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…
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1. 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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- nonfiction
2. The Last Lesson of Mrs de Souza
By: Cyril Wong
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
"An unsentimental yet moving narrative, a sobering alternative to Dead Poets Societyand To Sir, Wit… read more
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3. 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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4. Singapore Siu Dai: The SG Conversation In A Cup
By: Felix Cheong , None
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
Life in Singapore is good, sometimes even -- dare we say it? -- absurd. In Singapore Siu Dai, Felix… read more
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5. Ten Myths about Israel
By: Ilan Pappé
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
What are the myths--and reality--behind the state of Israel? Ilan Pappe is one of the most outspoke… read more
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6. The House of Doors
By: Tan Twan Eng
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more
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"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
7. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
By: Sathnam Sanghera
4.10
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
8. Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide
By: Hawon Jung
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening firsthand account of the ongoing and trailblazing feminist movement in South Korea—o… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
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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"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. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
By: Patricia Evangelista
4.18
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
12. The Cat Who Taught Zen
By: James Norbury
4.32
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
From the author and illustrator of the international bestseller Big Panda and Tiny Dragon comes a b… read more
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"What we want is seldom what we need. And what we need is almost never what we want."-James Norbury, The Cat Who Taught Zen
"I once heard someone say, it was not the journey or the destination that mattered most, but the company."-James Norbury, The Cat Who Taught Zen
"If something isn’t right, just telling your friend can make it seem better, even though they might not know how to fix it."-James Norbury, The Cat Who Taught Zen
"It is better to begin the journey, make some mistakes and correct your course, than to wait until everything is perfect and never even start"-James Norbury, The Cat Who Taught Zen
13. Now You See Us
By: Balli Kaur Jaswal
3.74
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The story of three women who work in the homes of Singapore’s elite and band together to solve a mu… read more
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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. Suicide Club
By: Rachel Heng
3.21
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
In this debut set in near future NYC—where lives last 300 years and the pursuit of immortality is a… read more
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"Lea stood up from the bed and turned toward the mirrored wardrobe. Even naked, she could still pass for no older than fifty. This wasn't unique to her, of course; most lifers close to a hundred were …"-Rachel Heng, Suicide Club
16. Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital
By: Elise Hu
4.10
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
An audacious journalistic exploration of the present and future of beauty through the lens of South… read more
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- nonfiction
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. 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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- politics
- nonfiction
"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
19. Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy
By: Shibani Mahtani
4.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Through the eyes of two frontline journalists comes a gripping narrative history of the Hong Kong p… read more
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- nonfiction
20. The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World
By: Gideon Rachman
4.05
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In The Age of the Strongman, Gideon Rachman finds global coherence in the chaos of the new national… read more
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- nonfiction
"Durable political systems ultimately rely on institutions, not individuals."-Gideon Rachman, The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World
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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"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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- nonfiction
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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24. The Price of Being Fair
By: Sue-Ann Chia
4.13
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Some praise it as a national treasure. Others tag it as the people’s supermarket. Many simply call … read more
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25. Nine Yard Sarees: A Short Story Cycle
By: Prasanthi Ram
4.65
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Nine Yard Sarees is a multigenerational portrait of a fictional Tamil Brahmin family. Comprising el… read more
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26. Shantih Shantih Shantih
By: Daryl Qilin Yam
4.04
Format: 124 pages, Hardcover
An art student chances upon a former fling at Punggol MRT station. A reporter lies awake at four in… read more
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27. Heartland
By: Daren Shiau
3.57
Format: 276 pages, Paperback
Hailed as “the definitive Singaporean novel”, this new edition of Heartland is accompanied by a new… 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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29. We Are Not The Enemy: The Practice of Advocacy in Singapore
By: Constance Singam
4.24
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
Advocates and activists in Singapore contribute to policy discussions and positive change through a… read more
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30. The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370
By: Florence de Changy
3.93
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
‘The affair was weird when seen from afar, but seen in close-up, it was Kafkaesque: it was not poss… read more
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- nonfiction
31. The Punkhawala and the Prostitute
By: Wesley Leon Aroozoo
3.96
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the 2021 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Beneath the façade of a land golden with oppor… read more
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