Korea

Books set in Korea.

Pachinko
The Vegetarian
82년생 김지영
Human Acts
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Please Look After Mom
Crying in H Mart
The Island of Sea Women
If I Had Your Face
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
Almond
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story
The Orphan Master's Son
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
Carrying Cambodia by Hans KempSacred Skin by Tom VaterBikes of Burden by Hans KempCHINA by Tom  CarterVietnam Zippos by Sherry Buchanan
Best Asia Photography Books
30 books — 23 voters
Thai Food by David ThompsonMaangchi's Real Korean Cooking by MaangchiLand of Plenty by Fuchsia DunlopJapanese Cooking by Shizuo TsujiThai Street Food by David Thompson
Best Asian Cookbooks
173 books — 32 voters

Brutalist Britain by Elain HarwoodRedefining Brutalism by Simon HenleyBrutalism by Alexander ClementChinese Brutalism Today by Alberto BolognaThe Art of Brutalism by Ben Highmore
Brutalist Architecture
75 books — 2 voters
The Poppy War by R.F. KuangThe Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie OhThe Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi VoIron Widow by Xiran Jay ZhaoThe Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Fantasy.
238 books — 39 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradThe Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverKing Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
Books About Colonialism
690 books — 242 voters
Vampires of Portlandia by Jason  TanamorAru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani ChokshiMist Bound by Daryl KhoDaughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn TanChinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Moss Roberts
Asian Mythology, Legends and Folklore
282 books — 57 voters

Elisa Shua Dusapin
They made it illegal to speak Korean. You could be sentenced to death for speaking it. And do you know what your grandmother’s mother did to avoid being subjected to speaking Japanese at school? She sliced off part of her own tongue.
Elisa Shua Dusapin, The Pachinko Parlour

Kyung-Sook Shin
Father wept as he recalled that one spring day, when they shared for lunch the scabbard fish that Mom had cooked in the morning and, stomachs full, napped together, stretched out. He said that back then he didn't know that this was happiness. ...more
Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mom

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