Buibu Baca Buku Book Club is collaborating with Penguin Random House SEA. Hoping to bring the readers and the books closer, together we’ll celebrate the diversity of Southeast Asian literature and non-fiction books through book review & recommendation, book giveaways, and discussion.

About
Penguin Random House SEA was launched in October 2018 to bring local writing from the Southeast Asian region to a wider audience, breaking barriers of language and geographies. Penguin Random House SEA is a subsidiary of the well-established and well-respected global publishing house, Penguin Random House.
As one of the world’s premier English language publishers, Penguin publishes across a whole range of genres and are home to some of today’s most revered names in fiction and non-fiction, poetry, and prose. With an in-depth understanding of the vibrant and diverse Southeast Asian region, Penguin Random House SEA has published a wide range of titles in a short span of time, some of which have gone to win awards and become bestsellers.
Penguin Random House SEA is publishing and discovering new and established, local and international voices in English for adults and children primarily for Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar. It has a strong fiction and non-fiction list across every genre including biography, travel, business, politics, history, religion and philosophy, lifestyle, and self-help.
EVENT & Discussion
30 October 2022
Conversations on Mental Health: Stories We Share but Don’t Tell with Hun Ming Kwang
November 2022
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December 2022
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January 2023
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Book Review & Recommendation (on Instagram)

Event & Discussion
Conversations on Mental Health: Stories We Share but Don’t Tell
Speaker: Hun Ming Kwang
Host & moderator: Nadya Saib
Date & Time:
Sunday, 30 October 2022
19.00 Jakarta Time / 8.00 PM SGT
Place:
Virtual via Zoom -> bit.ly/bbb-hmk

Fiction On The list
Ashadi Siregar – Rejection: A Sumatran Odyssey
Chancham Bunnag – Prisna, Vol 1 & Vol 2
Danielle Lim – All Our Brave, Earthly Scars
Leila S. Chudori – The Sea Speaks His Name
Nadia Ayesha – Showers of Luck
Nilanjana Sengupta – Chickpeas to Cook & Other Stories
Nguyen Thanh Hien – Chronicles of A Village

Non-Fiction On The list
Desmond Kon – Depth of Field: My Guided Journal for Self Healing
Hun Ming Kwang – Threading Worlds: Conversations on Mental Health – Stories We Don’t Tell
Hun Ming Kwang – Threading Worlds: Conversations on Mental Health – Growing Pains
Marcel Daane – Five Energies of Horrible Bosses…And How Not to Become One
Mark Eveleigh – Kopi Dulu: Caffeine-Fuelled Travels Through Indonesia
Max Lane – Indonesia Out of Exile: How Pramoedya’s Buru Quartet Killed a Dictatorship
Natalia Rachel – Why Am I like This?: Illuminating the traumatized self