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 :)
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