Korea
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Korean Messiah: Kim Il Sung and the Christian Roots of North Korea’s Personality Cult
$36.00 Add to cartA landmark history of North Korea, told through the rise of the Kim dynasty and its surprising ties to American Christianity–a spectacular, penetrating account of a world like no other
North Korea. T- Author: Cheng, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1524733490
- Language: English
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Holy Boy
$18.99 Add to cartFour obsessed women kidnap a K-Pop idol with unexpected and devastating results in this chilling, thought-provoking literary thriller that blends the dark impulsions of Butter with the ratcheting tens
- Author: Heejoo, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0063453428
- Language: English
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Rice Paper Window
$22.99 Add to cartChristabel Choi enters South Korea as a student in 1989 with a copy of the Communist Manifesto among the books in her bag. She doesn’t realize that it could get her-or anyone she might lend it to-arre
- Author: Choi, Christabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: June 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1967547610
- Language: English
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Under the Same Sky: From Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in America
$19.99 Add to cartAn inspirational memoir about an abandoned young boy who escaped the devastating famine in North Korea and came to America in search of survival, freedom, and the pursuit of his wildest dreams. “Riv… [more below]
- Author: Kim, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 28 2016
- ISBN10: 0544705270
- Language: English
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A Magical Girl Retires (Nomad Edition)
$16.99 Add to cart“Korean author Park Seolyeon’s English-language debut succeeds in ways no other recent novel has: in portraying the anxiety-riddled realities of coming of age in our present moment through an unexpect
- Author: Seolyeon, Park
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0063469243
- Language: English
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Fallout: The Inside Story of America’s Failure to Disarm North Korea
$38.00 Add to cartA behind-the-scenes look into why U.S. efforts to contain North Korea’s nuclear capabilities have not worked
For almost four decades, the United States has tried to stop North Korea’s attempts to bui- Author: Wit, Joel S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0300278772
- Language: English
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Capitalists Must Starve: A Novel
$18.95 Add to cartWinner of 2018 Hankyoreh Literature Award, this work is based directly on the life of Kang Juryong, a female worker who led a strike at the Pyongwon rubber factory in Pyongyang in 1931, climbing the r… [more below]
- Author: Park, Seolyeon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1917126212
- Language: English
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Art on Fire
$20.00 Add to cartA darkly comic and compelling satire of the art world from the author of The Disaster Tourist.
An Yiji’s career had been stalling for some time when a representative of the illustrious Robert Foundati
- Author: Ko-Eun, Yun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1964992192
- Language: English
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Petty Lies
$17.99 Add to cartWE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN meets THE VEGETARIAN in this chilly and chilling epistolary novel of four characters locked in a frightening cycle of vengeance and comeuppance.
Mira is a desperate young- Author: Bak, Sulmi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0316594482
- Language: English
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The Melancholy of Untold History
$18.99 Add to cartA beautifully crafted, enriching saga inspired by East Asian mythology, The Melancholy of Untold History is Minsoo Kang’s debut novel, steeped in history like R.F. Kuang’s Babel, epic in scope like An
- Author: Kang, Minsoo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 006333755X
- Language: English
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Soyangri Book Kitchen
$25.00 Add to cartA heartwarming novel from a South Korean author about the healing power of books, perfect for readers of Before the Coffee Gets Cold.
With good books, good food and companionship, the Book Kitchen fi- Author: Jee Hye, Kim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1454963689
- Language: English
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Midnight Timetable: A Novel in Ghost Stories
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the author and translator of the National Book Award finalist and Booker Prize shortlisted Cursed Bunny, comes a novel-in-ghost-stories, set in a mysterious research center that houses cursed obj… [more below]
- Author: Chung, Bora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 164375663X
- Language: English
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Korean Folktales: Classic Stories from Korea’s Enchanted Past
$11.99 Add to cartFifty-five folktales offer a fascinating window into the Korean world.
Told with wit and pathos, this lively collection of Korean fables features the ever-iconic tiger, the humble woodcutter, clueless- Author: So-Un
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 080485775X
- Language: English
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We Do Not Part
$28.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – THE NEW NOVEL FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
“[Han Kang’s] intense poetic prose . . . confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of… [more below]- Author: Kang, Han
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0593595459
- Language: English
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Spring on the Peninsula
$26.00 Read moreLonglisted for the 2024 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize!
A desultory libertine mourns a failed relationship over the course of two harsh winters in this unprecedented portrait of millennials livi- Author: Shin, Ery
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1662602227
- Language: English
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Walking Practice
$16.99 Add to cartSquid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical literary sensation from South Korea about an alien’s hunt for food that transforms into an existential crisis about what
- Author: Min, Dolki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0063258625
- Language: English
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Korean Folk & Fairy Tales: Fables, Folklore & Ancient Stories
$14.99 Add to cartA delightful collection of stories of everyday folk, from a country that now brings K-Pop culture into the eyes and ears of the world.
Organized into four sections – Love, Marriage & Family, Powerful- Series: Flame Tree Collector’s Editions
- Author: Miller, Perry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1835625657
- Language: English
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Blowfish
$27.00 Add to cart“A memorable existential tale.” —Publishers Weekly
For readers of Han Kang and Sheila Heti, an atmospheric, melancholic novel about a successful sculptor who decides to commit suicide by artfully pre- Author: Jo, Kyung-Ran
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1662601786
- Language: English
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Counterattacks at Thirty
$26.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of ALMOND, The Devil Wears Prada meets The Office in this witty, humane, and ultimately transformative story of a group of young workers who rebel against the status quo.
Ji
- Author: Sohn, Won-Pyung
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0063378108
- Language: English
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Snowy Day and Other Stories
$32.00 Add to cartThe first story collection published in English by Lee Chang-dong, one of South Korea’s most celebrated and influential literary and cinematic figures
Much like Lee Chang-dong’s internationally renown- Author: Chang-Dong, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 059365725X
- Language: English
