In August 2020, I posted my Top 10 books on Cambodia from my personal collection, which I re-post here and invite discussion of your personal choices:
• A Cambodian Odyssey: Haing Ngor with Roger Warner, 1987
• To Cambodia with Love: A Travel Guide for the Connoisseur, edited by Andy Brouwer, 2011
• The Murderous Revolution: Life and Death in Pol Pot’s Kampuchea, by Martin Stuart-Fox and Bunheang Ung, 1998
• When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge, by Chanrithy Him, 2000
• Bones That Float: A Story of Adopting Cambodia, by Kari Grady Grossman, 2007
• Cambodia Now: Life in the Wake of War, by Karen J Coates, 2005
• The Kings Last Song, by Geoff Ryman, 2006
• King Norodom’s Head: Phnom Penh Sights Beyond the Guidebooks, by Steven Boswell, 2016
• A Woman of Angkor: A Novel, by John Burgess, 2013.
Here are another 5 books that are pushing for a spot in the Top 10:
• Angkor’s Temples in the Modern Era: War, Pride, and Tourist Dollars, by John Burgess, 2021
• Home Is Where the Heart Is, by Geraldine Cox, 2000
• Highways to a War, by Christopher J Koch, 1996
• Foxy Lady: Truth, Memory and the Death of Western Yachtsmen in Democratic Kampuchea, by David Kattenburg, 2011
• Revealing Krishna: Essays on the History, Context, and Conservation of Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan from Phnom Da, edited by Sonya Rhie Mace and Bertrand Porte, 2021.
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