7 must-read nonfiction books like The Pandemic Cookbook by Sonny Liew

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The Pandemic Cookbook

By: Sonny Liew

3.70

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

When COVID-19 started to spread around the world in early 2020, Singapore’s readiness to deal with …

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Cover of Tokyo on Foot: Travels in the City's Most Colorful Neighborhoods by Florent Chavouet

1. Tokyo on Foot: Travels in the City's Most Colorful Neighborhoods

By: Florent Chavouet

4.03

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Florent Chavouet, a young graphic artist, spent six months exploring Tokyo while his girlfriend int… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco, William   Nicholson

2. The Velveteen Rabbit

By: Margery Williams Bianco , William Nicholson

4.30

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Nursery magic is very strange and wonderful, and only those playthings that are old and wise and ex… read more

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"When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."

-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

"...because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."

-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

"When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."

-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

"He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter."

-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

Cover of Killing and Dying: Stories by Adrian Tomine

3. Killing and Dying: Stories

By: Adrian Tomine

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

"One of the most gifted graphic novelists of our time." --Wired Killing and Dying is a stunning sho… read more

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  • graphic novels
Cover of Oishinbo a la carte, Volume 7 - Izakaya: Pub Food by Tetsu Kariya, Akira Hanasaki

4. Oishinbo a la carte, Volume 7 - Izakaya: Pub Food

By: Tetsu Kariya , Akira Hanasaki

3.67

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

A quest for the ultimate menu! A quest for the ultimate menu! R to L (Japanese Style). "Izakaya--Pu… read more

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  • graphic novels

5. Sold

By: Patricia McCormick

3.72

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

Although Lakshmi's family is desperately poor her life still contains simple pleasures; but, when t… read more

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6. Tokyo Express

By: Seichō Matsumoto

3.68

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

In una cala rocciosa della baia di Hakata, i corpi di un uomo e di una donna vengono rinvenuti all’… read more

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7. Hungry Ghost

By: Victoria Ying

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A beautiful and heart-wrenching young adult graphic novel takes a look at eating disorders, family … read more

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  • graphic novels
Cover of Big Panda & Tiny Dragon (Big Panda & Tiny Dragon, #1) by James Norbury

8. Big Panda & Tiny Dragon (Big Panda & Tiny Dragon, #1)

By: James Norbury

4.40

Format: 94 pages, Hardcover

Joing Big Panda & Tiny Dragon on their travels. They often get lost and make a lot of mistakes. … read more

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  • graphic novels
"Time doing nothing is never wasted."

-James Norbury, Big Panda & Tiny Dragon (Big Panda & Tiny Dragon, #1)

"Incluso un árbol herido puede florecer de la forma más bella."

-James Norbury, Big Panda & Tiny Dragon (Big Panda & Tiny Dragon, #1)

"Intenta sacar tiempo para las pequeñas cosas, a menudo son lo más importante."

-James Norbury, Big Panda & Tiny Dragon (Big Panda & Tiny Dragon, #1)

"A cherry tree doesn't compare itself to other trees,' said Big Panda, 'it just blossoms."

-James Norbury, Big Panda & Tiny Dragon (Big Panda & Tiny Dragon, #1)

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9. The Last White Man

By: Mohsin Hamid

3.44

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times -bestselling author of Exit West , a story of love, loss, and rediscovery i… read more

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"…the way people act around you, it changes what you are, who you are."

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

"If he stayed, it would not be for them--need not be for them--but for himself. And yet each day he did stay. Bored and tense, true, but he stayed. And he discovered thereby how badly he wanted to sta…"

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

"Online you could form your own opinion of what was going on and your opinion was, likely as not, different from the next person's, and there was no real way to determine which of you was right, and t…"

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

"Anders knew he would soon lose his father, and that impending loss seemed more concrete now, more real, not like air but like a door or a wall, something you could bang against, bang into, and of cou…"

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

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10. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Cover of Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1: Super-Frog Saves Tokyo, Where I'm Likely to Find It, Birthday Girl, The Seventh Man by Jean-Christophe Deveney

11. Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1: Super-Frog Saves Tokyo, Where I'm Likely to Find It, Birthday Girl, The Seventh Man

By: Jean-Christophe Deveney

3.67

Format: 153 pages, ebook

Haruki Murakami's stories in graphic novel form for the first time! Haruki Murakami's novels, es… read more

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  • graphic novels
Cover of Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum

12. 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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13. Western Lane

By: Chetna Maroo

3.51

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more

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Cover of The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1) by Hisashi Kashiwai

14. The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

By: Hisashi Kashiwai

3.70

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series f… read more

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"Ah, Setchubai. "Plum Blossoms in the Snow." Perfect, and not just because of the name. It's a little sweet, but it'll go very well with the hotpot."

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

"We get used to things too easily. You think something's tasty the first time you eat it, but then you start taking it for granted. Never forget your first impressions."

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

"It's Swatow lace, I believe-- beautiful, isn't it? The design is titled "The Disc of the Moon"-- apparently it was inspired by the poem "Midnight Song" by the Tang-era poet Li Bai. I looked it up, an…"

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

"Miyajima oysters, simmered Kurama-style, miso-glazed baked butterburs with millet cake, bracken and bamboo shoot stew, chargrilled moroko, breast of Kyoto-reared chicken with a wasabi dressing, and v…"

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

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15. Diary of a Void

By: Emi Yagi

3.51

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

A prizewinning, thrillingly subversive debut novel about a woman in Japan who avoids harassment at … read more

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"Having a baby isn't easy. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. It's been two thousand years, and it's the same old story, right?"

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"I'm always so alone. I guess I should be used to it by now. That's the way it is from the moment we come into this world, but I'm still not used to it - how alone we all are."

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"Maybe that's making a family is all about: creating an environment in which people make space for one another - maybe without even trying, just naturally, to make sure that nobody's forgotten."

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"Until they arrived, while everyone else was transitioning to winter, putting on coats and sweaters, I was going to stick with my summer dress and my usual work blazer. Dressed in the dazzling flowers…"

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

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16. 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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17. The Birthday Party

By: Laurent Mauvignier

3.75

Format: 454 pages, Paperback

A painter contends with the ghosts of the French countryside in a psychological literary thriller b… read more

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18. 嘘をもうひとつだけ [uso o mou hitotsu dake] (加賀恭一郎, #6)

By: Keigo Higashino

3.69

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

의 작가 히가시노 게이고의 대표작 '가가 형사 시리즈'가 한국 출간 10여 년 만에 완전히 새로운 모습으로 독자들을 만난다. ‘가가 형사’는 시리즈 캐릭터 사용을 최대한 자제하는… read more

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19. Well, That Was Unexpected

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An outrageous, laugh-out-loud YA rom-com about a girl who's whisked from LA to her mother's native … read more

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20. 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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"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

Cover of Work-Life Balance: Malevolent Managers and Folkloric Freelancers by Benjamin Chee

21. Work-Life Balance: Malevolent Managers and Folkloric Freelancers

By: Benjamin Chee

3.68

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

When a menacing multinational arrives on our shores, familiar creatures like pontianaks, mananangga… read more

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  • graphic novels
Cover of Heart to Heart: A Conversation on Love and Hope for Our Precious Planet by Dalai Lama XIV

22. Heart to Heart: A Conversation on Love and Hope for Our Precious Planet

By: Dalai Lama XIV

4.42

Format: 148 pages, Kindle Edition

From His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Mutt’s cartoonist and award-winning author Patrick McDonnell c… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • nonfiction
Cover of Every School a Good School by Ng Ziqin

23. Every School a Good School

By: Ng Ziqin

4.13

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Finalist for the 2022 Epigram Books Fiction Prize When the eccentric new education minister unve… read more

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Cover of Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS by Myeongseok Kang

24. Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

By: Myeongseok Kang

4.64

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

THE FIRST EVER OFFICIAL BOOK— Published in celebration of BTS’s 10th Anniversary, stories that g… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Adjusting' seems to be the right word. Because once I entered the dorm, I realized, 'Ah, I guess this is how I should live from now."

-Myeongseok Kang, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

"However, some people—like B-Free—act as if they are judges at an audition, publicly passing judgment on idol groups' musical identities in spite of not having that authority."

-Myeongseok Kang, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

"Jin also injected the team with a sense of calm. There's steps to everything. Sometimes you have to climb slowly. And we knew that all the other people who succeeded climbed up slowly, little by litt…"

-Myeongseok Kang, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

"I still have no idea why, but we seriously only ever stuck with one another. And I think it must have been hard for other people to approach us, too. We were all clearly on edge because we were deter…"

-Myeongseok Kang, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

Cover of The Singapore I Recognise: Essays on home, community and hope by Kirsten Han

25. The Singapore I Recognise: Essays on home, community and hope

By: Kirsten Han

4.59

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Singapore is small, a complex country full of contradictions, inconsistencies and idiosyncrasies. O… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of catskull by Myle Yan Tay

26. 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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Cover of The Pandemic Cookbook by Sonny Liew

27. The Pandemic Cookbook

By: Sonny Liew

3.70

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

When COVID-19 started to spread around the world in early 2020, Singapore’s readiness to deal with … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • nonfiction
Cover of Plays: Volume One by Faith Ng

28. Plays: Volume One

By: Faith Ng

4.45

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Edited by Lucas Ho and featuring an introduction by Dr Philip Holden, Faith Ng: Plays, Volume One g… read more

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Cover of The Instinct for Cooperation: A Graphic Novel Conversation With Noam Chomsky by Jeffrey    Wilson

29. The Instinct for Cooperation: A Graphic Novel Conversation With Noam Chomsky

By: Jeffrey Wilson

3.92

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In the tradition of Joe Sacco's graphic journalism comes the first interview-based graphic novel tr… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • nonfiction
Cover of Haee The cat with a crooked tail by R.S. Vern

30. Haee The cat with a crooked tail

By: R.S. Vern

3.94

Format: 65 pages, Kindle Edition

The tipping point of comforts is the moment when the familiar and secure confines of our comfort zo… read more

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Cover of The Art of Being a Grandmother: An Incomplete Diary of Becoming by Dana Lam

31. The Art of Being a Grandmother: An Incomplete Diary of Becoming

By: Dana Lam

4.40

Format: 181 pages, Hardcover

What does it truly mean to be a grandparent — to care for and nurture young life as you look back o… read more

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Transform Your Habits

Tokyo on Foot: Travels in the City's Most Colorful Neighborhoods

Florent Chavouet

4.03

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Killing and Dying: Stories

Adrian Tomine

3.57

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Oishinbo a la carte, Volume 7 - Izakaya: Pub Food

Tetsu Kariya , Akira Hanasaki

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Hungry Ghost

Victoria Ying

4.01

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Where Monsters Lie

Kyle Starks

3.71

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Saga, Volume 11

Brian K. Vaughan

4.26

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Monstress, Vol. 8: Inferno

Marjorie M. Liu

4.03

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Bill Watterson

3.76

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