soli (finished 19 March 2010; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
• The Sorrow of War, by Bao Ninh

46. Yeman (Sana)