The 60 books
Singapore is built word by word through the stories writers tell. Learn more about the 60 books that were the foundation of this project and start your own SingLit reading list.
Hikayat Abdullah
1945
If We Dream Too Long
1972
Little Ironies
1978
Or Else, The Lightning God & Other Stories
1980
The Teenage Textbook
1988
Transcreations
1988
Fascist Rock: Stories Of Rebellion
1990
A Candle Or The Sun
1991
The Shrimp People
1991
Fistful Of Colours
1992
Katong And Other Poems
1994
Abraham's Promise
1995
Gone Case
1997
One Fierce Hour
1998
Who Wants To Buy A Book Of Poems?
1998
No Other City
2000
A History Of Amnesia
2001
City Of Rain
2003
Frottage
2005
Like A Seed With Its Singular Purpose
2006
pretend I'm not here
2006
Journeys
2008
Means To An End
2008
One Earth
2008
Between Stations
2009
A Different Sky
2010
Art Studio
2011
Unrest
2012
The Earnest Mask
2012
Clear Brightness
2012
The Best Of Edwin Thumboo
2012
Confrontation
2013
Inheritance
2013
Ministry Of Moral Panic
2013
The Collected Poems Of Arthur Yap
2013
The Inlet
2013
The Goddess In The Living Room
2014
Soul's Festival: Collected Poems 1980-1997
2014
The Widower
2015
Steep Tea
2015
The Art Of Charlie Chan Hock Chye
2015
Sugarbread
2016
Pulp: A Short Biography Of The Banished Book
2016
A Field Guide To Supermarkets In Singapore
2016
State Of Emergency
2017
The Black Tides Of Heaven
2017
The Gatekeeper
2017
Gaze Back
2018
Lion City
2018
sonnets from the singlish
2018
parsetreeforestfire
2019
Sembawang: A Novel
2020
We Make Spaces Divine
2021
The Formidable Miss Cassidy
2021
A Bad Girl's Book Of Animals
2023
The Great Reclamation
2023
Nine Yard Sarees
2023
Delicious Hunger
2024
Sister Snake
2024
The Original Daughter
2025
Hikayat Abdullah
1945
If We Dream Too Long
1972
Little Ironies
1978
Or Else, The Lightning God & Other Stories
1980
The Teenage Textbook
1988
Transcreations
1988
Fascist Rock: Stories Of Rebellion
1990
A Candle Or The Sun
1991
The Shrimp People
1991
Fistful Of Colours
1992
Katong And Other Poems
1994
Abraham's Promise
1995
Gone Case
1997
One Fierce Hour
1998
Who Wants To Buy A Book Of Poems?
1998
No Other City
2000
A History Of Amnesia
2001
City Of Rain
2003
Frottage
2005
Like A Seed With Its Singular Purpose
2006
pretend I'm not here
2006
Journeys
2008
Means To An End
2008
One Earth
2008
Between Stations
2009
A Different Sky
2010
Art Studio
2011
Unrest
2012
The Earnest Mask
2012
Clear Brightness
2012
The Best Of Edwin Thumboo
2012
Confrontation
2013
Inheritance
2013
Ministry Of Moral Panic
2013
The Collected Poems Of Arthur Yap
2013
The Inlet
2013
The Goddess In The Living Room
2014
Soul's Festival: Collected Poems 1980-1997
2014
The Widower
2015
Steep Tea
2015
The Art Of Charlie Chan Hock Chye
2015
Sugarbread
2016
Pulp: A Short Biography Of The Banished Book
2016
A Field Guide To Supermarkets In Singapore
2016
State Of Emergency
2017
The Black Tides Of Heaven
2017
The Gatekeeper
2017
Gaze Back
2018
Lion City
2018
sonnets from the singlish
2018
parsetreeforestfire
2019
Sembawang: A Novel
2020
We Make Spaces Divine
2021
The Formidable Miss Cassidy
2021
A Bad Girl's Book Of Animals
2023
The Great Reclamation
2023
Nine Yard Sarees
2023
Delicious Hunger
2024
Sister Snake
2024
The Original Daughter
2025