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A Guide to Khmer Temples in Thailand and Laos written and photographed by Michael Freeman (River Books) ~Janet Brown
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The Mountain by Paul Yoon (Simon & Schuster) ~Janet Brown
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Thailand, Bangkok
Very Bangkok (Updated Second Edition) by Philip Cornwel-Smith (River Books} ~Janet Brown
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Bangkok Babylon by Jerry Hopkins (Tuttle Publishing)
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The Red Chapels of Banteai Srei by Sachaverell Sitwell (Weidenfeld and Nicolson)
Cambodia, Thailand, Bangkok, Angkor Wat, SEA
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Bangkok Shophouses by Louis Sketcher
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The Glass Kingdom by Lawrence Osborne (Hogarth)
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Another Bangkok: Reflections on the City by Alex Kerr (Penguin Random House UK)
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Welcome to the Bangkok Slaughterhouse by Father Joseph Maier (Periplus Editions)
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Bangkok 8 by John Burdett (Vintage)
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Red-Light Nights, Bangkok Daze : Chronicles of Sexuality Across Asia by William Sparrow (Monsoon Books)
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Bangkok, Thailand
Vanishing Bangkok: The Changing Face of the City by Ben Davies (River Books)
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Bangkok, Thailand
What Could Be Saved by Liese O'Halloran Schwarz (Simon & Schuster, forthcoming, January 2021)
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Bangkok, Thailand
Tone Deaf in Bangkok and Other Places by Janet Brown (ThingsAsian Press)
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Tour Bangkok Legacies by Eric Lim (available at Amazon in paperback and on Kindle)
Bangkok, Thailand
Tour Bangkok Legacies by Eric Lim (available at Amazon in paperback and on Kindle)
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Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok's Top Fifty Street Food Stalls by Chawadee Nualkhair (Wordplay)
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Bangkok, Thailand
Mindfulness and Murder by Nick Wilgus (Crime Wave Press)
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Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok Blondes by The Bangkok Women's Writers Group (Bangkok Book House)
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Tokyo
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Japan, Tokyo
Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami, translated by Stephen Snyder (Kodansha)
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Japan, Tokyo
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa, translated by Eric Ozawa (Harper Perennial)
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Tokyo on Foot : Travels in the City's Most Colorful Neighborhoods by Florent Chavouet (Tuttle)
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Shopping by Gavin Kramer (Fourth Estate)
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My Falling Down House by Jayne Joso (Seren Books)
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A Tokyo Romance by Ian Buruma (Penguin Press)
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Japan, Tokyo
Mistress Oriku : Stories from a Tokyo Teahouse by Matsutaro Kawaguchi (Tuttle)
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Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri {Riverhead Books)
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Getting Genki in Japan : The Adventures and Misadventures of an American Family in Tokyo by Karen Pond (Tuttle)
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Tokyo, Japan
Tabloid Tokyo : 101 Tales of Sex, Crime and the Bizarre from Japan's Wild Weeklies compiled by Mark Schreiber (Kodansha International)
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Tokyo
Pretty Good Number One : An American Family Eats Tokyo by Matthew Amster-Burton (Viaduct Music)
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Tokyo, Japan
The Earthquake Bird by Susanna Jones (Picador)
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My Eyes Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
マイ・アイズ・トウキョウ [My Eyes Tokyo] by 徳橋 功 (Isao Tokuhashi) 「幻冬舎 ルネッサンス」 (Gentosha Renaissance)
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Tokyo Vice
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Tokyo Vice : An American Reporter On The Police Beat In Japan by Jake Adelstein (Pantheon Books)
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Tokyo: City on the Edge by Todd Crowell and Stephanie Forman Morimura (Asia2000)
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Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace (Knopf)
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The Expatriates by Janice Y.K. Lee (Penguin Books) ~Janet Brown
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World Class by Teru Clavel (Simon & Schuster) ~Janet Brown
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Where Strange Gods Call: Harry Hervey's 1920s Hong Kong, Macau and Canton Sojourns (Blacksmith Books)
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Wanderings in China: Hong Kong and Canton, Christmas and New Year 1878-1879 by Constance Gordon-Cumming (Blacksmith Books)
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Black Ghosts: A Journey into the Lives of Africans in China by Noo Saro-Wiwa (Canongate)
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The Future by Naomi Alderman (Simon & Schuster]
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Have You Eaten Yet? by Cheuk Kwan (Pegasus Books)
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Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly (Grand Central Publishing)
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On Java Road by Lawrence Osborne (Penguin Random House UK)
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The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir by Karen Cheung (Random House)
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Fate: The Lost Decades of Uncle Chow Tung by Ian Hamilton (Spiderline, House of Anansi Press)
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Ava Lee: The Triad Years : A Series by Ian Hamilton (House of Anansi Press)
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Drawing on the Inside: Kowloon Walled City 1985 by Fiona Hawthorne (Blacksmith Books)
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The Sun in My Eyes : Two-Wheeling East by Josie Dew (Time Warner Books)
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Hong Kong Local: Cult Recipes from the Streets that Make the City by ArChan Chan (Smith Street Books, Simon & Schuster, Australia)
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White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway (Black Cat/Grove Atlantic)
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Hong Kong Holiday by Emily Hahn (Doubleday & Company, out of print)
Hong Kong Holiday by Emily Hahn (Doubleday & Company, out of print)
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Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin (Little Brown)
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Swimming in Hong Kong by Stephanie Han (Willow Spring Books)
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Good Chinese Wife by Susan Blumberg-Kason
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Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong by Gordon Mathews (University of Chicago Press)
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John Woo's A Better Tomorrow
John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow by Karen Fang (Hong Kong University Press)
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Exploring Hong Kong: A Visitor’s Guide to Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and the New Territories by Steven K. Bailey with photographs by Jill C. Witt (ThingsAsian Press)
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Asian Godfathers by Joe Studwell (Atlantic Monthly Press)
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