11 Best short stories books like Your Utopia by Bora Chung

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Your Utopia

By: Bora Chung

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the …

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1. Dragon Palace

By: Hiromi Kawakami

3.31

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Included in The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023 From the bestselling author of Strange Weather i… read more

Similar categories in Hiromi Kawakami's Dragon Palace book and Bora Chung's Your Utopia

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • adult
  • anthologies
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2. Nails and Eyes

By: Kaori Fujino

3.43

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

Tense, subtly disturbing Japanese literary horror perfect for fans of The Memory Police, Tender is … read more

Similar categories in Kaori Fujino's Nails and Eyes book and Bora Chung's Your Utopia

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"As a woman, Shoko is extremely petite, but as a heart, she is wondrously large."

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

"Maybe she suddenly had a deathwish, the way some people fall in love at first sight."

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

"There were always going to be people who loved you and people who hated you, no matter what you did, so why let anything trouble you?"

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

"You felt that your life would always be this way. Not as one day going by, and then another, but life as an ever-expanding single day. And yet, time did go by."

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

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3. Butter

By: Asako Yuzuki

3.60

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more

Similar categories in Asako Yuzuki's Butter book and Bora Chung's Your Utopia

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

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4. Your Utopia

By: Bora Chung

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the … read more

Similar categories in Bora Chung's Your Utopia book and Bora Chung's Your Utopia

  • asia
  • adult
  • anthologies
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
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5. This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances

By: Eric LaRocca

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A brand-new collection of four intense, claustrophobic and terrifying horror tales from the Bram St… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The worst thing a person can do to you after they've hurt you is let you live."

-Eric LaRocca, This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances

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6. Green Frog: Stories

By: Gina Chung

4.14

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A short story collection that explores Korean American womanhood, bodies, animals, and transformati… read more

Similar categories in Gina Chung's Green Frog: Stories book and Bora Chung's Your Utopia

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
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7. Walking Practice

By: Dolki Min

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Squid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical literary sensation … read more

Similar categories in Dolki Min's Walking Practice book and Bora Chung's Your Utopia

  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I’ve invested close to ten years of my time figuring out what exactly their criteria are. My conclusion is that there are no such criteria."

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

"Criteria are like glass. As long as they are respected and held without dropping them, they’ll stay solid and won’t break. I made myself complicit in humanity’s scam and adapted myself to the local e…"

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

"Do I exist in the same physical space as other people? Can I really seek joy and pleasure together with them? Why does the path become narrower the further I walk down it? Why is every place I go to …"

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

"He’s a real fucking dog. Ah, forgive me. I’ve accidentally lumped dogs in with the likes of him. I would like to give a sincere apology to all the dogs of Earth. I can almost hear their complaints no…"

-Dolki Min, Walking Practice

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8. Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks

By: Natsuko Imamura

3.47

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The startling first collection of dark, surreal, and unsettling stories from the international priz… read more

Similar categories in Natsuko Imamura's Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks book and Bora Chung's Your Utopia

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. Thirst

By: Marina Yuszczuk

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more

Similar categories in Marina Yuszczuk's Thirst book and Bora Chung's Your Utopia

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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10. A Magical Girl Retires

By: Park Seolyeon

3.63

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful… read more

Similar categories in Park Seolyeon's A Magical Girl Retires book and Bora Chung's Your Utopia

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The person I loved and respected the most in the world called me a genius; therefore, I was a genius."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

"If I could become a magical girl at twenty-nine, then surely it was never too late to become a watchmaker."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

"Grandfather, I just love watches. When I look at them, I just... It's like they're a whole universe. The universe itself. Even the smallest watch."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

"She had a point. I mean, when did my own girlhood begin and end, exactly? I couldn't quite circle a lasso around it, but I knew, at least, when it had ended. Three years ago, when Grandfather died."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

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11. Mysterious Setting

By: Kazushige Abe

3.58

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

A madcap, darkly comic novel about the strange fate of a tone-deaf girl who just wants to sing, fro… read more

Similar categories in Kazushige Abe's Mysterious Setting book and Bora Chung's Your Utopia

  • asia
  • fiction
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12. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil

By: Ananda Lima

3.52

Format: 181 pages, Hardcover

At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughou… read more

Similar categories in Ananda Lima's Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil book and Bora Chung's Your Utopia

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. Heads Will Roll

By: Josh Winning

3.69

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

Willow’s worst nightmare was being cancelled. But the woods of Camp Castaway might destroy more tha… read more

Similar categories in Josh Winning's Heads Will Roll book and Bora Chung's Your Utopia

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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14. The Eyes Are the Best Part

By: Monika Kim

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more

Similar categories in Monika Kim's The Eyes Are the Best Part book and Bora Chung's Your Utopia

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories

By: Sarah Coolidge

4.01

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

A boy explores the abandoned house of a dead fascist… A leaked sex tape pushes a woman to the brin… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Coolidge's Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories book and Bora Chung's Your Utopia

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
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16. Cannibals

By: Shin'ya Tanaka

2.92

Format: 70 pages, Kindle Edition

During the hot, dry summer of 1988, in a forgotten neighborhood known as the riverside, seventeen-y… read more

Similar categories in Shin'ya Tanaka's Cannibals book and Bora Chung's Your Utopia

  • fiction
  • horror
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17. dd's Umbrella

By: Hwang Jungeun

3.84

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Han Kang meets Maggie Nelson in these devastating twin novellas offering a rare depiction of the no… read more

Similar categories in Hwang Jungeun's dd's Umbrella book and Bora Chung's Your Utopia

  • fiction
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18. Toward Eternity

By: Anton Hur

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

What does it mean to be human in a world where technology is quickly catching up to biology? In … read more

Similar categories in Anton Hur's Toward Eternity book and Bora Chung's Your Utopia

  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
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19. The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre

By: Cho yeeun

3.51

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

At New Seoul Park, Korea’s greatest theme park, an enigmatic man tempts visitors with a mysterious … read more

Similar categories in Cho yeeun's The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre book and Bora Chung's Your Utopia

  • asia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"I couldn't help but feel empty inside as I thought about all the moments of my life fading away like that. What was I, after all, if all the memories that made me up were gone?"

-Cho yeeun, The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre

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20. Flowers from the Void

By: Gianni Washington

3.79

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

Addictively strange and disturbing, Flowers From the Void is a collection of delectably uncanny tal… read more

Similar categories in Gianni Washington's Flowers from the Void book and Bora Chung's Your Utopia

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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21. Take My Voice (IYAGI, #2)

By: Chung Serang

3.94

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

"The bloodstains on the linoleum were impossible to remove completely." A madcap, sci-fi, found-… read more

Similar categories in Chung Serang's Take My Voice (IYAGI, #2) book and Bora Chung's Your Utopia

  • short stories
  • fiction

14 Best adult books like Your Utopia by Bora Chung

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Dragon Palace

Hiromi Kawakami

3.31

Transform Your Habits

Nails and Eyes

Kaori Fujino

3.43

Transform Your Habits

Your Utopia

Bora Chung

3.65

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This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances

Eric LaRocca

3.67

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Satoshi Yagisawa

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

Hisashi Kashiwai

3.70

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Asako Yuzuki

3.60

Transform Your Habits

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Hanako Footman

4.38

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