Bhutan


Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan
Radio Shangri-la: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth
The Circle of Karma
Married to Bhutan
The History of Bhutan
Treasures of the Thunder Dragon: A Portrait of Bhutan
Tales in Colour and Other Stories
Butter Tea at Sunrise: A Year in the Bhutan Himalaya
Folktales of Bhutan
Dawa: The Story of a Stray Dog in Bhutan
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
A Splendid Isolation: Lessons on Happiness from the Kingdom of Bhutan
Bhutan: The Kingdom at the Centre of the World
The Hero with a Thousand Eyes: A Historical Novel
Beneath Blossom Rain: Discovering Bhutan on the Toughest Trek in the World
Written in the Stars by Aisha SaeedA Time to Dance by Padma VenkatramanThe Love Match by Priyanka TaslimBorn Confused by Tanuja Desai HidierWhen Mimi Went Missing by Suja Sukumar
South Asians in Contemporary YA
172 books — 95 voters
Seeing Like a Feminist by Nivedita MenonThe Namesake by Mira NairChild Marriage in India by Jaya SagadeThe Silence And The Storm;Narratives Of Violence Against Wome... by Kalpana SharmaWe Sinful Women  by Rukhsana Ahmad
Non Fiction by South Asian Women
51 books — 6 voters

Lost Horizon by James HiltonTwo Roads East by Philip MontgomeryBeyond the Sky and the Earth by Jamie Zeppa
Best Shangri-La Books
3 books — 4 voters
The Ghost Bride by Yangsze ChooThe Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley RobinsonThe Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken LiuNeuromancer by William GibsonAcross the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn
SF & F Atlas - Asia
118 books — 23 voters

Fusion of Reality by K VariaThe White Tiger by Aravind AdigaUnaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa LahiriUntil Our Voices Meet by Biswatosh SinhaBabu Bangladesh! by Numair Atif Choudhury
Books by South Asians
26 books — 14 voters

Jamie Zeppa
What I love is how seamless everything is. You walk throw a forest and come out in a village; and there’s no difference, no division. You aren’t in nature one minute and in civilization the next. The houses are made out of mud and stone and wood, drawn from the land around. Nothing stands out, nothing jars.
Jamie Zeppa

Jamie Zeppa
There is a difference between arrival and entrance. Arrival is physical and happens all at once. The train pulls in, the plan touches down, you get out of the taxi with all your luggage. You can arrive a place and never really enter it; you get there, look around, take a few pictures, make a few notes, send postcards home. When you travel like this, you think you know where you are, but, in fact, you have never left home. Entering takes longer. You cross over, slowly, in bits and pieces. […] It ...more
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