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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 — 103,881 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 — 73,313 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 — 104,748 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 — 109,297 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 — 105,793 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 — 9,774 ratings — published 2014
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,413 ratings — published 2003
The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 181 times as north-korea)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,537 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 — 2,089 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 — 8,105 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 — 5,931 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 — 2,561 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 — 643 ratings — published 1988
Star of the North (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as north-korea)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,526 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 — 1,137 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 — 1,364 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 — 676,242 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 — 5,339 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
“Playing pool with Korean officials one evening in the Koryo Hotel, which has become the nightspot for foreign businessmen and an increasing number of diplomats (to say nothing of the burgeoning number of spies and journalists traveling under second identities), I was handed that day's edition of the Pyongyang Times. At first glance it seemed too laughable for words: endless pictures of the 'Dear Leader'—Little Boy's exalted title—as he was garlanded by adoring schoolchildren and heroic tractor drivers. Yet even in these turgid pages there were nuggets: a telegram congratulating the winner of the Serbian elections; a candid reference to the 'hardship period' through which the country had been passing; an assurance that a certain nuclear power plant would be closed as part of a deal with Washington. Tiny cracks, to be sure. But a complete and rigid edifice cannot afford fissures, however small. There appear to be no hookers, as yet, in Pyongyang. Yet if casinos come, can working girls be far behind? One perhaps ought not to wish for hookers, but there are circumstances when corruption is the only hope.”
― Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
― Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
“Nobody knows how many North Koreans have died or are dying in the famine—some estimates by foreign-aid groups run as high as three million in the period from 1995 to 1998 alone—but the rotund, jowly face of Kim Il Sung still beams down contentedly from every wall, and the 58-year-old son looks as chubby as ever, even as his slenderized subjects are mustered to applaud him.”
― Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
― Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
