The Straits Times’ Weekly Bestsellers Oct 5

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Fiction:

best28 - Marigold Mind Laundry by Jungeun Yun; translated by Shanna Tan. PHOTO: DOUBLEDAY

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1. (-) Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
2. (2) Welcome To The Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum; translated by Shanna Tan
3. (6) We’ll Prescribe You A Cat by Syou Ishida; translated by E. Madison Shimoda
4. (1) Marigold Mind Laundry by Jungeun Yun; translated by Shanna Tan
5. (4) The Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki; translated by Jesse Kirkwood
6. (5) Before We Forget Kindness by Toshikazu Kawaguchi; translated by Geoffrey Trousselot
7. (-) Before The Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
8. (-) More Days At The Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa; translated by Eric Ozawa
9. (-) Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong
10. (8) The Blanket Cats by Kiyoshi Shigematsu; translated by Jesse Kirkwood

Non-fiction:

PHOTO: PARTRIDGE PUBLISHING

1. (-) The Thin Veil Between Us by Marilyn Choong
2. (-) Rewired by Kate Smaje
3. (4) Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari
4. (-) Strategic Storytelling: Why Some Stories Drive Your Success At Work But Others Don’t by Anjali Sharma
5. (2) Living The Asian Century by Kishore Mahbubani
6. (-) The Life In The Writing: Syed Hussein Alatas by Masturah Alatas
7. (-) The Five Dysfunctions Of A Team by Patrick Lencioni
8. (-) Ikigai by Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles
9. (10) The Psychology Of Money by Morgan Housel
10. (-) I Want To Die But I Want To Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee; translated by Anton Hur

Children’s:

ecfun28 - Author Emily Lim-Leh's new book Little Hero is inspired by her father's childhood years in post-war 1940s Singapore and beyond. PHOTO: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE SEA

PHOTO: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE SEA

1. (-) Percy Jackson And The Olympians #7: Wrath Of The Triple Goddess by Rick Riordan
2. (-) The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
3. (4) The Land Of Lost Things: Adventures Unlimited by Andy Griffiths; illustrated by Bill Hope
4. (-) Diary Of A Wimpy Kid #18: No Brainer by Jeff Kinney
5. (-) The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
6. (2) Pokemon Super Extra Deluxe Essential Handbook by Scholastic
7. (-) Percy Jackson And The Olympians #1: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
8. (-) The Wild Robot Escapes by Peter Brown
9. (-) Little Hero by Emily Lim-Leh
10. (-) The Hysterical Girls Of St Bernadette’s by Hanna Alkaf

This is The Straits Times’ compilation of bestseller lists from the Kinokuniya, Epigram, Wardah Books and Book Bar bookstores.

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