See here for methodology; I am excluding books not actually set in Myanmar/Burma, as noted below.
| Title | Author | Goodreads raters | LibraryThing owners |
| Saving Fish from Drowning | Amy Tan | 32,428 | 4,796 |
| The Art of Hearing Heartbeats / Das Herzenhören | Jan-Philipp Sendker | 84,182 | 1,757 |
| Burmese Days | George Orwell | 29,398 | 3,802 |
| The Piano Tuner | Daniel Mason | 14,615 | 2,961 |
| Burma Chronicles | Guy Delisle | 13,412 | 904 |
| Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II | Vicki Constantine Croke | 10,885 | 535 |
| A Well-Tempered Heart / Herzenstimmen | Jan-Philipp Sendker | 12,054 | 284 |
| Finding George Orwell in Burma | Emma Larkin | 3,602 | 734 |
As is so often the case, it’s a shame that this list is all about Westerners encountering Myanmar. The top authors from the country, a bit further down the table, are Pascal Khoo Thwe, Thant Myint-U and Aung San Suu Kyi. The only one on the list that I have read is Guy Delisle’s graphic novel.
I disqualified three books: The Narrow Road to the Deep North, by Richard Flanagan, seems to be more than half in Australia; The Glass Palace, by Amitav Ghosh, seems to have enough excursions to India and Malay(si)a to push the Burmese sections below 50%; and A Fortune-Teller Told Me / Un indovino mi disse, by Tiziano Terrari, is set all over Asia.
Next up: Kenya.
Asia: India | China | Indonesia | Pakistan | Bangladesh (revised) | Russia | Japan | Philippines (revised) | Vietnam | Iran | Türkiye | Thailand | Myanmar | South Korea | Iraq | Afghanistan | Yemen | Uzbekistan | Malaysia | Saudi Arabia | Nepal | North Korea | Syria | Sri Lanka | Taiwan | Kazakhstan | Cambodia | Jordan | UAE | Tajikistan
Americas: USA | Brazil (revised) | Mexico | Colombia | Argentina | Canada | Peru | Venezuela | Guatemala | Ecuador | Bolivia | Haiti | Dominican Republic | Honduras | Cuba
Africa: Nigeria | Ethiopia (revised) | Egypt | DR Congo | Tanzania | South Africa | Kenya | Sudan | Uganda | Algeria | Morocco | Angola | Mozambique | Ghana | Madagascar | Côte d’Ivoire | Cameroon | Niger | Mali | Burkina Faso | Malawi | Zambia | Chad | Somalia | Senegal | Zimbabwe | Guinea | Benin | Rwanda | Burundi | Tunisia | South Sudan
Europe: Russia | Türkiye | Germany | France | UK | Italy | Spain | Poland | Ukraine | Romania | Netherlands | Belgium | Sweden | Czechia
Oceania: Australia | Papua New Guinea