Singapore


Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians, #1)
This Is What Inequality Looks Like
How We Disappeared
China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians, #2)
Ministry of Moral Panic
Rich People Problems (Crazy Rich Asians, #3)
The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (Pantheon Graphic Library)
From Third World to First: A Statesman’s Powerful Story of Transformation from Poverty to National Leadership
Air-Conditioned Nation Revisited
Aunty Lee's Delights (Singaporean Mystery #1)
The Great Reclamation
The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew
Ponti
State of Emergency
The Singapore Grip (Empire Trilogy, #3)
The Steampowered Globe by Rosemary LimThe Windup Girl by Paolo BacigalupiThe Ayam Curtain by J.Y.  YangAlexander's Infinity by Lidija StankovikjThe Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho
Speculative Fiction of Southeast Asia
91 books — 40 voters
The Girl with Ghost Eyes by M.H. BorosonA-Ma Alchemy of Love by Nataša PantovićGulab by Rohith S. KatbamnaThe Girl with No Face by M.H. BorosonA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Best Asian Protagonist
177 books — 40 voters

Tenggelamnya Kapal Van Der Wijck by HamkaThe Merchant of Stories by Dipa SanataniBefriending China by Dee KnightFloating on a Malayan Breeze by Sudhir Thomas VadakethThis Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Best Southeast Asia Nonfiction
160 books — 75 voters
The Merchant of Stories by Dipa SanataniAn Unexpected Journey by S.R. NathanL.K.Y by Morgan ChuaThe Adventures of the Mad Chinaman by Dick LeeThis Is What Inequality Looks Like by You Yenn Teo
Best Singapore Books
36 books — 10 voters

Thai Food by David ThompsonMaangchi's Real Korean Cooking by MaangchiLand of Plenty by Fuchsia DunlopJapanese Cooking by Shizuo TsujiThai Street Food by David Thompson
Best Asian Cookbooks
174 books — 32 voters
A Hakka Woman's Singapore Stories by Lee Wei LingThe Singapore Secret by Clare  WillisThe Interpreter's Daughter by Teresa LimSingapore by Michael D. BarrCrossroads by Jim Baker
Singapore in Fiction and Nonfiction
20 books — 2 voters

What I still don’t get is, if the mainstream media continues to be behind the curve, who is the biggest loser? The biggest loser is the government, because the eyeballs will move away from mainstream media.
PN Balji

I think one structural explanation could be that precisely because the internet has emerged as a platform on which the government gets attacked every day, the government is guarding its control of mainstream media even more jealously.
PN Balji, Reluctant Editor: The Singapore Media as Seen through the Eyes of a Veteran Newspaper Journalist

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