Reading RM's Book Recommendation List

I finally went through RM’s reading list to read some new books and some old. Hope you find something you’re interested in too!

Here’s my translation of the particular list that I chose :)

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Some of the Korean poems and essay titles might be a poor translation on my part, apologies!

Essays:

Hwang Kyeongshin

  • 11pm

  • One Bite, Elephant

Lee Mikyeong - Convenience Store Illustrations

Paul Kalanithi - When Breath Becomes Air

Baek Sehui - I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Ddeokbokki

Kim Shinhoi - Glad to Live Like Bonobono

Novels:

Haruki Murakami

Ryu Murakami - Almost Transparent Blue

Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen

Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Jojo Moyes - Me Before You

Han Kang - Humans Acts

Cho Nam Joo - Kim Jiyoung Born 1982

Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Ted Chiang - Stories of Your Life (and others)

Poetry:

Jeong Hoseung

  • In This Short Time

  • We Are From Which Star

  • To Daffodils

Ryu Shihwa

  • If I Had Known What I Know Now

  • Love Like You’ve Never Been Hurt

Ha Sangok - Seoul

Classics:

Albert Camus - The Stranger

Nietzsche’s Writings

Herman Hesse - Demian

Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis

George Orwell - 1984

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature

Humanities/Social Studies:

Chae Sajang - Broad and Shallow Knowledge for Intellectual Dialogue

Yu Shimin - How To Live

Michael Sandel - Justice: What’s the Right Thing To Do?

Tony Porter - Breaking Out of The “Man Box”

Andrew Solomon - The Noonday Demon

Bärbel Wardetzki - Nobody Can Hurt Me Without My Permission

Kim Taejin - Art Humanities

Nicholas Cook - Music: A Very Short Introduction

Martin Gayford - A History of Pictures

Theresa Bäuerlein - How Geniuses Think