11 Top nonfiction books like Scarlet Harlot: My Double Life: Memoirs of a Singaporean Escort by Ashley Chan

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Scarlet Harlot: My Double Life: Memoirs of a Singaporean Escort

By: Ashley Chan

3.07

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The proposition is deceptively simple: people pay Ashley to act out their sexual gratifications. Th…

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1. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

By: Neil Postman , Andrew Postman

4.15

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls … read more

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"The written word endures, the spoken word disappears"

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

"We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television"

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

"Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone."

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

"With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present."

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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2. 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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3. Then We Came to the End

By: Joshua Ferris

4.00

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

The characters in Then We Came To The End cope with a business downturn in the time-honored way: th… read more

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4. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters

By: Mark Dunn

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South C… read more

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5. 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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6. Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

By: Brian Tracy

3.87

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

The legendary Eat That Frog! (more than 450,000 copies sold and translated into 23 languages) provi… read more

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"The Key to Success is Action"

-Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

"Do anything, but get started."

-Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

"For you to achieve any kind of success, execution is everything."

-Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

"Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse."

-Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

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7. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

By: Kara Swisher

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more

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8. When You Least Expect It

By: Haley Cass

4.33

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

ASIN moved from less recent edition Caroline Parker knows three things to be true. First, she is… read more

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"No one has ever looked at me the way she does."

-Haley Cass, When You Least Expect It

"I like the idea that you’d come to me at the end of a hard day and know that I want to be there for you. And that it doesn’t have anything to do with taking anything away from your independence becau…"

-Haley Cass, When You Least Expect It

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9. All the Lovers in the Night

By: Mieko Kawakami

3.72

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city wher… read more

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"It only took me a couple of hours to realise that she was a woman of talents beyond anything I could imagine - even though I was a stranger to such talents myself."

-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

"The light at night is special because the overwhelming light of day has left us, and the remaining half draws on everything it has to keep the world around us bright."

-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

"When I felt sleepy I slept, and when I opened my eyes I got up, letting hunger dictate when to head to the fridge or kitchen cabinet to eat some of the things that I'd stocked up on. When supplies ra…"

-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

"When I felt sleepy I slept, and when I opened my eyes I got up, letting hunger dictate when to head to the fridge or kitchen cabinet to eat some of the things that I'd stocked up on. When supplies ra…"

-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

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10. 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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"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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11. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

By: Meg Kissinger

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more

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12. Cursed Bunny

By: Bora Chung

3.78

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring t… read more

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"Her husband had pursued an “alternative lifestyle"

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"One can break the curse, but it is impossible to cure their blindness from greed. They were always ready to wage another war"

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"But there I remained, standing in the bathroom, waiting for someone to miraculously find me, to release me from my ties to this life."

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because your very survival depends on it."

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

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13. Love in the Big City

By: Sang Young Park

3.65

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Love in the Big City is the English-language debut of Sang Young Park, one of Korea’s most exciting… read more

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"I like the universe that is you"

-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City

"Let's be hamburguer patties together forever,"

-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City

"Sometimes his very existence to me is the existence of love itself"

-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City

"Jaehee, who had taught me that every season is its own beautiful moment -- that Jaehee didn't live here anymore."

-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City

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14. Life Ceremony

By: Sayaka Murata

3.75

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stori… read more

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"Nowadays, your partner is not necessarily a sex object - this is a wonderful advancement."

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

"I'm seeking an amicable daily routine with someone I get along well with, like brother and sister, without being a slave to sex"

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

"Walking like this, feeling like a feral human, even machines and buildings were warm to the touch, and some emitted sounds and vibrations. Their presence was similar to the sounds emitted by life-for…"

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

"If they tried it, the memories of the wild rooted in their flesh would come back to them, and they would discover that eating the city like this would connect the earth between the gaps in the concre…"

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

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15. The Easy Life in Kamusari (Forest, #1)

By: Shion Miura

3.97

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

From Shion Miura, the award-winning author of The Great Passage, comes a rapturous novel where the … read more

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16. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

By: Chris Broad

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more

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17. Post Office

By: Charles Bukowski

3.94

Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition

"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life … read more

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"It began as a mistake."

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

"من يراهن كثيراً يخسر حصانه ص 154"

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

"المحترف يذهب إلى السباقات بمفرده ص 81"

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

"لا تحب المرأة أن تكون في المرتبة الثانية ص 161"

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

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18. Lie With Me

By: Philippe Besson

4.26

Format: 149 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson about an affair between two teenage … read more

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"Desire does not go out like a match, it extinguishes slowly as it burns into ash."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

"I also know how much of yourself you have to leave behind in order to look like everyone else."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

"You get used to everything, even the defection of those you thought you were bound to forever."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

"In the end, love was only possible because he saw me not as who I was, but as the person I would become."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

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19. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes

By: Eric LaRocca

3.22

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

Three dark and disturbing horror stories from an astonishing new voice, including the viral-sensati… read more

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20. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend

By: Rob Copeland

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

By: Jenara Nerenberg

3.84

Format: 244 pages, ebook

A paradigm-shifting study of neurodivergent women—those with ADHD, autism, synesthesia, high sensit… read more

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"What happens when we stop pathologizing difference?"

-Jenara Nerenberg, Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

"Many women latch onto language from popular psychology, such as "panic attack," when often they are instead experiencing sensory overwhelm."

-Jenara Nerenberg, Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

"Despite what the words "attention deficit" imply, ADHD is not a deficit of attention, but rather a challenge of regulating it at will or on demand."

-Jenara Nerenberg, Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

"High stimulation is both exciting and confusing for people with ADHD, because they can get overwhelmed and overstimulated easily without realizing they are approaching that point."

-Jenara Nerenberg, Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

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22. 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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"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

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23. 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

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24. Boy Parts

By: Eliza Clark

3.77

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for … read more

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"Was it my idea to have him hurt me, or did he just let me think it was?"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

"My mam always used to tell me that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. And Eddie from Tesco is a fly, but he's got a taste for vinegar. It's like vinegar is all he's ever had from peop…"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

"You want to think you're not like other women, but you are, you know. You're still... that's still how the rest of the world, how men are going to see you. Like, I know you hate labels, but you like.…"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

"Do you like it rough? I think so. I think I must. Men are rough, aren't they? Have I always had a taste for rough stuff, or did I acquire that? In the back of Lesley's car, on the floor of a friend's…"

-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

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25. 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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26. Pizza Girl

By: Jean Kyoung Frazier

3.37

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of audacious and wryly funny novels like The Idiot and Convenience Store Woman com… read more

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"I began to picture the world without me in it."

-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl

"I've been to so many places and not a single one has saved me."

-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl

"I realized how avoidance was the most attention you could give something"

-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl

"I wanted to be the type of person that walked with their back straight, the dirt under their fingernails pure. I didn't want to be a chain saw, I wanted to be a plastic baggie. No shredding, just hol…"

-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl

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27. Memorial

By: Bryan Washington

3.57

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A funny, sexy, profound dramedy about two young people at a crossroads in their relationship and th… read more

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"How often do you get to learn that lesson? That sometimes you just lose?"

-Bryan Washington, Memorial

"Efteråt är vi bara två killar i en bil som håller på med någon sorts omöjlig yoga."

-Bryan Washington, Memorial

"So, the next morning, despite everything, I’m at his door. My father’s door. And then I am knocking. Waiting. It’s hard to head home without succumbing to nostalgia, standing where so many versions o…"

-Bryan Washington, Memorial

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28. The Black Flamingo

By: Dean Atta

4.35

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

A boy comes to terms with his identity as a mixed-race gay teen - then at university he finds his w… read more

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"Don’t let anyone tell you that you are half anything."

-Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo

"Be a bit gay, be very gay. Be the glitter that shows up in unexpected places."

-Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo

"I know that’s wrong, my thinking was wrong, the different ones are often the most strong"

-Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo

"To have a loving family is to feel afraid and yet believe you are going to be all right."

-Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo

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29. Worry Lines: You're Doing Really Well Given the Circumstances

By: Worry Lines

4.39

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

From the massively popular Instagram account featuring a kind, relatable, genderless blob, this col… read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. 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
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31. Scarlet Harlot: My Double Life: Memoirs of a Singaporean Escort

By: Ashley Chan

3.07

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The proposition is deceptively simple: people pay Ashley to act out their sexual gratifications. Th… read more

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4.22

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3.74

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