The most popular Asia books of 2026

Mitsubishi J2m Raiden

Anirudh Rao

The Battleships Fuso and Yamashiro (Anatomy of The Ship)

Janusz Skulski

The Shadows of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi and the Persecution of the Rohingya

Poppy McPherson

Jennifer Bin

Jennifer Bin

Israel - Culture Smart! The Essential Guide to Customs and Culture

Marian Lebor

Diplomacy Ends at Midnight The Long Return of Hong Kong to China

Dalena Wright

Indigo Hands

Sita Singh

Excavations at Tell Brak Uruk & 'Ubaid Periods

David Oates

Factfile Istanbul, Level 3

Yokai Monsters By the Great Masters of Japanese Woodblock Printing

Philippe Charlier

The War That Made the Middle East World War I and the End of the Ottoman Empire

Mustafa Aksakal

Better Catch Up, Krishna Kumar

Anahita Karthik

The Melkite Schism An Eastern Extension of the Catholic Reformation

Robert M. Haddad

Kokoda Track 1942–43 Japanese Defeat in Papua

Peter Williams

Fear of the False Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia

Mitra Sharafi

From Life Itself Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in the Age of Erdoğan

Suzy Hansen

Belonging on Both Shores Mobility, Migration, and the Bordering of the Persian Gulf

Lindsey R. Stephenson

World Cup Fever A Soccer Journey in Nine Tournaments

Simon Kuper

China’s Date Debate

Emily Matson

Before I Knew I Loved You

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

The China Question Eight Centuries of Fantasy and Fear

Ho-fung Hung

Event Horizon

Balsam Karam

The Future Is Peace A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

Aziz Abu Sarah, Maoz Inon

I, Julius Caesar

Alfred de Montesquiou