The Gods Will Hear Us Eventually
By: Jinny Koh
3.74
Format: None pages, None
When 7-year-old Anna told a lie to get out of trouble, she didn’t expect her older sister to go mis…
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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. On Palestine
By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé
4.25
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more
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"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
3. Lotus
By: Lijia Zhang
3.56
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by the secret life of the author’s grandmother, Lotus follows a young woman torn between p… read more
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"In the eyes of Buddha, there are no evil people, only people who don't yet have light in their hearts."-Lijia Zhang, Lotus
4. The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
By: Sun-mi Hwang , Chi-Young Kim , Nomoco
3.99
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
A Korean Charlotte's Web This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs … read more
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"لا أدري لماذا حياتي صعبة هكذا. هل يحصل هذا معي لأن لدي حلمًا؟"-Sun-mi Hwang, The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
"كانت حياتي قاسية, لكنني كنت سعيدة جدًا, وتمكنت من البقاء حية بسبب ذلك الحلم"-Sun-mi Hwang, The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
"كان المكان هادئًا رغم انتهاء حياةٍ غاليةٍ على قلبها. كانت الأشجار والنجوم والقمر و العشب كلها هادئة, وكأنها تتظاهر بأنها لم تشاهد أي شيء."-Sun-mi Hwang, The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
"Nur weil man zur selben Art gehört, heißt das nicht, dass man eine große glückliche Familie ist. Das Wichtigste ist, dass man sich versteht. Das ist Liebe!"-Sun-mi Hwang, The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
5. The Egg
By: Andy Weir
3.41
Format: None pages, ebook
A short story about the universe. read more
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- fiction
6. Letters to a Young Poet
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell
4.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more
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"Everything is gestation and then birthing."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
7. Tender Delirium
By: Tania De Rozario
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
Tender Deliriumis Tania De Rozario's first collection of poetry and short prose. It brings together… read more
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- fiction
8. The Strange Library
By: Haruki Murakami , Ted Goossen
4.36
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami--a fantastical illustrated short novel about … read more
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9. 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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10. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
By: Dan Ariely
3.00
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Why do our headaches persist after taking a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a 50-cent a… read more
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11. 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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12. I Who Have Never Known Men
By: Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman
4.22
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
"As far back as I can recall, I have been in the bunker." A young woman is kept in a cage underg… read more
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"Survival is never more than putting off the moment of death."-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
"I thought it was unfair, and then I understood that, alone and terrified, anger was my only weapon against the horror"-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
"Look at them. They’re pretending, they behave as though they still have some control over their lives and make momentous decisions about which vegetable to cook first."-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
"Only now, I tell myself that what I'd felt for her, the trust that slowly built up, the constant preference for her company and the joy each time I was reunited with her after an expedition were prob…"-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
13. The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)
By: Seishi Yokomizo
3.66
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
One of Japan's greatest classic murder mysteries, introducing their best loved detective, translate… read more
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- fiction
"What was Kenzo's reaction to all this criticism? His approach was to stay completely silent. He made no move whatsoever to respond to any of it. And, of course, water eventually wins over fire. One b…"-Seishi Yokomizo, The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)
14. 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
15. Brutes
By: Dizz Tate
3.18
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut—a coming-of-age story a… read more
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"to be loved, was just to be watched"-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"We feel chased. It doesn't matter if it's only by our own shadows."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"and now I think that to humiliate a woman is the only way some men know how to love one."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"To be loved was just to be watched, or in my case, to imagine you are loved is to imagine you are watched all the time."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
16. I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki
By: Baek Se-hee
3.28
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
The South Korean runaway bestseller, debut author Baek Sehee's intimate therapy memoir, as recommen… read more
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"Togetherness means altruism, and altruism is what saves us from selfishness."-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki
"For example, when you’re co-dependent on your partner you resent them, but when you leave your partner, you feel anxious and bereft."-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki
"Fear increases when it's something that you keep to yourself. Instead of suffering alone, it can often be good to share it with someone else."-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki
"What matters isn't what people say but what you like and find joy in. I hope you focus less on how you look to other people and more on fulfilling your true desires."-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki
17. 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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18. Mouth to Mouth
By: Antoine Wilson
3.67
Format: 179 pages, Hardcover
In a first-class lounge at JFK airport, our narrator listens as Jeff Cook, a former classmate he on… read more
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"A relationship needs its games. If there is no sense of play, there is only desperation, the fear of being alone."-Antoine Wilson, Mouth to Mouth
"Frances had pegged Jeff as a computer whiz and Jeff did little to disabuse him of that notion. His newly acquired knowledge of Microsoft Excel had catapulted him to database wizard status and he went…"-Antoine Wilson, Mouth to Mouth
19. Lemon
By: Kwon Yeo-Sun
3.27
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
In the summer of 2002, when Korea is abuzz over hosting the FIFA World Cup, nineteen-year-old Kim H… read more
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20. 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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21. Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
By: Raphael Bob-Waksberg
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
A fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love—the best and worst thing in the univer… read more
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"People outgrow me,"-Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
"I don’t even think about you,"-Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
"Per-haps every can of cashews has a fake snake lurking, but you keep opening them, stupidly, because in your heart of hearts you still believe in cashews."-Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
"I fell in love with you a little bit, in that stupid way where you completely make up a fictional version of the person you’re looking at and fall in love with that person."-Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
22. The Science of Storytelling
By: Will Storr
4.06
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
Stories mould who we are, from our character to our cultural identity. They drive us to act out our… read more
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"The gift of story is wisdom"-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
"If tribal thinking is original sin, then story is prayer. At its best, it reminds us that, beneath our many differences, we remain beasts of one species."-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
"Locked inside the black vault of our skulls, stuck forever in the solitude of our own hallucinated universe, story is a portal, a hallucination within the hallucination, the closest we'll ever really…"-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
"Stories work on multiple evolved systems in the brain and a skilled storyteller activates these networks like the conductor of an orchestra, a little trill of moral outrage here, a fanfare of status …"-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
23. 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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24. Lucie Yi Is Not a Romantic
By: Lauren Ho
3.37
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
An ambitious career woman signs up for a co-parenting website only to find a match she never expect… read more
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"Her parents hate that she isn’t married,"-Lauren Ho, Lucie Yi Is Not a Romantic
"When she was younger, she naively believed that one fell in love, by chance, by fate’s mysterious orchestration and machinations. That it was just something that happened to you. A bone that, if you …"-Lauren Ho, Lucie Yi Is Not a Romantic
25. And the Award Goes to Sally Bong!
By: Sebastian Sim
4.08
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Co-Winner of the 2021 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Sally Bong is the typical do-gooder. But her … read more
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26. 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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"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
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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- fiction
28. The Gods Will Hear Us Eventually
By: Jinny Koh
3.74
Format: None pages, None
When 7-year-old Anna told a lie to get out of trouble, she didn’t expect her older sister to go mis… read more
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- fiction
29. Goodbye My Kampong!
By: Josephine Chia
4.07
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
Sequel to Josephine Chia’s 2014 Singapore Literature prize-winning book, Kampong Spirit - Gotong Ro… read more
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30. 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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31. 2719
By: Gwee Li Sui
3.40
Format: 25 pages, ebook
2719 presents a history of the future. It is a creative prognosis that charts how Singapore will de… read more
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