Reading List (Southeast Asia)

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