Louisa Lim Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Louisa Lim is a journalist, podcaster and author. Author of Stella-shortlisted Indelible City, the King of Kowloon podcast, The People's Republic of Amnesia, co-host @littleredpods, teaching @unimelb
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted ChiangLouisa Lim@MatthewBevan Ted Chiang’s Stories of your life and Others, Octavia Butler’s Kindred, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun. The latter is the only book my totalitarian twitter book group has agreed upon so far
Paperback, 2016
$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History
Lea YpiLouisa Lim@jwassers @yangyang_cheng @katebcarp @lea_ypi I just read @lea_ypi’s Free. What a fabulous book, and so beautifully written!
Paperback, 2023
$17.95Member price:$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China
Desmond ShumLouisa LimI’m loving Desmond Shum’s Red Roulette, which is a Corruption 101 Guide to China. Amazing insider account… and mindblowing details ie his wife’s 15 million dollar pink diamond ring. Read it and gasp https://t.co/N63hFKVbnu https://t.co/y8v3HSuYtQ
Paperback, 2022
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Our Missing Hearts: Reese's Book Club
Celeste NgLouisa LimREAD @pronounced_ing’s Our Missing Hearts, which I finished a few days ago and can’t stop thinking about. Reading it here in Australia where so many Indigenous children were removed from their families adds another gut-punch to this searing book. Beautiful writing. https://t.co/lekF67rvWq
Paperback, 2023
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
George SaundersLouisa LimGeorge Saunders is a genius but for the love of god, does the typeface really have to be so tiny? Actually went to the optician as I thought I was going blind. I’m not. Vision is same, font is minuscule. https://instagr.am/p/CfqK7jwFpE7/
Paperback, 2022
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Kindred
Octavia ButlerLouisa Lim@MatthewBevan Ted Chiang’s Stories of your life and Others, Octavia Butler’s Kindred, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun. The latter is the only book my totalitarian twitter book group has agreed upon so far
Paperback, 2004
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Owlish
Dorothy TseLouisa LimI reviewed Dorothy Tse's discombobulating Owlish for @nytimes. It's stylish and weird, full of creepy magicians, fellating baby dolls and sinister underworlds. Required reading for fans of HK literature, it's beautifully translated by @natascha_bruce. https://t.co/4Ex3OW9bnw
Paperback, 2023
$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Great Circle: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Novel (Man Booker Prize Finalist)
Maggie ShipsteadLouisa Lim@mrbenjaminlaw Exactly the same… but Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead broke my reading drought. 370 pages in and actually can’t put it down. Hard recommend. https://t.co/ul7D2D5vGa
Paperback, 2022
$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mao: The Man Who Made China
Philip ShortLouisa Lim@natashamitchell Philip Short did a Mao biog too!
Paperback, 2023
$26.95Member price:$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the US and Xi Jinping's China
Kevin RuddLouisa LimInterviewing former PM @mrkrudd on the launch of his new book, The Avoidable War. You can eavesdrop our conversation on @littleredpods and marvel in its sheer, untrammeled nerdiness. https://instagr.am/p/Cc0QCpflao3/ https://t.co/4T5md6McRI
Hardcover, 2022
$32.00Member price:$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book