Of the approximately 7.4 billion human inhabitants on planet
earth, around 4.4 billion are Asians. Almost 60 percent of all humans reside in
Asia.
A few recent books related to Asia that are worth reading:
Asia - Regional Focus
The Ocean of Churn — How the Indian Ocean
Shaped Human History by Sanjeev Sanyal
Easternisation:
War and Peace in the Asian Century by Gideon Rachman
Makers of
Modern Asia by Ramachandra Guha (Editor)
How Asia Works by
Joe Studwell
China
The China Model: Political Meritocracy and
the Limits of Democracy by Daniel A. Bell
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and
Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
Deng Xiaoping
and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel
Markets Over
Mao: The Rise of Private Business in China by Nicholas R. Lardy
India
Half - Lion: How P.V Narasimha Rao Transformed
India by Vinay Sitapati
Modi and His Challenges by Rajiv Kumar
India: A
Portrait by Patrick French
India: A Sacred Geography by Diana L
Eck
Japan
Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival
by David Pilling
Japan and the
Shackles of the Past by Taggart Murphy
Indonesia
Indonesia,
Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation by Elizabeth Pisani
Middle East/Islamic World
From Deep State
to Islamic State: The Arab Counter-Revolution and its Jihadi Legacy by
Jean-Pierre Filiu
All the Shah's
Men by Stephen Kinzer
The Wrong Enemy by
Carlotta Gall
Magnificent
Delusions by Husain Haqqani