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Books About Burma

We've compiled the following list of books which might give you further insight into the situation inside Burma. Please feel free to send us a review of any of these books, and we can add to the site.

Books by Aung San Suu Kyi

Freedom from Fear and Other Writings by Aung San Suu Kyi

Letters from Burma by Aung San Suu Kyi

The Voice of Hope by Aung San Suu Kyi

Books on the Biography of Aung San Suu Kyi

The Perfect Hostage: Biography of Aung San Suu Kyi by Justin Wintle

The Lady: Aung San Suu Kyi: Nobel Laureate and Burma's Prisoner by Barbara Victor

Books by Burmese Authors

The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma by Thant Myint-U

The Making of Modern Burma by Thant Myint-

In Search of Turtle Eggs by Ma Thanegi

From the Land of Green Ghosts:  A Burmese Odessey by Pascal Khoo Thwe

Books by Foreign Authors

Burma: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity by Martin Smith

Living Silence: Burma under Military Rule (Politics in Contemporary Asia) by Christina Fink

Burma:  The Curse of Independence by Shelby Tucker

The Invisible Ones by Karel van Loon

Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin

Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan

The Trouser People: A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire by Andrew Marshall

The Land of a Thousand Eyes: The Subtle Pleasures of Everyday Life in Myanmar  by Peter Olszewski


Books on Colonial Burma

Burmese Days by George Orwell

The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason

The Glass Palace: A Novel by Amitav Ghosh