Wan Phing Lim

Seeing as it’s one day left to 2024, I’d best post the books I’ve read throughout the year. In bold are the Top 5 especial favourites that took me by surprise, and which I enjoyed immensely. 35 books in total, with some short ones made of poetry and plays, and I think it’s been a good year where I pushed myself to read outside my genre. Here’s to a great 2025! 

1. A Good Man is Hard to Find & Other Stories by Flannery O’Connor (Jan)
2. Magician of the Year by Anna Tan (Mar)
3. What Jesus Said About Successful Living by Haddon W. Robinson (Apr)
4. Adelaide Sketchbook by Max Lamshed and Jeanette McLeod (Apr)
5. Armistice by Carol Ann Duffy (Apr)
6. Birth Canal by Dias Novita Wuri (Apr)
7. Boy Parts by Eliza Clark (Apr)
8. Ask Me Anything, Lord by Heather C. King (Apr)
9. Tranquerah by Ee Tiang Hong (June)
10. Ulysses by the Merlion by Edwin Thumboo (June)
11. Gods Can Die by Edwin Thumboo (June)
12. Emily of Emerald Hill by Stella Kon (June)
13. Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane (July)
14. The American Boyfriend by Ivy Ngeow (July)
15. A Deep Dependence by Bill Crowder (July)
16. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (July)
17. A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller (July)
18. All My Sons by Arthur Miller (July)
19. When You Don’t See His Plan by Nadine Hennessey (July)
20. Ripples and Other Stories by Shih-Li Kow (Aug)
21. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (Aug)
22. Everything About Us: Readings 3 edited by Sharon Bakar (Aug)
23. Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng (Aug)
24. The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Aug)
25. A Biblical Approach to Chinese Traditions and Beliefs by Daniel Tong (Oct)
26. Month by Month: A Collection of Editorials by Ooi Kee Beng (Oct)
27. Blood and Gold by Anne Rice (Oct)
28. Anam by André Dao (Oct)
29. The Making of a Jurusihir by Anna Tan (Nov)
30. Smith Wigglesworth On Spirit Living by Smith Wigglesworth (Nov)
31. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling (Nov)
32. Little Men by Louisa May Alcott (Nov)
33. The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino (Nov)
34. Malayland by Dina Zaman (Dec)
35. Northern Lights by Tim O’Brien (Dec)

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