Books worth
staying up for.
Fiction, essays, design and food — chosen one at a time by people who actually read them. Wrapped by hand, sent anywhere in Malaysia.
- 1,240
- Titles in store
- 4.9★
- From 2,100 readers
- 48h
- Nationwide delivery
Wellbeing
The Quiet Hour
Marguerite Hale
Food & Drink
Salt & Citrus
Elena Marchetti
Essays
A Map of Small Places
Nadia Rahman
Free over RM150
Nationwide, 2–4 working days.
Hand-wrapped
Kraft paper and a hand-written card.
Read before stocked
Nothing on the shelf we have not opened.
30-day returns
Changed your mind? Send it back.
Start somewhere
Six shelves, kept small on purpose. Every title is one we would hand you in person.
New this month
“A bookshop is the only shop where you are allowed to stay for three hours and leave with nothing. We would rather you came back.”
Wei Ann — Shop owner
Fiction
The Gardener of Lorong Tujuh
Aishah Kamal
The Gardener of Lorong Tujuh
Aishah Kamal · Kelabu Editions
4.9 (411)A retired teacher turns a back lane into a garden, and the whole street has an opinion about it. Warm, comic and full of good food.
“I finished it on a Sunday and immediately bought three more copies for other people.”
Off the shelf, fastest
What Kuala Lumpur has been buying for itself and for other people.
We started with one shelf and a very patient landlord.
One More Book began as a corner of a coffee shop on Jalan Bangkung — forty titles, all of them ones we had finished ourselves. Seven years on the rule has not changed: nothing goes on the shelf until someone here has read it and can tell you why.
The shop is still small. That is deliberate.
Read our story1,240
Titles in store
62
Book clubs hosted
2,100+
Reader reviews
7
Years on the street
Notes from the shop floor
Reading lists, author evenings and the occasional strong opinion.