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The Most-Rated Asia Audiobooks

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, 282 unabridged Asia audiobooks in our catalog carry store ratings. These are the 25 with the most ratings.

The Asia shelf sits under History on the store.

The list

#TitleAuthorLength
1The Art of WarSun Tzu1.4 hrs
2Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of MidwayAnthony Tully24.8 hrs
3Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the WorldChris Wallace8.7 hrs
4In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to FreedomYeonmi Park9.6 hrs
5Tao Te ChingLao Tzu1.5 hrs
6Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883Simon Winchester12 hrs
7China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the WorldTed C. Fishman13.5 hrs
8Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercityKatherine Boo8.3 hrs
9Legends of the SamuraiHiroaki Sato14.5 hrs
10Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975Max Hastings33.6 hrs
11Wild Swans: Three Daughters of ChinaJung Chang25 hrs
12Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the Fall of the TalibanStephen Tanner14.5 hrs
13Ghosts of HiroshimaCharles Pellegrino9 hrs
14The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our WorldVincent Bevins10 hrs
15On ChinaHenry Kissinger20.1 hrs
16Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War • July 1937–May 1942Richard B. Frank26.5 hrs
17The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global SuperpowerMichael Pillsbury9.5 hrs
18MonkeyWu Ch'êng-ên13.7 hrs
19Vietnam: An Epic History of a Divisive War 1945-1975Max Hastings33.9 hrs
20Pacific Payback: The Carrier Aviators Who Avenged Pearl Harbor at the Battle of MidwayStephen L. Moore12.6 hrs
21Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's EliteSuki Kim8.6 hrs
22Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden AgeStephen R. Platt17.8 hrs
23Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45Max Hastings27.7 hrs
24Roberts Ridge: A True Story of Courage and Sacrifice on Takur Ghar Mountain, AfghanistanMalcolm Macpherson8.4 hrs
25Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in JapanJake Adelstein10.6 hrs

Ordered by the number of store ratings, most first; the counts are used only for ordering and never shown. A rating count measures popularity, never quality. Computed from unabridged English-language audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026); children's titles are not ranked. Methodology.

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