The Top 15 Books I Read In The Last Two Years

Mai Mislang
12 min readJan 8, 2024

A humble gift for brilliant authors whose work has changed my life

The best book list is that year-end bandwagon I try hard not to miss, though I have been delinquent. Last year, my small business struck gold and until the first week of January, I was baking holiday gifts. This December, I was nowhere to be found, embedded in the hustle of my tiny workshop, up to my ears in flour and sourdough orders. Not that I’m complaining, but two years of doing this did make me feel somewhat removed from the one gift on this planet, aside from music, that keeps on…

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Mai Mislang

Former presidential speechwriter, still a musician; owns a bakery, loves her dog. Tries to write more prose than poetry. Filipina from Manila.