Nimita's Place
By: Akshita Nanda
3.85
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Shortlisted for the 2017 Epigram Books Fiction Prize An ELLE Singapore Recommended Read It is 1…
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1. Let's Give It Up for Gimme Lao!
By: Sebastian Sim
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the 2015 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Shortlisted for the 2017 Singapore Book Award fo… read more
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- asia
- fiction
"There were three things Gimme Lao did not know about himself."-Sebastian Sim, Let's Give It Up for Gimme Lao!
2. Em and The Big Hoom
By: Jerry Pinto
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In a one-bedroom-hall-kitchen in Mahim, Bombay, through the last decades of the twentieth century, … read more
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- asia
- india
- fiction
- contemporary
"What is it about the sea? Is it because it’s there?"-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom
"Was there a drain?' 'No. There was no drain. There isn't one even now'."-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom
"Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee."-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom
"otherwise, she was Em, and most of the time she was Em with an exclamation mark."-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom
3. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
By: Balli Kaur Jaswal
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Hardcover
A lively, sexy, and thought-provoking East-meets-West story about community, friendship, and women'… read more
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- india
- fiction
- contemporary
4. Sweet Bean Paste
By: Durian Sukegawa , Alison Watts
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sentaro has failed: he has a criminal record, drinks too much, and hasn't managed to fulfil his dre… read more
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- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
5. Corridor: 12 Short Stories
By: Alfian Sa'at
3.84
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
Corridor is a collection of short stories all set in present-day Singapore. With unsentimental clar… read more
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6. Sugarbread
By: Balli Kaur Jaswal
3.71
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the 2015 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Shortlisted for the 2017 Singapore Book Award for… read more
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7. Out
By: Natsuo Kirino , Stephen Snyder
3.95
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Natsuo Kirino's novel tells a story of random violence in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mothe… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"...I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you."-Natsuo Kirino, Out
"And I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you."-Natsuo Kirino, Out
"I'm desperate for money'. She said. And I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you."-Natsuo Kirino, Out
"I'm desperate for money'. She said. 'And I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you'. (Yoshie Azuma)"-Natsuo Kirino, Out
8. All My Rage
By: Sabaa Tahir
4.50
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arrange… read more
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- contemporary
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Songs help me process life. They help me feel."-Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage
"The more you ask for," she'd say, "the better. Because it means you put your fait in something greater than yourself."-Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage
"The more you ask for," she'd say, "the better. Because it means you put your faith in something greater than yourself."-Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage
"Oh God, Toufiq," I whispered. "So much money we put in. What will we do now? I am a fool!" "Kindness is not foolish, my heart." He put his arm around me. "Anyway. At least they didn't steal the pictu…"-Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage
9. Infinite Country
By: Patricia Engel
3.93
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
For readers of Valeria Luiselli and Edwidge Danticat, an urgent and lyrical novel about a Colombian… read more
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- contemporary
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"She wondered about that, if by birth one could already be out of step with destiny, but only replied that she was very tired and ready to sleep."-Patricia Engel, Infinite Country
"When you leave one country for another, nobody tells you years will bleed together like rain on newsprint. One year becomes five. Five years become ten. Ten years become fifteen."-Patricia Engel, Infinite Country
"Police are not your friend. Even the cordial ones. Yes, they are there to help people in danger just like you're taught in school, but in this country some people think the ones they protection from …"-Patricia Engel, Infinite Country
"It happened far away from the capital, all the way on the Pacific coast, but it was still our country, our dead, Elena thought. Tragic, almost, that she never felt more patriotic than when grieving h…"-Patricia Engel, Infinite Country
10. A Spell of Good Things
By: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Ayobami Adebayo, the celebrated author of Stay With Me unveils a dazzling story of modern Nigeria a… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Time was unforgiving, it didn’t stop, not even to give people a chance to scrape themselves off the floor if they’d been shattered."-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things
"He stared back at her, unconcerned. She had always marvelled at his calm assurance that everything good in his life would either remain the same or get better. He took good fortune for granted. As th…"-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things
11. Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors (The Rajes, #1)
By: Sonali Dev
3.68
Format: 481 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author Sonali Dev launches a new series about the Rajes, an immigrant Indian family d… read more
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- india
- fiction
- contemporary
"her bottle cap popping vagina"-Sonali Dev, Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors (The Rajes, #1)
"Funny how photographs become the form your memories take."-Sonali Dev, Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors (The Rajes, #1)
"No one is so special that they can’t exert themselves a bit for others."-Sonali Dev, Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors (The Rajes, #1)
"There was something about Paris that made you feel you could forget who you were."-Sonali Dev, Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors (The Rajes, #1)
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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- fiction
- contemporary
"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
13. 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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- fiction
- contemporary
"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)
14. Four Aunties and a Wedding (Aunties, #2)
By: Jesse Q. Sutanto
3.45
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
Meddy Chan has been to countless weddings, but she never imagined how her own would turn out. Now t… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"The last time my mother sprang a surprise on me, I ended up killing it. Or him, rather."-Jesse Q. Sutanto, Four Aunties and a Wedding (Aunties, #2)
"What does one say when faced with four women wearing ten-inch-tall Komodo dragons on their heads?"-Jesse Q. Sutanto, Four Aunties and a Wedding (Aunties, #2)
"I swear I'm going to perish from heart disease at age thirty if life continues to be this bonkers."-Jesse Q. Sutanto, Four Aunties and a Wedding (Aunties, #2)
15. The Good, the Bad, and the Aunties (Aunties, #3)
By: Jesse Q. Sutanto
3.54
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
What should have been a family celebration of Chinese New Year descends into chaos when longtime fo… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
16. On Rotation
By: Shirlene Obuobi
3.67
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Grey’s Anatomy and Seven Days in June, this dazzling debut novel by Shirlene Obuobi exp… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Ricky had seen the full, unfiltered range of what I was, and he liked me. Just as I was. Angie Appiah, with no edits."-Shirlene Obuobi, On Rotation
"All this time, I'd assumed that being a doctor meant performing miracles. Fixing bodies. Saving lives. I had hardly considered the flip side of that coin: that it also meant looking a patient's famil…"-Shirlene Obuobi, On Rotation
17. Your Driver Is Waiting
By: Priya Guns
3.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this electrifyingly fierce and funny social satire-- a gender-flipped reboot of the iconic 1970'… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"I was a woman who wasn’t going to take it anymore because I swear, I have taken so much already."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
"Jolene smiled and in her smile was tomorrow, three months from now, and an infinity swimming in a lake by a summer house."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
"This part of the city used to be cool because it wasn't but then it was forced to be a different of cool. A pricey. I think they call that gentrification."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
"I took the pack of cigarettes from my back pocket and lit one, watching Shereef's two other mechanics with their clients, hoping I wouldn't set off an explosion with my lighter."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
18. De hemel is altijd paars
By: Sholeh Rezazadeh
3.64
Format: 181 pages, Hardcover
De hemel is altijd paars van Sholeh Rezazadeh is een poëtische debuutroman van een groot literair t… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
19. 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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- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
20. How We Disappeared
By: Jing-Jing Lee
4.20
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked,… read more
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- historical
- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
21. 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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- historical
- asia
- fiction
- historical 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
22. Transcendent Kingdom
By: Yaa Gyasi
4.11
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"I like you best when you're feeling holy. You make me feel holy too."-Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom
"There is no living thing on God's green earth that doesn't come to know pain sometime."-Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom
"Surely, there's strength in being dressed for a storm, even when there's no storm in sight?"-Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom
"The anger has notes of understanding in it. He's saying, *Yes, she's insufferable, but she's ours and so we must suffer her.*"-Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom
23. The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters
By: Balli Kaur Jaswal
3.79
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
The author of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club selection Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows follows h… read more
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- asia
- india
- fiction
- contemporary
"Please enjoy your health while you have it. Because once your body betrays you, no comfort in the world will make up for your loss."-Balli Kaur Jaswal, The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters
24. 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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- fiction
25. Ponti
By: Sharlene Teo
3.35
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
2003, Singapore. Friendless and fatherless, sixteen-year-old Szu lives in the shadow of her mother … read more
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- contemporary
- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
26. Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors
By: Aravind Jayan
3.52
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
It is a day of triumph for Appa and Amma, who have driven home a shiny new Honda Civic to show off … read more
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- asia
- india
- fiction
- contemporary
27. Much Ado about Nada
By: Uzma Jalaluddin
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A sparkling second-chance romance inspired by Jane Austen's Persuasion... Nada Syed is stuck. On… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Life really was bizarre on occasion."-Uzma Jalaluddin, Much Ado about Nada
"He didn't want anything to change, ever. And so nothing changed for anyone in her family. Ever."-Uzma Jalaluddin, Much Ado about Nada
"A world doesn't exist where I don't choose you, Nada beta, over everyone else. I will always choose you."-Uzma Jalaluddin, Much Ado about Nada
"My parents want to leave a legacy. We want to create our own. We're all just making it up as we go along."-Uzma Jalaluddin, Much Ado about Nada
28. The Trouble with Hating You (The Trouble with Hating You, #1)
By: Sajni Patel
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Liya Thakkar is a successful biochemical engineer, takeout enthusiast, and happily single woman. Th… read more
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- india
- fiction
- contemporary
"You have to let it go before it completely consumes you."-Sajni Patel, The Trouble with Hating You (The Trouble with Hating You, #1)
"Do you think you can escape me so easily. What? Just drive off to Dallas and think I won’t find you?"-Sajni Patel, The Trouble with Hating You (The Trouble with Hating You, #1)
"The plight of a woman has to work to make money, but the purpose of a woman is to help her husband by taking care of the home and his needs…"-Sajni Patel, The Trouble with Hating You (The Trouble with Hating You, #1)
29. Greek Myths: A New Retelling
By: Charlotte Higgins
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Charlotte Higgins reinterprets some of the most enduring stories of all time in this beautifully pr… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
30. 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
- contemporary
31. Nimita's Place
By: Akshita Nanda
3.85
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Shortlisted for the 2017 Epigram Books Fiction Prize An ELLE Singapore Recommended Read It is 1… read more
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- asia
- india
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- historical fiction
- contemporary
- womens
