To celebrate National Book Day, which falls on May 17, here’s our picks of Indonesian books (also available in English) that you should add to your reading list—if you haven't already. 

This year is an exciting year for all the bookworms and movie lovers out there as plenty of successful books that have been adapted for the silver screen will be released

Written like a confession, the book stole my heart from the first page. It is the story of a communist spy pretending to be a nationalist captain, a man whom shares a blood pledge with one communist and one nationalist and is the product of an Oriental mother and Occidental father, fighting for a communist Vietnam.

In conjunction with the release of Ada Apa Dengan Cinta 2 and National Poetry Day, poet Aan Mansyur has released a poetry book titled Tidak Ada New York Hari Ini (There’s No New York Today).

Growing up in the 90s, I enjoyed watching Free Willy. The movie is about a boy forming a friendship with a killer whale, or orca, named Willy.

Most of us assume we have a basic immutable right to reproduce. That’s why even those who know very little about the world’s most populous country know that its citizens were allowed a maximum of one child per couple.

Author Anthony Doerr takes us back to the pre-World War II era, telling the story of Marie Laure, a beautiful, freckled and blind French girl and Werner Pfennig, a genius German orphan boy with a penchant for technology.

These past few years, the terms “gender equality”, “feminism” and “feminist” have been commonplace not only in the media but also in our day-to-day conversations.