15 Best fiction books like Lemon by Kwon Yeo-Sun

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Lemon

By: Kwon Yeo-Sun

3.27

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

In the summer of 2002, when Korea is abuzz over hosting the FIFA World Cup, nineteen-year-old Kim H…

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1. Human Acts

By: Han Kang , Deborah Smith

4.37

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian, a rare and astonishing (The Observer… read more

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  • asia
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

2. Highway with Green Apples

By: Bae Suah , Sora Kim-Russell

3.50

Format: 200 pages,

Award-winning Korean writer Bae Suah tells the story of a young woman in search of meaning as she c… read more

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3. Nowhere to Be Found

By: Bae Suah , Sora Kim-Russell

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A nameless narrator passes through her life, searching for meaning and connection in experiences sh… read more

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4. The Hole

By: Sora Kim-Russell , Hye-Young Pyun , None

2.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A Bestseller in Korea, a Psychological Thriller about Loneliness and the Dark Truths We Try to Bury… read more

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5. Idol, Burning

By: Rin Usami

3.23

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The novel that lit the Japanese publishing world on fire: From a breathtaking up-and-coming writer,… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • asia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"His existence and my witnessing of it were all I asked for."

-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning

"Maybe that was how a home broke down over the years, as the sound of doors slamming and chairs roughly scraping the floor built up like dust, and the slow drip of gnashing teeth and resentful grumbli…"

-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning

"Idol groups generally assigned each member an official color, which would be used for the light sticks that fans would hold up to show your support at a performance or for other individual merch. My …"

-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning

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6. All the Lovers in the Night

By: Mieko Kawakami

3.72

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city wher… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • asia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It only took me a couple of hours to realise that she was a woman of talents beyond anything I could imagine - even though I was a stranger to such talents myself."

-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

"The light at night is special because the overwhelming light of day has left us, and the remaining half draws on everything it has to keep the world around us bright."

-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

"When I felt sleepy I slept, and when I opened my eyes I got up, letting hunger dictate when to head to the fridge or kitchen cabinet to eat some of the things that I'd stocked up on. When supplies ra…"

-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

"When I felt sleepy I slept, and when I opened my eyes I got up, letting hunger dictate when to head to the fridge or kitchen cabinet to eat some of the things that I'd stocked up on. When supplies ra…"

-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

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7. Cursed Bunny

By: Bora Chung

3.78

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring t… read more

Similar categories in Bora Chung's Cursed Bunny book and Kwon Yeo-Sun's Lemon

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Her husband had pursued an “alternative lifestyle"

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"One can break the curse, but it is impossible to cure their blindness from greed. They were always ready to wage another war"

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"But there I remained, standing in the bathroom, waiting for someone to miraculously find me, to release me from my ties to this life."

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because your very survival depends on it."

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

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8. The Pachinko Parlour

By: Elisa Shua Dusapin

3.61

Format: 171 pages, Paperback

The days are beginning to draw in. The sky is dark by seven in the evening. I lie on the floor and … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • asia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"They made it illegal to speak Korean. You could be sentenced to death for speaking it. And do you know what your grandmother’s mother did to avoid being subjected to speaking Japanese at school? She …"

-Elisa Shua Dusapin, The Pachinko Parlour

"When Korea was divided, we were still nationals of a unified Korea. It was called Choson. At separation, the Japanese government gave us permission to keep our Korean identity, but we had to choose b…"

-Elisa Shua Dusapin, The Pachinko Parlour

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9. Y/N

By: Esther Yi

2.95

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

Y/Na novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends h… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • asia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You are not your dryness," the Boys said in small copy on the box, "You are not your sebum." They wanted to make the world a better place, and that began with my enlarged pores."

-Esther Yi, Y/N

"I knew how all of this felt, better than if I had felt it myself. The boy was my ambassador, sent to a foreign land with which my own land was in delicate relations. I'd never visited this country my…"

-Esther Yi, Y/N

"As a human being who cannot live without love, I know full well that I have exhausted my options on this disappointing planet. The question is no longer ‘Who are the people who will accept my unusual…"

-Esther Yi, Y/N

"Inside your mother, you were perfectly round, complete unto yourself. You wanted for nothing. But you were born, and the nightmare began. Your body was pulled in all directions. Your arms, legs, neck…"

-Esther Yi, Y/N

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10. Love in the Big City

By: Sang Young Park

3.65

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Love in the Big City is the English-language debut of Sang Young Park, one of Korea’s most exciting… read more

Similar categories in Sang Young Park's Love in the Big City book and Kwon Yeo-Sun's Lemon

  • literary fiction
  • asia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"I like the universe that is you"

-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City

"Let's be hamburguer patties together forever,"

-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City

"Sometimes his very existence to me is the existence of love itself"

-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City

"Jaehee, who had taught me that every season is its own beautiful moment -- that Jaehee didn't live here anymore."

-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City

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11. Life Ceremony

By: Sayaka Murata

3.75

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stori… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • asia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"Nowadays, your partner is not necessarily a sex object - this is a wonderful advancement."

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

"I'm seeking an amicable daily routine with someone I get along well with, like brother and sister, without being a slave to sex"

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

"Walking like this, feeling like a feral human, even machines and buildings were warm to the touch, and some emitted sounds and vibrations. Their presence was similar to the sounds emitted by life-for…"

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

"If they tried it, the memories of the wild rooted in their flesh would come back to them, and they would discover that eating the city like this would connect the earth between the gaps in the concre…"

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

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12. Saha

By: Cho Nam-Joo

2.97

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A National Book Award Finalist hailed as “a social treatise as well as a work of art” (Alexandra Al… read more

Similar categories in Cho Nam-Joo's Saha book and Kwon Yeo-Sun's Lemon

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura

13. The Woman in the Purple Skirt

By: Natsuko Imamura

3.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A bestselling, prizewinning novel of obsession and psychological intrigue about two enigmatic unmar… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • asia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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14. Diary of a Void

By: Emi Yagi

3.51

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

A prizewinning, thrillingly subversive debut novel about a woman in Japan who avoids harassment at … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • asia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Having a baby isn't easy. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. It's been two thousand years, and it's the same old story, right?"

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"I'm always so alone. I guess I should be used to it by now. That's the way it is from the moment we come into this world, but I'm still not used to it - how alone we all are."

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"Maybe that's making a family is all about: creating an environment in which people make space for one another - maybe without even trying, just naturally, to make sure that nobody's forgotten."

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"Until they arrived, while everyone else was transitioning to winter, putting on coats and sweaters, I was going to stick with my summer dress and my usual work blazer. Dressed in the dazzling flowers…"

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

Cover of The Premonition by Banana Yoshimoto

15. The Premonition

By: Banana Yoshimoto

3.43

Format: 133 pages, Hardcover

The internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead-End Memories returns with a beautiful and he… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • asia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"I'd never known a love before that could blot out the world around like this."

-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

"Later, for the first time in a very long time, I heard my aunt play the piano. Its tone was soft, and just like I remembered it. At the kitchen window one overcast afternoon, I watched its beautiful …"

-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

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16. Concerning My Daughter

By: Hye-Jin Kim

3.71

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

When an ageing mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants fo… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • asia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Ir abrindo mão das coisas de que gostamos. Essa é a definição do verbo envelhecer."

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

"That child who sprang from my own flesh and blood is perhaps the creature I'm most distant from."

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

"Ela estudou tanto que, não tendo mais o que estudar, foi aprender o que não devia. Por exemplo: como negar o mundo, como ir contra o mundo."

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

"It's not my fault. It's not your fault. It's no one's fault. If we keep telling ourselves that, then who should all the victims of the world go to for their apology?"

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

Cover of Lemon by Kwon Yeo-Sun

17. Lemon

By: Kwon Yeo-Sun

3.27

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

In the summer of 2002, when Korea is abuzz over hosting the FIFA World Cup, nineteen-year-old Kim H… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • asia
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon

18. 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

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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

Cover of The man in black by Yoonhee Oh

19. The man in black

By: Yoonhee Oh

2.81

Format: 129 pages, ebook

It’s the Joseon dynasty, and a series of corpses have been discovered in the outskirts of the capit… read more

Similar categories in Yoonhee Oh's The man in black book and Kwon Yeo-Sun's Lemon

  • asia
  • audiobook
Cover of Guida per cervelli affamati by Carol Coricelli

20. Guida per cervelli affamati

By: Carol Coricelli

3.88

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Fish and chips è più buono se mentre ci unge le mani ascoltiamo i Beatles. Un’insalata è più gustos… read more

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21. Cronache della sesta estinzione (Italian Edition)

By: Stefano Valenti

2.79

Format: 137 pages, Kindle Edition

Cronache della sesta estinzione racconta il male più diffuso, e difficilmente curabile, del nostro … read more

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