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Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as orient)
avg rating 4.29 — 187,012 ratings — published -350
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as orient)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,138,178 ratings — published 1997
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as orient)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,097 ratings — published 1978
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as orient)
avg rating 4.09 — 391,958 ratings — published 2005
My Name Is Red (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as orient)
avg rating 3.87 — 62,865 ratings — published 1998
Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as orient)
avg rating 4.41 — 219,328 ratings — published 1975
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as orient)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,586,591 ratings — published 2003
Kanji & Kana: A Guide to the Japanese Writing System (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as orient)
avg rating 4.42 — 166 ratings — published 1979
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as orient)
avg rating 4.40 — 13,510 ratings — published 2009
Samarkand (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as orient)
avg rating 4.24 — 32,671 ratings — published 1988
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
by (shelved 7 times as orient)
avg rating 4.20 — 761,957 ratings — published 1934
The Forty Rules of Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as orient)
avg rating 4.10 — 213,705 ratings — published 2009
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as orient)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,800,975 ratings — published 2007
The Prophet (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as orient)
avg rating 4.23 — 336,937 ratings — published 1923
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as orient)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,765 ratings — published 1957
The Blind Owl (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as orient)
avg rating 3.94 — 36,665 ratings — published 1937
Leo Africanus (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as orient)
avg rating 4.22 — 17,319 ratings — published 1986
The Bastard of Istanbul (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as orient)
avg rating 3.88 — 67,780 ratings — published 2006
The Conference of the Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as orient)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,468 ratings — published 1177
The White Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as orient)
avg rating 3.48 — 17,364 ratings — published 1985
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as orient)
avg rating 3.94 — 592,156 ratings — published -500
Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as orient)
avg rating 3.92 — 165,046 ratings — published 2009
Tai-Pan (Asian Saga, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as orient)
avg rating 4.31 — 60,554 ratings — published 1966
Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead: A Summary Study of Srimad-Bhagavatam's Tenth Canto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as orient)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,085 ratings — published 1970
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as orient)
avg rating 4.24 — 88,407 ratings — published 2023
The Buddhist Teaching of Totality: The Philosophy of Hwa Yen Buddhism (Volume 0)
by (shelved 4 times as orient)
avg rating 3.93 — 41 ratings — published 1972
Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 6: Biology and Biological Technology, Part 6: Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as orient)
avg rating 4.35 — 20 ratings — published 1984
The Pillow Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as orient)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,508 ratings — published 1002
The Way of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as orient)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,641 ratings — published 1963
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as orient)
avg rating 4.19 — 83,993 ratings — published -400
A History of the Arab Peoples (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as orient)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,712 ratings — published 1991
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as orient)
avg rating 4.16 — 51,570 ratings — published 2015
The Book of Tea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as orient)
avg rating 3.85 — 18,438 ratings — published 1906
الهويات القاتلة (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as orient)
avg rating 3.90 — 13,498 ratings — published 1998
And the Mountains Echoed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as orient)
avg rating 4.08 — 414,573 ratings — published 2012
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as orient)
avg rating 3.97 — 26,558 ratings — published 1956
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as orient)
avg rating 4.01 — 264,042 ratings — published 1931
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as orient)
avg rating 4.31 — 127,984 ratings — published 1991
Peony in Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as orient)
avg rating 3.64 — 51,294 ratings — published 2007
Geisha, a Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as orient)
avg rating 3.93 — 28,268 ratings — published 2002
Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as orient)
avg rating 4.06 — 46,267 ratings — published 2002
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as orient)
avg rating 3.97 — 717,073 ratings — published 1989
Gai-Jin (Asian Saga, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as orient)
avg rating 3.91 — 19,597 ratings — published 1993
Noble House (Asian Saga, #5)
by (shelved 4 times as orient)
avg rating 4.28 — 43,153 ratings — published 1981
Il Giappone moderno. Una storia politica e sociale (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as orient)
avg rating 3.90 — 106 ratings — published 2002
Life of the Buddha (Clay Sanskrit Library, 10)
by (shelved 3 times as orient)
avg rating 3.94 — 273 ratings — published 100
The Root of Chinese Qigong 2nd. Ed.: Secrets of Health, Longevity, & Enlightenment (Qigong Foundation)
by (shelved 3 times as orient)
avg rating 4.18 — 438 ratings — published 1989
The Analects (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as orient)
avg rating 3.80 — 24,688 ratings — published -475
Remembering the Kana (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as orient)
avg rating 4.10 — 327 ratings — published 1990
“The historical relativist is the one who adopts an eagle's-eye view on the past, lofty enough not to need to prefer one epoch to another. Warburg was no such relativist. For him the European Renaissance, Burckhardt's Renaissance, the fifteenth century, held the keys to the present. He was fully absorbed by the epic of Europe. The 'Orient' figured for Warburg only as a mystifying threat to Mediterranean reason, a passive source of fascination, coded as female. The non-Western here is the image of a hidden weakness within the West. America, meanwhile, sheltered the remnants of the archaic societies it destroyed and at the same time promised a telecommunicational future of 'instantaneous electric connection' where 'mythical and symbolic thinking.' which once formed 'spiritual bonds between humanity and the surrounding world, shaping distance into the space required for devotion and reflection,' would no longer be needed.”
― A History of Art History
― A History of Art History
“At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.”
― Murder on the Orient Express
― Murder on the Orient Express
