Wild Swans – Jung Chang (China)
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden (Kyoto, Japan)
Pachinko – Min Jin Lee (Korea and Japan)
The Bridge over the River Kwai – Pierre Boulle (Thailand)
The Beach – Alex Garland (Thailand)
First They Killed My Father – Loung Ung (Cambodia)
The Quiet American – Graham Greene (Vietnam)
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats – Jan-Philipp Sendker (Myanmar)
The Year of Living Dangerously – C. J. Koch (Indonesia)
This Earth of Mankind – Pramoedya Ananta Toer (Indonesia)
Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert (including Bali, Indonesia)
Into the Heart of Borneo – Redmond O’Hanlon (Borneo)
Stranger in the Forest – Eric Hansen (Borneo)
Noli Me Tángere – José Rizal (the Philippines)
The Woman Who Had Two Navels – Nick Joaquín (the Philippines)