Central Asia
1. 
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
by:
Peter Hopkirk
4.33 avg rating — 8,765 ratings 2. 
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
by:
Jack Weatherford
4.06 avg rating — 81,022 ratings 3. 
The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia
by:
René Grousset
4.10 avg rating — 347 ratings 4. 
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
by:
Greg Mortenson
3.66 avg rating — 358,694 ratings 
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Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia
by:
Alexander Cooley
3.82 avg rating — 137 ratings 
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Warriors Of The Steppe: Military History Of Central Asia, 500 B.C. To 1700 A.D.
by:
Erik Hildinger
3.82 avg rating — 137 ratings 
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The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
by:
Jack Weatherford
3.93 avg rating — 4,563 ratings 13. 
The Birth of Tajikistan: National Identity and the Origins of the Republic
by:
Paul Bergne
3.72 avg rating — 29 ratings 
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Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia
by:
Peter Hopkirk
4.20 avg rating — 1,045 ratings 16. 
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The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
by:
Jenny Nordberg
4.11 avg rating — 13,996 ratings 18. 
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Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
by:
Greg Mortenson
3.85 avg rating — 17,062 ratings 22. 
Secret History of the Mongols: The Origin of Chingis Khan
by:
Paul Kahn
4.02 avg rating — 248 ratings 23. 
Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game & the Race for Empire in Central Asia
by:
Karl E. Meyer
3.87 avg rating — 705 ratings 
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Descent into Chaos: The United States & the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan & Central Asia
by:
Ahmed Rashid
3.95 avg rating — 2,624 ratings 26. 
Uyghur Nation: Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier
by:
David Brophy
4.23 avg rating — 44 ratings 27. 
Moron to Moron: Two Men, Two Bikes, One Mongolian Misadventure
by:
Tom Doig
3.41 avg rating — 153 ratings 
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Threading My Prayer Rug: One Woman's Journey from Pakistani Muslim to American Muslim
by:
Sabeeha Rehman
4.05 avg rating — 1,348 ratings 30. 
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
by:
Malala Yousafzai
4.16 avg rating — 612,744 ratings 31. 
Does it Yurt? Travels in Central Asia Or How I Came to Love the Stans
by:
Stephen M. Bland
3.66 avg rating — 44 ratings 
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Pomegranate Roads: A Soviet Botanist's Exile from Eden
by:
Gregory M. Levin
3.86 avg rating — 29 ratings 35. 
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Treasures of Central Asia
by:
Peter Hopkirk
4.16 avg rating — 1,529 ratings 36. 
On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads
by:
Tim Cope
4.15 avg rating — 1,969 ratings 
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Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus
by:
Robert D. Kaplan
4.04 avg rating — 1,728 ratings 40. 
Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present 3.59 avg rating — 781 ratings
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Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia
by:
Tom Bissell
3.86 avg rating — 710 ratings 42. 
Tang China And The Collapse Of The Uighur Empire: A Documentary History (Brill's Inner Asian Library, 13) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Gobi Desert - The Adventures of Three Women Travelling Across the Gobi Desert in the 1920s
by:
Mildred Cable
4.08 avg rating — 59 ratings 47. 
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Around the Sacred Sea: Mongolia and Lake Baikal on Horseback
by:
Bartle Bull
3.96 avg rating — 25 ratings 55. 
Gnosis on the Silk Road: Gnostic Parables, Hymns & Prayers from Central Asia 3.91 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The History of Central Asia: The Age of Islam and the Mongols (Volume 3)
by:
Christoph Baumer
4.56 avg rating — 16 ratings 
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Holy War in China: The Muslim Rebellion and State in Chinese Central Asia, 1864-1877
by:
Kim Hodong
4.59 avg rating — 17 ratings 64. 
The Corridor of Uncertainty: How Cricket Mended a Torn Nation
by:
Nihar Suthar
4.15 avg rating — 52 ratings 
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The Establishment of National Republics in Soviet Central Asia
by:
Arne Haugen
4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings 
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Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR
by:
Adeeb Khalid
4.34 avg rating — 61 ratings 
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Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present
by:
Adeeb Khalid
4.25 avg rating — 331 ratings 
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Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane 4.26 avg rating — 1,186 ratings
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Under the Heel of the Dragon: Islam, Racism, Crime, and the Uighur in China (Volume 7) (Ohio RIS Global Series)
by:
Blaine Kaltman
3.29 avg rating — 21 ratings 79. 
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
by:
Ahmed Rashid
3.98 avg rating — 4,736 ratings 
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Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia's Aral Sea Basin
by:
Maya K. Peterson
3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings 83. 
Muslims in Central Asia: Expressions of Identity and Change (Central Asia Book Series)
by:
Jo-Ann Gross
3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings 84. 
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Sinicization Beyond the Great Wall: China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region
by:
Anwar Rahman
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 86. 
Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews & the Central Asiatic Expeditions 3.95 avg rating — 361 ratings
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The History of Central Asia: The Age of the Steppe Warriors (Volume 1)
by:
Christoph Baumer
4.25 avg rating — 53 ratings 89. 
Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia
by:
Adeeb Khalid
4.01 avg rating — 130 ratings 
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For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia
by:
Robert D. Crews
3.82 avg rating — 88 ratings 91. 
The History of Central Asia: The Age of the Silk Roads
by:
Christoph Baumer
4.30 avg rating — 27 ratings 
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In Search of Zarathustra: Across Iran and Central Asia to Find the World's First Prophet
by:
Paul Kriwaczek
3.81 avg rating — 687 ratings 94. 
The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan
by:
Michael Hastings
3.93 avg rating — 2,628 ratings 96. 
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
by:
Steve Coll
4.31 avg rating — 18,331 ratings 97. 
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Little Women of Baghlan: The Story of a Nursing School for Girls in Afghanistan, the Peace Corps, and Life Before the Taliban
by:
Susan Fox
4.18 avg rating — 56 ratings 99. 
The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling under Communism
by:
Marianne Kamp
4.27 avg rating — 52 ratings 