Read the World: South Korea

Books by authors from South Korea or set in/about South Korea.

Updated February 2, 2024
Drag items up and down to your preferred order then select the "Save Order" button.
The vegetarian : a novel
Han, Kang
Paper Book
FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "[Han Kang's] intense poetic prose . . . exposes the fragility of human life."--The Nobel Committee for Literature, in the citation for the Nobel Prize A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ...
100% perfect girl
Wann
Paper Book
A giddy romantic fable, this story depicts Jay Jinn, a headstrong teenage rebel who's determined to prove she's serious about making art. J. Max is a tall debonair foreigner in Korea on business. On the surface it seems they have nothing in common. But then there are...
Bride of the Water God
Yun, Mi-gyŏng, 1980- author, illustrator.
Paper Book
When Soah's impoverished, desperate village decides to sacrifice her to the Water God Habaek to end a long drought, they believe that drowning one beautiful girl will save their entire community and bring much-needed rain. Not only is Soah surprised to be rescued by the Water God - instead of killed...

Library staff! You can create and contribute to lists. Contact your catalog administrator or log in here.