04/09/2026
✨8 English Books That Maybe You Don’t Mind Waking Up to September to✨
➀ Odeon: An Ode
Latest addition to Ethos Books' Orbit series, local poet and author Theophilus Kwek bases this cinematic book on the historic site of the former Odeon Theatre. The book is about the imaginary lives and times that came to pass in what was once a prominent architecture in Singapore boasting state-of-the-art modernity.
➋ Verity
Now adapted into a psychological thriller (opens October for us), those who have read the book found its plot addictively dark and gripping. The story follows Lowen Ashleigh, a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin. She accepts the job of a lifetime, offered by Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. While at it, Lowen discovers a slew of mind-bending secrets between the couple.
➂ Two Women Living Together
A light-hearted read that relooks at the social normative of the family unit. Our society has always had a distinct and dominant narrative of a family nucleus – one father, one mother, two kids – but to this, two South Korean women says nope. In this book, Hana and Sunwoo introduces us to their molecular family which they would like to call as W2C4 (2 women, 4 cats), and everything in between.
✏️ As a reader, I devoured the book in just a few days over cups of coffee and the playlist that the authors recommended. The book spoke to me personally as a single, and served meaningfully to open my mind on redefining how a family could look like for myself, and the options I could probably have alongside other single persons.
➍ Field Guide to Falling Ill
These are professor and medical interpreter Jonathan Gleason’s essays on the human lives behind the corporate, legal, and cultural practices that shape disease. A fascinating read on the social actors, cultural narratives and historical contexts impacting medicine and medical practices. The author writes empathetically and introspectively making this book less of a strenuous research report type.
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