(Never Been Better, authored by one of our featured writers in May, O Thiam Chin, was nominated for The Star Readers’ Choice Awards 2010. )
The Star Readers' Choice Award is the only local book awards that give you, the reader, a chance to reward your favourite authors and win prizes yourself.
Among the books that did well last year was Little Hut Of Leaping Fishes by Chiew-Siah Tei, which was critically very well-received when it came out in hardback in 2008 (the paperback was released last year); and there was Ioannis Gatsiounis’s fiction debut early in 2009, Velvet & Cinder Blocks – the Kuala Lumpur-based American freelance reporter has written articles about Malaysia for publications like Newsweek, The Washington Times and Asia Times.
On the non-fiction list, the name Mahathir figures for the third time – a perennial favourite, it seems! – with Marina doing the honours this year with a book she had not expected to publish, 50 Days: Rantings By MM. The always entertaining Amir Muhammad is on the list again, with two very different books: an informative, retrospective look at the legacy of the late Yasmin Ahmad in Yasmin Ahmad’s Films and the irreverently hilarious Malaysian Politicians Say The Darndest Things Vol.2.
The Popular-The Star Readers’ Choice Awards 2010 invites you to submit your selection of the top three fiction and top three non-fiction titles based on the lists below.
The Popular-The Star Readers’ Choice Awards 2010 are a precursor to Malaysia’s largest book exhibition, BookFest@Malaysia 2010, which will be held at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre from Sept 4-12.
Fiction
1. Velvet & Cinder Blocks by Ioannis Gatsiounis
2. Map Of The Invisible World by Tash Aw
3. Scary Ever After by John Ho
4. Or Rau by Kuan Guat Choo
5. Kirby: The Life And The Loves by Dr Shaari Isa
6. Never Been Better by O Thiam Chin
7. Inspector Singh Investigates: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder by Shamini Flint
8. Little Hut Of Leaping Fishes by Chiew-Siah Tei
9. Chinese Stories In Times Of Change by David T.K. Wong
10. Match Fixer by Neil Humphreys
Non-fiction
1. 50 Days: Rantings By MM by Marina Mahathir
2. I, Too, Am Malay by Zaid Ibrahim
3. Taxi Tales by Charlene Rajendran
4. Yasmin Ahmad’s Films by Amir Muhammad
5. Malaysian Politicians Say The Darndest Things Vol.2 by Amir Muhammad
6. Tropical Affairs: Episodes From An Expat’s Life In Malaysia by Robert Raymer
7. Even Madder About Malaysians by Dean Johns
8. Do You Wear Suspenders? by Lydia Teh
9. Ceritalah 3: Malaysia, A Dream Deferred by Karim Raslan
10. Life, The Malaysian Style by Peggy Tan Pek Tao
More information here.
The Star Readers' Choice Award is the only local book awards that give you, the reader, a chance to reward your favourite authors and win prizes yourself.
Among the books that did well last year was Little Hut Of Leaping Fishes by Chiew-Siah Tei, which was critically very well-received when it came out in hardback in 2008 (the paperback was released last year); and there was Ioannis Gatsiounis’s fiction debut early in 2009, Velvet & Cinder Blocks – the Kuala Lumpur-based American freelance reporter has written articles about Malaysia for publications like Newsweek, The Washington Times and Asia Times.
On the non-fiction list, the name Mahathir figures for the third time – a perennial favourite, it seems! – with Marina doing the honours this year with a book she had not expected to publish, 50 Days: Rantings By MM. The always entertaining Amir Muhammad is on the list again, with two very different books: an informative, retrospective look at the legacy of the late Yasmin Ahmad in Yasmin Ahmad’s Films and the irreverently hilarious Malaysian Politicians Say The Darndest Things Vol.2.
The Popular-The Star Readers’ Choice Awards 2010 invites you to submit your selection of the top three fiction and top three non-fiction titles based on the lists below.
The Popular-The Star Readers’ Choice Awards 2010 are a precursor to Malaysia’s largest book exhibition, BookFest@Malaysia 2010, which will be held at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre from Sept 4-12.
Fiction
1. Velvet & Cinder Blocks by Ioannis Gatsiounis
2. Map Of The Invisible World by Tash Aw
3. Scary Ever After by John Ho
4. Or Rau by Kuan Guat Choo
5. Kirby: The Life And The Loves by Dr Shaari Isa
6. Never Been Better by O Thiam Chin
7. Inspector Singh Investigates: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder by Shamini Flint
8. Little Hut Of Leaping Fishes by Chiew-Siah Tei
9. Chinese Stories In Times Of Change by David T.K. Wong
10. Match Fixer by Neil Humphreys
Non-fiction
1. 50 Days: Rantings By MM by Marina Mahathir
2. I, Too, Am Malay by Zaid Ibrahim
3. Taxi Tales by Charlene Rajendran
4. Yasmin Ahmad’s Films by Amir Muhammad
5. Malaysian Politicians Say The Darndest Things Vol.2 by Amir Muhammad
6. Tropical Affairs: Episodes From An Expat’s Life In Malaysia by Robert Raymer
7. Even Madder About Malaysians by Dean Johns
8. Do You Wear Suspenders? by Lydia Teh
9. Ceritalah 3: Malaysia, A Dream Deferred by Karim Raslan
10. Life, The Malaysian Style by Peggy Tan Pek Tao
More information here.
