The best known books set in each country: Myanmar

See here for methodology; I am excluding books not actually set in Myanmar/Burma, as noted below.

TitleAuthorGoodreads
raters
LibraryThing
owners
Saving Fish from DrowningAmy Tan32,4284,796
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats / Das HerzenhörenJan-Philipp Sendker84,1821,757
Burmese DaysGeorge Orwell29,3983,802
The Piano TunerDaniel Mason14,6152,961
Burma ChroniclesGuy Delisle13,412904
Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story
of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who
Helped Him Save Lives in World War II
Vicki Constantine Croke10,885535
A Well-Tempered Heart / HerzenstimmenJan-Philipp Sendker12,054284
Finding George Orwell in BurmaEmma Larkin3,602734

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.