15 must-read asia books like To the Warm Horizon by Jin-Young Choi

If you liked the asia plot in To the Warm Horizon by Jin-Young Choi , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Similar categories in Han Kang's Human Acts book and Jin-Young Choi's To the Warm Horizon

• asian literature
• asia
• fiction

Similar categories in Yukio Mishima's Thirst for Love book and Jin-Young Choi's To the Warm Horizon

Similar categories in Han Kang's Greek Lessons book and Jin-Young Choi's To the Warm Horizon

• romance
• asian literature
• fiction

"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"Si tomamos como cierta la premisa que dice que, cuando perdemos algo, ganamos otra cosa, ¿Qué es lo que he ganado yo al perderte a ti?."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"Before she lost words - when she was still able to se them to write - she sometimes wished that her own expressions would more closely resemble inarticulacy: a moan or low cry."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to tou…"

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

Similar categories in Rin Usami's Idol, Burning book and Jin-Young Choi's To the Warm Horizon

• asian literature
• asia
• fiction

"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

Similar categories in Yōko Tawada's The Last Children of Tokyo book and Jin-Young Choi's To the Warm Horizon

• asia
• dystopia
• fiction
• asian literature
• science fiction

"Unable to turn back the clock, they let themselves be turned."

-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo

"She's always hated good-byes and as she got older she hated them even more."

-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo

"With children like this having children of their own, it was no wonder the world was full of children."

-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo

"งานหลักของพวกสมาชิกสภาคือ การปรับเปลี่ยกฎหมาย กฎหมายนั้นเปลี่ยนตลอดเวลา จึงแน่นอนว่าถูกปรับเปลี่ยน . แต่ใครเปลี่ยนเพื่ออะไร เปลี่ยนอย่างไรนั้น ไม่มีการสื่อให้รู้เลย ประชาชนใช้ชีวิตจัดระเบียบตัวเองในสภาพมองไม่เห็นกฎหมาย …"

-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo

Similar categories in Bora Chung's Your Utopia book and Jin-Young Choi's To the Warm Horizon

• science fiction
• asia
• dystopia
• fiction

Similar categories in Han Kang's The White Book book and Jin-Young Choi's To the Warm Horizon

• asian literature
• asia
• fiction

"Now and then, the passage of time seems acutely apparent. Physical pain always sharpens the awareness."

-Han Kang, The White Book

"This life needed only one of us to live it. If you had lived beyond those first few hours, I would not be living now. My life means yours is impossible."

-Han Kang, The White Book

"And she frequently forgot, That her body (all our bodies) is a house of sand. That it shattered and is shattering still. Slipping stubbornly through fingers."

-Han Kang, The White Book

"There is none of us whom life regards with any partiality. Sleet falls as she walks these streets, holding this knowledge inside her. Sleet that leaves cheeks and eyebrows heavy with moisture. Everyt…"

-Han Kang, The White Book

Similar categories in Yun Ko-eun's The Disaster Tourist book and Jin-Young Choi's To the Warm Horizon

• asia
• fiction

Similar categories in Bae Myung-hoon's Tower book and Jin-Young Choi's To the Warm Horizon

• asia
• dystopia
• fiction
• asian literature
• science fiction

"Ho tirato fuori una cosa scritta a ventisette anni. Ero un ragazzo insofferente. Non mi stava bene nulla. Tutto era colpa delle vecchie generazioni. Li criticavo, li insultavo... Quando mi dicevano «…"

-Bae Myung-hoon, Tower

Similar categories in Dolki Min's Walking Practice book and Jin-Young Choi's To the Warm Horizon

• science fiction
• queer
• fiction
• lgbt

"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

Similar categories in Kim Bo-young's I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories book and Jin-Young Choi's To the Warm Horizon

• romance
• asia
• fiction
• asian literature
• science fiction

"People said this was the end of the world. I disagreed. It was simply the end of the human race. People said the gods had abandoned the world. I disagreed. Divine attention had simply shifted from us…"

-Kim Bo-young, I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories

"Now people refused to believe that they and the world were one and the same. That they and the Other were one and the same. They thought themselves alone, and drunk in their solitude, they questioned…"

-Kim Bo-young, I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories

Similar categories in Shin Kyung-Sook's Violets book and Jin-Young Choi's To the Warm Horizon

• lesbian
• lgbt
• fiction
• asian literature
• queer

"Only my death can make her love me. And if I have to die, I’ll die right here,"

-Shin Kyung-Sook, Violets

Similar categories in Kim Un-Su's The Plotters book and Jin-Young Choi's To the Warm Horizon

• asian literature
• asia
• fiction

"Black tea is steeped in imperialism. That's what gives it its flavor. Anything this flavorful has to be hiding an incredible amount of carnage."

-Kim Un-Su, The Plotters

"That's life. Not much to it. Just one big stinking, filthy squalid mess. But once you get a taste of it - ah! Then it's not so bad. Sometimes it's even delicious."

-Kim Un-Su, The Plotters

"He believed that people should emulate whales. He said that people had grown as small and crafty as rats , and that the days of taking slow, huge, beautiful strides had vanished, The age of giants wa…"

-Kim Un-Su, The Plotters

"But just as a vaccine company facing bankruptcy will ultimately survive not by making the world's greatest vaccine but, rather, the world's worst virus, so, too, did bodyguard and security firms need…"

-Kim Un-Su, The Plotters

Similar categories in Nanako Hanada's The Bookshop Woman book and Jin-Young Choi's To the Warm Horizon

• asian literature
• asia

Similar categories in Baek Se-hee's I Want To Die but I Want To Eat Tteokpokki 2 book and Jin-Young Choi's To the Warm Horizon

• asian literature

Similar categories in Choi Eunyoung's Shoko's Smile: Stories book and Jin-Young Choi's To the Warm Horizon

• asian literature
• asia
• fiction

"We should distinguish love from affection."

-Choi Eunyoung, Shoko's Smile: Stories

"I wish you the blessing of oblivion, and that you will find the strength to exist moment by moment."

-Choi Eunyoung, Shoko's Smile: Stories

"Film, art in general, only revealed it’s true face to hardworking geniuses, not hardworking mediocrities."

-Choi Eunyoung, Shoko's Smile: Stories

"Time passes, people leave, we become alone again. If we don't accept that fact, memory erodes the present and exhausts the mind until it ages us and ails us."

-Choi Eunyoung, Shoko's Smile: Stories

Similar categories in Tahi Saihate's Astral Season, Beastly Season book and Jin-Young Choi's To the Warm Horizon

• asian literature
• asia
• fiction

Similar categories in Jin-Young Choi's To the Warm Horizon book and Jin-Young Choi's To the Warm Horizon

• romance
• lesbian
• apocalyptic
• queer
• lgbt
• asia
• dystopia
• fiction
• asian literature
• science fiction

"What misfortune wants is for me to mistreat myself. To look down on myself and destroy myself. I'll never come to resemble this disaster. I won't live as the disaster wants me to live."

-Jin-Young Choi, To the Warm Horizon

Similar categories in Hwang Jungeun's One Hundred Shadows book and Jin-Young Choi's To the Warm Horizon

• asian literature
• asia
• fiction

"Are we ghosts? we wondered. Who could tell, this late at night. We might be ghosts seeking others of our kind, walking under a pale moon."

-Hwang Jungeun, One Hundred Shadows

"More than anything else, Nana's not sure if she wants to open up Sora and Aeja and Nana herself to Moseh ssi, not so much the actual Sora, Aeja, and Nana, but as they exist for her, inside her. Betwe…"

-Hwang Jungeun, One Hundred Shadows

Similar categories in Lee Hyoseok's Endless Blue Sky book and Jin-Young Choi's To the Warm Horizon

• romance
• asian literature
• fiction

Similar categories in Pak Kyongni's The Age of Doubt book and Jin-Young Choi's To the Warm Horizon

• asian literature
• asia
• fiction