The books that I think I've read since I came to Singapore
(except for some of the Agatha Christie ones)


The Teenage Textbook (Adrian Tan), 2000 *
The Teenage Workbook Or The Passing of An April Shower (Adrian Tan), 2000 *

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie),1998
The Big Four (Agatha Christie),1998
Murder on The Orient Express (Agatha Christie),1998
Three Act Tragedy (Agatha Christie),1998 *
The ABC Murders (Agatha Christie),1998 *
Curtain: Poirot's Last Case (Agatha Christie),1998 *
And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie),1998 *
The Thirteen Problems (Agatha Christie),1998
Parker Pyne Investigates (Agatha Christie),1998
The Labours of Hercules (Agatha Christie),1998
The Third Girl (Agatha Christie),2003
Nemesis (Agatha Christie),2003
Death in The Clouds (Agatha Christie),2003
The Regatta Mystery and Other Mysteries (Agatha Christie),August 2004
The Moving Finger (Agatha Christie), July 2006
The Golden Ball and Other Stories (Agatha Christie), July 2006
After The Funeral (Agatha Christie), May 2007
Lord Edgware Dies (Agatha Christie), May 2007
Double Sin and Other Stories (Agatha Christie), July 2007

The Watchmen (Alan Moore), July 2003 *
V for Vendetta (Alan Moore), 2004 *

Brave New World (Aldous Huxley),2003 *
Island (Aldous Huxley),2003

The Red Tent (Anita Diamant),2003

The Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess), October 2004 *

The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery),2000

The Postman (Antonio Skrmeta),2003

Memoirs Of A Geisha (Arthur Golden),2004 *

The Flanders Panel (Arturo Perez-Reverte and Margaret Jull Costa), August 2008

Saman (Ayu Utami), December 2004 *
Larung (Ayu Utami), December 2004 *
Si Parasit Lajang (Ayu Utami), December 2004 *

The Tao of Pooh (Benjamin Hoff),2004 *

Books of Fate (Brad Meltzer), March 2008

My Little Blue Dress (Bruno Maddox),2003

Great Expectations (Charles Dickens),2000

Sign of Cross (Chris Kuzneski), June 2008
Sword of God (Chris Kuzneski), June 2008

Thank You For Smoking (Christopher Buckley), August 2008 *

Gone Case (Chua Hak Lien),2003

The Stolen Child (Colin Cheong),2002 *
Life Cycle of Homo Sapiens, Male (Colin Cheong),2002 *
Poets, Priests and Prostitutes (Colin Cheong),2003
The Man In The Cupboard (Colin Cheong),2003 *
Tangerine (Colin Cheong), August 2005

A Study in Scarlet (Sir Conan Doyle),2001 *
The Sign of Four (Sir Conan Doyle),2001 *
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sir Conan Doyle),2001
The Valley of Fear (Sir Conan Doyle),2001
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes (Sir Conan Doyle),2003

Miracles (C.S. Lewis), May 2006

The Da Vinci's Code (Dan Brown), January 2005 *
Angels and Demons (Dan Brown), January 2005
Digital Fortress (Dan Brown), February 2007

The Inferno (Dante),2003

The Wonders of The Invisible World (David Gates),2003

The Sacred Cut (David Hewson), January 2008

The Camel Club (David Baldacci), March 2008

Vernon God Little (DBC Pierre),2003 *

Supernova: Ksatria, Putri dan Bintang Jatuh (Dee), 2001 *
Supernova: Akar (Dee), 2002
Supernova: Petir (Dee), December 2004

Nayla (Djenar Maesa Ayu), June 2005

Cosmopolis (Don DeLillo), 2004

To Room Nineteen (Doris Lessing), March 2008

The Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy (Douglas Adams), June 2005 *
The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe (Douglas Adams), June 2005 *
So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish (Douglas Adams), June 2005 *
Life, Universe And Everything (Douglas Adams), June 2005 *
Mostly Harmless (Douglas Adams), June 2005 *
The Salmon of Doubt (Douglas Adams), August 2006 *
The Long Dark Tea Time of The Soul (Douglas Adams), August 2007

Hey, Nostradamus (Douglas Coupland), October 2005*

City of God (E.L Doctorow),2002

A Passage To India (E.M. Forster), October 2005*
Howards End (E.M. Forster), November 2005

Artemis Fowl (Eoin Colfer),2003 *
Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident (Eoin Colfer),2003 *
Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code (Eoin Colfer),2003 *

Jendela-jendela (Fira Basuki), December 2004

The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka), April 2006

Mister God, This Is Anna (Fynn), December 2006

A Handful Of Manhood (Gaby Hauptmann),2003

Living Dolls (Gaby Woods),2004

Animal Farm (George Orwell),2001 *
1984 (George Orwell),2003 *
Keep The Aspidistra Flying (George Orwell),2004

I, Lucifer (Glenn Duncan),2003 *

Inventing Elliot (Graham Gardner), December 2005

Last orders (Graham Swift),2004

The Last Children (Gudrun Pausewang),2000 *

In The Pond (Ha Jin), 2004

The Body (Hanif Kureishi),2003 *
Intimacy (Hanif Kureishi),2003
Midnight All Day (Hanif Kureishi),2003
Gabriel's Gift (Hanif Kureishi), February 2006

To Kill A Mocking Bird (Harper Lee), October 2006 *

Sputnik Sweetheart (Haruki Murakami), July 2004 *
A Wild Sheep Chase (Haruki Murakami), March 2005 *
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World (Haruki Murakami), April 2005 *
The Elephant Vanishes (Haruki Murakami), August 2005 *
After The Quake (Haruki Murakami), October 2005 *
Kafka On The Shore (Haruki Murakami), December 2005 *
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami), February 2006
South of The Border, West Of The Sun (Haruki Murakami), March 2006 *
Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami), May 2006 *
Birthday Stories (compiled by Haruki Murakami), January 2007 *
Blind Willow Sleeping Woman (Haruki Murakami), February 2007 *

Atomised (Hou ellebecq),2003

Rule of Four (Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason), November 2007

33 Moment of Happiness (Ingo Schulze),2004

Gold (Isaac Asimov), September 2007
Foundation (Isaac Asimov), September 2007 *
The Return of The Black Widowers (Isaac Asimov), October 2007
Foundation and Empire (Isaac Asimov), October 2007 *
Second Foundation (Isaac Asimov), October 2007 *
Foundation's Edge (Isaac Asimov), October 2007 *
Fooundation and Earth (Isaac Asimov), October 2007 *
Nightfall (Isaac Asimov), October 2007 *
Forward Thee Foundation (Isaac Asimov), November 2007 *
Prelude to Foundation (Isaac Asimov), November 2007 *
The Cave of Steel (Isaac Asimov), December 2007
The Naked Sun (Isaac Asimov), January 2008
The Gods Themselves (Isaac Asimov), January 2008

Thank You for the Music: Stories (Jane McCafferty), June 2008

The Eyre Affair (Jasper Fforde), November 2007 *
Lost in A Good Book (Jasper Fforde), December 2007 *
Well of Lost Plots (Jasper Fforde), December 2007 *
Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde), January 2008

The Catcher in The Rye (J.D.Salinger),2003

Written On The Body (Jeanette Winterson), January 2006

Shall We Tell The President? (Jeffrey Archer),2001 *
A Quiver Full of Arrows (Jeffrey Archer),2001
A Twist in the Tale (Jeffrey Archer),2001 *
Twelve Red Herrings (Jeffrey Archer),2001
Nine O'Tales (Jeffrey Archer), January 2007

Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri),2003

Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone (JK Rowling),2001 *
Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secret (JK Rowling),2001
Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban (JK Rowling),2001 *
Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire (JK Rowling),2001
Harry Potter and The Order of Phoenix (JK Rowling),2003
Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince (JK Rowling), August 2005 *

How To Be Alone (Jonathan Franzen),2004 *

The Book of Q (Jonathan Rabb), June 2008

Truth And Tolerance : Christian Belief and World Religion (Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger), March 2006

Sophie's World (Jostein Gaarder),2002 *
Maya (Jostein Gaarder),2002
The Solitaire's Mystery (Jostein Gaarder),2002 *
The Christmas Mystery (Jostein Gaarder),2002
Vita Brevis (Jostein Gaarder),2002
Through a Looking Glass Darkly (Jostein Gaarder),2002 *
The Ringmaster's Daughter (Jostein Gaarder),2004

Lord of The Rings: Fellowship of The Ring (JRR Tolkien),2001-2002
Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers (JRR Tolkien),2002 *
Lord of The Rings: The Return of The King (JRR Tolkien),2002 *
The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien),2002

The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud (Julia Navarro), June 2008

For Matrimonial Purposes (Kavita Daswani),2004

The Remains of The Day (Kazuo Ishiguro), September 2006 *
Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro), April 2007 *

Bagombo Snuff Box (Kurt Vonnegut),2002

Case for Creation (Lee Strobel), May 2008*

Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Caroll),2000 *
Through The Looking Glass (Lewiss Caroll),2003

If Minds Had Toes (Lucy Eyre), June 2007

The Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum),2004 *

Three To See The King (Magnus Mills), 2003 *
The Restraint of Beasts (Magnus Mills), June 2006 *

The Curious Incident of The Dog In The Night (Mark Haddon),2004 *

Oryx And Crake (Margareth Atwood),2004 *

Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi), June 2006 *

Because They Wanted To (Mary Gaitskill),2004

God's Gift to Women (Michael Baisden), April 2008

The Sacred Bones (Michael Byrnes), May 2008

My Sherlock Holmes (Michael Kurlan), April 2008

Immortality (Milan Kundera),2003
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being (Milan Kundera),2004 *
Identity (Milan Kundera),2004 *
Jacques and His Master (Milan Kundera), March 2005 *
Farewell Waltz (Milan Kundera), March 2005 *
The Joke (Milan Kundera), July 2006 *

The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom),2003

The Black Swan (Nasim Nicholas Taleb), March 2008 *

Botchan (Natsuki Sotsemi), August 2004

Smoke And Mirrors (Neil Gaiman),2003
The Sandman Series I-X (Neil Gaiman), 2003 *
Death: The High Cost Of Living (Neil Gaiman),2003 *
Death: Time Of Your Life (Neil Gaiman),2003 *
Dream Hunters (Neil Gaiman),2003 *
The Wolves In The Wall (Neil Gaiman), 2003 *
Endless Night (Neil Gaiman),2003 *
American Gods (Neil Gaiman),2004
Good Omen (Neil Gaiman), December 2005*
Coraline (Neil Gaiman), December 2005
Violent Cases (Neil Gaiman), July 2006
Stardust (Neil Gaiman), July 2006 *
Fragile Things (Neil Gaiman), September 2007 *
Neverwhere (Neil Gaiman), June 2008 *

A Town Like Alice (Nevile Shute),2000

Subject:re (Novita Estiti), December 2004

Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card),2003 *
Speaker for The Dead (Orson Scott Card),2003 *
Xenocide (Orson Scott Card),2003
Children of The Mind (Orson Scott Card), September 2005 *
Ender's Shadow (Orson Scott Card), February 2006 *
Shadow of The Hegemon (Orson Scott Card), February 2006

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde), February 2005 *

City of Glass: The Graphic Novel (Paul Auster, Paul Karasik, D. Mazzucchellil, Art Spiegelman), May 2007 *

Michaelangelo's Notebook (Paul Christopher), January 2008

The Lost Army of Cambyses (Paul Susssman), June 2008

Veronika Decides To Die (Paulo Coelho), July 2004 *
11 Minutes (Paulo Coelho), July 2004
The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho), January 2007

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? (Philip K. Dick),2002 *
Ubik (Philip K. Dick),2003 *
The Man in The High Castle (Philip K. Dick),2002
Dr.Bloodmoney (Philip K. Dick),2002
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (Philip K. Dick),2002
Radio Free Albemuth (Philip K. Dick),2004
The Collected Short Stories of Philip K. Dick, Vol. 2 (Philip K. Dick), April 2008 *
Second Variety (Philip K. Dick), May 2008 *

The Golden Compass (Philip Pullman),2003 *
The Subtle Knife (Philip Pullman),2003 *
The Amber Spyglass (Philip Pullman),2003 *

The Chameleon Spell (Piers Anthony),2000
Blue Adept (Piers Anthony),2000 *
Juxtaposition (Piers Anthony),2000
Out of Phaze (Piers Anthony),2000
Robot Adept (Piers Anthony),2000
Unicorn Point (Piers Anthony),2001
Phaze Doubt (Piers Anthony),2001
The Source of Magic (Piers Anthony), April 2008
Castle Roogna (Piers Anthony), April 2008

The King, The Witch, and The Priest (Pramoedya Ananta Toer), September 2004

Ca-bau-kan (Remy Sylado), February 2005

The Christmas Box (Richard Paul Evans), April 2007

Tales of The Unexpected (Roald Dahl),2000 *
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Roald Dahl),2003

Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert Pirsiq), September 2006 *

Rich Dad, Poor Dad (Robert T. Kiyosaki),2003 *

The Best of Saki (Saki), May 2005 *

The Moor's Last Sigh (Salman Rushdie),2003
Haroun and The Sea of Stories (Salman Rushdie),2004 *

God's Debris (Scott Adams), March 2008
The Religion War (Scott Adams), March 2008

The Coins of Judas(Scott McBain), June 2008

Catatan Seorang Demonstran (Soe Hok Gie), August 2005*

Macbeth (Shakespeare), June 2005

The Naked Face (Sidney Sheldon), 2003

Petals in The Breeze (Sootimah Roowi),2003

Who Moved My Cheese? (Spencer Johnson), 2003

Decipher (Stel Pavlou), August 2008

The Third Secret (Steve Berry), May 2008

The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break (Steven Sherrill), January 2006

The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath),2003 *

Toto Chan, A Little Girl By The Window (Tetsuko Kuroyanagi),2000 *

The Predictors (Thomas A. Bass),2002

The Lexus and The Olive Tree (Thomas L. Friedman), December 2006 *

Free Will: A Very Short Introduction (Thomas Pink), January 2006

Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco), August 2008

Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf), January 2005

Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov),2003

The Man Who Fell To Earth (Walter Tevis),2003 *

Shanghai Baby (Wei Hui),2003

Kiss Me, Judas (Will Christopher Baer),2002

Contract With God (Will Eisner),2004 *
Invisible People (Will Eisner), July 2006 *
Life on Another Planet (Will Eisner), 2007 *
Minor Miracles (Will Eisner), 2007 *
The Dreamer (Will Eisner), May 2007

Lord of The Flies (William Golding),2003

The Life of Pi (Yann Martel),2003


* = recommended by me