Where I Was: A Memoir About Forgetting and Remembering
By: Constance Singam
4.26
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Where I Was: A Memoir About Forgetting and Remembering is a rich and compelling account of the life…
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1. Stories of Your Life and Others
By: Ted Chiang
4.26
Format: 281 pages, ebook
What if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven-and broke through to Heaven's other side? What if we… read more
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"Pragmatism avails a savior far more than aestheticism."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
"Living with you will be like aiming for a moving target; you'll always be further along than I expect."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
"I remember when you'll be a month old, and I'll stumble out of bed to give you your 2:00 a.m. feeding."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
"Maturity means seeing the differences, but realizing they don’t matter. There’s no technological shortcut."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
2. The Sound of Sch: A Mental Breakdown, A Life Journey
By: Danielle Lim
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
Co-winner of the Singapore Literature Prize 2016 for English Non-Fiction Can a life weave along thr… read more
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3. Another Country
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
When Another Countryappeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly stor… read more
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5. Bullet Train
By: Kōtarō Isaka
3.84
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A dark, satirical thriller by the bestselling Japanese author, following the perilous train ride of… read more
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"My buddy Thomas helped me survive."-Kōtarō Isaka, Bullet Train
"Then Tangerine hangs up. Nanao leans against the window and gazes out, gripping his phone like he's waiting for a call from a lover."-Kōtarō Isaka, Bullet Train
"Tangerine can't quite place how he felt about insects when he was younger. He has memories of killing them wholesale, but also remembers crying over dead ones and giving them miniature funerals"-Kōtarō Isaka, Bullet Train
"Then he (Lemon) leans in to Little Minegishi's corpse and takes hold of the back of the head, nodding it up and down like he's operating a puppet. "Lemon, you are a useful train," he says, doing his …"-Kōtarō Isaka, Bullet Train
6. Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
By: Johann Hari
4.24
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing t… read more
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"We live in a culture that is constantly amping us up with stress and stimulation."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
"We are now exposed to ten times the amount of artificial light that people were exposed to just fifty years ago."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
"If you see the world through fragments, your empathy often doesn’t kick in, in the way that it does when you engage with something in a sustained, focused way."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
"In situations of low stress and safety, mind-wandering will be a gift, a pleasure, a creative force. In situations of high stress or danger, mind-wandering will be a torment."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
7. Roman Stories
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more
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8. Breasts and Eggs
By: Mieko Kawakami
3.86
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
Challenging every preconception about storytelling and prose style, mixing wry humor and riveting e… read more
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"Then there are the real bastards, like my ex,"-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs
"Mi sentivo come un essere privato della carne e della pelle e ridotto a sole ossa. Un carapace enorme completamente cavo."-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs
"We could worry about tomorrow when it came. What mattered most right now is how we would spend the remainder of today, even if it was half over."-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs
"I could see people all around me, but I almost felt like nobody could see me. I heard a train go by, rumbling down the tracks, drawing a thick line between the world and my experience. I was getting …"-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs
9. Conversations on Love
By: Natasha Lunn
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A celebration of love in all its forms, featuring conversations with: Philippa Perry on falling in … read more
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"And I grew to understand that the grief I felt equalled the love. - Greg Wise"-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love
"The things I flew past in the race to get what I didn't have were actually the gifts all along."-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love
"I'm here for the good and the bad and everything in between". True friends see through any level of performance or denial or avoidance."-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love
"It's important when you've good news to tell the right people. People who understand the dream or have a dream of their own. Otherwise, you end up feeling deflated."-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love
10. Nails and Eyes
By: Kaori Fujino
3.43
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
Tense, subtly disturbing Japanese literary horror perfect for fans of The Memory Police, Tender is … read more
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"As a woman, Shoko is extremely petite, but as a heart, she is wondrously large."-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes
"Maybe she suddenly had a deathwish, the way some people fall in love at first sight."-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes
"There were always going to be people who loved you and people who hated you, no matter what you did, so why let anything trouble you?"-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes
"You felt that your life would always be this way. Not as one day going by, and then another, but life as an ever-expanding single day. And yet, time did go by."-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes
11. Three Women
By: Lisa Taddeo
3.72
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
A riveting true story about the sex lives of three real American women, based on nearly a decade of… read more
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"Women shouldn't judge each others lives, if we haven't been through one another's fires."-Lisa Taddeo, Three Women
"It's more than fandom when a story touches you so hard that you wish the characters were your family"-Lisa Taddeo, Three Women
"He's usually so quiet, but he's talking now, and when quiet people open their mouths the whole world listens."-Lisa Taddeo, Three Women
"The problem, she's starting to understand, is that a man will never let you fall completely into hell. He will scoop you up right before you drop the final inch so that you cannot blame him for sendi…"-Lisa Taddeo, Three Women
12. 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
13. 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
14. 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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15. 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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16. Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
By: Francis Fukuyama
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order offers a provocative examin… read more
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"Who am I, really?"-Francis Fukuyama, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
"The focus on lived experience by identity groups valorizes inner selves experienced emotionally rather than examined rationally. Notes one observer, “Our political culture is marked, at the micro lev…"-Francis Fukuyama, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
"Confusion over identity arises as a condition of living in the modern world. Modernization means constant change and disruption, and the opening up of choices that did not exist before. It is mobile,…"-Francis Fukuyama, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
"But as important as material self-interest is, human beings are motivated by other things as well, motives that better explain the disparate events of the present. This might be called the politics o…"-Francis Fukuyama, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
17. 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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18. Abolition. Feminism. Now.
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.31
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
An urgent, vital manifesto of intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism, from leading… read more
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19. Intermezzo
By: Sally Rooney
4.34
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more
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20. 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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21. Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore
By: Esther Vincent
4.11
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
Making Kin aspires to be ecofeminist in nature, in terms of acknowledging the intersectional mode o… read more
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"The girl comes to a profound realisation — that life goes on in spite of her."-Esther Vincent, Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore
22. How to Be Your Own Therapist: Boost your mood and reduce your anxiety in 10 minutes a day
By: Owen O'Kane
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Smart, short techniques throughout the day can form a healthier perspective Let Owen O’Kane, psycho… read more
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23. Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
By: Tania De Rozario
4.18
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
“A penetrating series of personal essays… a memoir that scratches a layer deeper than expected. The… read more
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"No wonder they come to your house looking for ghosts. Ghosts are spilling out of the walls."-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
"What they do not understand when they come to your house is that you have lived your whole life with ghosts."-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
"But her smile is vacant. Placid. A Stepford Wife smile. The tears fall but there is nothing behind them. She’s a mannequin crying on command."-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
"There is nothing like a horror film to reveal the cultural anxieties of one’s time and place. And if horror has taught me anything, it is that nothing has been as enduringly terrifying across time an…"-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
24. 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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25. What We Inherit: Growing Up Indian
By: Shailey Hingorani
4.60
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A celebration of the slippages, strife and secret histories that make us—for better or worse—who we… read more
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26. 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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27. Nine Yard Sarees: A Short Story Cycle
By: Prasanthi Ram
4.65
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Nine Yard Sarees is a multigenerational portrait of a fictional Tamil Brahmin family. Comprising el… read more
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28. 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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29. Where I Was: A Memoir About Forgetting and Remembering
By: Constance Singam
4.26
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
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30. We Do Not Make Love Here
By: Nisha Mehraj
3.60
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the 2022 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Chandru, a third-generation Singaporean, reali… read more
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31. Eternal Summer of My Homeland
By: Agnes Chew
3.77
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Longlisted for The Asian Prize for Fiction 2023 The stories in Agnes Chew’s first fiction collec… read more
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