Hard at Work: Life in Singapore
By: Gerard Sasges
4.17
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
For most of us, work is a basic daily fact of life. But that simple fact encompasses an incredibly …
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1. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
By: Atul Gawande
4.49
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
In Being Mortal, author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine … read more
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"Endings matter, not just for the person but, perhaps even more, for the ones left behind."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"Death, of course, is not a failure. Death is normal. Death may be the enemy, but it is also the natural order of things."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"He moved his line in the sand. This is what it means to have autonomy -- you may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with …"-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
2. The Gift of Rain
By: Tan Twan Eng
4.20
Format: None pages,
Set in Penang, 1939, this book presents a story of betrayal, barbaric cruelty, steadfast courage an… read more
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3. Dying To Meet You
By: Angjolie Mei
4.15
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
Why would someone leave a shining career in management to work among the dead? Angjolie Mei, funera… read more
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- nonfiction
4. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
By: Elizabeth Kolbert
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life… read more
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- nonfiction
5. How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships
By: Leil Lowndes
3.78
Format: 112 pages, ebook
"You'll not only break the ice, you'll melt it away with your new skills."-- Larry King "The lost a… read more
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- nonfiction
6. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy, #1)
By: N.K. Jemisin
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circum… read more
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7. Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime
By: Val McDermid
4.25
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Val McDermid is one of the finest crime writers we have, whose novels have captivated millions of r… read more
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8. The Best We Could Do
By: Thi Bui
4.58
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family's journey from war-torn Vietnam from d… read more
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9. The Garden of Evening Mists
By: Tan Twan Eng
3.19
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
It's Malaya, 1949. After studying law at Cambridge and time spent helping to prosecute Japanese war… read more
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10. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
By: David Graeber
4.03
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more
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"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
11. Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
By: Tiago Forte
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
>For the first time in history, we have instantaneous access to the world’s knowledge. There has ne… read more
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- nonfiction
12. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
By: Adam M. Grant
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times Bestseller“This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes … read more
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13. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It
By: Chris Voss
4.36
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A former FBI hostage negotiator offers a new, field-tested approach to negotiating – effective in a… read more
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- nonfiction
14. Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture, #2)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.20
Format: 596 pages, ebook
The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the second novel in an extr… read more
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15. Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
By: Shane Parrish
4.21
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFew things will change your trajectory in life or business as m… read more
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"Our desire to feel right overpowers our desire to be right."-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
"The social rewards for going with the crowd are felt long before the benefits of going against it are gained."-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
"Most people go through life assuming that we’re right about everything all the time and that people who don’t see things our way are wrong. We mistake how we want the world to be with how it actually…"-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
16. Exhalation
By: Ted Chiang
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of hu… read more
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"The universe began as an enormous breath being held."-Ted Chiang, Exhalation
"I am not that air, I am the pattern that it assumed, temporarily."-Ted Chiang, Exhalation
"Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. I"-Ted Chiang, Exhalation
"even if a universe’s life span is calculable, the variety of life that is generated within it is not."-Ted Chiang, Exhalation
17. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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- nonfiction
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
18. Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
By: Jessica Pan
3.89
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An introvert spends a year trying to live like an extrovert with hilarious results and advice for r… read more
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"That’s the truth of the world, Jessica,"-Jessica Pan, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
"I hate flakiness, and I blame the Facebook ‘Maybe’ button,"-Jessica Pan, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
"I'm giddy just imagining the shit I'll get up to when I'm eighty."-Jessica Pan, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
"I watched my first penalty shoot-out during the World Cup 2014 (Brazil vs. Chile): men cried, I cried, Neymar cried. I was done for. I loved it."-Jessica Pan, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
19. Swiped
By: L.M. Chilton
3.56
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The mystifying world of online dating gets a terrifying, clever, and darkly hilarious twist in this… read more
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20. Jag kan ha fel och andra visdomar från mitt liv som buddhistmunk
By: Björn Natthiko Lindeblad
4.27
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Jag kan ha fel är Björn Natthiko Lindeblads självbiografiska berättelse om hur han lämnar en löftes… read more
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"Någon som försökte lugna mig efteråt menade att anledningen till att ormen var så långsam och inte hann hugga efter mig var att detta var en av de giftigaste ormarna och de behövde inte vara så snabb…"-Björn Natthiko Lindeblad, Jag kan ha fel och andra visdomar från mitt liv som buddhistmunk
21. 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
22. We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
By: Simu Liu
4.35
Format: 320 pages, ebook
Marvel's newest recruit shares his own inspiring and unexpected origin story, from China to the bri… read more
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"Nobody forced us to come here,"-Simu Liu, We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
"Canada is not unilaterally friendly, nor is “friendly"-Simu Liu, We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
"Acting, like life, gets a bit stale when you only make safe choices."-Simu Liu, We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
"Jared had taught me the value of swinging for the fences and being the master of my own destiny."-Simu Liu, We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
23. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
By: Lori Gottlieb
4.38
Format: 415 pages, Hardcover
From a psychotherapist, and national advice columnist comes a thought-provoking new book that takes… read more
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"Avoidance is a simple way of coping by not having to cope."-Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
"You can have compassion without forgiving. There are many ways to move on, and pretending to feel a certain way isn’t one of them."-Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
"People often mistake numbness for nothingness, but numbness isn't the absence of feelings; it's a response to being overwhelmed by too many feelings."-Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
"One foot, then the other. Don't look at all five feet at once. Just take a step. And when you've taken that step, take one more. Eventually you'll make it to the shower. And you'll make it to tomorro…"-Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
24. Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career
By: Kristi Coulter
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A candid, intensely funny memoir of ambition, gender, and a grueling decade inside Amazon, from the… read more
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- nonfiction
25. 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
"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
26. The Woke Salaryman Crash Course on Capitalism & Money: Lessons from the World's Most Expensive City
By: The Woke Salaryman
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Learn the rules of the game of capitalism so you can play to win and build wealth Crash Course on C… read more
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- nonfiction
27. 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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28. 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
29. 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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- nonfiction
30. Hard at Work: Life in Singapore
By: Gerard Sasges
4.17
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
For most of us, work is a basic daily fact of life. But that simple fact encompasses an incredibly … read more
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- nonfiction
31. 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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