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If anyone is still interested, this is what I ended up putting on my Kindle and reading to date. I'm in Moscow at the moment, next train is the trans Mongolian to Beijing.
Read before leaving
In the land of green ghosts by Pascal Khoo Thwe
Lonely planet Myanmar
Lonely planet trans Siberian railway
The Lady and the Generals and The Lady and the Peacock by Peter Popham
Wrath in Burma by F Eldridge
The house I loved by Tatiana de Rosnay
How to shit around the world by J Wilson Howarth
The Piper on the mountain by Ellis Peters
The road to Mandalay by B M Croker
Read on the journey to date
A country in the moon by Michael Moran
Nothing to envy Real lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick. A bit off track, but excellent
Reading now
Blood, Iron, and Gold. How the railways transformed the world by Christian Wilmar
Murder on the trans Siberian Express by Stuart M Kaminsky
TBR on the trip
Which, btw, has grown to two months
Why Buddhism is true by Robert Wright. Second time through
Various works by Rudyard Kipling, including a reread of Kim
Burmese days by George Orwell (another reread)
The Bangkok writers by Danny Speight
The English governess at the Siamese Court by Anna Leowens.
Imperial Warriors: Britain and the Gurkas by Terry Gould
In the land of white death by Valerian Albanov
Second Hand time by Svetlana Alexievich
Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Riding the Iron Rooster by Paul Theroux
Tent life in Siberia by George Kennan
Words of Mercury by Patrick Leigh Fermor
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Dispatches by Michael Herr
Quest for Kim by Peter Hopkirk
The Tiger by John Vaillant
The narrow road to the deep North by Richard Flanagan.
Should keep me occupied. I do have a blog if anyone is interested and if it's acceptable to post the link.
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