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Recommended books (4)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world. All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Asia Challenge" were written by authors from Thailand. Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.

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Bangkok Wakes to Rain : A Novel by Pitchaya Sudbanthad EN

Rating: 3.5     7 Votes
Country: Asia / Thailand flag Thailand
Description:
"A house in the center of Bangkok becomes the point of confluence where lives are shaped by upheaval, memory, and the lure of home. Witness to two centuries' flux in one of the world's most restless cities, a house plays host to longings and losses past, present, and future. A nineteenth-century missionary doctor pines for the comforts of New England even as he finds the vibrant foreign chaos of Siam increasingly difficult to resist. A post-war society woman marries, mothers, and holds court, little suspecting the course of her future. A jazz pianist is summoned in the 1970s to conjure music t... continue
Recommended: 20 Feb 2022

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Blue Kiss

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Bright by Duanwad Pimwana EN

0 Ratings
Country: Asia / Thailand flag Thailand
Description:
"Explores the quality of human resilience through the adventures of Kampol Changsamran, a young boy left behind by his parents after their break-up"--
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Recommended: 20 Apr 2022

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The Happiness of Kati by Jane Vejjajiva EN

Rating: 4     8 Votes
Country: Asia / Thailand flag Thailand
Description:
When the mother she hasn't seen in five years is stricken with Lou Gehrig's disease, nine-year-old Kati travels to the house by the sea to spend the last weeks of her mother's life with her, in this touching story of love, hope, and renewal set in Thailand.
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Recommended: 25 May 2022


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