Ever wondered what lies beyond the scripts, what’s really in those dog-eared pages resting on their nightstands when the cameras blink off?

Today, we peel back the gloss to reveal something intimate. Three of Thailand’s most magnetic stars have thrown open their literary diaries.

Here’s your teaser before you dive deep: one book unspools the past, another digs deep into the self, and the last chases the impossible.

Welcome to their private sanctuaries!

Tipnaree “Namtan” Weerawatnodom : Find the Duck

We’re fairly certain that Namtan was thinking of this exact picture book when she mentioned her beloved “finding the ducks” story.

Find the Duck opens in a pastel tiled-bathroom dream frozen somewhere around 1983. Among the rubber duckies bobbing between shampoo bottles, there’s a single yellow figure you’ll need to pin down before turning pages because you don’t exactly read these books but you scan and hunt your way through.

Conjured from Usborne Publishing and illustrated into legacy by the late Stephen Cartwright, this picture book series’ plot is simply just pure pursuit: the reader stays active even as the book sits still. The main event of this story is the thrill of chasing the duck, who’s forever ducking.

This book delivers that blink-and-you’ll-miss-it kind of whimsy. The art of hunting down this perpetually hiding yellow fugitive and the triumph of spotting it is definitely Koktail-approved fun, and Namtan’s stamp of approval only sharpens the thrill.

Metawin “Win” Opas-iamkajorn : Good Vibes, Good Life: How Self-Love Is the Key to Unlocking Your Greatness

When we caught up with Win, talk turned soulful. He’s deep in Good Vibes, Good Life, the self-help cult classic by Vex King.

The book breathes scarred, healing, and alive. Its author wrote it as he survived it. King grew up with grief in his teeth, raised on fight or flight in neighbourhoods that forgot how to dream. Home was often nowhere. The streets weren’t kind. But King alchemised. He took the weight, the wounds, the quiet wars ,and turned them into light. Good Vibes, Good Life became King’s reclamation, scribbled in resilience that’s touched millions–including our beloved Win.

The book is a roadmap for breaking the shell, for saying yes to the full breathless sprawl of being alive. It dares you to fling the doors open. Win’s dialled in, no shocker here. This pick definitely lands sharp right in our Koktail office sweet spot.

Pongtiwat “Blue” Tangwancharoen : Attack on Titan

We asked Blue what’s on his reading list and he’s all in for cartoons, the whole scene. Scroll through his Instagram and you’ll catch him in his element: a bookstore corner, fingers gripping the spine of a manga, a Japanese comic. It looks like the Attack on Titan series by Hajime Isayama is the one resting on his nightstand.

Attack on Titan drops you into a world hemmed in by colossal walls, humanity’s last fortress against towering, ravenous giants known as Titans. At the story’s core is Eren Yeager, a kid fueled by rage and loss, sworn to annihilate these monstrous invaders after they shatter his home and take his mother.

Running from 2009 to 2021, Isayama’s saga broke boundaries in manga and was serialised into a long-running anime adaptation that kept fans hooked from 2013 all the way to its explosive finales in 2023.

Honestly, nothing stays etched quite like a manga’s spine, and that’s exactly what you get with this very pick from Blue.