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North Korea Books
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 819 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.46 — 103,874 ratings — published 2009
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 517 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.01 — 73,312 ratings — published 2012
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 421 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.43 — 104,747 ratings — published 2014
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 401 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.48 — 109,306 ratings — published 2015
The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag (Paperback)
by (shelved 347 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.12 — 11,719 ratings — published 2000
Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite (Hardcover)
by (shelved 328 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.93 — 22,760 ratings — published 2014
The Orphan Master's Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 293 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.07 — 105,795 ratings — published 2012
A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 262 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.28 — 63,814 ratings — published 2010
Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 258 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,773 ratings — published 2014
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,411 ratings — published 2003
The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 181 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,538 ratings — published 2014
Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,191 ratings — published 2004
The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,090 ratings — published 2013
A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.97 — 8,661 ratings — published 2012
A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,435 ratings — published 2015
The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,090 ratings — published 2010
Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.30 — 8,104 ratings — published 2016
This Is Paradise! My North Korean Childhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,503 ratings — published 2004
North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.64 — 2,741 ratings — published 2015
The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future – A Must-Read History of the Kim Dynasty's Regime and Collapse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,905 ratings — published 2012
The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,930 ratings — published 2019
Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,141 ratings — published 2014
Under the Same Sky: From Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,386 ratings — published 2015
The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,370 ratings — published 2008
Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,237 ratings — published 2010
North of the DMZ: Essays on Daily Life in North Korea (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.93 — 597 ratings — published 2007
The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Tyrant Who Created North Korea and The Young Lieutenant Who Stole His Way to Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,543 ratings — published 2015
The Invitation-Only Zone: The True Story of North Korea's Abduction Project (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.86 — 719 ratings — published 2019
The Tears of My Soul (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,497 ratings — published 1993
Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.16 — 756 ratings — published 2009
North Korea Undercover: Inside the World's Most Secret State (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,440 ratings — published 2013
My Holiday in North Korea: The Funniest/Worst Place on Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,559 ratings — published 2016
Only Beautiful, Please: A British Diplomat in North Korea (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.02 — 395 ratings — published 2012
How I Became a North Korean (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.50 — 1,555 ratings — published 2016
North Korea Journal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.84 — 4,357 ratings — published 2019
North Korea's Hidden Revolution: How the Information Underground Is Transforming a Closed Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.97 — 463 ratings — published 2016
A Corpse in the Koryo (Inspector O, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.45 — 1,783 ratings — published 2006
Friend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.46 — 639 ratings — published 1988
Star of the North (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,524 ratings — published 2018
See You Again in Pyongyang: A Journey into Kim Jong Un's North Korea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,136 ratings — published 2018
Becoming Kim Jong Un: A Former CIA Officer's Insights into North Korea's Enigmatic Young Dictator (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,363 ratings — published 2020
Escape from North Korea: The Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.89 — 678 ratings — published 2012
The Hidden People of North Korea: Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.60 — 196 ratings — published 2009
Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World's Most Repressive Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.73 — 536 ratings — published 2008
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.34 — 676,088 ratings — published 2017
The World Is Bigger Now: An American Journalist's Release from Captivity in North Korea . . . A Remarkable Story of Faith, Family, and Forgiveness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.72 — 712 ratings — published 2010
Your Republic Is Calling You (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.59 — 1,863 ratings — published 2006
While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,341 ratings — published 2023
A Capitalist in North Korea: My Seven Years in the Hermit Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.62 — 252 ratings — published 2012
The Sister: The Extraordinary Story of Kim Yo Jong, The Most Powerful Woman in North Korea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.50 — 1,423 ratings — published 2022
“Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe. I will never truly be free of its gravity, no matter how far I journey.”
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“Inside, I’m assaulted by the evening propaganda broadcasts coming over the apartment’s hardwired loudspeaker. There’s one in every apartment and factory floor in Pyongyang”
― The Orphan Master's Son
― The Orphan Master's Son
