Books like Sarong party girls by Cheryl Lu-lien Tan

A dark, passionate tale set on the West Yorkshire moors, following the tumultuous love and revenge between the Earnshaws, Lintons, and the enigmatic Heathcliff.

A former Japanese POW survivor in post-war Malaya journeys to the secluded Garden of Evening Mists to learn from a reclusive gardener, uncovering secrets of war and forgiveness amid the country's turbulent fight for independence.

Gretchen Lin leaves her failing marriage to return to Singapore, where she confronts her mother's alcoholism and her father's soy‑sauce shop, only to become entangled in a family dispute that threatens their legacy.

Under the fading light of the Chinese emperors and the waning British Empire, a young man’s desperate quest amid World War II reveals loyalty, betrayal, and the fragile ties of a racially mixed Malaysian society.

29, 311 p. 24 cm

Georgeial graphic memoir tracing Singapore’s 50‑year transformation through the life of cartoonist Charlie Chan Hock Chye, blending historical facts with varied comic styles.

Louisa May Alcott's early writings, based on diary entries from the ages of eleven and thirteen, offer insights into her thoughts, feelings, and early poetic efforts.

Gogol, N. The overcoat. Melville, H. [Billy Budd, sailor](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102746W) James, H. The Aspern papers. Chopin, K. [The awakening](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL65430W) Conrad, J. Heart of darkness. Joyce, J. [The dead](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073437W) Kafka, F. The metamorphosis. Lawrence, D.H. St. Mawr. Porter, K.A. Pale horse, pale rider. Pynchon, T. The crying of Lot 49.

"A brave, timely, searingly beautiful novel from the acclaimed author of The Blind Man's Garden: set in contemporary Pakistan, the story of a Muslim widow and her Christian neighbors whose community is consumed by violent religious intolerance. When shots ring out on the Grand Trunk Road, Nargis's life begins to crumble around her. Her husband, Massud--a fellow architect--is caught in the cross fire and dies before she can confess her greatest secret to him. Now under threat from a powerful military intelligence officer, who demands that she pardon her husband's American killer, Nargis fears that the truth about her past will soon be exposed. For weeks someone has been broadcasting people's secrets from the minaret of the local mosque, and, in a country where even the accusation of blasphemy is a currency to be bartered, the mysterious broadcasts have struck fear in Christians and Muslims alike. When the loudspeakers reveal a forbidden romance between a Muslim cleric's daughter and Nargis's Christian neighbor, Nargis finds herself trapped in the center of the chaos tearing their community apart. In his characteristically luminous prose, Nadeem Aslam has given us a lionhearted novel that reflects Pakistan's past and present in a single mirror, a story of corruption, resilience, and the disguises that are sometimes necessary for survival--a revelatory portrait of the human spirit"--

A Kansas farm girl arrives in New York to pursue Broadway, only to fall victim to sexual assault, become a high‑class prostitute, and confront love and loss in a city of shadows.