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The Plot

February 14, 2025April 21, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz

The Hobbit

February 14, 2025April 21, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

James

February 14, 2025April 21, 2025 | Rex Lam

James by Percival Everett

Intermezzo

February 14, 2025April 21, 2025 | Rex Lam

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

Chip War

February 14, 2025April 21, 2025 | Rex Lam

Chip War by Chris Miller

Grey Bees

February 14, 2025April 21, 2025 | Rex Lam

Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov

The Book of Why

February 14, 2025April 21, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Book of Why by Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie

The Picture of Dorian Gray

February 14, 2025April 21, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Ne Le Dis à Personne

April 28, 2024April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Ne Le Dis à Personne de Harlan Coben

Percy Jackson – La Mer des Monstres

February 18, 2024April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Percy Jackson La Mer des Monstres de Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson – Le Voleur de Foudre

February 18, 2024April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Percy Jackson Le Voleur de Foudre de Rick Riordan

Winning Ugly

October 22, 2023April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Winning Ugly by Brad Gilbert

The Right Stuff

August 19, 2023April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe

Une Brève Histoire de L’Égalité

June 22, 2023April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Une Brève Histoire de L’Égalité de Thomas Piketty

Babel

April 13, 2023April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Babel by R.F. Kuang

Klara and the Sun

April 13, 2023April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

I Wouldn’t Do That If I Were Me

January 24, 2023April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

I Wouldn’t Do That If I Were Me By Jason Gay

Project Hail Mary

January 5, 2023April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

December 27, 2022April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John La Carré

Small Things Like These

December 23, 2022April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

L’Anomalie

November 27, 2022April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

L’Anomalie de Hervé le Tellier

Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingt Jours

November 27, 2022April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingt Jours de Jules Verne

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

February 22, 2022April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez

Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Cambrioleur

February 19, 2022April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Cambrioleur de Maurice Leblanc

Chess Story

January 12, 2022April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig

Anxious People

January 12, 2022April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

Ninth House

November 26, 2021April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

Lamb

October 31, 2021April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Lamb by Christopher Moore

Harry Potter et les Reliques de la Mort

October 31, 2021April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Harry Potter et les Reliques de la Mort de JK Rowling

Harry Potter et le Prince de Sang-Mêlé

August 28, 2021April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Harry Potter et le Prince de Sang-Mêlé de JK Rowling

Harry Potter et l’Ordre du Phénix

July 25, 2021April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Harry Potter et l’Ordre du Phénix de JK Rowling

Harry Potter et la Coupe de Feu

July 4, 2021April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Harry Potter et la Coupe de Feu de JK Rowling

Harry Potter et le Prisonnier d’Azkaban

April 25, 2021April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Harry Potter et le Prisonnier d’Azkaban de JK Rowling

Harry Potter à L’école des Sorciers

March 6, 2021April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Harry Potter à L’école des Sorciers de JK Rowling

Land of Big Numbers

February 15, 2021April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Land of Big Numbers by Te-Ping Chen

L’Étranger

February 6, 2021April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

L’Étranger by Albert Camus

Interior Chinatown

January 17, 2021April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

A Man Called Ove

January 16, 2021April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

The Godfather

January 16, 2021April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

Midnight in Chernobyl

December 24, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham

Piranesi

December 13, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

December 13, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Pillars of the Earth

December 6, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

Salmon

November 15, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Salmon by Mark Kurlansky

Howl’s Moving Castle

October 24, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

We Have Always Lived in a Castle

October 23, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

We Have Always Lived in a Castle by Shirley Jackson

String Theory

October 3, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

String Theory by David Foster Wallace

The City We Became

September 26, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

American Psycho

September 12, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

Hard Landing

September 12, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Hard Landing by Thomas Petzinger

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea

August 22, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima

The Master and Margarita

August 22, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Black Swan

August 16, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Members Only

Members Only
August 1, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Members Only by Sameer Pandya

My Name is Red

August 1, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk

Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments

July 23, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments By Diane Tang, Ron Kohavi, Ya Xu

The Glass Hotel

July 11, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

The Paper Menagerie

July 11, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu

The Nine

June 28, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Nine by Jeffrey Toobin

The Devil’s Cup

June 28, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Devil’s Cup by Steward Lee Allen

Fifty Inventions that Shaped the Modern Economy

June 20, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Fifty Inventions that Shaped the Modern Economy by Tim Harford

Between the World and Me

June 19, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Housekeeper and the Professor

June 13, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa

Secondhand Time

June 13, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich

Senlin Ascends

May 30, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

May 30, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

Slaughterhouse-Five

May 17, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

The Lady Tasting Tea

May 17, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Lady Tasting Tea by David Salsburg

Golden Gates

May 8, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Golden Gates by Conor Dougherty

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

May 8, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

Human Acts

April 19, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Human Acts by Han Kang

Why We Sleep

April 18, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker

The Plague

April 12, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Plague by Albert Camus

Ask Again, Yes

April 5, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Ask Again, Yes By Mary Beth Keane

The Devotion of Suspect X

March 22, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

The Underground Railroad

March 21, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

The Body

March 15, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Body by Bill Bryson

Catch and Kill

February 9, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow

The Stolen Bicycle

January 20, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Stolen Bicycle by Wu Ming Yi

Hong Kong Noir

January 11, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Hong Kong Noir by Jason Ng

A Gentleman in Moscow

January 11, 2020April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

The Handmaid’s Tale

The Handmaid's Tale
December 23, 2019April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Permanent Record

Permanent Record
December 22, 2019April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Permanent Record by Edward Snowden

The Overstory

December 22, 2019April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Overstory by Richard Powers

The Road

November 17, 2019April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Circe

November 17, 2019April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Circe by Madeline Miller

Last Days of the Concorde

October 27, 2019April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Last Days of the Concorde by Samme Chittum

The Wheel of Time – The Eye of the World

October 27, 2019April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Wheel of Time – The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

The Garden of Evening Mists

September 7, 2019April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng

Inspector Imanishi Investigates

September 7, 2019April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Inspector Imanishi Investigates by Seicho Matsumoto

Pinpoint

September 1, 2019April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Pinpoint by Greg Milner

Invisible Cities

July 7, 2019April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

A Game of Thrones

July 6, 2019April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

The Fifth Risk

June 29, 2019April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis

Stories of Your Life and Others

June 2, 2019April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

Flights

May 17, 2019April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Flights by Olga Tokarczuk

If Cats Disappeared from the World

May 11, 2019April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura

The Emperor of All Maladies

May 10, 2019April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Strange Weather in Tokyo

April 28, 2019April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami

Milk

April 21, 2019April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Milk by Mark Kurlansky

Turn Right at Machu Picchu

April 21, 2019April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Turn Right at Machu Picchu by Mark Adams

Timefulness

March 24, 2019April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Timefulness by Marcia Bjornerud

Under the Midnight Sun

March 24, 2019April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Under the Midnight Sun by Keigo Higashino

Serotonin

March 24, 2019April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq

American Gods

February 26, 2019April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

American Gods by Neil Geiman

Justice

February 11, 2019April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Justice by Michael Sandel

Death’s End

January 13, 2019April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Death’s End by Cixin Liu

A Brief History of Time

December 24, 2018April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

Magpie Murders

December 23, 2018April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

Mastering ‘Metrics

December 22, 2018April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Mastering ‘Metrics by Josh Angrist and Jorn-Steffen Pischke

There There

October 29, 2018April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

There There by Tommy Orange

Kitchen Confidential

October 28, 2018April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

City of Stairs

October 7, 2018April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett

The Dark Forest

September 23, 2018April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu

Life of Pi

September 23, 2018April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Grocery

July 30, 2018April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Grocery by Michael Ruhlman

When Money Destroys Nations

July 29, 2018April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

When Money Destroys Nations by Philip Haslam

Pachinko

July 10, 2018April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Mere Christianity

July 6, 2018April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

Little Victories

June 3, 2018April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Little Victories by Jason Gay

Flowers for Algernon

May 13, 2018April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Evicted

May 13, 2018April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Evicted by Matthew Desmond

The Hard Thing about Hard Things

April 15, 2018April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Hard Thing about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

Murder on the Orient Express

April 15, 2018April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

The Sympathizer

April 15, 2018April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Steak

February 3, 2018April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Steak by Mark Schatzker

11/22/63

February 3, 2018April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

11/22/63 by Stephen King

Walkable City

October 30, 2017April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Walkable City by Jeff Speck

The Three-Body Problem

October 23, 2017April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

The Phoenix Project

October 22, 2017April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim

The Brothers Karamazov

October 8, 2017April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Weather Man

June 3, 2017April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Weather Man by Sam Hayes

The Trial

April 15, 2017April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Trial by Franz Kafka

Sapiens

April 1, 2017April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

The Grace of Kings

March 31, 2017April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu

The Singapore Story

March 3, 2017April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Singapore Story by Lee Kuan Yew

The Design of Everyday Things

March 2, 2017April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman

1Q84

January 7, 2017April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

Hillbilly Elegy

December 11, 2016April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance

Life And Death Are Wearing Me Out

December 11, 2016April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Life And Death Are Wearing Me Out by Mo Yan

And Then There Were None

July 31, 2016April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

The Unwinding

July 30, 2016April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Unwinding by George Packer

Wind / Pinball

June 19, 2016April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Wind / Pinball by Haruki Murakami

Fahrenheit 451

June 5, 2016April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

How Music Got Free

June 5, 2016April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

How Music Got Free by Stephen Witt

In the Heat

May 1, 2016April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

In the Heat by Ian Vasquez

Modern Romance

April 18, 2016April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari

Catch 22

April 18, 2016April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

The Firm

March 19, 2016April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Firm by Duff McDonald

Strong Poison

February 21, 2016April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Strong Poison by Dorothy Sayers

To Live

January 30, 2016April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

To Live by Yu Hua

Nexus

January 15, 2016April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Nexus by Ramez Naam

More Money Than God

January 14, 2016April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

More Money Than God by Sebastian Mullaby

Code

January 4, 2016April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Code by Charles Petzold

The Alchemist

December 23, 2015April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Elon Musk

December 12, 2015April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance

All the Light We Cannot See

December 12, 2015April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Asia’s Cauldron

November 15, 2015April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Asia’s Cauldron by Robert Kaplan

The Remains of the Day

October 11, 2015April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Circus Maximus

September 20, 2015April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Circus Maximus by Andrew Zimbalist

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

September 12, 2015April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

The New York Nobody Knows

August 16, 2015April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The New York Nobody Knows by William Helmreich

Rise of ISIS

August 8, 2015April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Rise of ISIS by Jay Sekulow

Gone Girl

July 3, 2015April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

A Wild Sheep Chase

June 18, 2015April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami

Traffic

June 7, 2015April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt

The Fish Can Sing

May 30, 2015April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Fish Can Sing by Halldor Laxness

Young Money

May 10, 2015April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Young Money by Kevin Roose

Redeployment

April 26, 2015April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Redeployment by Phil Klay

Tuesdays with Morrie

April 10, 2015April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

Tubes

April 10, 2015April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Tubes by Andrew Blum

The Book Thief

March 28, 2015April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Being Mortal

March 17, 2015April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

Economics – The User’s Guide

March 8, 2015April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Economics – The User’s Guide by Ha-Joon Chang

The French Intifada

February 12, 2015April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The French Intifada by Andrew Hussey

The Wind Up Bird Chronicle

January 30, 2015April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Everything I Never Told You

January 8, 2015April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

The Language of Food

December 24, 2014April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Language of Food by Dan Jurafsky

Dataclysm

December 17, 2014April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Dataclysm by Christian Rudder

Les Miserables

December 8, 2014April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

A Spy Among Friends

November 26, 2014April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

A Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre

The Betrayers

November 16, 2014April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis

Zero to One

October 27, 2014April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Zero to One by Peter Thiel

Unruly Places

October 20, 2014April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Unruly Places by Alastair Bonnett

The Birth of Korean Cool

October 6, 2014April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

The Birth of Korean Cool by Euny Hong

Kite Runner

October 5, 2014April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Age of Ambition

September 17, 2014April 22, 2025 | Rex Lam

Age of Ambition by Evan Osnos

My Promised Land

September 16, 2014April 21, 2025 | Rex Lam

My Promised Land by Ari Shavit

Showa Japan

September 15, 2014April 21, 2025 | Rex Lam

Showa Japan by Hans Brinckmann

Kafka on the Shore

September 14, 2014April 21, 2025 | Rex Lam

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

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