New Seoul Park Jelly Vendor Massacre by Korean author Cho Yeeun is about people melting into their beliefs.
Bad Kids by Zijin Chen is a fast-paced and entertaining suspense thriller about the accountability of teenagers.
I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee is a collection of dialogues and essays about the author’s experiences with dealing with depression, anxiety and dysthymia.
In Endless Blue Sky by Lee Hyoseok, the Korean protagonists strive to be the 1940s equivalent of modern men and women, and look to the West for inspiration.
Flock Without Birds by Filip Dousek is an intriguing book about the (shattered) illusions that create our world and the possibilities and existences available in our reality.
The Library of Musical Instruments by Kim Junghuyk draws attention to the need for purity over harmony by stripping sounds and actions to their core.
In Witches, Brenda Lozano explores the role of gender and culture in Mexico through a story about the lives, families, and strengths of a healer (curandera) and a journalist.
The two people imprisoned on an island escape a controlling society, the life they make for themselves is hardly less restricted: Metronome by Tom Watson.
Where the Language Lives by Janet Yoder is about the life’s work of Vi Hilbert who saved the nearly dormant indigenous language Lushootseed.