11 Top nonfiction books like Korean Workers: The Culture and Politics of Class Formation by Hagen Koo

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Korean Workers: The Culture and Politics of Class Formation

By: Hagen Koo

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Forty years of rapid industrialization have transformed millions of South Korean peasants and their…

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1. The Korean War: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)

By: Bruce Cumings

3.76

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Those who suffer terrible wars have a finer sense of when they begin and when they end."

-Bruce Cumings, The Korean War: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)

"Eventually the Korean War will be understood as one of the most destructive and one of the most important wars of the twentieth century."

-Bruce Cumings, The Korean War: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)

"It was this war and not World War II which established a far-flung American base structure abroad and a national security state at home, as defence spending nearly quadrupled in the last six months o…"

-Bruce Cumings, The Korean War: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)

"It was this war and not World War II which established a far-flung American base structure abroad and a national security state at home, as defence spending nearly quadrupled in the last six months o…"

-Bruce Cumings, The Korean War: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)

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2. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

By: Flannery O'Connor

4.17

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

This now classic book revealed Flannery O'Connor as one of the most original and provocative writer… read more

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"The trouble with the world was that nobody stopped or took any care."

-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

"He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly."

-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

"The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don't hold nothing back."

-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

"We're all damned," she said, “but some of us have taken off our blindfolds and see that there’s nothing to see. It’s a kind of salvation."

-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

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3. The State and Revolution

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

1917-ci ilin avqust-sentyabr aylarında yazılan yaradıcı marksizmin bu görkəmli əsəri – “Dövlət və i… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism, not only in parliamen…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"We must also note that Engels is most definite in calling universal suffrage an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously summing up the long experience of German Social-De…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"Take any parliamentary country, from America to Switzerland, from France to England, Norway and so forth - in these countries the real business of the 'state' is preformed behind the scenes and is ca…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

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4. 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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5. The Summer Book

By: Tove Jansson , Esther Freud , Thomas Teal , Sophia Jansson

2.50

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away a summer together on a tiny island … read more

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6. Min kamp 1 (Min kamp #1)

By: Karl Ove Knausgård

4.11

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Min kamp ar Karl Ove Knausgards maktiga sjalvbiografiska roman. Forsta delen inleds med en svepande… read more

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7. Ten Days that Shook the World

By: John Reed

4.20

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

This first-person chronicle by John Reed, a legendary journalist who was present at the flash point… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. Written on the Body

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. … read more

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9. Franny and Zooey

By: J.D. Salinger

4.10

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

The short story, Franny, takes place in an unnamed college town and tells the tale of an undergradu… read more

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10. Night Sky with Exit Wounds

By: Ocean Vuong

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more

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11. The Hole

By: Hiroko Oyamada

3.49

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

Asa’s husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family’s home in the cou… read more

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"I moved out here with my husband."

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole

"It's just, families are strange things, aren't they? You have this couple: one man, one woman. A male and a female, if you will. They mate, and why? To leave children behind. And what are the childre…"

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole

"Abrí la ventana y oí a las cigarras cantar. No sé si era porque estaba en el campo y había muchos árboles o por la influencia del clima de ese año, pero nunca las había oído con tanta intensidad. Era…"

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole

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12. 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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"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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13. The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources

By: Javier Blas

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Meet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food - no matter how corrupt, war-torn or… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Little noticed and little scrutinised, the commodity traders have become essential cogs in the modern economy. Without them, petrol stations would run out of fuel, factories would grind to a halt and…"

-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources

"Most of us take for granted the ease with which we can fill up our cars, buy a new smartphone or order a cup of Colombian coffee. But underpinning almost all of our consumption is a frenetic internat…"

-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources

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14. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

By: Barbara Demick

4.45

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"...the strength of the regime came from its ability to isolate its own citizens completely."

-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

"In North Korea, you don’t own your own home; you are merely awarded the right to live there."

-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

"He would wait hours for her, maybe two or three. It didn’t matter. The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. Nobody owned a watch."

-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

"Even in parts of the showcase capital of Pyongyang, you can stroll down the middle of a main street at night without being able to see the buildings on either side."

-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

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15. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

By: Amia Srinivasan

4.25

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in th… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanged?"

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanched?"

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"It is true that women have always lived in a world created by men and governed by men's rules. But it is also true that men have always lived alongside women who have contested these rules."

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"Free speech', which poses as a merely formal principle of adjudication, is in fact, MacKinnon suggests, an ideological tool selectively deployed to protect the freedoms of the dominant class."

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

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17. People From My Neighbourhood

By: Hiromi Kawakami

3.53

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

From the author of the internationally bestselling Strange Weather in Tokyo, a collection of interl… read more

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"Even the smallest hole is enough to send a balloon spiraling to the ground. The falsification of memory is like that. All it takes is one individual who remembers the truth, said Romi, for the whole …"

-Hiromi Kawakami, People From My Neighbourhood

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18. Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise

By: Scott Rozelle

4.24

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. Korean Workers: The Culture and Politics of Class Formation

By: Hagen Koo

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Forty years of rapid industrialization have transformed millions of South Korean peasants and their… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • labor
  • sociology
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20. Korea: Division, Reunification, and U.S. Foreign Policy

By: Martin Hart-Landsberg

3.90

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

"Korean unification is one of the most important issues on the international agenda today. Hart-Lan… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. Korea: Where the American Century Began

By: Michael Pembroke

4.14

Format: 409 pages, Kindle Edition

Korea: Where the American Century Began is a timely new account of the role of the US in the Korean… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

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3.76

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Vladimir Lenin

4.24

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4.20

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4.34

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3.80

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4.11

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Knut Hamsun , George Egerton

4.05

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3.65

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