North Korea


Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
The Orphan Master's Son
A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea
Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty
The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea
A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power
The Coldest Winter by David HalberstamThe Korean War by Max HastingsOn Desperate Ground by Hampton SidesFrozen Chosin by Edwin H. SimmonsThis Kind of War by T.R. Fehrenbach
Korean War
136 books — 54 voters
The Frontlines of Peace by Severine AutesserreBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenMy War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony LoydA Capitalist in North Korea by Felix AbtSketches from the Periphery by M.P. Summers
Conflict-Zone Journalism
285 books — 144 voters

A Single Shard by Linda Sue ParkWhen My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue ParkYear of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul ChoiThe Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie OhThe Long Season of Rain by Helen  Kim
Korea in YA & Middle Grade Fiction
55 books — 26 voters
The Girl with Ghost Eyes by M.H. BorosonA-Ma Alchemy of Love by Nataša PantovićGulab by Rohith S. KatbamnaThe Girl with No Face by M.H. BorosonA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Best Asian Protagonist
178 books — 40 voters

#SayHerName by Kimberlé Williams CrenshawFracking by Kathryn   Hulick#SayHerName by Kimberlé Williams CrenshawUS Immigration and Customs Enforcement by Cynthia Kennedy HenzelViewpoint Diversity by John Tomasi
Special Reports series
48 books — 12 voters
Journey to the West by Biao  WangRainbirds by Clarissa GoenawanMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenA Capitalist in North Korea by Felix AbtWhen My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park
Eastern Asian Themed Books
95 books — 89 voters

Christopher Hitchens
Kim Jong Il, incidentally, has been made head of the party and of the army, but the office of the presidency is still 'eternally' held by his adored and departed dad, who died on July 8, 1994, at 82. (The Kim is dead. Long live the Kim.) This makes North Korea the only state in the world with a dead president. What would be the right term for this? A necrocracy? A thanatocracy? A mortocracy? A mausolocracy? Anyway, grimly appropriate for a morbid system so many of whose children have died with g ...more
Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

Christopher Hitchens
Even in former days, Korea was known as the 'hermit kingdom' for its stubborn resistance to outsiders. And if you wanted to create a totally isolated and hermetic society, northern Korea in the years after the 1953 'armistice' would have been the place to start. It was bounded on two sides by the sea, and to the south by the impregnable and uncrossable DMZ, which divided it from South Korea. Its northern frontier consisted of a long stretch of China and a short stretch of Siberia; in other words ...more
Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

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