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Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1147 times as korea)
avg rating 4.34 — 677,602 ratings — published 2017
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 841 times as korea)
avg rating 3.65 — 441,401 ratings — published 2007
82년생 김지영 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 674 times as korea)
avg rating 4.16 — 198,518 ratings — published 2016
Human Acts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 499 times as korea)
avg rating 4.27 — 87,477 ratings — published 2014
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 492 times as korea)
avg rating 4.46 — 103,995 ratings — published 2009
Please Look After Mom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 477 times as korea)
avg rating 3.92 — 50,077 ratings — published 2008
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 423 times as korea)
avg rating 4.22 — 638,801 ratings — published 2021
The Island of Sea Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 416 times as korea)
avg rating 4.32 — 183,016 ratings — published 2019
If I Had Your Face (Hardcover)
by (shelved 311 times as korea)
avg rating 3.73 — 59,915 ratings — published 2020
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 282 times as korea)
avg rating 3.87 — 98,117 ratings — published 2022
Almond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 263 times as korea)
avg rating 4.13 — 194,068 ratings — published 2017
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 253 times as korea)
avg rating 4.48 — 109,381 ratings — published 2015
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 231 times as korea)
avg rating 4.43 — 104,829 ratings — published 2014
The Orphan Master's Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 225 times as korea)
avg rating 4.07 — 105,830 ratings — published 2012
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 223 times as korea)
avg rating 4.01 — 73,341 ratings — published 2012
The White Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 222 times as korea)
avg rating 3.81 — 40,696 ratings — published 2016
Cursed Bunny (Paperback)
by (shelved 218 times as korea)
avg rating 3.73 — 45,748 ratings — published 2017
We Do Not Part (Hardcover)
by (shelved 211 times as korea)
avg rating 3.84 — 38,966 ratings — published 2025
I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki (Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as korea)
avg rating 3.20 — 111,855 ratings — published 2018
Winter in Sokcho (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as korea)
avg rating 3.53 — 29,318 ratings — published 2016
Greek Lessons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 182 times as korea)
avg rating 3.59 — 55,307 ratings — published 2011
Beasts of a Little Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 175 times as korea)
avg rating 4.02 — 21,664 ratings — published 2021
The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as korea)
avg rating 4.12 — 11,726 ratings — published 2000
Love in the Big City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as korea)
avg rating 3.66 — 18,563 ratings — published 2019
White Chrysanthemum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 148 times as korea)
avg rating 4.42 — 28,096 ratings — published 2018
Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as korea)
avg rating 3.93 — 22,766 ratings — published 2014
A Single Shard (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as korea)
avg rating 3.95 — 43,406 ratings — published 2001
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as korea)
avg rating 3.98 — 22,535 ratings — published 2000
When My Name Was Keoko (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as korea)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,905 ratings — published 2002
Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as korea)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,077 ratings — published 1997
A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 129 times as korea)
avg rating 4.28 — 63,853 ratings — published 2010
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as korea)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,425 ratings — published 2003
The Calligrapher's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as korea)
avg rating 3.81 — 7,032 ratings — published 2009
I Have The Right To Destroy Myself (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as korea)
avg rating 3.20 — 6,106 ratings — published 1995
I'll Be Right There (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as korea)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,282 ratings — published 2010
The Red Palace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as korea)
avg rating 4.11 — 18,832 ratings — published 2022
Untold Night and Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as korea)
avg rating 3.44 — 6,054 ratings — published 2013
The Court Dancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as korea)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,683 ratings — published 2007
The DallerGut Dream Department Store (DallerGut Dream Department Store, #1)
by (shelved 114 times as korea)
avg rating 3.63 — 45,277 ratings — published 2020
The Hole (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as korea)
avg rating 3.33 — 10,920 ratings — published 2016
The Good Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as korea)
avg rating 3.76 — 18,664 ratings — published 2016
Korea: The Impossible Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as korea)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,087 ratings — published 2012
The Plotters (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as korea)
avg rating 3.56 — 7,877 ratings — published 2010
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as korea)
avg rating 4.08 — 101,882 ratings — published 2022
No One Writes Back (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as korea)
avg rating 4.15 — 8,539 ratings — published 2009
The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as korea)
avg rating 4.02 — 985 ratings — published 1985
Concerning My Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as korea)
avg rating 3.69 — 12,943 ratings — published 2017
Shoko's Smile: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as korea)
avg rating 3.90 — 7,171 ratings — published 2016
The Korean War: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as korea)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,473 ratings — published 2010
“It was easy not to like the other foreigners. I wondered how I'd fallen in with such a band of freaks. There were so many odd, wandering types--a host of bent Australians, warped British, tainted Canadians, tormented runaway Americans. (I considered myself fairly well balanced among this cast, but then look what became of me.) I'd expected it to a certain degree, but I was still surprised. Most of them seemed like misfits. Only a few content. But all of us found teaching work with astounding ease. It didn't matter that, on the whole, we were ragged and suspect because the demand for English in Korea was so great that almost anyone was accepted.”
― Brother One Cell: An American Coming of Age in South Korea's Prisons
― Brother One Cell: An American Coming of Age in South Korea's Prisons
“Modern Zen training offers a matrix within which to evaluate the way one tradition of Zen understands—and puts into practice—the doctrines and teachings of its religion. While Zen training in Korea will differ in certain respects from that followed by the patriarchs and ancient masters of classical Ch'an in China or by Zen monks in Japan, it is an authentic model of how the monks of one national tradition of Zen have tackled "the practical matter of how to live with [their] belief.”
― The Zen Monastic Experience
― The Zen Monastic Experience













