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The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
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4.32 avg rating — 6,075 ratings
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 56,340 ratings
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
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3.65 avg rating — 331,118 ratings
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The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia
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4.07 avg rating — 271 ratings
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The Bookseller of Kabul
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3.75 avg rating — 45,504 ratings
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The Places in Between
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3.91 avg rating — 14,296 ratings
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The Lost Heart of Asia
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3.90 avg rating — 1,287 ratings
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Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
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4.31 avg rating — 3,035 ratings
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Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia
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3.81 avg rating — 120 ratings
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Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land That Disappeared
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4.02 avg rating — 1,061 ratings
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The Birth of Tajikistan: National Identity and the Origins of the Republic
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3.50 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
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4.16 avg rating — 6,686 ratings
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Warriors Of The Steppe: Military History Of Central Asia, 500 B.C. To 1700 A.D.
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3.85 avg rating — 118 ratings
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A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road
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3.98 avg rating — 488 ratings
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History of Mongolia: From World Power to Soviet Satellite
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4.32 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan
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3.87 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
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3.86 avg rating — 16,502 ratings
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Descent into Chaos: The United States & the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan & Central Asia
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3.94 avg rating — 2,444 ratings
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Uyghur Nation: Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier
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4.60 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Moron to Moron: Two Men, Two Bikes, One Mongolian Misadventure
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3.28 avg rating — 120 ratings
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Slavery and Empire in Central Asia
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4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Threading My Prayer Rug: One Woman's Journey from Pakistani Muslim to American Muslim
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4.03 avg rating — 1,034 ratings
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Does It Yurt? Travels in Central Asia or How I Came to Love the Stans
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3.75 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The White Steamship
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4.11 avg rating — 4,088 ratings
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Pomegranate Roads: A Soviet Botanist's Exile from Eden
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3.77 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia
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4.20 avg rating — 693 ratings
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On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads
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4.11 avg rating — 1,469 ratings
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Journey to Khiva: A Writer's Search for Central Asia
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3.27 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus
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4.04 avg rating — 1,522 ratings
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Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
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3.60 avg rating — 506 ratings
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An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan
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4.05 avg rating — 1,702 ratings
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The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
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4.10 avg rating — 10,543 ratings
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Food Culture in Russia and Central Asia
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2.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia
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3.86 avg rating — 660 ratings
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Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game & the Race for Empire in Central Asia
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3.87 avg rating — 632 ratings
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The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
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3.89 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The Gobi Desert - The Adventures of Three Women Travelling Across the Gobi Desert in the 1920s
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4.08 avg rating — 48 ratings
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The Resurgence of Central Asia: Islam or Nationalism
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3.63 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Russia's Protectorates in Central Asia
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3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia: A History of the Struggle for Great Power Among Tibetans, Turks, Arabs, and Chinese During the Early Middle Ages
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3.65 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Afghan Cuisine
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3.85 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Photographer
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4.27 avg rating — 3,386 ratings
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The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
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3.91 avg rating — 3,289 ratings
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Everyday Life in Central Asia: Past and Present
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3.83 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Around the Sacred Sea: Mongolia and Lake Baikal on Horseback
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4.04 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Gnosis on the Silk Road: Gnostic Texts from Central Asia
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3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Tulip Revolution: Kyrgyzstan One Year After
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3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Secret History of the Mongols: The Origin of Chinghis Khan (Expanded Edition): An Adaptation of the Yuan Ch'ao Pi Shih, Based Primarily on the English Translation by Francis Woodman Cleaves
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4.03 avg rating — 186 ratings
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The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor
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3.96 avg rating — 529 ratings
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News From Tartary
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4.08 avg rating — 726 ratings
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Kyrgyzstan
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4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Silk Roads, 2nd: includes routes through Syria, Turkey, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and China
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3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Holy War in China: The Muslim Rebellion and State in Chinese Central Asia, 1864-1877
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4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Corridor of Uncertainty: How Cricket Mended a Torn Nation
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4.02 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Turn Left at Lenin’s Statue: Travels in Central Asia
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4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The New Central Asia: The Creation of Nations
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3.49 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Warrior Saints of the Silk Road
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Eastern Approaches
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4.43 avg rating — 1,190 ratings
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
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4.12 avg rating — 438,151 ratings
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Once in Kazakhstan: The Snow Leopard Emerges
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3.48 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Establishment of National Republics in Central Asia
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Travels in Central Asia
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3.89 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Making Uzbekistan
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4.17 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Treasures of Central Asia
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4.17 avg rating — 1,077 ratings
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Beautiful Country
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3.62 avg rating — 475 ratings
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Tales Told In Tents: Stories from Central Asia
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4.12 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Under the Heel of the Dragon: Islam, Racism, Crime, and the Uighur in China
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3.16 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
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3.97 avg rating — 3,521 ratings
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The Heritage of Central Asia
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3.77 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Muslims in Central Asia: Expressions of Identity and Change
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3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History
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4.02 avg rating — 837 ratings
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Sinicization Beyond The Great Wall: China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region
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Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews & the Central Asiatic Expeditions
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3.95 avg rating — 309 ratings
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Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia
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3.96 avg rating — 103 ratings
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For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia
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3.80 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Tang China And The Collapse Of The Uighur Empire: A Documentary History
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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In Search of Zarathustra: Across Iran and Central Asia to Find the World's First Prophet
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3.78 avg rating — 566 ratings
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The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan
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3.93 avg rating — 2,294 ratings
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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
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4.31 avg rating — 13,411 ratings
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Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia
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3.75 avg rating — 485 ratings
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Little Women of Baghlan: The Story of a Nursing School for Girls in Afghanistan, the Peace Corps, and Life Before the Taliban
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4.20 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Hearing Birds Fly
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3.89 avg rating — 443 ratings
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Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World
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3.90 avg rating — 703 ratings
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Nasreen's Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan
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4.19 avg rating — 835 ratings
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Off the Rails: 10,000 km in fourteen months - Russia, Siberia, Mongolia, and China
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3.91 avg rating — 280 ratings
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An Enemy We Created: The Myth of the Taliban-Al Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan
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4.37 avg rating — 57 ratings
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The Last Disco In Outer Mongolia
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3.74 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Daily Life in Turkmenbashy's Golden Age: A Methodologically Unsound Study of Interactions Between the Tribal Peoples of America and Turkmenistan
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3.94 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Dzjamilja: een Kirgizisch verhaal
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3.86 avg rating — 5,044 ratings
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Eagle Dreams: Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia
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3.95 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times
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3.80 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Young Mongols: Forging Democracy in the Wild Wild East
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4.97 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
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4.27 avg rating — 1,913 ratings
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Horse Song: The Naadam of Mongolia
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3.67 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military
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3.90 avg rating — 481 ratings
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Life at the Edge of the Empire: Oral Histories of Soviet Kyrgyzstan
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4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Establishment of National Republics in Soviet Central Asia
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Russia's Orient: Imperial Borderlands and Peoples, 1700-1917
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3.67 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Islamic Central Asia: An Anthology of Historical Sources
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4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Inside Central Asia: A political and cultural history of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Iran
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3.59 avg rating — 255 ratings
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