The most popular Asia books of 2026

Seleucid Armies 312–63 BC

William Horsted

Kadesh 1274 BC Egypt Attempts to Take Syria

Anthony Spalinger

China's Aristocratic Age

Yuri Pines

First Encyclopedia of History

Fiona Chandler

Figures of Buddhist Diplomacy in Modern Asia

Jack Meng-Tat Chia

Waiting in the Wings

Salima Hashmi

The World's Most Beautiful Bars

Tokyo Story A Guide to the City's Best Cultural Hangouts, Shops, Bars and Eateries

Steve Wide, Michelle Mackintosh

Arab American Public History

Edward E. Curtis IV

The Elite Center Cannot Hold Critical Perspectives on Resurgent Philippine Liberalism

Tom Sykes, Maria Diosa Labiste

Shanghai

Michael Dillon

Islamist Political Thought In Turkey (Contemporary Turkey)

Michelangelo Guida

Bibliotactics Libraries and the Colonial Public in Vietnam

Cindy Anh Nguyen

Birds of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore

Kim Chye Lim, David Bakewell, Amar HSS. Singh

T-72 Main Battle Tank

Stephen Sewell, James Kinnear

Frontline Poets The Literary Rebels Taking on Myanmar's Military

Joe Freeman, Aung Naing Soe

Slow Burn

Amal Singh

Christian Art of the Near East

Raphaëlle Ziadé

Now Is Now Tokyo Street Photography

Public Transport as Contested Space

Tauri Tuvikene, Wladimir Sgibnev, Jason Finch, Wojciech Kębłowski, Tonio Weicker, Louise Sträuli

Coalition Aircraft Vs Iraqi SAMs Operation Desert Storm 1991

Peter E. Davies

The Wall Dancers Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet

Yi-Ling Liu

White. Blonde. Jew. A Call to End Extremism, Speak Up, and Reclaim Center

Alyssa Rosenheck

Thailand

James Chambers, Monocle, Tyler Brule, Andrew Tuck, Aimee Dexter