🇰🇷 Korean Fiction Book Club 📖 Starting 기억술사 1 on April 7! 📚

[bungakushoujo]

Hi everyone, sorry I’ve been MIA lately! I’ve been busy with work and other real life stuff and have had to deprioritize Korean for the moment. The current round of the club is rapping up, so if someone else would like to take care of organizing the next round please feel free!

[suadang]

I’d be open to organizing some kind of mystery club or some other harder kind of book (sci-fi, adult romance…), but I’m not sure how much interest there would be.

[exp-1]

I also haven’t dedicated much time to korean lately, and barely did any reading for the past month or so, but I’d be up for it if it’s a pace I can manage. I was having severe eye strain issues, but I finally made my ereader korean-ready so hopefully that will help.

[suadang]

Okay, it looks like there’s a bit of interest in a “hard” book club.
So I’m going to list some books I’m interested in reading.
사서함 110호의 우편물 (romance)
라스트 젤리 샷 (sci fi)
방과 후 (mystery)
신참자 (mystery - detective Kaga series)
녹나무의 파수꾼 (mystery)
방황하는 칼날 (mystery)
편지 (Higashino Keigo, 사회파 소설, extremely well reviewed)
블랙 쇼맨 series first book (forgot the title) (mystery)
벚꽃 지는 계절에 그대를 그리워하네 (non Higashino mystery)
추리소설가의 살인사건 (mystery)

If anyone has any additional suggestions for adult fiction to add to the eventual poll, please respond.

[acire]

• 82년생 김지영 (feminist novel): Wondering if it’s gonna be too literary for me, but Kimchi Reader puts my comp at 91% which is pretty good for me personally. I’ve wanted to read it in English for a while, but reading it in Korean would be even better!
• 저주토끼 (horror / magical realism / scifi short stories): Also saw this in my local bookstore, then realized it was translated from Korean! Warning: Goodreads ppl say it’s very grotesque
• H마트에서 울다: Translation from English → KR of Crying in H-Mart by Michelle Zauner. Been meaning to read this too. Probably going to make me cry while reading

[suadang]

I’ll accept the first two, but I’m going to have to reject the last one because I’ve already read it in English I did read 82년생 김지영 in English as well, but that was a while ago and I think there could be things to learn from it) thanks for the comment!