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2:46 Aftershocks : Stories from the Japan Earthquake
69 Sixty-Nine by Ryu Murakami
A Backward Place by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
A Beautiful Lie by Irfan Master
A Beginner’s Guide to Japan by Pico Iyer
A Border Passage by Leila Ahmed
A Bridge Between Us by Julie Shigekuni
A Burden of Flowers by Natsuki Ikezawa
A Cab Called Reliable by Patti Kim
A Dangerous Friend by Ward Just
A Distant Heart by Sonali Devi
A Field Guide to Happiness : What I Learned in Bhutan about Living, Loving and Waking Up by Linda Leaming
A Loyal Character Dancer by Qiu Xiaolong
A Map for the Missing by Belinda Huijuan Tang
A Nail the Evening Hangs On by Monica Sok
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
A Perfect Day to Be Alone by Nanae Aoyama, translated by Jesse Kirkwood
A Spoonful of Promises by T. Susan Chang
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
A Tiger's Heart: The Story of a Modern Chinese Woman by Aisling Juanjuan Shen
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li
A Tokyo Romance by Ian Buruma
A Walk in the Darkness by Jon Land
A War Away by Tess Johnston
A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat
A Year with the Local Newspaper by Anthony S. Rausch
A Year of Last Things by Michael Ondaatje
Aama in America : A Pilgrimage of the Heart by Broughton Coburn
Above Us the Milky Way by Fowzia Karimi
Activities of Daily Living by Lisa Hsiao Chen
Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So
After the Last Border by Jessica Goudeau
Agent Storm : My Life Inside Al Qaeda by Mortem Storm
Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel by Shahnaz Habib
All She Was Worth by Miyuki Miyabe
All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami, translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd
All the Right Places: Traveling Light Through China, Japan, and Russia by Brad Newsham
All the Way to the Tigers by Mary Morris
All the Wrong Places: Adrift in the Politics of the Pacific Rim by James Fenton
All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
Almost Home : The Asian Search of a Geographic Trollop by Janet Brown
American Shaolin by Matthew Polly
An Indian Attachment by Sarah Lloyd
An Indiana Hoosier in Lord Tsugaru's Court by Todd Jay Leonard
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
Animal's People by Indra Sinha
Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon
Another Bangkok: Reflections on the City by Alex Kerr
Ant Egg Soup by Natacha Du Pont De Bie
Are You an Echo? The Lost Poetry of Misuzu Kaneko by David Jacobson
Arcade Mania! The Turbo-Charged World of Japan's Game Centers by Brian Ashcroft
Around India in 80 Trains by Monisha Rajesh
Asian Godfathers by Joe Studwell
At Home In Japan : A Foreign Woman’s Journey of Discovery by Rebecca Otowa
Atomic Sushi : Notes from the Heart of Japan by Simon May
Ava Lee: The Triad Years : A Series by Ian Hamilton
Ayo Gorkhali by Tim I. Gurung
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Bangkok 8 by John Burdett
Bangkok Babylon by Jerry Hopkins
Bangkok Blondes by The Bangkok Women's Writers Group
Bangkok's Top Fifty Street Food Stalls by Chawadee Nualkhair
Bangkok Shophouses by Louis Sketcher
Banyan Moon by Thao Thai
Barefoot in the Boardroom by Bill Purves
Beaufort by Ron Leshem
Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, translated by Geoffrey Trousselot
Before the Deluge : The Vanishing World of the Yangtze's Three Gorges by Deirdre Chetham
Behind the Fire by Steven D. Salinger
Beijing Payback by Daniel Nieh
Beijing Sprawl by Xie Zechen, translated by Jeremy Tiang and Eric Abrahamsen
Better to Have Gone: Love, Death and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville by Akash Kapur
Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga
Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan by Jamie Zeppa
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister by Jung Chang
Bitter in the Mouth by Monique Truong
Bizarre Thailand by Jim Algie
Black Ghosts: A Journey into the Lives of Africans in China by Noo Saro-Wiwa
Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse
Block Chain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China’s Countryside by Xiaowei
Boku no ii hon kou iu hon 1 : 1998-2009 Book Essays by Yataro Matsuura ぼくのいい本こういう本1 : 1998-2009 ブックエッセイ集 by 松浦弥太郎
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova
Border Town by Hillel Wright
Born Into Brothels by Zana Briski
BPO-Sutra : True Stories from India's BPO & Call Centres edited by Sudhindra Mokhasi
Brave Story by Miyuki Miyabe
Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Bringing Tony Home by Tissa Abeysekara
Brothers by Yu Hua
Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith
Burial in the Clouds by Hiroyuki Agawa
Burma: Rivers of Flavor by Naomi Duguid
Burmese Light by Tom Vater and Hans Kemp
Carpe Diem by Autumn Cornwell
Catfish and Mandala by Andrew X. Pham
Cave in the Snow by Vicki Mackenzie
Chasing Hepburn by Gus Lee
Cheesecake no Tabi by Yuriko Yamamoto チーズケーキの旅 by 山本ゆりこ
China Correspondent by Agnes Smedley
China Syndrome by Karl Taro Greenfield
China To Me by Emily Hahn
Chinese Lessons: An American, His Classmates, and the Story of the New China by John Pomfret
Chinese Mexicans: Transpacific Migration and the Search for a Homeland, 1910-1960 by Julia Maria Schiavone Camacho
Chinese Prodigal by David Shih
Chopstick Cinema : Exploring Asian Food and Film by Celeste Heiter
Chronicles of My Life : An American in the Heart of Japan by Donald Keene
City Gate, Open Up by Bei Dao, translated by Jeffrey Yang
Clara’s Diary: An American Girl in Meiji Japan by Clara A. N. Whitney
Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara
Clash of Honour by Robert Mendelsohn
Coffee Life in Japan by Merry White
Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami, translated by Stephen Snyder
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
Comfort Woman by Nora Okja Keller
Coming Home Crazy by Bill Holm
Communion: A Culinary Journey Through Vietnam by Kim Fay
Comrade Aeon’s Field Guide to Bangkok by Emma Larkin
Confessions by Kanae Minato, translated by Stephen Snyder
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Curried Cultures: Globalization, Food, and South Asia edited by Krishnendu Ray and Tulasi Srinivas
Daughters of the New Year by E. M. Tran
Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back by Janice P. Nimura
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa, translated by Eric Ozawa
Dear Alice edited by Phyllis L. Thompson
Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong
Death’s End by Cixin Liu
Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea by Rita Chang-Eppig
Defiled on the Ayeyarwaddy by Ma Thanegi
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
Divine Encounters: Sacred Rituals and Ceremonies in Asia by Hans Kemp
Doraemon : Gadget Cat from the Future (Selection 6) by Fujiko F. Fujio
Dragon Dance by Peter Tasker
Drawing on the Inside: Kowloon Walled City 1985 by Fiona Hawthorne
Dream of a Thousand Lives by Karen Connelly
Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love and Language by Deborah Fallows
Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language by Katherine Russell Rich
Drunk in China by Derek Sandhaus
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal
eatlip gift : COOK BOOK for COOKING PEOPLE by Yuri Nomura
Ekiben : The Ultimate Japanese Travel Food by Aki Tomura
Elephant Company by Vicki Constantine Croke
Em by Kim Thuy
Empire of Horses by John Man
Encyclopedia of the World’s Most Unfortunate Animals 2 edited by Takaaki Imaizumi おもしろい！進化のふしぎ 「続ざんねんないきもの辞典」by 今泉忠明
Encyclopedia of the World's Most Unfortunate Animals edited by Tadaaki Imaizumi おもしろい！ 進化のふしき 「ざんねんないきもの辞典」今泉忠明 （監修者）
English by Wang Gang
Escape from Baghdad! by Saad Z. Hossain
Eternal Harvest : The Legacy of American Bombs in Laos by Karen J. Coates
Evening Is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan
Evergreen by Naomi Hirahara
Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking by Fuchsia Dunlop
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
Factory Girls by Leslie T. Chang
Falling Leaves : The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
Family in Six Tones by Lan Cao and Harlan Margaret Van Cao
Fate: The Lost Decades of Uncle Chow Tung by Ian Hamilton
Feasting, Fasting by Anita Desai
Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski
Finger Bone by Hiroki Takahashi
Five Point Someone : What Not To Do at ITT by Chetan Bhagat
Five Spice Street by Can Xue
Flavors of Empire: Food and the Making of Thai America by Mark Padoongpatt
Fong and the Indians by Paul Theroux
Foreigners Who Loved Japan by Makoto Naito and Ken Naito
Forgotten Country by Cathernine Chung
Four Pairs of Boots : A 3,200 Kilometer Hike the Length of Japan by Craig McLachlan
Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
Fragrant Heart : A Tale of Love, Life and Food in Asia by Miranda Emmerson
From a Chinese City by Gontran de Poncins
From A Nail through the Heart to Street Music: Thirteen Years of the Poke Rafferty Novels by Timothy Hallinan
Funaosa Nikki : A Captain's Diary by Hirochika Ikeda
Getting Closer to Japan: Getting Along with the Japanese by Kate Elwood
Getting Genki in Japan: The Adventures and Misadventures of an American Family in Tokyo by Karen Pond
Getting Wet: Adventures in the Japanese Bath by Eric Talmadge
Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong by Gordon Mathews
Ghost Music by An Yu
Ghost Town by Kevin Chen, translated by Darryl Sterk
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star by Paul Theroux
Ghosts of the Tsunami by Richard Lloyd
Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian
Gold Leaf and Terra-Cotta : Burmese Crafts throughout History by Ma Thanegi
Good Chinese Wife by Susan Blumberg-Kason
Gyo by 安藤正子 (Masako Endo) and illustrated by 岡本順 (Jun Okamoto)
Have You Eaten Yet? by Cheuk Kwan
Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Heaven by Mieko Kawakami
Here After by Amy Lin
Highways to a War by Christopher J. Koch
Hiromix Works
Hiroshima Notes by Kenzaburo Oe
Ho Chi Minh: A Biography by Pierre Brocheux/translated by Claire Duiker
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Homeland Elegies: A Novel by Ayad Akhtar
Honeybees and Distant Thunder by Riku Onda, translated by Philip Gabriel
Hong Kong Holiday by Emily Hahn
Hong Kong Local: Cult Recipes from the Streets that Make the City by ArChan Chan
Hoshi Mamoru Inu 星守る犬 by Takashi Murakami (双葉社)
Hot Sour Salty Sweet by Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Houses with a Story by Seiji Yoshida, translated by Jan Mitsuko Cash
How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C. Pam Zhang
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
I Love You So Mochi by Sarah Kuhn
I Want to be Curry! by Jinsuke Mizuno カレーになりたい！by 水野仁輔
Idol, Burning by Rin Usami
If an Elephant Loses Weight, It is Still an Elephant by Aftab Seth
If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
In Beautiful Disguises by Rajeev Balasubramanyam
In Laos and Siam by Marthe Bassene
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri
In Search of Amrit Kaur by Livia Manera Sambuy
In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians : A Story of Suppression, Secrecy and Survival by John Dougill
In the Cities of the South : Scenes from a Developing World by Jeremy Seabrook
In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami
In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner
Into the Heart of Borneo by Redmond O'Hanlon
Ivan Ramen : Love, Obsession, and Recipes from Tokyo's Most Unlikely Noodle Joint by Ivan Orkin
Ivan's Ramen by Ivan Orkin
Japan Took the J.A.P. Out of Me by Lisa Feinberg Cook
Japan: The Toothless Tiger by Declan Hayes
Japan's Longest Day by The Pacific War Research Society
Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential by Brian Ashcraft with Shoko Ueda
Jasmine Nights by S.P. Somtow
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
Joan Is Okay by Weike Wang
John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow by Karen Fang
Journey Under the Midnight Sun by Keigo Higashino, translated by Alexander O. Smith
Kaikyo no Kioku : Seikan Rensakusen 海峡の記憶：青函連絡船 by Asako Shirai
Kamusari Tales Told at Night by Shion Miura, translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter
Kenji Miyazawa Picture Book Series by Kenji Miyazawa
Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo
Kiki's Delivery Service (Volumes 1-4) by Hayao Miyazaki
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Kimchi & Calamari by Rose Kent
Kimetsu no Yaiba 鬼滅の刃 by 吾峠呼世晴 by Koyoharu Gotouge
Kimitachi wa Dou Ikiruka? by Genzaburo Yoshino, manga by Shoichi Haga 君たちはどう生きるか
Kingfishers Catch Fire by Rumer Godden
Knife by Salman Rushdie
Kodoku no Chuka Soba [Eguchi] by Masayuki Kusumi 孤独の中華そば「江ぐち」by 久住昌之
Kuhaku & Other Accounts from Japan edited by Bruce Rutledge
Kwaidan : Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn
Land of Milk and Honey by C. Pam Zhang
Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road by Kate Harris
Lanterns on Their Horns by Radhika Jha
Last Man in Tower by Aravind Adiga
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World by John Wood
Leaving Mother Lake by Yang Erche Namu and Christine Mathieu
Leaving Thailand: A Memoir by Steve Rosse
Liberace's Filipino Cousin by David R. Brubaker
Life Ceremony : Stories by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
Life isn't all ha ha hee hee by Meera Sya
Little Rabbit by Alyssa Songsiridej
Little Soldiers by Lenora Chu
Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura, translated by Phlip Gabriel
Lords of the Rim by Sterling Seagrave
Lust, Caution by Eileen Chang
Ma and Me: A Memoir by Putsata Reang
Makai by Kathleen Tyau
Making the Chinese Mexican by Grace Pena Delgado
Malaya: Essays on Freedom by Cinelle Barnes
Malice by Keigo Higashino
Mandarins: Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa Translated by Charles De Wolf
Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics by Frederick L. Schodt
Married to Bhutan by Linda Leaming
Mata Tabi (またたび) by Sakura Momoko
Mayada : Daughter of Iraq by Jean Sasson
Meatless Days by Sara Suleri
Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City by Jane Wong
Megumi by Shigeru and Sakie Yokota
Memories of the Memories of the Black Rose Cat by Veeraporn Nittiprapha, translated by Kong Rithdee
Midnight in Peking by Paul French
Mindanao : From Samal to Surallah by Ronald de Jong
Mindfulness and Murder by Nick Wilgus
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
Mio The Beautiful by Kinota Braithwaite, translated by Setsuko Miura
Miss Burma by Charmaine Craig
Mistapim in Cambodia by Christopher Pym
Mistress Oriku : Stories from a Tokyo Teahouse by Matsutaro 
Monkey Brain Sushi : New Tastes in Japanese Fiction edited by Alfred Birbaum
Monkey Business : New Writing from Japan Volume 01 / 2011
Monsoon by Di Morrissey
Monsoon Diary: A Memoir with Recipes by Shoba Narayan
Mosquito by Roma Tearne
Mother Land by Leah Franqui
Mott Street by Ava Chin
Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch by Dai Sijie
Mumbai Noir edited by Altaf Tyrewala
My Days, My Dreams : Stories From A Boyhood in Northern Japan by Yojiro Ishizaka [Translated by Hannah Joy Sawada]
My Eyes Tokyo by 徳橋 功 (Isao Tokuhashi) マイ·アイズ·トウキョウ
My Falling Down House by Jayne Joso
Myanmar Architecture: Cities of Gold by Ma Thanegi and photographs by Barry Broman
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki
Neon Tigers by Peter Bialobrzeski
Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly
Nine Lives : In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple
Nisei Daughter by Monica Sone
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
No Longer Human : Complete Edition by Usamaru Furuya
No One's Perfect by Hirotada "Oto" Ototake
Not Yo' Butterfly by Nobuko Miyamoto
Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goosen
Nuclear Blues by Bradley K. Martin
Nujeen : One Girl's Incredible Journey from War-Torn Syria in a Wheelchair by Nujeen Mustafa
O Beautiful by Jung Yu
Ocean’s Godori by Elaine U. Cho
Of Monkey Bridges and Banh Mi Sandwiches by Oanh Ngo Usadi 
Off the Books by Soma Mei Sheng Frazier
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
On Java Road by Lawrence Osborne
On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin by Marie Colvin
On the Night Joey Ramone Died by Jim Algie
On the Other Side: 23 Days with the Viet Cong by Kate Webb
Once and Forever: The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa by Kenji Miyazawa
Once the Shore by Paul Yoon
One Last Look by Susanna Moore
Opium Fiend by Steven Martin
Ordinary Disasters by Anne Anlin Cheng
Original Letters from India by Eliza Fay (New York Review of Books)
Osamu Dazai's The Setting Sun: The Manga Edition by Osamu Dazai
Other Rivers by Peter Hessler
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
Out by Natsuo Kirino
Overbooked by Elizabeth Becker
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Penance by Kanae Minato, translated by Philip Gabriel
Phra Farang : An English Monk in Thailand by Phra Peter Pannapadipo
Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin
Points and Lines by Seicho Matsumoto, translated by Makiko Yamamoto and Paul C. Blum
Pretty Good Number One : An American Family Eats Tokyo by Matthew Amster-Burton
Quest for Kim : In Search of Kipling's Great Game by Peter Hopkirk
Rain Fall by Barry Eisler
Read Me a Story! : Magic Mango and Many Other Stories from Asia and the Pacific
Reading the Room by Paul Yamazaki
Real Thai Cooking by Chawadee Nualkhair, photographs by Lauren Lulu Taylor
Recitation by Bae Suah, translated by Deborah Smith
Red Candles and the Mermaid and Other Tales by Mimei Ogawa
Red Dust: A Path Through China by Ma Jian
Red-Light Nights, Bangkok Daze : Chronicles of Sexuality Across Asia by William Sparrow
Rental Person Who Does Nothing by Shoji Morimoto
Return to Tsugaru : Travels of Purple Tramp by Osamu Dazai
Romaji Diary and Sad Toys by Takuboku Ichikawa
Romancing the East by Jerry Hopkins
Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer
Run Me to Earth by Paul Yoon
Running In the Family by Michael Ondaatje
Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
Salamander and Other Stories by Masuji Ibuse, translated by John Bester
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
Searching for Billie by Ian Gill
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Secrets from My Vietnamese Kitchen: Simple Recipes from My Many Mothers by Kim Thuy
Sekai no Dokokade Isourou by Shigeo Nakayama and Katsumi Sakaguchi 世界のどこかで居候 by 中山茂and 坂口克
Sekai no Rojiura 100 by Nozomu Kato 世界の路地裏１００
Self Portraits : Tales form the Life of Japan's Great Decadent Romantic by Osamu Dazai
Seven Reasons to Go Travelling Solo by Chris Mitchell
Seventeen by Hideo Yokoyama
Shadow Family by Miyuki Miyabe
Shanghai Baby by Wei Hui
Shanghai Grand by Taras Grescoe
Shanghailanders by Juli Min
Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper by Fuchsia Dunlop
Shinsuke Yoshitake「あるかしら書店」ヨシタケシンスケ （ポプラ社）
Ship of Fates by Caitlin Chung
Shogun by James Clavell
Shopping by Gavin Kramer
Shutting Out the Sun : How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation by Michael Zielenziger
Siam: or The Woman Who Shot a Man by Lily Tuck
Silence by Shusaku Endo
Singapore Noir edited by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama
Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes by Chantha Nguon
Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup
Smile When You're Lying by Chuck Thompson
Snow Hunters by Paul Yoon
So Can You by Mitsuyo Ohira
So Sad to Fall in Battle by Kumiko Kakehashi
Soldiers in Hiding by Richard Wiley
Soldiers of God : With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Robert D. Kaplan
Songs on Endless Repeat by Anthony Veasna So
Sonohonwa その本は by ヨシタケシンスケ (Shinsuke Yoshitaka) and 又吉直樹 (Naoki Matayoshi)
Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian
Spark by Naoki Matayoshi
Spirit of the Phoenix : Beirut and the Story of Lebanon by Tim Llewellyn
Stilwell and the American Experience in China: 1911-1945 by Barbara W. Tuchman
Stories of the Sahara by Sanmao
Storywallah by Neelesh Misra's Mandali
Strange Foods: Bush Meat, Bats, and Butterflies by Jerry Hopkins
Stranger in the Shogun's City by Amy Stanley
Such a Lovely Little War: Saigon 1961-63 by Marcelino Truong, translated by David Homel
Sushi & Beyond : What the Japanese know about Cooking by Michael Booth
Sweet Daruma : A Japan Satire by Janice Valerie Young
Swimming in Hong Kong by Stephanie Han
T is for Tokyo by Irene Akio
Tabloid Tokyo : 101 Tales of Sex, Crime and the Bizarre from Japan's Wild Weeklies compiled by Mark Schreiber
Taiwan Tattoo by Brian M. Day
Take No Names by Daniel Nieh
Tales from the Cafe by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Tall Story by Candy Gourlay
Tezcatlipoca by Kiwamu Sato
Thailand's Best Street Food by Chawadee Nualkhair
The 13th House by Adam Zameenzad
The Accidental Office Lady by Laura J. Kriska
The Ainu and the Bear : The Gift of the Cycle of Life by Ryo Michico, illustrated by Kobayashi
The Amur River: Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron
The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda, translated by Alison Watts
The Apology by Jimin Han
The Applicant by Nazli Koca
The Artisans: A Vanishing Chinese Village by Shen Fuyu
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
The Beast Player by Nahoko Uehashi, translated by Cathy Hirano
The Beast Warrior by Nahoko Uehashi, translated by Cathy Hirano
The Betrayed by Reine Arcache Melvin
The Binding Chair by Kathryn Harrison
The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth by Veeraporn Nitiprapha
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories that Carried Them Through a War by Delphine Minou
The Book of Saladin by Tariq Ali
The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
The Boy and the Dog by Seishu Hase
The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa
The China Option: A Guide for Millennials by Sophia Erickson
The Chrysanthemum and the Fish by Howard Hebbitt
The Complete Story of Sadako Sasaki and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Sue DiCicco and Masahiro Sasak
The Consul's File by Paul Theroux
The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill
The Crocodile Fury by Beth Yahp
The Curse of Kim's Daughters by Park Kyong-ni
The Dancing Girls of Lahore : Selling Love and Saving Dreams in Pakistan's Pleasure District by Louise Brown
The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
The Dark Side : Infamous Japanese Crimes and Criminals by Mark Schreiber
The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years by Chingiz Aitmatov
The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
The Delightful Life of an Expat Crime Writer: Fifteen Journeys with Colin Cotterill and Dr. Siri
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-eun, translated by Lizzie Buehler
The Dragon Hunt: Five Stories by Tran Vu, translated by Nina McPherson and Phan Huy Duong
The Dragon's Pearl by Sirin Phathanothai
The Earthquake Bird by Susanna Jones
The Easy Life in Kamusari by Shion Miura, translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter
The Emissary by Yoko Tawada
The End of October by Lawrence Wright
The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson
The Father of All Things by Tom Bissell
The Fire Sacrifice by Susham Bedi
The Flowers of Buffoonery by Osamu Dazai, translated by Sam Bett
The Foreign Student by Susan Choi
The Foreigner by Francie Lin
The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo
The Fragile Edge by Julia Whitty
The Future by Naomi Alderman
The Gate by Francois Bizot
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd
The Girl from the Coast by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
The Girl with the White Flag by Tomiko Higa
The Glass Kingdom by Lawrence Osborne
The Golden Voice: The Ballad of Cambodian Rock's Lost Queen by Gregory Cahill and Kat Baumann
The Good Son by You-Jeong Jeong
The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America by Saket Soni
The Great Passage by Shion Miura, translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter
The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng
The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise by Pico Iyer
The Heaven Stone by David Daniel
The Honorable Visitors by Donald Richi
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
The House of the Pain of Others by Julian Herbert
The House on Dream Street by Dana Sachs
The Householder by Ruth Pravwer Jhabvala
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder
The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara
The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir by Karen Cheung
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
The Interpreter's Daughter by Teresa Lim
The Inugami Clan by Seishi Yokomizo, translated by Yumiko Yamazaki
The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
The Japanese Lover by Rani Manicka
The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai
The Landlady and Me by Taro Yabe 大家さんと僕 by 矢部太郎
The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu by Dan Jurafsky
The Last Days of Old Beijing by Michael Meyer
The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit and Peril by Sarah Stodola
The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid
The Latehomecomer by Kao Kalia Yang
The Liberators by E. J. Koh
The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly
The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli
The Magical Language of Others by E.J. Koh
The Man with a Golden Mind by Tom Vater
The Mantis by Kotaro Isaka, translated by Sam Malissa
The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford
The Map of Lost Memories by Kim Fay
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
The Mindful Moment by Tim Page
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store by Keigo Higashino, translated by Sam Bett
The Moon Represents My Heart by Pim Wangtechawat
The Most Dangerous Place : Pakistan’s Lawless Border by Imtiaz Gul
The Newlyweds by Nell Freudenberger
The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama by Pico Iyer
The Pachinko Woman by Henry Mynton
The People's Republic of Desire by Annie Wang
The Plotters by Un-Su Kim
The Prince, the Demon King, and the Monkey Warrior retold by Janet Brown
The Quantum Spy by David Ignatius
The Red Chapels of Banteai Srei by Sachaverell Sitwell
The Red Thread by Nicholas Jose
The Refugee Ocean by Pauls Toutonghi
The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty- Year Imprisonment in North Korea by Charles Robert Jenkins
The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka
The River by Rumer Godden
The Road of Lost Innocence by Somaly Mam
The Road to Angkor by Christopher Pym
The Road to Sleeping Dragon by Michael Meyer
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
The Salaryman's Wife by Sujata Massey
The Samurai and the Prisoner by Honobu Yonezawa
The Scent of Sake by Joyce Lebra
The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck by Rory Nugent
The Secret of the Nightingale Palace by Dana Sachs
The Seed of Hope in the Heart by Teiichi Sato
The Shanghai Free Taxi by Frank Langfitt
The Shenzhen Experiment: The Story of China’s Instant City by Juan Du
The Silent Cry by Kenzaburo Oe
The Silent Dead by Tetsuya Honda, translated by Giles Murray
The Song Poet by Kao Kalia Yang
The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh
The Stone Council by Jean-Christophe Grange
The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
The Sun in My Eyes : Two-Wheeling East by Josie Dew
The Sushi Economy : Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy by Sasha Issenberg
The Sweetest Fruits by Monique Truong
The Thorn Puller by Hiromi Ito, translated by Jeffrey Angles
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
The Unpassing by Chia-Chia Lin
The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
The Weary Generations by Abdullah Hussein
The White Devil's Daughters by Julia Flynn Siler
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The Windfall by Diksha Basu
The Winter Station by Jody Shields
The Woman Back from Moscow by Ha Jin
The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura
The Woman Who Fell from the Sky by Jennifer Steihl
The World Eats Here by John Wang and Storm Garner
The Year of Living Dangerously by Christopher J. Koch
Things We Lost to the Water by Eric Nguyen
This Way More Better : Stories and Photos from Asia's Back Roads by Karen J. Coates
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen and David Oliver Relin
Three Paper Charms by Shosuke Kita and Seion Yamaguchi
Three Tigers, One Mountain by Michael Booth
Tigers in Red Weather: A Quest for the Last Wild Tigers by Ruth Padel
To Myanmar With Love: A Travel Guide for the Connoisseur edited by Morgan Edwardson and photographs by Steve Goodman
To Vietnam With Love: A Travel Guide for the Connoisseur edited and with contributions by Kim Fay
Tokyo on Foot : Travels in the City's Most Colorful Neighborhoods by Florent Chavouet
Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri
Tokyo Vice : An American Reporter On The Police Beat In Japan by Jake Adelstein
Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace
Tokyo: City on the Edge by Todd Crowell and Stephanie Forman Morimura
Tone Deaf in Bangkok and Other Places by Janet Brown
Totto-chan : The Little Girl at the Window by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
Totto-chan's Children : A Goodwill Journey to the Children of the World by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
Tour Bangkok Legacies by Eric Lim
Travels in the East by Donald Richie
Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir by Martha Gellhorn
Triage by Scott Anderson
Two Blankets, Three Sheets by Rodaan Al Galidi
UFO in Her Eyes by Xiaolu Guo
Under the Naga Tail by Mae Bunseng Taing
Untangling My Chopsticks by Victoria Abbott Riccardi
Vanishing Bangkok: The Changing Face of the City by Ben Davies
Voices from the Snow by Hideo Osabe and Kyozo Takagi
Waiting to be Arrested at Night by Tahir Hamut Izgil, translated by Joshua L. Freeman
Walking to Samarkand: The Great Silk Road from Persia to Central Asia by Bernard Ollivier, translated by Dab Golembski
Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin
Wanderings in China: Hong Kong and Canton, Christmas and New Year 1878-1879 by Constance Gordon-Cumming
Wanting Mor by Rukhsana Khan
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
We Are Not Strangers by Josh Tuininga
We Do Not Part by Han Kang, translated by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris
We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib
Welcome Me to the Kingdom by Mai Nardone
Welcome to the Bangkok Slaughterhouse by Father Joseph Maier
What Could Be Saved by Liese O'Halloran Schwarz
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running : A Memoir by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel
When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433 by Louise Levathes
Where East Eats West: The Street-Smarts Guide to Business in China by Sam Goodman
Where Rivers Part by Kao Kalia Yang
Where Strange Gods Call: Harry Hervey's 1920s Hong Kong, Macau and Canton Sojourns
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda, translated by Polly Barton
Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri
White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway
Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers by Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Without You, There is No Us by Suki Kim
Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong
Women's Work by Megan K. Stack
Written on Water by Eileen Chang
Wuhan Diary by Fang Fang, translated by Michael Berry
Xi’an Famous Foods by Jason Wang with Jessica K. Chou, photographs by Jenny Huang
Yak Butter Blues: A Tibetan Trek of Faith by Brandon Wilson
Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter by Shoko Tendo
Yokai Attack! The Japanese Monster Survival Guide by Hiroko Yoda and Matt Alt, illustrated by Tatsuya Morino
Yokohama Yankee by Leslie Helm
You Don't Belong Here by Elizabeth Becker
You Gotta Have Wa by Robert Whiting
You’ve Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from Myanmar by Pyae Moe Thet War