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Bangkok
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Thailand, Bangkok
Very Bangkok (Updated Second Edition) by Philip Cornwel-Smith (River Books} ~Janet Brown
Thailand, Bangkok
Thailand, Bangkok
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Thailand, Bangkok
Bangkok Babylon by Jerry Hopkins (Tuttle Publishing)
Thailand, Bangkok
Thailand, Bangkok
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Cambodia, Thailand, Bangkok, Angkor Wat, SEA
The Red Chapels of Banteai Srei by Sachaverell Sitwell (Weidenfeld and Nicolson)
Cambodia, Thailand, Bangkok, Angkor Wat, SEA
Cambodia, Thailand, Bangkok, Angkor Wat, SEA
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Thailand, Bangkok
Bangkok Shophouses by Louis Sketcher
Thailand, Bangkok
Thailand, Bangkok
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Thailand, Bangkok
The Glass Kingdom by Lawrence Osborne (Hogarth)
Thailand, Bangkok
Thailand, Bangkok
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Thailand, Bangkok
Another Bangkok: Reflections on the City by Alex Kerr (Penguin Random House UK)
Thailand, Bangkok
Thailand, Bangkok
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Bangkok
Welcome to the Bangkok Slaughterhouse by Father Joseph Maier (Periplus Editions)
Bangkok
Bangkok
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Bangkok
Bangkok 8 by John Burdett (Vintage)
Bangkok
Bangkok
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Bangkok, SEA
Red-Light Nights, Bangkok Daze : Chronicles of Sexuality Across Asia by William Sparrow (Monsoon Books)
Bangkok, SEA
Bangkok, SEA
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Bangkok, Thailand
Vanishing Bangkok: The Changing Face of the City by Ben Davies (River Books)
Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok, Thailand
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Bangkok, Thailand
What Could Be Saved by Liese O'Halloran Schwarz (Simon & Schuster, forthcoming, January 2021)
Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok, Thailand
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Bangkok, Thailand
Tone Deaf in Bangkok and Other Places by Janet Brown (ThingsAsian Press)
Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok, Thailand
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)
Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok, Thailand
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Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok's Top Fifty Street Food Stalls by Chawadee Nualkhair (Wordplay)
Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok, Thailand
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Bangkok, Thailand
Mindfulness and Murder by Nick Wilgus (Crime Wave Press)
Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok, Thailand
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Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok Blondes by The Bangkok Women's Writers Group (Bangkok Book House)
Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok, Thailand
Tokyo
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Japan, Tokyo
Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami, translated by Stephen Snyder (Kodansha)
Japan, Tokyo
Japan, Tokyo
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Japan, Tokyo
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa, translated by Eric Ozawa (Harper Perennial)
Japan, Tokyo
Japan, Tokyo
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Japan, Tokyo
Tokyo on Foot : Travels in the City's Most Colorful Neighborhoods by Florent Chavouet (Tuttle)
Japan, Tokyo
Japan, Tokyo
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Japan, Tokyo
Shopping by Gavin Kramer (Fourth Estate)
Japan, Tokyo
Japan, Tokyo
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Japan, Tokyo
My Falling Down House by Jayne Joso (Seren Books)
Japan, Tokyo
Japan, Tokyo
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Japan, Tokyo
A Tokyo Romance by Ian Buruma (Penguin Press)
Japan, Tokyo
Japan, Tokyo
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Japan, Tokyo
Mistress Oriku : Stories from a Tokyo Teahouse by Matsutaro Kawaguchi (Tuttle)
Japan, Tokyo
Japan, Tokyo
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Japan, Tokyo
Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri {Riverhead Books)
Japan, Tokyo
Japan, Tokyo
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Tokyo, Japan
Getting Genki in Japan : The Adventures and Misadventures of an American Family in Tokyo by Karen Pond (Tuttle)
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo, Japan
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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)
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo, Japan
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Tokyo
Pretty Good Number One : An American Family Eats Tokyo by Matthew Amster-Burton (Viaduct Music)
Tokyo
Tokyo
The Earthquake Bird
Tokyo, Japan
The Earthquake Bird by Susanna Jones (Picador)
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo, Japan
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)
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Vice
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Vice : An American Reporter On The Police Beat In Japan by Jake Adelstein (Pantheon Books)
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo, Japan
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Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo: City on the Edge by Todd Crowell and Stephanie Forman Morimura (Asia2000)
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo, Japan
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Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace (Knopf)
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo, Japan

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Hong Kong
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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)
Hong Kong Holiday by Emily Hahn (Doubleday & Company, out of print)
Hong Kong Holiday by Emily Hahn (Doubleday & Company, out of print)
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin (Little Brown)
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)
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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