Lion City
By: Ng Yi-Sheng
3.81
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
A man learns that all the animals in the Zoo are robots. A secret terminal in Changi Airport caters…
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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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- asia
- short stories
- fiction
- lgbt
"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. Love in a Fallen City
By: Eileen Chang , Karen S. Kingsbury
4.20
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate … read more
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- asia
- short stories
- fiction
3. The Seventh Bride
By: T. Kingfisher
3.09
Format: None pages,
Rhea is an ordinary miller's daughter, engaged to be married under suspicious circumstances to a ma… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
4. So Sad Today: Personal Essays
By: Melissa Broder
3.50
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Melissa Broder always struggled with anxiety. In the fall of 2012, she went through a harrowing cyc… read more
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- short stories
5. State of Emergency
By: Jeremy Tiang
3.91
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the 2016 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Siew Li leaves her husband and children in Tiong … read more
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- asia
- fiction
6. The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir
By: Riad Sattouf
5.00
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
The Arab of the Future, the #1 French best-seller, tells the unforgettable story of Riad Sattouf's … read more
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7. There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job
By: Kikuko Tsumura
3.60
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Convenience Store Woman meets My Year of Rest and Relaxation in this strange, compelling, darkly fu… read more
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- asia
- magical realism
- fiction
"Although I was also aware that in a workplace context, people could become bad sorts as and when the situation required, so maybe it was more accurate to say he wasn't always a bad sort."-Kikuko Tsumura, There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job
8. The River of Silver: Tales from the Daevabad Trilogy
By: S.A. Chakraborty
4.30
Format: 242 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author S. A. Chakraborty's acclaimed Daevabad Trilogy gets expanded with this new compi… read more
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- short stories
- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
9. Sea Change
By: Gina Chung
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A novel about a woman tossed overboard by heartbreak and loss, who has to find her way back to stab… read more
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- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
10. 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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- asia
- magical realism
- fantasy
- fiction
"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
11. Burning Roses (Hunting Monsters, #3)
By: S.L. Huang
3.70
Format: 156 pages, Hardcover
When Rosa (aka Red Riding Hood) and Hou Yi the Archer join forces to stop the deadly sunbirds from … read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
- lgbt
12. 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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- asia
"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
13. 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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- asia
- fiction
14. The Majesties
By: Tiffany Tsao
3.29
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
In this riveting tale about the secrets and betrayals that can accompany exorbitant wealth, two sis… read more
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- asia
- adult
- fiction
15. The Enigmatic Madam Ingram
By: Meihan Boey
4.11
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the 2023 Epigram Books Fiction Prize In this exciting sequel to the multi-award-win… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
16. Lion City
By: Ng Yi-Sheng
3.81
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
A man learns that all the animals in the Zoo are robots. A secret terminal in Changi Airport caters… read more
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- magical realism
- lgbt
- asia
- adult
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
17. 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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- magical realism
- fiction
18. 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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19. Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
By: Isabella Hammad
4.74
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
From the award-winning novelist of The Parisian and Enter Ghost comes an outstanding essay on the P… read more
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20. My BFF Is an Alien
By: Vivian Teo
4.27
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Third prize winner of the POPULAR Readers' Choice Awards 2020, English (Children) Category Meet … read more
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21. The Lights That Find Us
By: Anittha Thanabalan
3.92
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the 2018 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Deepavali has never been the same since the te… read more
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