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Notable Books
2004 Fiction List
2004 NonFiction List
2002 Fiction List
2002 NonFiction List
2001 Fiction List
2001 NonFiction List
All the books in these two lists will...
Title
Author Editor Translator
Known Publishers

Militant Islam in Southeast Asia

Abuza, Zachary

Lynne Rienner Publishers, USA

Translating Caste

Basu, Tapan (ed.)

KATHA, India

The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics and the Opening of Old Japan

Benfey, Christopher

Random House, USA

Yin Yu Tang: The Architecture and Daily Life of a Chinese House

Berliner, Nancy

Tuttle Publishing/Periplus, Hong Kong, Japan, USA

The Gate

Bizot, Francois (translated from the French by Euan Cameron)

Harvill Press, UK; Alfred A. Knopf, USA; Original French edition: Editions de La Table Ronde, France

Mama Kuma: One Woman — Two Cultures

Carlyon, Deborah

University of Queensland Press, Australia

Remembering Papua New Guinea: An Eccentric Ethnography

Clarke, William C.

Pandanus Books, Australia

At Home in Australia

Conrad, Peter

Thames & Hudson, USA

Tibet, Tibet

French, Patrick

Alfred A. Knopf, USA; HarperCollins, UK

Indonesian Destinies

Friend, Theodore

The Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, USA

Living to Tell the Tale

García Márquez, Gabriel (translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman)

Jonathan Cape, UK; Alfred A. Knopf, USA; Original Spanish edition: Grupo Editorial, Mexico

Cousin Felix Meets the Buddha: And Other Encounters in China and Tibet

Kaye, Lincoln (illustrated by Mei-Lang Hsu)

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, USA

The Politics of Power, Freeport in SuhartoÕs Indonesia

Leith, Denise

University of Hawaii Press, USA

The Trouble with Islam: A Wake Up Call for Honesty and Change

Manji, Irshad

Random House Canada

Dark Victory

Marr, David and Marian Wilkinson

Allen & Unwin, Australia

Autobiography of a Geisha

Masuda, Sayo (translated from the Japanese by G.G. Rowley)

Columbia University Press, USA; Original Japanese edition: Heibonsha Ltd., Publishers, Japan

Macao

Pons, Philippe (translated from the French by Sarah Adams)

Reaktion Books, UK; Original French edition: Editions Gallimard

The Town Grew Up Dancing: The Life and Art of Wenten Rubuntja

Rubuntja, Wenton with Jenny Green

Jukurrpa Books/IAD Press, Australia

The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas

Salmond, Anne

Allen Lane/Penguin Books, New Zealand

The Meeting of the Waters: The Hindmarsh Island Affair

Simons, Margaret

Hodder Headline, Australia

River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West

Solnit, Rebecca

Penguin Group, USA

Judgment without Trial: Japanese American Imprisonment During World War II

Tetsuden, Kashima

University of Washington Press, USA

Saving the Sun: A Wall Street Gamble to Rescue Japan from Its Trillion-Dollar Meltdown

Tett, Gillian

HarperCollins, USA

Ruling from the Dragon Throne: Costumes of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)

Vollmer, John E.

Ten Speed Press, USA

Hearing Birds Fly: A Nomadic Year in Mongolia

Waugh, Louisa

Abacus/Time Warner Books, UK


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