All Episodes

Fyodor Tertitskiy, "Pyongyang on the Brink: Sixteen Crises That Shaped North Korea" (Hurst, 2026)

Julia Stephens, "Worldly Afterlives: Tracing Family Trails Between India and Empire" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Paul Blustein, "King Dollar: The Past and Future of the World's Dominant Currency" (Yale UP, 2025)

Craig Perry, "Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Jinwoo Park, "Oxford Soju Club" (Dundurn Press, 2025)

Rishi Rajpopat, "Panini's Perfect Rule: A Modern Solution to an Ancient Problem in Sanskrit Grammar" (Harvard UP, 2025)

Avner Greif et al., "Two Paths to Prosperity: Culture and Institutions in Europe and China, 1000–2000" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Nicholas Evan Sarantakes, "The Battle of Manila: Poisoned Victory in the Pacific War" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Mahesh Rao, "Half Light" (Penguin Random House India, 2025)

Olivier Hein, "Borneo: The History of an Enigma" (Hurst, 2026)

Rian Thum, "Islamic China: An Asian History" (Harvard UP, 2025)

Warwick Ball, "Ancient Civilizations of Afghanistan: From the Earliest Times to the Mongol Conquest" (Reaktion, 2025)

Joanna Lillis, "Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Yi-Ling Liu, "The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet" (Knopf, 2026)

Eric Chopra, "Ghosted" (Speaking Tiger, 2026)

Yossef Rapoport, "Becoming Arab: The Formation of Arab Identity in the Medieval Middle East" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Namit Arora and Romila Thapar, "Speaking of History: Conversations about India’s Past and Present" (India Allen Lane, 2025)

Imran Mulla, "The Indian Caliphate, Exiled Ottomans and the Billionaire Prince" (Hurst, 2025)

Sean Mathews, "The New Byzantines: The Rise of Greece and Return of the Near East" (Hurst, 2025)

Kerry Brown, "The Great Reversal: Britain, China and the 400-Year Contest for Power" (Yale UP, 2024)

Suraj Milind Yengde, "Caste: A Global Story" (Hurst, 2025)

Joseph Torigian, "The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping" (Stanford UP, 2025)

Andrew Bernstein, "Fuji: A Mountain In The Making" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Steve Tibble, "Assassins and Templars: A Battle in Myth and Blood" (Yale UP, 2025)

Fahad Ahmad Bishara, "Monsoon Voyagers: An Indian Ocean History" (U California Press, 2025)

Ludovic Orlando, "Horses: A 4,000-Year Genetic Journey Across the World" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Justin Marozzi, "Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World" (Pegasus Books, 2025)

Harini Nagendra, "Into the Leopard's Den: A Bangalore Detectives Club Mystery" (Pegasus Crime, 2025)

Stephen C. Mercado, "Japanese Spy Gear and Special Weapons: How Noborito's Scientists and Technicians Served in the Second World War and the Cold War" (Pen & Sword Military, 2025)

Abhimanyu Kumar and Aletta André, "The House of Awadh: A Hidden Tragedy" (HarperCollins India, 2025)

Moudhy Al-Rashid, "Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History" (W.W. Norton, 2025)

Jemimah Wei, "The Original Daughter" (Doubleday/Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2025)

Erin M.B. O'Halloran, "East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World Between the Wars" (Stanford UP, 2025)

Rosinka Chaudhuri, "India's First Radicals: Young Bengal and the British Empire" (India Viking, 2025)

Charles R. Butcher and Ryan D. Griffiths, "Before Colonization: Non-Western States and Systems in the Nineteenth Century" (Columbia UP, 2025)

Wu Jianren, "New Story of the Stone: An Early Chinese Science Fiction Novel" (Columbia UP, 2025)

Sam Dalrymple, "Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia" (William Collins, 2025)

Tracy Slater, "Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp" (Chicago Review Press, 2025)

Nan Z. Da, The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear (Princeton UP, 2025)

Audrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Eiko Maruko Siniawer, "Ten Moments that Shaped Tokyo" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Aatish Taseer, "A Return to Self: Excursions in Exile" (Catapult, 2025)

Sanjena Sathian, "Goddess Complex" (Penguin Press, 2025)

James D.J. Brown, "Cracking the Crab: Russian Espionage Against Japan, from Peter the Great to Richard Sorge" (Hurst, 2025),

Paul French, "Destination Macao" (Blacksmith Books, 2024)

Zev Handel, "Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese" (U Washington Press, 2025)

Naomi Xu Elegant, "Gingko Season: A Novel" (W. W. Norton, 2025)

John Man, "Conquering the North: China, Russia, Mongolia: 2,000 Years of Conflict" (Oneworld Publications, 2025)

Fyodor Tertitskiy, "Accidental Tyrant: The Life of Kim Il-sung" (Hurst UP, 2025)

Vappala Balachandran, "India and China at Odds in the Asian Century: A Diplomatic and Strategic History" (Hurst, 2025)

Chris Aslan, "Unravelling the Silk Road: Travels and Textiles in Central Asia" (Icon Books, 2024)

Lizhi Liu, "From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Mayukh Sen, "Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star" (Norton, 2025)

Laura Spinney, "Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian, "The Great Transformation: China's Road from Revolution to Reform" (Yale UP, 2024)

Chris Stowers, "Shoot, Ask...and Run" (Earnshaw Books Ltd, 2025)

Richard Overy, "Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan" (Norton, 2025)

Bin Yang, "Discovered But Forgotten: The Maldives in Chinese History, C. 1100-1620" (Columbia UP, 2024)

Kornel Chang, "A Fractured Liberation: Korea Under U.S. Occupation" (Harvard UP, 2025)

Robert J. Antony, "Outlaws of the Sea: Maritime Piracy in Modern China" (Hong Kong UP, 2024)

Ashis Ray, "The Trial That Shook Britain: How a Court Martial Hastened Acceptance of Indian Independence" (Routledge India, 2024)

The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History

Manu Pillai, "Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity" (Allen Lane, 2025)

Kishore Mahbubani, "Living the Asian Century: An Undiplomatic Memoir" (Public Affairs, 2024)

Tahir Kamran, "Chequered Past, Uncertain Future: The History of Pakistan" (Reaktion Books, 2024)

Bertil Lintner, "The Golden Land Ablaze: Coups, Insurgents and the State in Myanmar" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Rosemary Wakeman, "The Worlds of Victor Sassoon: Bombay, London, Shanghai, 1918–1941" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Jorge Flores, "Empire of Contingency: How Portugal Entered the Indo-Persian World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

Avinash Paliwal, "India's Near East: A New History" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Glenn Diaz, "Yñiga: A Novel" (Ateneo de Manila UP, 2022)

Peter Hessler, "Other Rivers: A Chinese Education" (Penguin, 2024)

Victor D. Cha, "The Black Box: Demystifying the Study of Korean Unification and North Korea" (Columbia UP, 2024)

Juan José Rivas Moreno, "The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)

Paul French, "Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)

Herald van der Linde, "Majapahit: Intrigue, Betrayal and War in Indonesia's Greatest Empire" (Monsoon Books, 2024)

Caroline Alexander, "Skies of Thunder: The Deadly World War II Mission Over the Roof of the World" (Viking, 2024)

Vikas Swarup, "The Girl with the Seven Lives" (Simon & Schuster India, 2024)

Allen James Fromherz, "The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf from the Stone Age to the Present" (U California Press, 2024)

Ruth Vanita, "A Slight Angle" (India Viking, 2024)

John Duffus, "Backstage in Hong Kong: A Life with the Philharmonic, Broadway Musicals and Classical Superstars" (Blacksmith Books, 2024)

Ronald Drabkin, "Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor" (William Morrow, 2024)

Andrea Benvenuti, "Nehru's Bandung: Non-Alignment and Regional Order in Indian Cold War Strategy" (Oxford UP, 2024)

William T. Taylor, "Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History" (U California Press, 2024)

Rohit Manchanda, "The Enclave: A Sharp and Hilarious Portrait of Womanhood in India" (Fourth Estate, 2024)

Maaria Sayed, "From Pashas to Pokemon" (Vishwakarma Publications, 2024)

Steven K. Bailey, "Target Hong Kong: A True Story of U.S. Navy Pilots at War" (Osprey, 2024)

Peter Rose, "The Good War of Consul Reeves" (Blacksmith Books, 2024)

David Chaffetz, "Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires" (Norton, 2024)

Marga Ortigas, "God's Ashes: Apocrypha" (Penguin, 2024)

Rachel Kousser, "Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great" (Mariner Books, 2024)

Juli Min, "Shanghailanders" (Spiegel & Grau, 2024)

Lio Mangubat, "Silk, Silver, Spices, Slaves: Lost Tales from the Philippine Colonial Period, 1565-1946" (Faction Press, 2024)

Roger Crowley, "Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World" (Yale UP, 2024)

Dan Morrison, "The Poisoner of Bengal: The 1930s Murder That Shocked the World" (Juggernaut, 2024)

Bill Lascher, "A Danger Shared: A Journalist’s Glimpses of a Continent at War" (Blacksmith Books, 2024)

Eric Thompson, "The Story of Southeast Asia" (NUS Press, 2024)

Michelle T. King, "Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-Mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food" (Norton, 2024)

Jin Feng, "The Transpacific Flow: Creative Writing Programs in China" (Association for Asian Studies, 2024)

Clare Hammond, "On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey Through Occupied Myanmar" (Allen Lane, 2024)

Sudev Sheth, "Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Scott Crawford, "The Han-Xiongnu War, 133 BC-89 AD: The Struggle of China and a Steppe Empire Told Through Its Key Figures (Pen & Sword, 2023)

Gary J. Bass, "Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia" (Knopf, 2023)

Peter Harmsen, "Bernhard Sindberg: The Schindler of Nanjing" (Casemate, 2024)

Rajrishi Singhal, "Slip, Stitch and Stumble: The Untold Story of Financial Reforms in India" (Viking, 2024)

Jeremy Garlick, "Advantage China: Agent of Change in an Era of Global Disruption" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Katie Gee Salisbury, "Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong" (Dutton, 2024)

Mukund Padmanabhan, "The Great Flap of 1942: How the Raj Panicked over a Japanese Non-invasion (Vintage Books, 2024)

Jonathan Chatwin, "The Southern Tour: Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China's Future" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Robert D. Kaplan, "The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China" (Random House, 2023)

Kyokutei Bakin, "Eight Dogs, Or Hakkenden: Part Two--His Master's Blade" (Cornell UP, 2024)

David Veevers, "The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire" (Ebury Press, 2023)

Noo Saro-Wiwa, "Black Ghosts: A Journey Into the Lives of Africans in China" (Canongate Books, 2024)

Julie Kalman, "The Kings of Algiers: How Two Jewish Families Shaped the Mediterranean World During the Napoleonic Wars and Beyond" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Ben Rothenberg, "Naomi Osaka: Her Journey to Finding Her Power and Her Voice" (Dutton, 2024)

Thomas J. Barfield, "Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Simon Partner, "Koume's World: The Life and Work of a Samurai Woman Before and After the Meiji Restoration" (Columbia UP, 2023)

Diego Javier Luis, "The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History" (Harvard UP, 2024)

Gregory Wallance, "Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)

Joshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Adrian Goldsworthy, "Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry" (Basic Books, 2023)

Agnes Chew, "Eternal Summer of My Homeland" (Epigram Books, 2023)

Lindsay Pereira, "The Memoirs of Valmiki Rao" (Vintage Books, 2023)

Timothy Brook, "The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Scott D. Seligman, "Murder in Manchuria: The True Story of a Jewish Virtuoso, Russian Fascists, a French Diplomat, and a Japanese Spy in Occupied China" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

Elise Hu, "Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital" (Dutton, 2023)

Hugo Wong, "America's Lost Chinese: The Rise and Fall of a Migrant Family Dream" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Susan Blumberg-Kason, "Bernardine's Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China" (Post Hill Press, 2023)

John Zubrzycki, "Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States" (Hurst, 2024)

Jeffrey Angles, ed., "Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again: The Original Novellas by Shigeru Kayama" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

Arupjyoti Saikia, "The Quest for Modern Assam: A History, 1942-2000" (India Allen Lane, 2023)

Aarathi Prasad, "Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses" (William Collins, 2023)

Toby Matthiesen, "The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Gabe Durham, "The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask" (Boss Fight Books, 2020)

Chris Stowers, "Bugis Nights" (Earnshaw Books, 2023)

Hannah Michell, "Excavations: A Novel" (One World, 2023)

Alexandra Kaloyanides, "Baptizing Burma: Religious Change in the Last Buddhist Kingdom" (Columbia UP, 2023)

Seema Alavi, "Sovereigns of the Sea: Omani Ambition in the Age of Empire" (India Allen Lane, 2023)

Kerry Brown, "China Incorporated: The Politics of a World Where China is Number One" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, "Ancient Persia and the Book of Esther: Achaemenid Court Culture in the Hebrew Bible" (I. B. Tauris, 2023)

Maximillian Mørch, "Plains of Discontent: A Political History of Nepal’s Tarai (1743-2019)" (FinePrint, 2023)

Nishanth Injam, "The Best Possible Experience: Stories" (Pantheon, 2023)

Samrat Choudhury, "Northeast India: A Political History" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Nicholas Hoover Wilson, "Modernity's Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India" (Columbia UP, 2023)

Vaudine England, "Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong" (Scribner, 2023)

Rudi Matthee, "Angels Tapping at the Wine-Shop's Door: A History of Alcohol in the Islamic World" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Michael J. Seth, "Korea at War: Conflicts That Shaped the World" (Tuttle Publishing, 2023)

Robert Hillenbrand, "The Great Mongol Shahnameh" (Hali Publications et al., 2022)

Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo, "Korea: A New History of South and North" (Yale UP, 2023)

Marco Caboara, "Regnum Chinae: The Printed Western Maps of China to 1735" (Brill, 2022)

Fiona Sze-Lorrain, "Dear Chrysanthemums: A Novel in Stories" (Scribner, 2023)

Sofia Samatar, "The White Mosque: A Memoir" (Catapult, 2022)

Tanvi Srivastava, trans., "The War Diary of Asha-san: From Tokyo to Netaji's Indian National Army" (Harper Collins, 2022)

Peter Thilly, "The Opium Business: A History of Crime and Capitalism in Maritime China" (Stanford UP, 2022)

Monica Macias, "Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity" (Duckworth, 2023)

Baba Padmanji, "Yamuna's Journey" (Speaking Tiger Books, 2022)

Philip Snow, "China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord" (Yale UP, 2023)

James M. Zimmerman, "The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China" (PublicAffairs, 2023)

Amitav Acharya, "Tragic Nation: Burma--Why and How Democracy Failed" (Penguin Random House, 2023)

Kaamil Ahmed, "I Feel No Peace: Rohingya Fleeing Over Seas and Rivers" (Hurst, 2023)

Mai Nardone, "Welcome Me to the Kingdom: Stories" (Random House, 2023)

Nikhil Menon, "Planning Democracy: Modern India’s Quest for Development" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Oliver Slow, "Return of the Junta: Why Myanmar’s Military Must Go Back to the Barracks" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Zeno Sworder, "My Strange Shrinking Parents" (Thames & Hudson, 2023)

Weijian Shan, "Money Machine: A Trailblazing American Venture in China" (Wiley, 2023)

Lawrence Osborne, "On Java Road: A Novel" (Hogarth Press, 2022)

Xin Wen, "The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Steve Kemper, "Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor" (Mariner Books, 2022)

Kyla Zhao, "The Fraud Squad" (Berkley Books, 2023)

John D. Hosler, "Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace" (Yale UP, 2022)

Mark Eveleigh, "Kopi Dulu: Caffeine-Fuelled Island-Hopping Through Indonesia" (Penguin Southeast Asia, 2022)

Angela Hui, "Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter" (Trapeze, 2022)

Uther Charlton-Stevens, "Anglo-India and the End of Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Jeff Fearnside, "Ships in the Desert" (Santa Fe Writer's Project, 2022)

Jayita Sarkar, "Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2022)

Ronald H. Spector, "A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955" (Norton, 2023)

Tarun Khanna and Michael Szonyi, "Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present" (Oxford UP, 2022)

John D. Wong, "Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub, 1930s-1998" (Harvard UP, 2022)

Michael X. Wang, "Lost in the Long March" (Overlook Press, 2022)

Jamil Jan Kochai, "The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories" (Viking, 2022)

Joseph Sassoon, "The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire" (Pantheon Books, 2022)

John Keay, "Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Eric Tagliocozzo, "In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama" (Princeton UP, 2022)

Hua Hsu, "Stay True: A Memoir" (Doubleday, 2022)

Mark Vanhoenacker, "Imagine a City: A Pilot's Journey Across the Urban World" (Knopf, 2022)

Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, "The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China" (U Washington Press, 2022)

Mansi Choksi, "The Newlyweds: Rearranging Marriage in Modern India" (Atria Books, 2022)

Scott Moore, "China's Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology Are Reshaping China's Rise and the World's Future" (Oxford UP, 2022)

John Saeki, "The Last Tigers of Hong Kong: True Stories of Big Cats That Stalked the Hills Beyond the City" (Blacksmith Books, 2021)

Rahul Sagar, "To Raise a Fallen People: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Indian Views on International Politics" (Columbia UP, 2022)

Hannah Kirshner, "Water, Wood, and Wild Things: Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town" (Penguin, 2022)

Manoj Joshi, "Understanding the India-China Border: The Enduring Threat of War in High Himalaya" (Hurst, 2022)

William C. Kirby, "Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China" (Harvard UP, 2022)

Matthew Teller, "Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City" (Other Press, 2022)

Lan Samantha Chang, "The Family Chao: A Novel" (Norton, 2022)

Annah Lake Zhu, "Rosewood: Endangered Species Conservation and the Rise of Global China" (Harvard UP, 2022)

Helen Pfeifer, "Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands" (Princeton UP, 2022)

Ramon Pacheco Pardo, "Shrimp to Whale: South Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Lachlan Fleetwood, "Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

The Kushnameh: The Persian Epic of Kush the Tusked

Jennifer Lin, "Beethoven in Beijing: Stories from the Philadelphia Orchestra's Historic Journey to China" (Temple UP, 2022)

Gish Jen, "Thank You, Mr. Nixon: Stories" (Knopf, 2022)

Vauhini Vara, "The Immortal King Rao: A Novel" (W. W. Norton, 2022)

Mick Conefrey, "Everest 1922: The Epic Story of the First Attempt on the World's Highest Mountain" (Pegasus Books, 2022)

James Uden, "Worlds of Knowledge in Women's Travel Writing" (Ilex Foundation, 2022)

Shiv Kunal Verma, "1965: A Western Sunrise--India's War with Pakistan" (Aleph Book Company, 2021)

Erin Murphy, "Burmese Haze: US Policy and Myanmar's Opening--And Closing" (Association for Asian Studies, 2022)

Kerry Brown and Gemma Chenger Deng, "China Through European Eyes: 800 Years of Cultural and Intellectual Encounter" (World Scientific, 2022)

Glynne Walley, "Eight Dogs, or 'Hakkenden': Part One―An Ill-Considered Jest" (Cornell UP, 2021)

Abby Seiff, "Troubling the Water: A Dying Lake and a Vanishing World in Cambodia" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, "Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan" (U California Press, 2022)

Bede Scott, "Too Far from Antibes" (Penguin, 2022)

Harry Verhoeven and Anatol Lieven, "Beyond Liberal Order: States, Societies and Markets in the Global Indian Ocean" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Karen Cheung, "The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir" (Random House, 2022)

Manu Pillai, "False Allies: India’s Maharajahs in the Age of Ravi Varma" (Juggernaut, 2021)

Sherzod Muminov, "Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan" (Harvard UP, 2022)

Jing Tsu, "Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern" (Riverhead Books, 2022)

Sandy Gall, "Afghan Napoleon: The Life of Ahmad Shah Massoud" (Haus Publishing, 2021)

Arup K. Chatterjee, "Indians in London: From the Birth of the East India Company to Independent India" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Ira Mukhoty, "Song of Draupadi" (Aleph Book Company, 2021)

Claudio Sopranzetti and Sara Fabbri, "King of Bangkok" (U Toronto Press, 2021)

Marc David Baer, "The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs" (Basic Books, 2021)

Paul French, "Bloody Saturday: Shanghai's Darkest Day" (Penguin, 2018)

Colin Thubron, "The Amur River: Between Russia and China" (Harper, 2021)

Catherine S. Chan, "Macanese Diaspora in British Hong: A Century of Transimperial Drifting" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)

Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey, "On the Edge: Life Along the Russia-China Border" (Harvard UP, 2021)

Sumantra Bose, "Kashmir at the Crossroads: Inside a 21st-Century Conflict" (Yale UP, 2021)

Cheng Li, "Middle Class Shanghai: Reshaping U.S.-China Engagement" (Brookings Institution Press, 2021)

Saumya Roy, "Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings" (Profile Books, 2021)

Albert Samaha, "Concepcion: An Immigrant Family's Fortunes" (Penguin, 2021)

James Kelly Morningstar, "War and Resistance in the Philippines 1942-1944" (US Naval Institute Press, 2021)

Amish Raj Mulmi, "All Roads Lead North: China, Nepal and the Contest for the Himalayas" (Context, 2021)

Thane Gustafson, "Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change" (Harvard UP, 2021)

Melissa Macauley, "Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime Frontier" (Princeton UP, 2021)

Xavier Naville, "The Lettuce Diaries: How A Frenchman Found Gold Growing Vegetables In China" (Earnshaw Books, 2021)

Gershom Gorenberg, "War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East" (PublicAffairs: 2021)

Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp, "Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters" (Harvard UP, 2021)

Tim Hannigan, "The Travel Writing Tribe" (Hurst Publishing, 2021)

Halimah Marcus, "Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond" (Harper Perennial, 2021)

Elizabeth Lacouture, "Dwelling in the World: Family, House, and Home in Tianjin, China, 1860-1960" (Columbia UP, 2021)

Timon Screech, "The Shogun's Silver Telescope: God, Art, and Money in the English Quest for Japan, 1600-1625" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Jeevan Vasagar, "Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia" (Pegasus Books, 2022)

Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, "Ancient Egypt and Early China: State, Society, and Culture" (U Washington Press, 2021)

Yashaswini Chandra, "The Tale of the Horse: A History of India on Horseback" (Picador India, 2021)

Edmund Richardson, "Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City Beneath the Mountains" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Lindsey Miller, "North Korea: Like Nowhere Else" (September, 2021)

Jagjeet Lally, "India and the Silk Roads: The History of a Trading World" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Jason M. Kelly, "Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China's Capitalist Ascent" (Harvard UP, 2021)

Pornsak Pichetshote, "The Good Asian, Volume 1" (Image Comics, 2021)

Tom Lin, "The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu" (Little, Brown and Company, 2021)

Chris Miller, "We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin" (Harvard UP, 2021)

Tonio Andrade, "The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China" (Princeton UP, 2021)

Suchitra Vijayan, "Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India" (Melville House, 2021)

Marie Favereau, "The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World" (Harvard UP, 2021)

Larry Feign, "The Flower Boat Girl: A Novel Based on a True Story" (Top Floor Books, 2021)

Namit Arora, "Indians: A Brief History of a Civilization" (Viking, 2021)

Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, "Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper" (Duke UP, 2021)

Samira Shackle, "Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City" (Melville House, 2021)

Catherine Menon, "Fragile Monsters" (Viking, 2021)

Emei Burell, "We Served the People: My Mother's Stories" (Archaia, 2020)

Mehr Afshan Farooqi, "Ghalib: a Wilderness at My Doorstep: A Critical Biography" (Allen Lane, 2021)

Jenny White, "Turkish Kaleidoscope: Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence" (Princeton UP, 2021)

Amit Chaudhuri, "Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music" (NYRB, 2021)

Razeen Sally, "Return to Sri Lanka: Travels in a Paradoxical Island" (Juggernaut, 2019)

Raza Mir, "Murder at the Mushaira: A Novel" (Aleph Book, 2021)

Jonathan Chatwin, "Long Peace Street: A Walk in Modern China" (Manchester UP, 2019)

Timon Screech, "Tokyo Before Tokyo: Power and Magic in the Shogun’s City of Edo" (Reaktion Books, 2020)

Eugenia Cheng, "x + y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender" (Basic Book, 2020)

Janet M. Hartley, "The Volga: A History" (Yale UP, 2021)

Te-Ping Chen, "Land of Big Numbers: Stories" (Mariner Books, 2021)

Wu Cheng'en, "Monkey King: Journey to the West," trans. Julia Lovell (Penguin, 2021)

Priya Basil, "Be My Guest: Reflections on Food, Community, and the Meaning of Generosity" (Knopf, 2020)

Debashree Mukherjee, "Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City" (Columbia UP, 2020)

Dexter Roberts, "The Myth of Chinese Capitalism: The Worker, the Factory, and the Future of the World" (St. Martin’s Press, 2020)

Oliver Craske, "Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar" (Hachette, 2020)

Ethan Lou, "Field Notes from a Pandemic: A Journey Through a World Suspended" (Signal, 2020)

Ed Caesar, "The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest" (Avid Reader/Simon & Schuster, 2020)

Chloe Gong, "These Violent Delights" (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2020)

David Chaffetz, "Three Asian Divas: Women, Art and Culture In Shiraz, Delhi and Yangzhou" (Abbreviated Press, 2019)

Devadas Krishnadas, "Confronting Covid-19: A Strategic Playbook for Leaders and Decision Makers" (MCIA, 2020)

Sophia Chang, "The Baddest Bitch in the Room" (Catapult, 2020)

Jonathan C. Slaght, "Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl" (FSG, 2020)

Susie Yang, "White Ivy" (Simon & Schuster, 2020)

Sunisa Manning, "A Good True Thai" (Epigram Books, 2020)

Diana Darke, "Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe" (Hurst, 2020)

Xiaowei Wang, "Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside" (FSG Originals, 2020)

Aubrey Menard, "Young Mongols: Forging Democracy in the Wild, Wild East" (PRH SEA, 2020)

Amy Stanley, "Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World" (Scribner, 2020)

Lawrence Osborne, "The Glass Kingdom" (Hogarth, 2020)

Kishore Mahbubani, "Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy" (PublicAffairs, 2020)

M. Pettis and M. C. Klein, "Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace" (Yale UP, 2020)