Asia

Read while traveling in India. Depressing, but well-written.

• 1995
• Fiction
• India

The history of Portugal’s colonization in the Indian Ocean. Does a really good job of showing how out of their element the Portuguese were, how they got incredibly lucky to be able to establish a multi-century foothold in Asia.

• 2015
• Non-Fiction
• Portugal
• Africa
• India

Great overview of China's engineering-driven approach in contrast to the US legalistic approach, and why both countries need to learn from each other.

• 2025
• China
• United States
• Non-Fiction

• 2012
• True crime
• Non-Fiction
• Indonesia
• Drug Trafficking