Friends of the Museums Book Groups
Previous selections by FOM Book Groups include:
Links are to book reviews from FOM's Passage archive
FICTION: AFGHANISTAN
FICTION: BURMA
- George Orwell, Burmese Days
FICTION: CHINA
- Ma Jian, Beijing Coma (translated by Flora Drew)
- Yiyun Li, The Vagrants: A Novel
- Qiu Xiaolong, Death of a Red Heroine
- Jiang Rong, Wolf Totem
- Xiao Lu Guo, UFO in Her Eyes
- Qui Xiaolong, Red Mandarin Dress: An Inspector Chen Novel
- Bo Caldwell, The Distant Land of My Father
- Robert van Gulik, The Chinese Maze Murders (A Judge Lee Mystery)
FICTION: INDIA
- Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies
- Anita Desai, Clear Light of Day
- Anita Nair, Mistress
- Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
- Bapsi Sidhwa, Water
- Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth
- Jhumpa Lahiri, The Naesake
- Rohington Mistry, A Fine Balance
- Shashi Tharoor, Riot
- Shashi Tharoor, The Great Indian Novel
- Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy
- Vikram Seth, An Equal Music
FICTION: IRAN
- Anita Amirrezvani, The Blood of Flowers
FICTION: JAPAN
- David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
- Fumiko Enchi, The Waiting Years
- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
- Natsuo Kirino, Out
FICTION: KOREA
- Hwang Sok-Yong, The Old Garden
- Mira Stout, One Thousand Chestnut Trees: A Novel of Korea
- Eugenia Kim, The Calligrapher's Daughter
- Kyung Sook Shin, Please Look After Mom
FICTION: MALAYSIA
- Anthony Burgess, The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy
- Tash Aw, Map of the Invisible World
- Tan Twan Eng, The Gift of Rain
- Preeta Samarsan, Evening is the Whole Day
FICTION: PAKISTAN
- Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
- Mohammed Hanif, A Case of Exploding Mangoes
- Uzma Aslam Khan, The Geometry of God
- Alexandra David-Neel, My Journey to Lhasa
FICTION: SINGAPORE
- Dawn Farnham, The Shallow Seas
- Dawn Farnham, The Red Thread
- J. G. Farrell, The Singapore Grip
- Rex Shelley, The Shrimp People
- Meira Chand, A Different Sky
- Stella Kon, Emily of Emerald Hill
- Josephine Chia, Frog Under a Coconut Shell
- Catherine Lim, Or Else the Lightning God--and Other Short Stories
FICTION: SRI LANKA
Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost
FICTION: THAILAND
FICTION: VIETNAM
- Nam Le, The Boat
- Duong Thu Huong, Novel Without a Name
- Andrew X. Pham, Catfish and Mandala: A Two Wheeled Voyage through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
NON-FICTION: BURMA
NON-FICTION: CHINA
- Nien Cheng, Life and Death in Shanghai
- Charles N. Li, The Bitter Sea: Coming of Age in a China before Mao
- Ha Jin, A Free Life
- Leibowitz & Matthew Miller, Fortunate Sons
- Julia Lovell, The Opium Wars: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of China
- Jonathan D. Spence, Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi
- Sterling Seagrave, The Soong Dynasty
- Sun Shuyun, Ten Thousand Miles without a Cloud
- Claire Scobie, Last Seen in Lhasa
NON-FICTION: INDIA
- Karen Armstrong, Buddha
- William Dalrymple, Nine Lives
NON-FICTION: INDONESIA
- Christopher J. Koch, The Year of Living Dangerously
NON-FICTION: JAPAN
- Haruki Murakami, Underground
NON-FICTION: KOREA
- David Halberstam, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
NON-FICTION: SINGAPORE
- Sonny Yap, Richard Lim and Leong Weng Kam, Men in White: The Untold Story of Singapore's Ruling Political Party
- Suchen Christine Lim, The Lies that Build a Marriage: Stories of the unsung, unsaid and uncelebrated in Singapore
NON-FICTION: THAILAND
- Grossman & Faulder, A Life's Work: Thailand's Monarchy in Perspective
- Paul M. Handley, The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej
NON-FICTION: VIETNAM
- Le Ly Hayslip, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
- William J. Duiker, Ho Chi Minh: A Life
NON-FICTION: WEST ASIA
- Geraldine Brooks, Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
- Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace. . . One School at a Time
- Aurel Stein, On Ancient Central Asian Tracks
- Karen Armstrong, A History of Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths
- Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence
- Orhan Pamuk, Snow
- Owen Bennett Jones, Pakistan: Eye of the Storm
NON-FICTION: OTHER, GENERAL or difficult to categorize
- David Abulafia, The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
- Stephen R. Brown, Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World
- Mark Kurlansky, Salt: A World History
- Stephen Pinker, Better Angels of our Nature
- Tom Reiss, The Orientalist
- Tiziano Terzani, A Fortune Teller Told Me
- Nury Vittachi, The Feng Shui Detective's Casebook
- Edmund de Waal, The Hare with Amber Eyes
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