8 best-selling nonfiction books like Homeless by Liyana Dhamirah

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Homeless

By: Liyana Dhamirah

3.70

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Ten years ago, Liyana Dhamirah was in a precarious situation: at 22, she was heavily pregnant and h…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Homeless by Liyana Dhamirah , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Ministry of Moral Panic

By: Amanda Lee Koe

4.08

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Meet an over-the-hill Pop Yé-yé singer with a faulty heart, two conservative middle-aged women hold… read more

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"A relationship means exhaustion. Entrapment. I haven’t the energy for the eventuality of it. Love is no big truth."

-Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic

"But I love Sir long time, she'd said repeatedly, blubbering, but I love Sir long time. The wife got up and slapped her smartly across the face. Love? The wife gave a bark of laughter. What do you thi…"

-Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic

"The truth was probably that my mother had been so defined by the existence of my father that when he died, she couldn’t see anything else before her. He’d closed his fist around her, she’d let him, a…"

-Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic

2. 17A Keong Saik Road

By: None

4.28

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Mummy, why do you always have to leave for 17A... 17A Keong Saik Road recounts Charmaine Leung's gr… read more

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3. The Weight of Our Sky

By: Hanna Alkaf

4.23

Format: 690 pages,

Told over the course of the 1969 Chinese and Malay riots in Kuala Lumpur, the novel follows a young… read more

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4. Sugarbread

By: Balli Kaur Jaswal

3.71

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Finalist for the 2015 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Shortlisted for the 2017 Singapore Book Award for… read more

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5. Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help

By: Robert D. Lupton

4.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Veteran urban activist Robert Lupton reveals the shockingly toxic effects that modern charity has u… read more

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6. Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China

By: Leslie T. Chang

3.77

Format: None pages,

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7. Keanu Reeves is Not in Love With You: The Murky World of Online Romance Fraud

By: Becky Holmes

3.88

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

One woman's hilarious and fascinating quest to expose the truth behind fraudulent Twitter romance … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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8. 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

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9. The Formidable Miss Cassidy

By: Meihan Boey

4.05

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

Co-Winner of the 2021 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Winner of the 2022 Singapore Book Award for Bes… read more

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10. 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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11. 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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12. I Want To Die but I Want To Eat Tteokpokki 2

By: Baek Se-hee

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

“Alih-alih menerima kekurangan, aku memutuskan untuk tidak memandang diriku sendiri secara negatif.… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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13. 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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  • social issues
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"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

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14. Impractical Uses of Cake

By: Yeoh Jo-Ann

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2018 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Sukhin is a thirty-five-year-old teacher who live… read more

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15. 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
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16. You're Mom: A Little Book for Mothers (And the People Who Love Them)

By: Liz Climo

4.60

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

From international bestselling author Liz Climo comes You're Mom , a hilarious and relatable collec… read more

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  • nonfiction
"One of the hardest things about losing my mom at a young age was that everyone else seemed to still have their moms. That feeling of isolation lasted beyond the initial shock and heartache of losing …"

-Liz Climo, You're Mom: A Little Book for Mothers (And the People Who Love Them)

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17. 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
  • biography
  • memoir
"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

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18. Homeless

By: Liyana Dhamirah

3.70

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Ten years ago, Liyana Dhamirah was in a precarious situation: at 22, she was heavily pregnant and h… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • urban
  • social issues
  • sociology
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19. The Hysterical Girls of St. Bernadette's

By: Hanna Alkaf

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An all-girls school is struck with mysterious cases of screaming hysteria in this chilling dark aca… read more

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20. Scarlet Harlot: My Double Life: Memoirs of a Singaporean Escort

By: Ashley Chan

3.07

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The proposition is deceptively simple: people pay Ashley to act out their sexual gratifications. Th… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Letters to God

By: Norhafsah Hamid

3.94

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

Synopsis Letters to God is about a journey of young girl named Sarah in trying to find her footing … read more

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4.05

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