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Korean History Books
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as korean-history)
avg rating 4.46 — 97,517 ratings — published 2009
Human Acts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as korean-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 67,023 ratings — published 2014
Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as korean-history)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,041 ratings — published 1997
Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as korean-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,174 ratings — published 2004
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as korean-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 597,999 ratings — published 2017
The Korean War: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)
by (shelved 11 times as korean-history)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,355 ratings — published 2010
The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as korean-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 939 ratings — published 1985
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as korean-history)
avg rating 4.49 — 101,273 ratings — published 2015
Sources of Korean Tradition: From Early Times Through the Sixteenth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as korean-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 88 ratings — published 1992
Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as korean-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 55 ratings — published 2002
A History of Korea (Palgrave Essential Histories series)
by (shelved 7 times as korean-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 457 ratings — published 2010
Korea: The Impossible Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as korean-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,993 ratings — published 2012
Korea Old and New: A History (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as korean-history)
avg rating 3.54 — 220 ratings — published 1991
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as korean-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 9,238 ratings — published 2007
Under the Black Umbrella: Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910–1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as korean-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 277 ratings — published 2001
The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as korean-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 11,313 ratings — published 2000
The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as korean-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 942 ratings — published 1997
This Kind of War: A Study in Unpreparedness (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as korean-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,223 ratings — published 1963
The Korean War (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as korean-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,632 ratings — published 1987
Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as korean-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 22,003 ratings — published 2014
Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as korean-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 89 ratings — published 2013
A Korean History for International Readers: What Do Koreans Talk About Their Own History and Culture? (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as korean-history)
avg rating 3.85 — 59 ratings — published 2010
Brokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876–1945 (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
by (shelved 5 times as korean-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 54 ratings — published 2011
A Dragon's Head and a Serpent's Tail: Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592–1598 (Volume 20) (Campaigns and Commanders Series)
by (shelved 5 times as korean-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 60 ratings — published 2009
The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as korean-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,870 ratings — published 2012
A History of Korea: From Antiquity to the Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as korean-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 102 ratings — published 2010
Korea's Twentieth-Century Odyssey: A Short History (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as korean-history)
avg rating 3.73 — 90 ratings — published 2007
The Imjin War: Japan's Sixteenth-Century Invasion of Korea and Attempt to Conquer China (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as korean-history)
avg rating 4.43 — 416 ratings — published 2005
Korea: A History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as korean-history)
avg rating 3.78 — 79 ratings — published
The Red Palace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as korean-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 16,074 ratings — published 2022
Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as korean-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,128 ratings — published 2020
The New Koreans: The Story of a Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as korean-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 443 ratings — published
The Orphan Master's Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as korean-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 103,385 ratings — published 2012
Sources of Korean Tradition, Vol. 2: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as korean-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 70 ratings — published 2000
Parallax Visions: Making Sense of American-East Asian Relations at the End of the Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as korean-history)
avg rating 3.73 — 26 ratings — published 1999
The Origins of the Korean War, Volume I: Liberation and the Emergence of Separate Regimes, 1945-1947 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as korean-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 56 ratings — published 1981
Accidental Tyrant: The Life of Kim Il-sung (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as korean-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 76 ratings — published 2025
A Crane Among Wolves (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as korean-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 13,562 ratings — published 2024
The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as korean-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 101 ratings — published
Korea: A New History of South and North (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as korean-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,230 ratings — published 2023
The Island of Sea Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as korean-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 159,969 ratings — published 2019
A Brief History of Korea: Isolation, War, Despotism and Revival: The Fascinating Story of a Resilient But Divided People (Brief History of Asia Series)
by (shelved 3 times as korean-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 503 ratings — published 2019
Beasts of a Little Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as korean-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 19,301 ratings — published 2021
Becoming Kim Jong Un: A Former CIA Officer's Insights into North Korea's Enigmatic Young Dictator (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as korean-history)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,303 ratings — published 2020
Korean History in Maps (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as korean-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 57 ratings — published 2014
Letters from Korean History 2: From the Later Three Kingdoms to Goryeo (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as korean-history)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
A Review of Korean History Vol.1 Ancient/Goryeo Era (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as korean-history)
avg rating 3.50 — 16 ratings — published 2010
The Park Chung Hee Era: The Transformation of South Korea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as korean-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 163 ratings — published 2011
The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as korean-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,658 ratings — published 2019
White Chrysanthemum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as korean-history)
avg rating 4.41 — 25,525 ratings — published 2018
