Here are our favourite book recommendations to read before, during or after your travels to Southeast Asia.
Indochina
- Brother Enemy – Nayan Chanda
- Mekong – Milton Osbourne
- The River’s Tale (A Year on the Mekong) – Edward A. Gargan
- Highways to a War – Christopher Koch
- A Dragon Apparent – Norman Lewis
- Dancing in Cambodia, At Large in Burma – Amitav Ghosh
Vietnam
- Insight Guide Vietnam (2005 edition) – West & Rutherford
- The Quiet American – Graham Greene
- Vietnam: A History – Stanley Karnow
- Lonely Planet World Food Vietnam – Richard Sterling
- When Heaven and Earth Changed Places – Le Ly Hayslip
- Three Moons in Vietnam – Maria Coffey
- A Bright, Shining Lie – Neil Sheehan
- Shadows and Wind – Robert Templer
- The Girl in the Picture – Denise Chong
- Catfish and Mandala – Andrew X. Pham
- The Tunnels of Cu Chi – Tom Mangold and John Penycate
- Anatomy of a War – Gabriel Kolko
- Hanoi Adieu – Mandaley Perkins
- Down Highway One – Susan Downie
- Novel Without A Name – Duong Thu Huong
- Vietnam: The Australian Experience – J. Rowe
Cambodia
- Angkor (Odyssey Guide, 5th edition) – Rooney & Danford
- Insight Guide Laos & Cambodia (2003 edition) – Clare Griffiths
- First They Killed My Father – Loung Ung
- Red Lights and Green Lizards – Liz Anderson.
- Cambodia Now: Life in the Wake of War – Karen J. Coates
- A History of Cambodia – David Chandler
- River of Time – Jon Swain
- Brother Number One – David Chandler
Laos
- Insight Compact Guide Laos – Simon Robson
- A History of Laos – Martin Stuart Fox
- Stalking the Elephant Kings – Christopher Kremmer
- Ant Egg Soup – Natacha Du Pont De Bie
- Shadow War: The C.I.A’s Secret War in Laos – Kenneth Conboy
- Voices from the Plain of Jars – Fred Branfman
- Short History of Laos: The Land In Between – Grant Evans