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Taiwan Books
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Notes of a Crocodile (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.81 — 10,459 ratings — published 1994
Green Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,599 ratings — published 2016
Taiwan Travelogue (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,483 ratings — published 2020
The Stolen Bicycle (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 93 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,156 ratings — published 2015
The Man with the Compound Eyes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 91 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,445 ratings — published 2011
The Membranes (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,219 ratings — published 1995
Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.42 — 3,821 ratings — published 2020
Last Words from Montmartre (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,879 ratings — published 1996
Forbidden Nation: A History of Taiwan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.82 — 491 ratings — published 2005
Ghost Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 65 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,782 ratings — published 2019
The Astonishing Color of After (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.04 — 34,013 ratings — published 2018
Taipei People (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,339 ratings — published 1971
Crystal Boys (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.31 — 957 ratings — published 1983
Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.43 — 3,113 ratings — published 2017
Formosa Betrayed (United States Foreign Policy)
by (shelved 34 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.30 — 184 ratings — published 1965
The Butcher's Wife (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,126 ratings — published 1983
Daughters of Shandong (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.47 — 17,768 ratings — published 2024
Bestiary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.43 — 4,107 ratings — published 2020
A Thousand Moons on a Thousand Rivers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.72 — 169 ratings — published 1980
Stories of the Sahara (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,550 ratings — published 1976
Loveboat, Taipei (Loveboat, Taipei, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.67 — 20,675 ratings — published 2020
Notes of a Desolate Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.68 — 237 ratings — published 1994
A Pail of Oysters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.10 — 115 ratings — published 1953
Solo Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,484 ratings — published 2017
Orphan of Asia (Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan)
by (shelved 24 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.70 — 262 ratings — published 1945
Ghost Month (Taipei Night Market #1)
by (shelved 23 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.28 — 942 ratings — published 2014
Stay True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.99 — 48,836 ratings — published 2022
My Enemy's Cherry Tree (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.43 — 374 ratings — published
The Third Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,618 ratings — published 2013
Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island, Global Powerhouse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.05 — 210 ratings — published 2011
Accidental State: Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the Making of Taiwan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.03 — 91 ratings — published 2016
Taiwan: A Political History (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.80 — 99 ratings — published 2002
Taiwan's Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683-1895 (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
by (shelved 20 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.25 — 53 ratings — published 2004
The Taste of Apples (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.94 — 72 ratings — published 2001
Why Taiwan Matters: A Short History of a Small Island That Will Dictate Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.82 — 592 ratings — published 2024
Scales of Injustice. The Complete Fiction of Loā Hô. (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.23 — 22 ratings — published
Formosan Odyssey: Taiwan, Past and Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.79 — 114 ratings — published 2002
Taiwan: A New History (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.86 — 49 ratings — published 1997
Homeseeking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.20 — 25,098 ratings — published 2025
Rebel Island: The Incredible Story of Taiwan (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.09 — 250 ratings — published
The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.16 — 466 ratings — published 2009
The Lost Garden: A Novel (Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan)
by (shelved 17 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.25 — 64 ratings — published 1991
Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.12 — 200 ratings — published 2011
Becoming Japanese: Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as taiwan)
avg rating 3.73 — 73 ratings — published 2001
The Fourth Daughter (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.29 — 16,051 ratings — published 2025
How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century (Gutenberg-e)
by (shelved 15 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.00 — 36 ratings — published 2008
Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and Its Struggle for Survival (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as taiwan)
avg rating 4.14 — 151 ratings — published 2025
“Suicide. This is the exact opposite of last time, for this time I'm experiencing a kind of pleasure in life, in being alive, a pleasure in living that I've never experienced before, and I'm hopeful and confident that I can become someone with dignity. I know now why I couldn't change certain characteristics and certain things about myself, but it's not a problem anymore. Certain pathways I failed to open in the past have now opened. My whole self is radiating light. I see with clarity. I understand the cause and effect of the last year. What I had imagined I've now attained. It's as if I can see my life right in front of my eyes, and all I have to do is reach out and draw it in... Now I don't feel the acute pain I felt before; I feel enlightened, at peace. It's as if I've instantly found the secret of "Suffering", how to bear it and how to endure it... Yes, this time I've decided to kill myself not because I can't live with suffering and not because I don't enjoy being alive. I love life passionately, and my wish to die is a wish to live...
Yes, I've chosen suicide. The endpoint of this process of "Forgiveness". Not to punish anyone or to protest a wrong. I've chosen suicide with a clarity I've never possessed before, with a rational resolve and sense of calm, in order to pursue the ultimate meaning of my life, act on my belief about the beauty between two people... I take complete responsibility for my life, and even if my physical body disappears upon death, I don't believe my spirit will disappear. As long as I have loved people fully, then I can be content fading into "Nothingness". If I'm using death to express my passion for life, then I still don't love her enough, don't love life enough. and I will reincarnate in a different form to love her and to be part of her life... So the death of my flesh really doesn't mean anything. Doesn't solve anything.
Is this a tragedy? Will there be tragedy?”
― Last Words from Montmartre
Yes, I've chosen suicide. The endpoint of this process of "Forgiveness". Not to punish anyone or to protest a wrong. I've chosen suicide with a clarity I've never possessed before, with a rational resolve and sense of calm, in order to pursue the ultimate meaning of my life, act on my belief about the beauty between two people... I take complete responsibility for my life, and even if my physical body disappears upon death, I don't believe my spirit will disappear. As long as I have loved people fully, then I can be content fading into "Nothingness". If I'm using death to express my passion for life, then I still don't love her enough, don't love life enough. and I will reincarnate in a different form to love her and to be part of her life... So the death of my flesh really doesn't mean anything. Doesn't solve anything.
Is this a tragedy? Will there be tragedy?”
― Last Words from Montmartre
“It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.”
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