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BOOKS DISCUSSED BY BOOK CLUB GROUPS 1 AND 2
2010
Evening is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan
Jim Thompson - The Unsolved Mystery by William Warren
White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
Beyond the Sky and the Earth by Jamie Zeppa
When we were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
Descent into Chaos by Ahmed Rashid
Six Suspects by Vikas Swarup
2005 - 2009
Map of the Invisitble World by Tash Aw
Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseni
Waiting by Ha Jin
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
A Fortune Teller Told Me by Tiziano Terzani
The Good Women of China by Xinran Xue
The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru
Q & A by Vikas Swarup
The Space between Us by Thirty Umirgar
The Coroner’s Lunch by Colin Cotterill
The Three daughters of Madame Liang by Pearl Buck
Tale of the Genji by Muaraski Shikibut
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Three Came Home by Agnes Newton-Keith
The Old House by Chuah Guat Eng
One Thousand Chestnut Trees by Mira Stout
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
Mao’s Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw
Leaving Mother Lake by Yang Erche Namu and Christine Mathieu
War of the Running Dogs by Noel Barber
The Jacaranda Tree by H.E. Bates
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Heaven’s Edge by Romesh Gunesekeran
Mayada, Daughter of Iraq by Jean Sasson
1421 The Year China Discovered The World by Gavin Menzies
The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
The Alchemy of Desire byTarun J Tejpal
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Trespassers on the Roof of the World by Peter Hopkirk
The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap
Leaving Mother Lake by Yang Erche Namu & Christine Mathieu
I am a Cat by Soseki Natsume
The Hamilton Case by Michelle de Kretser
The Soul of Malaya by Henri Fauconnier
The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
The Good Women of China by Xinran Xue
You’ll Die in Singapore by Charles McCormac
Map for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam
The River at the Centre Of the World by Simon Winchester
City of Djinns- A year in Delhi by William Dalrymple
Diary of a girl in Changi by Sheila Allen
Saman by Aya Utami
Wonder House by Justine Hardy
Baumgartner’s Bombay by Anita Desai
Tanah Tujoh by Antares
Breaking the Tongue by Vyvyane Loh
Gweilo by Martin Booth
Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan
Kalimantan by C.S. Godshalk
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Two Lives by Vikram Seth
Last Mughal by William Dalrymple
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
I am Muslim by Dina Zaman
Reef by Romesh Gunesekera
2002 – 2005
The Financial Expert by RK Narayan
Not My Bowl of Rice by ER Escober
Lolita in Tehran A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up under the Khmer Rouge by Chanrithy Him
Whispers at the Pagoda by Julie Sell
A Fortune Teller Told Me by Tiziano Terzani
White Mughals by William Dalrymple
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places by Le Ly Hayslip with Jay Wurts
Trespassing by Uzma Aslam Khan
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Waiting by Ha Jin
The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
From The Land of Green Ghosts by Pascal Khoo Thwe
Ambrosia for Afters by Kalpana Swaminathan
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler
When I Whistle by Shusako Endo
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
The Soul of Malaya by Henri Fauconnier, Translator: Eric Sutton
Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka
Silverfish New Writing 3 Editors: Dina Zaman & Mohammad A. Quayum
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler
Plain Tales from the Raj by Charles Allen
Geisha of Gion by Mineko Iwasaki
The Middleman and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee
Ceritalah 1 and Ceritalah 2 by Karim Raslam
Sorrow Mountain: the Remarkable Story of a Tibetan Warrior Nun by Ani Pachen and Adelaide Donnelley
The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka
The Merlion and the Hibiscus: Contemporary Short Stories From Singapore and Malaysia
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
Kalimantaan by C. S. Godshalk
A Fortune Teller Told Me by Tiziano Terzani
Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng
The Malayan Trilogy (Time for a Tiger) by Anthony Burgess
The Revolutionary King by William Stevenson
Among the White Moonfaces - Memoirs of a Nyonya Feminist by Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Rubber by Madelon Szekely-Lulofs
The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka
The House of Blue Mangoes by David Davidar
Indira, The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi by Katherine Frank
Murder on the Verandah - Love and Betrayal in British Malaya by Eric Lawlor
Among the White Moonfaces - Memoirs of a Nyonya Feminist by Shirley Geok-lin Lim
The Revolutionary King, The True Life Sequel to 'The King and I' by William Stevenson
Patpong Sisters by Cleo Odzer
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
A Bit of Earth by Suchen Christine Lim
Dusk by F. Sionil
The Age of Kali by William Dalrymple
Tracing it Home by Lyn Pan
Burmese Days by George Orwell
The Stones Cry Out by Molyda Szymusiak
The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
The Private Life of Chairman Mao by Zhisui Li
The Girl in the Picture by Denise Cheong
Nathaniel's Nutmeg by Giles Milton
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