I try to read as much as I can when I'm not busy with other things. Below is a list of books I have read since I moved to Waterloo in August 2015 and started work at the University of Waterloo.
About China:
- Age of Ambition - Evan Osnos
- River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze - Peter Hessler
- Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now - Jan Wong
- Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China - Leslie Chang
- Oracle Bones - Peter Hessler
- China in Ten Words - Yu Hua (translated by Allan Barr)
- Beijing Confidential: A Tale of Comrades Lost and Found - Jan Wong
- Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West - Peter Hessler
- Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road - Rob Schmitz
- Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip - Peter Hessler
- Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution - Ji-li Jiang
- The Rape of Nanking - Iris Chang
About North Korea:
- Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea - Barbara Demick
- Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West - Blaine Harden
- The Girl with Seven Names - Hyeonseo Lee
- A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea - Eunsun Kim, Sébastien Falletti (translated by David Tian)
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Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite - Suki Kim
About Japan:
Fantasy
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The Wheel of Time Series - Robert Jordan
- Book One: Eye of the World
Graphic Novels
- Amulet - Kazu Kibuishi (Vols. 1 - 8)
- Monstress (Vols. 1 - 2) - Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda
- Saga (Vols. 1 - 9) - Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples
Manga
- Tokyo Ghoul - Sui Ishida
- A Silent Voice - Yoshitoki Oima
- Girls' Last Tour - Tsukumizu
- One Week Friends - Matcha Hazuki
- solanin - Inio Asano
- Corpse Party - Makoto Kedouin and Toshimi Shinomiya
- The Gods Lie - Kaori Ozak
- Good Night Punpun - Inio Asano
- Demon Slayer - Koyoharu Gotouge
- The Promised Neverland - Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu
- Attack on Titan (Vols. 1 - 22) - Hajime Isayama
- To Your Eternity (Vols. 1 - 14) - Yoshitoki Oima
- Final Fantasy Lost Stranger (Vols. 1 - 3) - Hazuki Minase and Itsuki Kameya
- Komi Can't Communicate (Vols. 1 - 4) - Tomohito Oda
- Erased (Vols. 1 - 4) - Kei Sanbe
- Yotsuba&! (Vols. 1 - 9) - Kiyohiko Azuma
- Attack on Titan: Before the Fall (Vols. 1 - 2) - Ryo Suzukaze and Satoshi Shiki
- I am a Hero (Omnibus 1) - Kengo Hanazawa
- Ikigami (Vol. 1) - Motoro Mase
- A Man and His Cat (Vol. 1) - Umi Sakuraii
- Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro (Vols. 1 - 4) - Nanashi
- Land of the Lustrous (Vols. 1 - 10) - Haruko Ichikawa
- Shimeji Simulation - Tsukumizu (Chap. 37)
- The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated (Vol. 1) - Wakame Konbu
- The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún (Vols. 1 - 6) - Nagabe
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