Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore
By: Esther Vincent
4.11
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
Making Kin aspires to be ecofeminist in nature, in terms of acknowledging the intersectional mode o…
Want to Read"The girl comes to a profound realisation — that life goes on in spite of her."-Esther Vincent, Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore
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1. 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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2. The Hour of the Star
By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero
4.09
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narr… read more
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"Sou um monstro ou isso é ser uma pessoa?"-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Don't forget that for now it's strawberry season"-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing."-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Όσο για το γράψιμο, περισσότερο αξίζει ένα ζωντανό σκυλί."-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
3. Love: Vintage Minis
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.91
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
How do we love? With romance. With work. Through heartbreak. Throughout a lifetime. As a means, but… read more
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4. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more
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5. Salt Magic
By: Hope Larson
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
When a jealous witch curses her family's well, it's up to Vonceil to set things right in an epic jo… read more
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"...some wounds aren't easy to see."-Hope Larson, Salt Magic
"Papa always says, you can fix soil, and you can build houses, but there's no point if the land don't have water."-Hope Larson, Salt Magic
"I know you feel too big for this place. But when you get out of here, you'll see how small you are in the world."-Hope Larson, Salt Magic
"No one stays young forever. And me? I lost my youth in the battlefield. If I have my way, I'll never leave this country again. Hell, I'll never leave the county. And if you think I'm the kind of man …"-Hope Larson, Salt Magic
6. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
By: Sabrina Imbler
4.12
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- essays
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
7. Beautyland
By: Marie-Helene Bertino
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel ab… read more
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8. No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
By: Greta Thunberg
3.86
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice … read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
- essays
"The real power belongs to the people."-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
"...But it is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of a few."-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
"You say that you love your children above everything else. And yet you are stealing their future."-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
"Those of us who are still children can’t change what you do now once we’re old enough to do something about it."-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
9. Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
By: Hwang Bo-Reum
4.02
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Yeongju is burned out. With her high-flying career, demanding marriage, and busy life in Seoul, sh… read more
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"Why? Because we only get one shot in life, and we're living it now."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day'."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be a success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
10. Conversations on Love
By: Natasha Lunn
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A celebration of love in all its forms, featuring conversations with: Philippa Perry on falling in … read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"And I grew to understand that the grief I felt equalled the love. - Greg Wise"-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love
"The things I flew past in the race to get what I didn't have were actually the gifts all along."-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love
"I'm here for the good and the bad and everything in between". True friends see through any level of performance or denial or avoidance."-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love
"It's important when you've good news to tell the right people. People who understand the dream or have a dream of their own. Otherwise, you end up feeling deflated."-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love
11. 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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12. The Boy and the Dog
By: Seishū Hase
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
One dog changes the life of everyone who takes him in on his journey to reunite with his first owne… read more
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"And yet, Yaichi was well aware that dogs had a special relationship to humans. Maybe it was God who sent them, or maybe Buddha. Who knew? But he knew they had been dispatched for the benefit of our f…"-Seishū Hase, The Boy and the Dog
13. Natural Beauty
By: Ling Ling Huang
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obs… read more
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"it is still more permitted for women to be mediocre than for them to be fat"-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
"It’s unfortunate that I can undermine months of parental reassurance in just a few seconds, but it’s probably better for kids to learn early on that yes, monsters are real."-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
"I had always assumed love carried itself easily through various permutations and disintegrations. Now I find myself disassociating them from the people I had known my parents to be. I can't decide wh…"-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
14. 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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"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
15. Big Feelings: How to Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay
By: Liz Fosslien
4.22
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the duo behind the bestselling book No Hard Feelings and the wildly popular @LizandMollie Inst… read more
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- nonfiction
16. Brown Girls
By: Daphne Palasi Andreades
3.90
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
A blazingly original debut novel about a group of friends and their immigrant families from Queens,… read more
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17. Brown Is Redacted
By: Kristian-Marc James Paul
4.17
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Brown is Redacted: Reflecting on Race in Singapore responds to, expands on and questions what we th… read more
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18. Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore
By: Esther Vincent
4.11
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
Making Kin aspires to be ecofeminist in nature, in terms of acknowledging the intersectional mode o… read more
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- nature
- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- essays
- environment
"The girl comes to a profound realisation — that life goes on in spite of her."-Esther Vincent, Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore
19. Raffles Renounced
By: Alfian Sa’at
4.17
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Why did independent Singapore celebrate two hundred years of its founding as a British colony in 20… read more
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- nonfiction
20. This Is What Inequality Looks Like
By: You Yenn Teo
4.46
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
This book—an ethnography of inequality—addresses these questions. Formed by a series of essays, the… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"Memories sustain us — they tell us who we are and to whom we’re connected."-You Yenn Teo, This Is What Inequality Looks Like
"What we do and do not do are shaped by our sense of how others are — shared understandings of right and wrong, good and bad, valuable and worthless. The pathways and practices we end up taking are re…"-You Yenn Teo, This Is What Inequality Looks Like
21. 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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- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
"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
22. Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene: Environmental Perspectives on Life in Singapore
By: Matthew Schneider-Mayerson
4.17
Format: 276 pages, Paperback
In this era of climate crisis, in which our very futures are at stake, sustainability is a global i… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
- essays
23. The Singapore I Recognise: Essays on home, community and hope
By: Kirsten Han
4.59
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Singapore is small, a complex country full of contradictions, inconsistencies and idiosyncrasies. O… read more
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- nonfiction
24. Delayed Rays of a Star
By: Amanda Lee Koe
3.74
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling novel following the lives of three groundbreaking women--Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong… read more
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"Liu Tsong, her father laughed, you have your ideas, but they don't make any sense. They make sense to me, she answered. But, my girl, he said gently enough, you are not the world."-Amanda Lee Koe, Delayed Rays of a Star
25. Loss Adjustment
By: Linda Collins
4.20
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
“I have had nothing bad happen to me except my own doing. I have let this cowardice envelop me, and… read more
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- nonfiction
"My dad—Victoria’s grandfather, “Poppa Jim"-Linda Collins, Loss Adjustment
"Amid this constant physical presence of fellow human beings, we gaze inward, trying to absorb what has happened with our lives and why the person we love the most is not here."-Linda Collins, Loss Adjustment
"I imagine them being so upset they sucked the tar as a comfort, with shaking hands, and when the comfort didn’t come, hurled them away, one after the other, where the paper and tobacco fizzled and di…"-Linda Collins, Loss Adjustment
"I try to be the rock that I see they hope I can be. People can take only so much distress and hair-tearing. They need to be given to, as well as to give. What they want from me is hope, that I can ca…"-Linda Collins, Loss Adjustment
26. Singa-Pura-Pura
By: Nazry Bahrawi
3.69
Format: None pages, Paperback
From a future of electronic doas and AI psychotherapists, sense-activated communion with forests an… read more
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27. After The Inquiry
By: Jolene Tan
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
Police sergeant Hafiz lies in a coma after a gunshot to the head. The investigation by Internal Aff… read more
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28. The Orchid Folios
By: Mok Zining
4.23
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A pot shatters. An arrangement falls apart. A florist finds herself amidst the scattered leaves of … read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
29. Where I Was: A Memoir About Forgetting and Remembering
By: Constance Singam
4.26
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Where I Was: A Memoir About Forgetting and Remembering is a rich and compelling account of the life… read more
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- nonfiction
30. A Place For Us
By: Cassandra Chiu
3.99
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Disability is neither strange nor distant. Part autobiography, part reflections of social advocate … read more
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- nonfiction
31. Not Without Us: Perspectives on Disability and Inclusion in Singapore
By: Kuansong Victor Zhuang
4.17
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
Disability is all around us—among people we meet, the media, sports, our own family and friends. Un… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
