Kwan Ann Tan | 陈冠安 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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🇲🇾 in london | writing in @theoffingmag, @JoylandMagazine, @SineThetaMag, etc | rep @liv_maidment | she/her

Earthlings
Sayaka Murata
(1) if ur "new story/poem published" tweet doesn't include a brief synopsis or screenshot of what the poem or short story is about, i'm 99% likely not to click on it, unless u are my close friend @ClaryAhn i feel like u might enjoy Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
Paperback, 2021
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Last Tang Standing
Lauren Ho
(19) we need to bring back the era of the second person narrative. It was so good. Wolf Hall wouldnt have been Wolf Hall without it!!! @VincentL0r try Last Tang Standing by Lauren Ho
Paperback, 2020
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dial a for Aunties
Jesse Q. Sutanto
(22) I hereby officially give the reader of this tweet permission to DNF whatever book is not working for you from now and forever in perpetuity. Why torture yourself?? @cherie_koh steering u towards Dial A For Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Paperback, 2021
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
Mathias Énard
(18) people who think malaysian and singaporean literature are the same are........ wrong. As are those who try to reappropriate it either way 😬😬😬 @jenythevans try Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants by Mathias Enard
Paperback, 2019
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Wandering Souls
Cecile Pin
@witchywonderer if you haven't already got this on your list, wandering souls by cecile pin is a really good one!
Hardcover, 2023
$26.99$13.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How We Disappeared
Jing-Jing Lee
How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee and Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien – I'm deadly serious when I say that the former should be required reading for everyone who lives in SEA https://t.co/xfPN3xfZ6m
Paperback, 2020
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Severance
Ling Ma
(20) many retellings of non western myths have only been really explored so far in YA and not enough in the rest of fiction. No, The Red Queen by Margaret Atwood doesn't count. @treepokok some mild apocalypse fiction for u with Ling Ma's Severance
Paperback, 2019
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Transformations
Anne Sexton
(17) not particularly novel or controversial but so much of publication in lit mags is down to personal taste of the editor/judge/reader and a ton of luck @natacialzq ur tweets remind me so much of annie ernaux... if ur already on that then I rec Transformations by Anne Sexton
Paperback, 2001
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
Mathias Enard
(18) people who think malaysian and singaporean literature are the same are........ wrong. As are those who try to reappropriate it either way 😬😬😬 @jenythevans try Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants by Mathias Enard
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Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Madeleine Thien
How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee and Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien – I'm deadly serious when I say that the former should be required reading for everyone who lives in SEA https://t.co/xfPN3xfZ6m
Paperback, 2017
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book