Ponti
By: Sharlene Teo
3.35
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
2003, Singapore. Friendless and fatherless, sixteen-year-old Szu lives in the shadow of her mother …
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1. Hello Mum
By: Bernardine Evaristo
3.69
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
It's a hot summer afternoon. Tension is in the air. A gang of youths on bikes gathers outside a chi… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
2. The Face: Strangers on a Pier
By: Tash Aw
3.87
Format: 411 pages,
LA TimesBook Prize Finalist: The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose "Tash Aw's … read more
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- asian literature
- asia
3. Desert of the Heart
By: Jane Rule
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
Two women meet and fall in love in Reno, Nevada. This classic of lesbian eroticism is Jane Rule's f… read more
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- romance
- fiction
- historical fiction
4. Sightseeing
By: Rattawut Lapcharoensap
4.10
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
A glorious fiction debut written with exceptional acuity by an award-winning twenty-five-year-old T… read more
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5. The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye
By: Sonny Liew
3.81
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye is a biography showcasing the life and work of Chan Hock Chye, a … read more
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6. Inheritance
By: Balli Kaur Jaswal
3.73
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Inheritanceis a nation's coming-of-age story, seen through the sharp lens of a traditional Punjabi … read more
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7. Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary
By: Nina Stibbe
3.66
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
How do I get rid of the mosquitoes infesting the garden? Should my kids be drinking so much? And wh… read more
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- contemporary
8. Milk Teeth
By: Jessica Andrews
3.68
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across Engla… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
9. Ghost Girl, Banana
By: Wiz Wharton
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Set between the last years of the "Chinese Windrush" in 1966 and Hong Kong's Handover to China in 1… read more
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- literary fiction
- asia
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- historical fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
10. How We Disappeared
By: Jing-Jing Lee
4.20
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked,… read more
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- literary fiction
- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
- asian literature
- adult
11. Se Deus me Chamar Não Vou
By: Mariana Salomão Carrara
4.28
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Quem vai te contar essa história é uma criança de 11 anos. O olhar fresco e bem humorado de quem ai… read more
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- romance
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
12. The Great Reclamation
By: Rachel Heng
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Set against a changing Singapore, a sweeping novel about one boy's unique gifts and the childhood l… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- asia
- fiction
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- novels
"You know. You cannot just–" Ah Boon stopped. *Walk in here and ask me to open myself up all over again*, he thought, but he did not say (Heng 253)."-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation
"He wished for the noise of the pile driver, the clattering of the conveyor belt. He wished for something to prove that life had changed. But it was as if nothing had changed, nothing would ever chang…"-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation
"But as the old body of his father's boat thudded over the dull brown waves, the smell of fish pursuing him always, he saw the city, gleaming and spotless, rising as if dormant from the sea. Sparkling…"-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation
"Now a silent rule had been broken. The possibility of a real conversation loomed—the unspoken envy and resentment that had simmered all these years, the fact that yes, every morning since she had fal…"-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation
13. Things Remembered and Things Forgotten
By: Kyōko Nakajima
3.82
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
'If we want to understand what has been lost to time, there is no way other than through the exerci… read more
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- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
14. The Accidental Malay
By: Karina Robles Bahrin
3.55
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2022 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Jasmine Leong wants to be the next CEO of Phoenix… read more
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- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
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15. So Fetch
By: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
3.60
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Seinfeldia comes the totally fetch story of one of th… read more
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- adult
16. Ponti
By: Sharlene Teo
3.35
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
2003, Singapore. Friendless and fatherless, sixteen-year-old Szu lives in the shadow of her mother … read more
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17. The Burning
By: Laura Bates
3.76
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An Amazon Best Book of the Month! What happens when you can’t run or hide from a mistake that go… read more
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- historical fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"We are the granddaughters of the witches you burned. And we’re not putting up with it any more."-Laura Bates, The Burning
"We are the granddaughters of the witches you could not burn. And we are not putting up with it anymore."-Laura Bates, The Burning
"Jeez,’ another boy calls, ‘it was a compliment.’ ‘Compliments are like jokes,’ Cat says drily. ‘If you have to explain what they are, they haven’t worked."-Laura Bates, The Burning
18. At Dusk
By: Hwang Sok-yong
3.69
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In the evening of his life, a wealthy man begins to wonder if he might have missed the point. Pa… read more
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- literary fiction
- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- historical fiction
- novels
"No sooner did I start college than President Park Chung-hee’s Yushin dictatorship began. Everything was in turmoil, and not a day went by without riots and school closures. My classmates were being a…"-Hwang Sok-yong, At Dusk
"I sympathised with those who were fighting social injustices, but at the same time, by having the fortitude to just buckle down and get through it, I was able to forgive myself for not getting involv…"-Hwang Sok-yong, At Dusk
"Back then, rice was in short supply, and the government was waging a campaign to encourage people to eat more flour and mixed grains. At school, our lunchboxes were inspected daily, and anyone caught…"-Hwang Sok-yong, At Dusk
19. Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
By: Tania De Rozario
4.18
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
“A penetrating series of personal essays… a memoir that scratches a layer deeper than expected. The… read more
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- asian literature
- adult
"No wonder they come to your house looking for ghosts. Ghosts are spilling out of the walls."-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
"What they do not understand when they come to your house is that you have lived your whole life with ghosts."-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
"But her smile is vacant. Placid. A Stepford Wife smile. The tears fall but there is nothing behind them. She’s a mannequin crying on command."-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
"There is nothing like a horror film to reveal the cultural anxieties of one’s time and place. And if horror has taught me anything, it is that nothing has been as enduringly terrifying across time an…"-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
20. E se eu parasse de comprar?: O ano em que fiquei fora da moda
By: Joanna Moura
4.38
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
Um armário lotado e uma conta bancária vazia. Assim era a vida de Joanna Moura. Durante anos, el… read more
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21. Diamond Hill
By: Kit Fan
3.47
Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition
It is 1987 and three years since Britain signed the Joint Declaration agreeing to hand over its las… read more
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- asia
- novels
- fiction
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"All immigrants are dreamers, I suppose, and nearly everyone in Hong Kong is an immigrant one way or another."-Kit Fan, Diamond Hill
"I wondered how there could be a custody battle when Hong Kong was already a fully grown adult and all she wanted was exactly what her parents did, the wealth of the entire globe."-Kit Fan, Diamond Hill
"The Chinese and the British were not exactly saintly. What they called the Join Declaration and the Basic Law are just another form of confusion and exploitation. There will be no peace in Hong Kong.…"-Kit Fan, Diamond Hill
"We are in a state of transition here. In fact, everyone in Hong Kong is obsessed with one single date: 1 July 1997. The whole city is in a state of violent change, moving from one regime we are used …"-Kit Fan, Diamond Hill
