Best for Backpacking through Southeast Asia

1.
Lost in Yaba: Down and Out in Laos
Lost in Yaba: Down and Out in Laos 3.86 avg rating — 1,633 ratings
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The Quiet American
The Quiet American 3.98 avg rating — 68,874 ratings
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by: Loung Ung
4.35 avg rating — 52,427 ratings
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The Blue Bar (Blue Mumbai, #1)
The Blue Bar (Blue Mumbai, #1) 3.72 avg rating — 4,695 ratings
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The Beach
The Beach 3.98 avg rating — 94,573 ratings
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Burmese Days
Burmese Days 3.87 avg rating — 31,294 ratings
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Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam 3.99 avg rating — 6,620 ratings
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Finding George Orwell in Burma
Finding George Orwell in Burma 3.96 avg rating — 3,664 ratings
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Pattaya Youtuber: And other true stories from Thailand
Pattaya Youtuber: And other true stories from Thailand 4.07 avg rating — 222 ratings
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Lost in Yaba: Down and Out in Laos
Lost in Yaba: Down and Out in Laos 3.86 avg rating — 1,633 ratings
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The Glass Palace
The Glass Palace really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 27,580 ratings
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The Things They Carried
The Things They Carried 4.14 avg rating — 337,490 ratings
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The Lover
The Lover 3.71 avg rating — 68,169 ratings
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Sightseeing
Sightseeing 3.96 avg rating — 3,266 ratings
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Saving Fish from Drowning
Saving Fish from Drowning
by: Amy Tan
3.47 avg rating — 32,828 ratings
16.
Southeast Asia: On a Shoestring
Southeast Asia: On a Shoestring 4.12 avg rating — 1,175 ratings
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures 4.20 avg rating — 87,602 ratings
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Bangkok 8 (Sonchai Jitpleecheep, #1)
Bangkok 8 (Sonchai Jitpleecheep, #1) 3.75 avg rating — 11,003 ratings
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The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma
The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma 4.02 avg rating — 1,543 ratings
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The Gift of Rain
The Gift of Rain 4.28 avg rating — 17,828 ratings
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The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia 3.90 avg rating — 21,057 ratings
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The Year of Living Dangerously
The Year of Living Dangerously 3.90 avg rating — 1,916 ratings
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Bumi Manusia (Tetralogi Buru, #1)
Bumi Manusia (Tetralogi Buru, #1) 4.43 avg rating — 21,804 ratings
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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace 4.12 avg rating — 4,293 ratings
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Noli Me Tángere (Touch Me Not)
Noli Me Tángere (Touch Me Not) 4.22 avg rating — 8,544 ratings
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Laskar Pelangi
Laskar Pelangi 4.26 avg rating — 31,810 ratings
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Stay Alive, My Son
Stay Alive, My Son 4.37 avg rating — 1,186 ratings
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Anna and the King of Siam
Anna and the King of Siam 3.80 avg rating — 3,053 ratings
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When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge 4.18 avg rating — 4,944 ratings
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The Painted Veil
The Painted Veil 3.97 avg rating — 50,333 ratings
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Lotusland
Lotusland 4.31 avg rating — 58 ratings
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The Long Day Wanes (Malayan Trilogy #1-3)
The Long Day Wanes (Malayan Trilogy #1-3) 3.99 avg rating — 903 ratings
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Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind
Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind
by: Loung Ung
4.20 avg rating — 3,496 ratings
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The Windup Girl
The Windup Girl 3.75 avg rating — 77,345 ratings
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From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey
From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey 4.14 avg rating — 1,777 ratings
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Bangkok Tattoo (Sonchai Jitpleecheep, #2)
Bangkok Tattoo (Sonchai Jitpleecheep, #2) 3.80 avg rating — 5,525 ratings
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Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West
Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West
by: Zoya Phan
4.03 avg rating — 662 ratings
38.
The Garden of Evening Mists
The Garden of Evening Mists 4.15 avg rating — 29,001 ratings
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Bangkok Haunts (Sonchai Jitpleecheep, #3)
Bangkok Haunts (Sonchai Jitpleecheep, #3) 3.76 avg rating — 3,856 ratings
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Shantaram
Shantaram 4.28 avg rating — 233,184 ratings
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Destination Saigon
Destination Saigon 3.52 avg rating — 192 ratings
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Four Reigns
Four Reigns 4.19 avg rating — 924 ratings
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Cambodia's Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land
Cambodia's Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land 3.86 avg rating — 1,329 ratings
44.
Red Lights and Green Lizards: A Cambodian Adventure
Red Lights and Green Lizards: A Cambodian Adventure 3.25 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Ten Poems about East Asia & Kitsch Nebula Ampersands And
Ten Poems about East Asia & Kitsch Nebula Ampersands And 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain 3.95 avg rating — 9,279 ratings
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Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram
Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram 3.79 avg rating — 2,504 ratings
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Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo
Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo 4.14 avg rating — 1,946 ratings
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The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2) 3.99 avg rating — 25,324 ratings
50.
Voice of Hope: Conversations with Alan Clements
Voice of Hope: Conversations with Alan Clements 4.07 avg rating — 328 ratings
51.
Holiday in Cambodia
Holiday in Cambodia 3.49 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Land of a Thousand Eyes: The Subtle Pleasures of Everyday Life in Myanmar
Land of a Thousand Eyes: The Subtle Pleasures of Everyday Life in Myanmar 3.63 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Temples & Tuk Tuks: Travels in Cambodia
Temples & Tuk Tuks: Travels in Cambodia 3.37 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The Darkest Little Room
The Darkest Little Room 3.49 avg rating — 76 ratings
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La Biographie Du Prophète Mouhammad, Le Nectar Cacheté
La Biographie Du Prophète Mouhammad, Le Nectar Cacheté
by: Ar-Rahik
4.47 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
by: Multatuli
3.53 avg rating — 10,236 ratings
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The Trader of Saigon
The Trader of Saigon 3.72 avg rating — 381 ratings
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Highways to a War
Highways to a War 4.28 avg rating — 608 ratings
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Dispatches
Dispatches 4.22 avg rating — 21,216 ratings
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Child of All Nations (Buru Quartet, #2)
Child of All Nations (Buru Quartet, #2) 4.43 avg rating — 7,732 ratings
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The Gods Drink Whiskey: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment in the Land of the Tattered Buddha
The Gods Drink Whiskey: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment in the Land of the Tattered Buddha 3.84 avg rating — 386 ratings
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The Perfect Hostage: A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi
The Perfect Hostage: A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi 3.93 avg rating — 326 ratings
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Grandad, There's A Head On The Beach (Jimm Juree, #2)
Grandad, There's A Head On The Beach (Jimm Juree, #2) 3.77 avg rating — 1,729 ratings
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Thirty-Three Teeth (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #2)
Thirty-Three Teeth (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #2) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6,324 ratings
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Anarchy and Old Dogs (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #4)
Anarchy and Old Dogs (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #4) 4.10 avg rating — 4,231 ratings
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Curse of the Pogo Stick (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #5)
Curse of the Pogo Stick (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #5) 4.10 avg rating — 3,647 ratings
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Disco for the Departed (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #3)
Disco for the Departed (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #3) 4.06 avg rating — 4,825 ratings
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The Merry Misogynist (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #6)
The Merry Misogynist (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #6) 4.12 avg rating — 3,369 ratings
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The Godfather of Kathmandu (Sonchai Jitpleecheep, #4)
The Godfather of Kathmandu (Sonchai Jitpleecheep, #4) 3.79 avg rating — 2,700 ratings
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Love Songs from a Shallow Grave (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #7)
Love Songs from a Shallow Grave (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #7) 4.19 avg rating — 3,100 ratings
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Slash and Burn (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #8)
Slash and Burn (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #8) 4.14 avg rating — 2,933 ratings
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The House Of Trembling Leaves
The House Of Trembling Leaves 3.77 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Survival in the Killing Fields
Survival in the Killing Fields 4.56 avg rating — 3,968 ratings
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Mr. Nice
Mr. Nice 3.90 avg rating — 10,827 ratings
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Conflict: Journeys through war and terror in Southeast Asia
Conflict: Journeys through war and terror in Southeast Asia 3.70 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Miss Bangkok: Memoirs of a Thai Prostitute
Miss Bangkok: Memoirs of a Thai Prostitute 3.63 avg rating — 708 ratings
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The Sorrow of War
The Sorrow of War 4.09 avg rating — 10,794 ratings
78.
For Us Surrender is Out of the Question
For Us Surrender is Out of the Question 4.04 avg rating — 182 ratings
78.
The Fan Tan Players
The Fan Tan Players 3.73 avg rating — 67 ratings
78.
The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong
The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong 3.83 avg rating — 375 ratings
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When the Rainbow Goddess Wept
When the Rainbow Goddess Wept 3.83 avg rating — 378 ratings
81.
The Book of Real and Imaginary Girlfriends
The Book of Real and Imaginary Girlfriends 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
81.
The Butterfly Trap
The Butterfly Trap 3.42 avg rating — 31 ratings
81.
Powiedział mi wróżbita: Lądowe podróże po Dalekim Wschodzie
Powiedział mi wróżbita: Lądowe podróże po Dalekim Wschodzie 4.20 avg rating — 7,936 ratings
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Dusk (Rosales Saga, #1)
Dusk (Rosales Saga, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 1,420 ratings
85.
Bangkok Rules
Bangkok Rules 3.93 avg rating — 469 ratings
85.
Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians, #1)
Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 536,429 ratings
88.
I Am Not a Whore
I Am Not a Whore
by: Emme Hor
4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
88.
Ermita
Ermita 4.21 avg rating — 787 ratings
90.
The Lady and the Peacock: The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma
The Lady and the Peacock: The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma 3.75 avg rating — 737 ratings
90.
For Monks Only
For Monks Only 4.44 avg rating — 16 ratings
92.
Fieldwork
Fieldwork 3.65 avg rating — 4,487 ratings
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That Fucker
That Fucker
by: Emme Hor
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
94.
Burma Chronicles
Burma Chronicles really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13,843 ratings
94.
The Singapore Grip (Empire Trilogy, #3)
The Singapore Grip (Empire Trilogy, #3) 3.93 avg rating — 2,351 ratings
96.
On Dangerous Ground
On Dangerous Ground
by: Sue Cook
3.71 avg rating — 35 ratings
97.
El Filibusterismo (Noli Me Tangere, #2)
El Filibusterismo (Noli Me Tangere, #2) 4.26 avg rating — 6,428 ratings
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The Queen of Patpong (Poke Rafferty Mystery #4)
The Queen of Patpong (Poke Rafferty Mystery #4) 4.15 avg rating — 880 ratings
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Private Dancer
Private Dancer 3.82 avg rating — 1,965 ratings
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Are You Experienced?
Are You Experienced? 3.58 avg rating — 4,814 ratings
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