'Others' Is Not A Race
By: Melissa De Silva
3.47
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize for Nonfiction in English What is a Eurasian? Are …
Want to Read $ 7.99"This is Singapore. Where you'd be a fool to cling to any place held dear, where the treasures of space and memory being blasted into oblivion is the only certainty in the ferocious race for development."-Melissa De Silva, 'Others' Is Not A Race
"This is Singapore. Where you'd be a fool to cling to any place held dear, where the treasures of space and memory being blasted into oblivion is the only certainty in the ferocious race for development."-Melissa De Silva, 'Others' Is Not A Race
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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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- short stories
"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. Kitchen
By: Banana Yoshimoto , Megan Backus
3.66
Format: 296 pages,
Banana Yoshimoto's novels have made her a sensation in Japan and all over the world, and Kitchen, t… read more
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- short stories
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
- memoir
4. A Field Guide to Supermarkets in Singapore
By: Samuel Lee
4.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
A Field Guide to Supermarkets in Singapore is a 19th century reference book (on philology? art hist… read more
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5. The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew
By: Lee Kuan Yew
3.77
Format: 342 pages,
Visionary? Authoritarian? Model for the West? Lee Kuan Yew, the long-time leader of Singapore, has … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
6. The Elements of Style
By: E.B. White , William Strunk Jr.
4.18
Format: 105 pages, Hardcover
This style manual offers practical advice on improving writing skills. Throughout, the emphasis is … read more
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- nonfiction
"He owned"-E.B. White, The Elements of Style
"To achieve style, begin by affecting none."-E.B. White, The Elements of Style
"Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion."-E.B. White, The Elements of Style
"When a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor."-E.B. White, The Elements of Style
7. 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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8. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
By: Loung Ung
4.34
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
From a childhood survivor of the Cambodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means."-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
"I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it. "-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
"No one knows how precious you are. You are a diamond in the rough and with a little polishing, you will shine,"-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
"This is what the war has done to me. Now I want to destroy because of it. There is such hate and rage inside me now. The Angkar has taught me to hate so deeply that I now know I have the power to des…"-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
9. Priest in Geylang: The Untold Story of the Geylang Catholic Centre
By: None
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
Cosmopolitan Singapore--emblematic of globalised capitalism--usually calls to mind a number of clic… read more
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10. The Devotion of Suspect X
By: Keigo Higashino , Alexander O. Smith
3.92
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Yasuko Hanaoka is a divorced, single mother who thought she had finally escaped her abusive ex-husb… read more
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11. Grotesque
By: Natsuo Kirino , Rebecca Copeland
4.06
Format: None pages,
Tokyo prostitutes Yuriko and Kazue have been brutally murdered, their deaths leaving a wake of unan… read more
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12. M Train
By: Patti Smith
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"We sometimes eclipse our own dreams with reality."-Patti Smith, M Train
"Those were mystical times. An era of small pleasures."-Patti Smith, M Train
"He picks the lock of her dreams with her own hairpin."-Patti Smith, M Train
"I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works."-Patti Smith, M Train
13. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
By: David Brooks
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more
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- nonfiction
"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
14. A Horse at Night: On Writing
By: Amina Cain
4.03
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A virtuosic meditation on literature and life in the tradition of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"For me, fiction is a space of plainness and excess."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Female solitude is weighted with a particular power in literature."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"I want to leave a chain of images that remain in the reader's mind. I want to write what heightened experience feels like."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Perhaps solitude is a practice as much as an instinct, its pleasures very much contextual. Sometimes being alone is terrible."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
15. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
By: Morgan Housel
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more
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- nonfiction
16. Novelist as a Vocation
By: Haruki Murakami
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author’s own novels. Haruki Mura… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"writing novels is, to my way of thinking, basically a very uncool enterprise"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"La experiencia nos enseña a los escritores lo duro que es seguir siendo escritor."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
17. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
By: Cal Newport
3.73
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more
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- nonfiction
"What are we really doing here?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
18. How Do You Live?
By: Genzaburo Yoshino
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Anime master Hayao Miyazaki’s favorite childhood book, in English for the first time. First pub… read more
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"you can't become a great man without having great thoughts."-Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?
"We must not forget to make a habit of modesty and restraint in our lives."-Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?
"You take many things from the world, but I wonder what you will give back in return?"-Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?
"There is nothing more beautiful than people nurturing goodwill toward their fellow beings."-Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?
19. Rental Person Who Does Nothing
By: Shoji Morimoto
3.34
Format: 160 pages, ebook
Need a rental person who does nothing? Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lone… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"– that people have a value even if they do nothing."-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing
"I felt comfortable in a community that existed just for the moment, with simple, temporary relationships uncomplicated by past or future."-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing
20. The Final Curtain (Detective Kaga, #4)
By: Keigo Higashino
4.13
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Malice and Newcomer, a confounding murder in Tokyo is connected to the… read more
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21. Szkice malajskie
By: Alfian Sa'at
3.94
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Szkice malajskie swoją nazwę zaczerpnęły od książki z anegdotami gubernatora brytyjskiej kolonii na… read more
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- short stories
22. The Fraud Squad
By: Kyla Zhao
3.26
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A working-class woman who infiltrates Singapore’s high society to fulfill her dreams risks losing e… read more
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23. Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
By: Jose Antonio Vargas
4.30
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called “the most famous undocumented immigra… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- memoir
"Home is not something I should have to earn."-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
"Humanity is not some box I should have to check."-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
"Here in America, the libraries were my church, and I was an acolyte."-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
"Dear America, is this what you really want? Do you even know what is happening in your name?"-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
24. Girls That Invest: Your Guide to Financial Independence through Shares and Stocks
By: Simran Kaur
4.53
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
Your step-by-step guide to financial independence―from the creator of the #1 investing education po… read more
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- nonfiction
"Women are told we’re risk averse, but we’re not. We’re just risk aware."-Simran Kaur, Girls That Invest: Your Guide to Financial Independence through Shares and Stocks
25. The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century
By: Thant Myint-U
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Precariously positioned between China and India, Burma’s population has suffered dictatorship, natu… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
26. The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life
By: Paul C.W. Davies
4.04
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
'A gripping new drama in science ... if you want to understand how the concept of life is changing,… read more
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- nonfiction
"Network theory confirms the view that information can take on 'a life of its own'. In the yeast network my colleagues found that 40 per cent of node pairs that are correlated via information transfer…"-Paul C.W. Davies, The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life
"To conclude: time doesn’t pass. (I hope the reader is now convinced!) Well, what does pass, then? I shall argue that it is the conscious awareness of the fleeting self that changes from moment to mom…"-Paul C.W. Davies, The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life
"More radically, how can we be sure that the source of consciousness lies within our bodies at all? You might think that because a blow to the head renders one unconscious, the ‘seat of consciousness’…"-Paul C.W. Davies, The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life
27. There's No Such Thing as a Skinny Bibik
By: Sandra Chua
3.51
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Longlisted for the 2021 Epigram Books Fiction Prize “Nonya Charlie aka Charlene Neo is a charmin… read more
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28. catskull
By: Myle Yan Tay
4.23
Format: 472 pages, Paperback
Ram has been ignored and dismissed his entire life. His parents patronise him, his older brother be… read more
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29. Professions
By: Amanda Chong
3.75
Format: 61 pages, Paperback
Professions is a poet's directory of heartbreak. The backbone of this collection is a cycle of frac… read more
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30. 'Others' Is Not A Race
By: Melissa De Silva
3.47
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize for Nonfiction in English What is a Eurasian? Are … read more
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- short stories
- nonfiction
- memoir
- race
"This is Singapore. Where you'd be a fool to cling to any place held dear, where the treasures of space and memory being blasted into oblivion is the only certainty in the ferocious race for developme…"-Melissa De Silva, 'Others' Is Not A Race
31. The Disappearance of Patrick Zhou
By: Ally Chua
3.96
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the 2023 Epigram Books Fiction Prize The Zhou-Guthrie company is a powerful one, wi… read more
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