Books about the Asia-Pacific region

australia

Fiction

Diary of a Bad Year by J.M. Coetzee

Snake by Kate Jennings

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

china

Fiction

The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

Non-Fiction

The Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama XIV

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

india

Fiction

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

Japan

Fiction

The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Non-Fiction

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki

Poetry

The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan by Ezra Pound & Ernest Fenellosa

south korea

Fiction

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

vietnam

Fiction

Non-Fiction

Vietnam: A History by Stanley Karnow