Non-fiction books

Why you keep buying books you don’t read

Long before a book is read, the experience of finding it is already becoming associated with pleasure.

17 Singapore books to look forward to for the rest of 2026

Tentative cover of Snakes Of Singapore: A Slightly Unhinged Field Guide by Juliette Yu-Ming Lizeray.

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Curator Chelsea Chua reads historical fiction and non-fiction to expand her world view

Chelsea Chua is reading The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride.

New book on Creative Technology founder Sim Wong Hoo begins from his kampung childhood

Sim Wong Hoo: The Light We Remember pays tribute to the late founder of Creative Technology. When a young Sim Wong Hoo enrolled in Bukit Panjang English School, he did not know that what his name was when the teacher called him.

‘No Candy Crush’: Free To Play is Singapore’s first video game literary anthology

Natalie Wang and Daryl Lim Wei Jie, editors of Difference Engine's new anthology on video games, Free To Play: A Video Games Anthology.

Tari Lang’s memoir My Neighbour, The Dictator recalls 1965 coup, growing up under Suharto’s regime

My Neighbour, The Dictator by Tari Lang.

How a therapy detour turned South Korean illustrator Dancing Snail into a best-selling author

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Bestselling Korean author illustrator Dancing Snail with her illustrated non-fiction books, It’s Okay Not To Get Along With Everyone and I’m Not Lazy, I’m On Energy Saving Mode, at the Straits Times office on April 9, 2026.

Singapore Literature Prize trims categories from 18 to 8, raises prize money to $5,000

Prasanthi Ram receiving her award from Meira Chand at the Singapore Literature Prize ceremony in 2024.

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Speak Good English Movement chairman Jason Leow embraces audiobooks for convenience

Mr Jason Leow shows his library on the Libby app, where he accesses most of his audiobooks and e-books.

‘We did not expect to have so much to learn from Singapore’: Historian Wang Gungwu in new memoir

Wang Gungwu in his Novena home.

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