7 best-selling history books like South Korea: The Price of Efficiency and Success by John Gonzalez

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South Korea: The Price of Efficiency and Success

By: John Gonzalez

3.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

South Korea's extraordinary economic and technological transformation after the Korean War (1950-19…

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1. Korea: The Impossible Country

By: Daniel Tudor

4.00

Format: 139 pages, Hardcover

South Korea was "the poorest, most impossible country on the planet"when it was founded, according … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

2. The Park Chung Hee Era: The Transformation of South Korea

By: Ezra F. Vogel , Jorge I. Domínguez , None , None , None , None , Paul D. Hutchcroft , None , None , None , None , None , None , None , None , None , None

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979 it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibran… read more

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3. Saint Richard Parker

By: Merlin Franco

4.34

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

His search for love and enlightenment across India, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia...… read more

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"See you later, tailgater."

-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

"Dark is beautiful, brother."

-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

"Tell me, son, what do you seek?"

-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

"A saint has control over his anger and itches."

-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

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4. Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide

By: Hawon Jung

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening firsthand account of the ongoing and trailblazing feminist movement in South Korea—o… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
"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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6. 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
  • nonfiction
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7. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech

By: Geoffrey Cain

3.65

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Geoffrey Cain offers a penetrating look behind the curtains of the biggest company nobody in Americ… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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9. Betting on Bernie: A Memoir of a Marriage

By: Martha Marks

4.68

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

BOOK DESCRIPTIONBernard Marks and Martha Alford met by chance. No real reason for it, just a series… read more

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10. The Healing Book

By: Dustin Grinnell

4.91

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

"A luminous collection of stories found in the thin margins between loss, failure, and redemption."… read more

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11. The Boy With Strange Eyes

By: Dr. Thomas Davison

4.72

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr. Davison’s YA Fantasy, action-adventure novel, The Boy With Strange Eyes, was voted by the reade… read more

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12. South Korea: The Price of Efficiency and Success

By: John Gonzalez

3.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

South Korea's extraordinary economic and technological transformation after the Korean War (1950-19… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. Forty Years to Life

By: Brenda Bradford Ward

4.38

Format: 526 pages, Paperback

This work is a vivid description of a life-in-hiding very few people ever will experience. Society … read more

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14. Curious: A thought-provoking blend of fiction, philosophy, and humor that will touch your heart, make you laugh and leave you questioning everything.

By: Philos Fablewright

4.56

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

What Amazon readers are saying about CuriousA riveting Tale ★★★★★.Truly Incredible. One of the best… read more

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"As in life, Edward, keep paddling."

-Philos Fablewright, Curious: A thought-provoking blend of fiction, philosophy, and humor that will touch your heart, make you laugh and leave you questioning everything.

"Being Human is a rather curious affair."

-Philos Fablewright, Curious: A thought-provoking blend of fiction, philosophy, and humor that will touch your heart, make you laugh and leave you questioning everything.

"It might not be the puzzle that needs to be solved."

-Philos Fablewright, Curious: A thought-provoking blend of fiction, philosophy, and humor that will touch your heart, make you laugh and leave you questioning everything.

"For those wondering why we are here, and where here is?"

-Philos Fablewright, Curious: A thought-provoking blend of fiction, philosophy, and humor that will touch your heart, make you laugh and leave you questioning everything.

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15. Interview with a Sinner

By: M.M. White

3.55

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

For Hollace, it becomes an awkward encounter when an older woman introduces herself as a newly auto… read more

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16. Embers of Shadow (Ages of Malice, #3)

By: Lloyd Jeffries

4.67

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

After the brazen attack on Israel, the Antichrist’s shadow grows. "The entire Ages of Malice ser… read more

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17. LETHAL HOPE: A HOPE ALLERD NOVEL

By: Robert Thornton

4.40

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

As one man ascends to absolute power, a nation teeters on the brink of total anarchy. In a stunnin… read more

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18. Journey of Seven Circles

By: Russell Pike

4.61

Format: 470 pages, Paperback

One spell to change everything. A wizard of immense power, Kryn Darien stands ready to cast the gre… read more

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19. Stolen Brilliance: A Lady Black Mystery (The Lady Black Mysteries Book 1)

By: Michael G. Colburn

4.05

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Lady Edith Black harbors a secret past as a master criminal in this tale of love, crime, and advent… read more

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20. Pink Corrosion (Corrosion #2)

By: Costi Gurgu

4.63

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

This is Book 2 of the Corrosion series that starts with Green Corrosion. After killing Prince Bo… read more

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"The evening city lay decrepit and silent under an incessantly seething pink sky. A sky that hung overhead like a field of bloody cotton candy, bisected by the lightning of constantly raging storms. E…"

-Costi Gurgu, Pink Corrosion (Corrosion #2)

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21. All Shook Up: A Novel

By: Enid Langbert

4.25

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

This YA debut speaks to the continued interest in the teen culture of the 1950s—Elvis Presley, teen… read more

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Daniel Tudor

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide

Hawon Jung

4.35

Transform Your Habits

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

Anna Fifield

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Korea: A New History of South and North

Victor Cha

4.20

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Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

Sara Pascoe

4.30

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Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All

Jonas Jonasson , Rachel Willson-Broyles

2.00

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Merlin Franco

4.34

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Jonas Jonasson

3.65

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