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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

26 books
Book Cover for: Earthlings, Sayaka Murata

Earthlings

Sayaka Murata
Kwan Ann Tan | 陈冠安Kwan Ann Tan | 陈冠安

(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
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Book Cover for: Last Tang Standing, Lauren Ho

Last Tang Standing

Lauren Ho
Kwan Ann Tan | 陈冠安Kwan Ann Tan | 陈冠安

(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
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Book Cover for: Dial a for Aunties, Jesse Q. Sutanto

Dial a for Aunties

Jesse Q. Sutanto
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(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
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Book Cover for: Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants, Mathias Énard

Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants

Mathias Énard
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(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
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Book Cover for: Wandering Souls, Cecile Pin

Wandering Souls

Cecile Pin
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@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
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Book Cover for: How We Disappeared, Jing-Jing Lee

How We Disappeared

Jing-Jing Lee
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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
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Book Cover for: Severance, Ling Ma

Severance

Ling Ma
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(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
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Book Cover for: Transformations, Anne Sexton

Transformations

Anne Sexton
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(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
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Book Cover for: Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants, Mathias Enard

Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants

Mathias Enard
Kwan Ann Tan | 陈冠安Kwan Ann Tan | 陈冠安

(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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Book Cover for: Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Madeleine Thien

Do Not Say We Have Nothing

Madeleine Thien
Kwan Ann Tan | 陈冠安Kwan Ann Tan | 陈冠安

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
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