7 must-read audiobook books like The Hard Road Out: One Woman’s Escape From North Korea by Jihyun Park

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The Hard Road Out: One Woman’s Escape From North Korea

By: Jihyun Park

4.25

Format: 199 pages, Hardcover

The harrowing story of a woman who escaped famine and terror in North Korea, not once but twice. …

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1. Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite

By: Suki Kim

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A haunting memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • asia
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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2. The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

By: Kang Chol-Hwan , Pierre Rigoulot

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

As tensions between the US and North North Korea continue to escalate, stories of life inside our l… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • asia
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

3. Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor

By: Yong Kim , None

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Kim Yong shares his harrowing account of life in a labor camp--a singularly despairing form of tort… read more

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4. Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom

By: Lucia Jang , Susan McClelland

5.00

Format: 646 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary memoir by a North Korean woman who defied the government to keep her family alive.… read more

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5. The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture

By: Euny Hong

4.33

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

A FRESH, FUNNY, UP-CLOSE LOOK AT HOW SOUTH KOREA REMADE ITSELF AS THE WORLD'S POP CULTURE POWERHOUS… read more

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6. Under the Same Sky: A Memoir of Survival, Hope, and Faith

By: Stephan Talty , Joseph Kim

3.54

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A searing story of starvation and survival in North Korea, followed by a dramatic escape, rescue by… read more

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7. Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee—A Look Inside North Korea

By: Jang Jin-sung , Shirley Lee

3.00

Format: 146 pages, Hardcover

In this rare insider's view into contemporary North Korea, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent… read more

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8. Eat the Buddha

By: Barbara Demick

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

The new book by award-winning journalist and National Book Award finalist Barbara Demick. read more

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9. A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea

By: Eunsun Kim , Sébastien Falletti , David Tian

3.71

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the moder… read more

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10. Daughter of Gloriavale: My life in a Religious Cult

By: None

3.99

Format: 244 pages,

In this personal account, Lilia Tarawa exposes the shocking secrets of the cult, with its rigid rul… read more

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11. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

By: Blaine Harden

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Hardcover

A New York Timesbestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean poli… read more

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12. The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

By: Anna Fifield

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The behind-the-scenes story of the rise and reign of the world's strangest and most elusive tyrant,… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • asia
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Kim Jong Chol even found a way to work the Belgian movie star into his school work. "If I had my idea world I would not allow weapons and atom bombs any more," he wrote in a school project while in B…"

-Anna Fifield, The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

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13. Korea: A New History of South and North

By: Victor Cha

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day  … read more

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  • history
  • asia
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. North Korea Journal

By: Michael Palin

3.85

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

THE BOOK BEHIND THE HIT DOCUMENTARYA glimpse of life inside the world’s most secretive country, as … read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • asia
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"My philosophy of travel, such as it is, is that the more difficult somewhere is to get to, the greater the prize to be won by getting there. But when the prize was North Korea, I found this was not a…"

-Michael Palin, North Korea Journal

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15. The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime

By: Bradley Hope

3.91

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

How did an Ivy League activist become a global fugitive? The tale of a self-taught operative and hi… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • asia
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Shrimp to Whale: South Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop

By: Ramon Pacheco Pardo

4.30

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

South Korea has the most remarkable of histories. Born from the ashes of colonialism, partition and… read more

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  • asia
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. The Sister: The Extraordinary Story of Kim Yo Jong, The Most Powerful Woman in North Korea

By: Sung-Yoon Lee

3.52

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The onset of Covid-19 has coincided with the dramatic rise of a young woman called Kim Yo Jong in N… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • asia
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. The Hard Road Out: One Woman’s Escape From North Korea

By: Jihyun Park

4.25

Format: 199 pages, Hardcover

The harrowing story of a woman who escaped famine and terror in North Korea, not once but twice. … read more

Similar categories in Jihyun Park's The Hard Road Out: One Woman’s Escape From North Korea book and Jihyun Park's The Hard Road Out: One Woman’s Escape From North Korea

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • asia
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. The Story Behind: The Extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objects

By: Emily Prokop

3.45

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Learn the fascinating history and trivia behind the everyday items we take for granted—from the hos… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Greenlight to Freedom: A North Korean Daughter's Search for Her Mother and Herself by Songmi Han

20. Greenlight to Freedom: A North Korean Daughter's Search for Her Mother and Herself

By: Songmi Han

4.63

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

Like much of the North Korean population, Songmi Han was living in desperate poverty. As a young ch… read more

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  • memoir
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21. My Father's North Korea Story: Walk to Freedom

By: Won-chae Han

4.59

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

My Father's North Korea Walk to Freedom is a non-fiction memoir written by the father of a North K… read more

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3.63

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4.62

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4.12

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3.68

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Hawon Jung

4.35

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Tahir Hamut Izgil

4.31

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