Best Southeast Asia Nonfiction
2. 
The Merchant of Stories: A Creative Entrepreneur's Journey
by:
Dipa Sanatani
4.59 avg rating — 128 ratings 
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Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China
by:
Tom Carter
3.59 avg rating — 197 ratings 
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The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)
by:
James C. Scott
4.14 avg rating — 1,348 ratings 
18. 
The Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia: A New History
by:
David Chandler
3.78 avg rating — 65 ratings 
20. 
Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind
by:
Loung Ung
4.20 avg rating — 3,496 ratings 21. 
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by:
Loung Ung
4.35 avg rating — 52,425 ratings 22. 
The Gods Drink Whiskey: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment in the Land of the Tattered Buddha
by:
Stephen T. Asma
3.84 avg rating — 386 ratings 
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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
by:
Le Ly Hayslip
4.12 avg rating — 4,293 ratings 
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When the Clouds Fell from the Sky: A Daughter's Search for Her Father in the Killing Fields of Cambodia 4.13 avg rating — 83 ratings
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A Dragon Apparent: Travels in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam
by:
Norman Lewis
3.93 avg rating — 590 ratings 
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Tussen sawahs en bergen : het leven van de soldaat in de Tijger-brigade
by:
A.M. Brouwer
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
31. 
Mrenh Gongveal: Chasing the Elves of the Khmer
by:
Keith Kelly
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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Living For Higher Purpose: Story of a City Boy Who Survived the Vietnam War by Living for Jesus and Others
by:
Peter G. Vu
4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings 31. 
Indonesia, Etc: Exploring the Improbable Nation
by:
Elizabeth Pisani
4.21 avg rating — 3,267 ratings 31. 
A Few Hidden Truths: Islam and Indonesian Democracy in The Age of Terror really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Containing Contagion: The Politics of Disease Outbreaks in Southeast Asia 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Scorched Earth: Peacekeeping in Timor during a campaign of death and destruction
by:
Tammy Pemper
4.29 avg rating — 21 ratings 
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Troubled Waters: Borders, Boundaries and Possession in the Timor Sea
by:
Ruth Balint
4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings 31. 
Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
by:
Chantha Nguon
4.31 avg rating — 2,659 ratings 
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What Is Your Good Name? (The Conscious Living Series)
by:
Michael Martin
it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating 31. 
Việt Nam Của Con, Việt Nam Của Cha / My Vietnam, Your Vietnam: Cha Chạy Khỏi Quê Hương. Con Tìm Về Đất Tổ. Hồi Ký Đồng Hành Của. / A Father Flees. A ... Returns. A Dual Memoir.
by:
Christina Vo
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 138 ratings 56. 
Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia
by:
Jeffrey Alford
4.15 avg rating — 1,879 ratings 56. 
Bombay Anna: The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of the "King and I" Governess
by:
Susan Morgan
3.42 avg rating — 104 ratings 56. 
The Last Executioner: Memoirs of Thailand's Last Prison Executioner 3.78 avg rating — 281 ratings
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Indonesia's Forgotten War: The Hidden History of East Timor
by:
John G. Taylor
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings 56. 
64. 
The Trouble With Tigers: The Rise and Fall of South-East Asia
by:
Mallet
3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings 
64. 
The Golden Triangle: Inside Southeast Asia's Drug Trade
by:
Ko-Lin Chin
4.19 avg rating — 21 ratings 
70. 
Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800-1830. Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland 4.13 avg rating — 52 ratings
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The Art of Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Burma, Java, Bali
by:
Philip Rawson
3.49 avg rating — 47 ratings 70. 
Gangsters, Democracy, and the State in Southeast Asia
by:
Carl A. Trocki
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 75. 
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Taking Southeast Asia to Market: Commodities, Nature, and People in the Neoliberal Age
by:
Joseph Nevins
4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings 
79. 
The Perfume River: An Anthology of Writing from Vietnam
by:
Catherine Cole
3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings 79. 
Southeast Asia Over Three Generations: Essays Presented to Benedict R.O'G. Anderson
by:
James T. Siegel
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 82. 
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The Flaming Womb: Repositioning Women in Early Modern Southeast Asia 4.15 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Other Pasts: Women, Gender and History in Early Modern Southeast Asia 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
88. 
Thai Cinema: The Complete Guide (Tauris World Cinema Series)
by:
Mary J. Ainslie
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
93. 
Different Under God: A Survey of Church-Going Protestants in Singapore
by:
Terence Chong
2.67 avg rating — 6 ratings 95. 
The Theatre and the State in Singapore (Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series)
by:
Terence Chong
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
96. 
Pentecostal Megachurches in Southeast Asia: Negotiating Class, Consumption and the Nation
by:
Terence Chong
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 98. 
From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey
by:
Pascal Khoo Thwe
4.14 avg rating — 1,777 ratings 98. 
The Ambiguous Allure of the West: Traces of the Colonial in Thailand 4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings
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