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A book (冊, English: Book) is a bound collection of writing composed for a certain purpose, together with attached reference materials and the like. It is also called seosa (書史), seojil, seojeok (書籍), seojeon (書典), seochaek (書冊), chaekja (冊子), munjeok (文籍), jeonjeok (典籍), pyeonjeok (篇籍), or doseo (圖書). A book's layout can be divided into the cover, prefatory remarks (preface, foreword), introduction, table of contents, body, index (term index), and so on. Most books are made from wood. However, with the recent boom in e-book publishing, the distinction by material no longer means much.

Best books selected by the Nobel Institute

  1. George Orwell - 1984
  2. Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's House
  3. Gustave Flaubert - Sentimental Education
  4. William Faulkner - Absalom, Absalom!
  5. Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  6. Virgil - Aeneid
  7. Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
  8. Toni Morrison - Beloved
  9. Alfred Döblin - Berlin Alexanderplatz
  10. José Saramago - Blindness
  11. Fernando Pessoa - The Book of Disquiet
  12. Unknown author - The Book of Job
  13. Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
  14. Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks
  15. Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales
  16. Franz Kafka - The Castle
  17. Naguib Mahfouz - Children of the Alley
  18. Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones
  19. Giacomo Leopardi - Selected Poems
  20. Franz Kafka - Short Stories
  21. Edgar Allan Poe - Short Stories
  22. Italo Svevo - Zeno's Conscience
  23. Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
  24. Nikolai Gogol - Dead Souls
  25. Leo Tolstoy - The Death of Ivan Ilyich
  26. Giovanni Boccaccio - The Decameron
  27. João Guimarães Rosa - The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
  28. Lu Xun - Diary of a Madman
  29. Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy
  30. Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote (No. 1)
  31. Michel de Montaigne - Essays
  32. Hans Christian Andersen - Fairy Tales
  33. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust
  34. François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel
  35. Unknown author - The Epic of Gilgamesh
  36. Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook
  37. Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
  38. Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels
  39. Federico García Lorca - Gypsy Ballads
  40. William Shakespeare - Hamlet
  41. Elsa Morante - History
  42. Knut Hamsun - Hunger
  43. Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot
  44. Homer - The Iliad
  45. Halldór Laxness - Independent People
  46. Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man
  47. Denis Diderot - Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
  48. Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Journey to the End of the Night
  49. William Shakespeare - King Lear
  50. Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass
  51. Laurence Sterne - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
  52. Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
  53. Gabriel García Márquez - Love in the Time of Cholera
  54. Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
  55. Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain
  56. Vyasa - Mahabharata
  57. Robert Musil - The Man Without Qualities
  58. Jalal ad-Din Rumi - Masnavi
  59. Euripides - Medea
  60. Marguerite Yourcenar - Memoirs of Hadrian
  61. Ovid - Metamorphoses
  62. George Eliot - Middlemarch
  63. Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
  64. Herman Melville - Moby-Dick
  65. Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway
  66. Unknown author - Njáls saga
  67. Joseph Conrad - Nostromo
  68. Homer - The Odyssey
  69. Sophocles - Oedipus the King
  70. Honoré de Balzac - Père Goriot
  71. Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
  72. Gabriel García Márquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
  73. Sheikh Musharrif ud-Din Sadi - The Orchard
  74. William Shakespeare - Othello
  75. Juan Rulfo - Pedro Páramo
  76. Astrid Lindgren - Pippi Longstocking
  77. Paul Celan - Selected Poems
  78. Fyodor Dostoevsky - Demons
  79. Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
  80. Valmiki - Ramayana
  81. Kalidasa - Shakuntala
  82. Stendhal - The Red and the Black
  83. Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time
  84. Tayeb Salih - Season of Migration to the North
  85. Anton Chekhov - Short Stories
  86. D. H. Lawrence - Sons and Lovers
  87. William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury
  88. Yasunari Kawabata - The Sound of the Mountain
  89. Albert Camus - The Stranger
  90. Murasaki Shikibu - The Tale of Genji
  91. Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
  92. Unknown author - One Thousand and One Nights
  93. Günter Grass - The Tin Drum
  94. Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse
  95. Franz Kafka - The Trial
  96. Samuel Beckett - Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (trilogy)
  97. James Joyce - Ulysses
  98. Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace
  99. Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights
  100. Nikos Kazantzakis - Zorba the Greek

TOSS: 100 books to read when preparing for a new start

  1. Ted Chiang's 《Exhalation》
  2. Eric Ries's 《The Lean Startup》
  3. Randy Komisar's 《The Monk and the Riddle》
  4. Eli Goldratt's 《The Goal》
  5. Barbaro Minto's 《Barbaro Minto, The Art of Logic》
  6. Yvon Chouinard's 《Let My People Go Surfing》
  7. Caroline Alexander's 《The Endurance》
  8. Scott Galloway's 《Professor Scott's Economics of Life》
  9. Kwon Chang-seop's 《We Don't Use Words Like That》
  10. Kim Kyung-pil's 《Let's Save Just 100 Million Won》
  11. Han Seok-joon's 《The Art of Conversation》
  12. Nassim Nicholas Taleb's 《Antifragile》
  13. Jeong Hee-won's 《The Slow-Aging Diet》
  14. Kim Joo-hwan's 《Resilience》
  15. Kim So-young's 《When Dulled Emotions Speak to You》
  16. Jhumpa Harari's 《This Small Book Is Always Bigger Than Me》
  17. Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass Sunstein's 《Noise: The Noise of Thought》
  18. Tatsuru Uchida's 《It Will Work Out Somehow》
  19. Noh Young-eun's 《How Much Money Would Make Me Happy?》
  20. Seo Eun-guk's 《The Origin of Happiness》, recommended by Kim Sung-il
  21. Namgung In, Sohn Won-pyung, and 3 others' 《People Who Turned Out Better Than Their Character - Salary Realism 2024》
  22. Toss's 《We Need More Money》
  23. Toss and Lee Jae-yong's 《B-Stream Economics》
  24. Toss's 《The Money Book》
  25. Jeong Gyeong-hwa's 《A Fussy Challenge》
  26. John Williams's 《Stoner》
  27. Kim Thúy's 《Ru》
  28. Jang Ryu-jin's 《The Joys and Sorrows of Work》
  29. Émile Ajar's 《The Life Before Us》
  30. Cheon Seon-ran's 《A Thousand Blues》
  31. Hermann Hesse's 《Siddhartha》
  32. Bohumil Hrabal's 《Too Loud a Solitude》
  33. Yu Hua's 《To Live》
  34. Anne Griffin's 《When All Is Said》
  35. Kim Yeon-su's 《Such an Ordinary Future》
  36. Haruichi Furudate's 《Haikyu!!》
  37. Kim Ga-ji's 《A Heart That Can't Quit》
  38. Tatsuki Fujimoto's 《Look Back》
  39. Yoon Tae-ho's 《Misaeng》
  40. Hong In-hye's 《Luna's Jeonse Reversal》
  41. Haruko Kashiwagi's 《Health and Culture Minimum Standard of Living》
  42. Lee Eun-jae's 《SHUT UP! AND DANCE?》
  43. Kim Jeong-yeon's 《How to Raise Being Alone》
  44. Kim Toesa's 《Report on the Quitting Species》
  45. Chorokbaem's 《The Work of Drawing》
  46. Shin Soo-jung's 《The Dignity of Work》
  47. Lee Ki-moon's 《The Krafton Way》
  48. Jeong Ji-eun and Ko Hee-jeong's 《EBS Docuprime Capitalism》
  49. Cho Young-tae's 《The Determined Future》
  50. Saenggaknote's 《The Discovery of Details》
  51. Kim Seung-ho's 《The Nature of Money》
  52. Rob Moore's 《Leverage》
  53. Kazuo Inamori's 《Why Do We Work?》
  54. Walter Isaacson's 《Elon Musk》
  55. Yoo Si-min's 《Yoo Si-min's Economics Café》
  56. Kim Hyun-chul's 《Moments When You Need Economics》
  57. Marshall Van Alstyne's 《Platform Revolution》
  58. Gad Saad's 《The Consuming Instinct》
  59. Ray Dalio's 《The Changing World Order》
  60. Ahn Keun-mo's 《Beyond the Crisis》
  61. Nassim Nicholas Taleb's 《The Black Swan》
  62. Todd Rose's 《Collective Illusions》
  63. Masato Izumi's 《The Vessel of the Rich》
  64. Tara Westover's 《Educated》
  65. Kim Gyu-rim, Song Eun-jeong, Bonghyun, Lee Ji-su, Kim Hee-jeong, Kang Bo-hye, Kim Kimi, Shin Ji-hye, Moon Hee-jeong, and Lim Jin-a's 《Doing What I Can》
  66. Hwang Seok-hee's 《Translation: Hwang Seok-hee》
  67. Cho Seung-ri's 《All This Damn Mess Will Pile Up Into a Festival》
  68. Lee Ok-seon's 《A Joyful Adult》
  69. Nora Ephron's 《I Have Many Failures》
  70. Nam Hyung-do's 《I Gave It a Try》
  71. Shim Chae-kyung's 《Astronomers Don't Look at the Stars》
  72. Kim Honbi's 《Elegant and Exhilarating Women's Soccer》
  73. Lee Seul-a's 《With a New Heart》
  74. Kim Shin-ji's 《I Decided to Keep Records》
  75. Bonghyun's 《Neat Repetition Will Save Me》
  76. Lee Young-mi's 《Witch Stamina》
  77. Hwang Sun-woo's 《The Courage to Say I Love You》
  78. Park Sang-young's 《I'll Go to Bed Hungry Tonight》
  79. Kim Ji-soo's 《Great Conversations》
  80. Claudia Goldin's 《Career and Family》
  81. Choi Hye-jin's 《Editorial Thinking》
  82. Park Chi-wook's 《When Life Is Hard, It's Good to Start Studying》
  83. Cho Sung-ik's 《An Architect's Space Diary》
  84. Jang Eun-gyo's 《How to Interview》
  85. Bill Bryson's 《A Short History of Nearly Everything》
  86. Matthew Walker's 《Why We Sleep》
  87. Dennis Nørmark's 《Pseudowork》
  88. Kim In-jeong's 《A Society That Watches Suffering》
  89. Jeon Joong-hwan's 《The Old Toolbox》
  90. Kim Seung-seop's 《Study That Answers the Pain of Others》
  91. Adam Alter's 《Unstuck》
  92. James Clear's 《Atomic Habits》
  93. Park So-yeon's 《People Who Work Well Speak Simply》
  94. Jeong-Kim Kyung-sook's 《From Google Executive to Silicon Valley Part-Timer》
  95. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz's 《How Data Becomes a Weapon for Life》
  96. Adam Grant's 《Give and Take》
  97. Greg McKeown's 《Essentialism》
  98. Go Seon-gyeong's 《Shower Gel and Soda Water》
  99. Ahn Hee-yeon's 《Walking the Carrot Field》
  100. Han Yeo-jin's 《When You Fry Tofu, Winter Comes》

Other recommendations received

  • Natsume Sōseki - Kokoro
  • Thanatonauts - Vol. 1, Vol. 2
  • The Brain in Sneakers
  • A Little Life
  • Foundation
  • Han Kang - The Vegetarian
    • As the frame of a 'linked novel' suggests, three stories are painted on a single canvas.
    • the story of a woman who begins to refuse meat, <The Vegetarian>,
    • the story of a man who feels an intense attraction to that woman's Mongolian spot, <Mongolian Spot>,
    • and the story of a woman who watches two people who, like Icarus, try to transcend and are destroyed as human beings, <Flaming Trees>
  • Dollarkut Dream Department Store - Lee Mi-ye
  • The Shop That Opens When It Rains - Yoo Young-gwang
  • Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
  • Nudge
  • The Secrets of Prompt Engineering - Gilbert Mizrahi
  • Albert Camus - The Stranger

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