Name Change Welcome to BookDNA.com (formerly Shepherd.com)
  • Fiction
  • Nonfiction
  • Kids
  • YA
  • 🥇 Best Books 2025
  • My Book DNA
  • Profile
  • Refer friends
  • 🐇 🕳️ ✨
  • Logout
Browse
  • Fiction
  • Nonfiction
  • Kids
  • YA
  • Best Books 2025
  • My Book DNA
  • Home
  • For Authors
  • Our Story
  • Membership
Korea All Time Best All Time Best Trending New By Book DNA List by Experts

Korea

  • All Time Best
  • Trending
  • New
  • By Book DNA
  • List by Experts

The best nonfiction Korea books of all time

The books our community loved the most.

Nonfiction

Filter books

By Type
  • All Books
  • Fiction
  • Nonfiction
By Decade
  • 2020s
  • 2010s
  • 2000s
By Age
  • Children
  • Middle school
  • Tween
  • Junior high
  • Young adult
  • High school
  • Teen
  • Adult
  • By Type
    • All Books
    • Fiction
    • Nonfiction
  • By Decade
    • 2020s
    • 2010s
    • 2000s
  • By Age
    • Children
    • Middle school
    • Tween
    • Junior high
    • Young adult
    • High school
    • Teen
    • Adult
  • Related shelves
    • Asian history
    • Military fiction
    • History
    • American history
    • European history
    • Modern history
    • Black history
    • Native American history
    • Military thrillers
    • War
    • Mystery thriller
    • Mystery
    • Detective
    • Murder mystery
    • Young adult mystery
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Loved by 4 people

Nothing to Envy

By Barbara Demick ,

Book cover of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters
Loved by 3 people

The Cleanest Race

By B.R. Myers ,

Book cover of The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History
Loved by 3 people

Korea's Place in the Sun

By Bruce Cumings ,

Book cover of Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Grass
Loved by 3 people

Grass

By Keum Suk Gendry-Kim , Janet Hong (translator) ,

Book cover of Grass
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
The Korean War
Loved by 2 people

The Korean War

By Max Hastings ,

Book cover of The Korean War
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
Loved by 2 people

The Coldest Winter

By David Halberstam ,

Book cover of The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Pyongyang
Loved by 2 people

Pyongyang

By Guy Delisle , Helge Dascher (translator) ,

Book cover of Pyongyang
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
The Book of Corrections: Reflections on the National Crisis During the Japanese Invasion of Korea, 1592-1598
Loved by 2 people

The Book of Corrections

By Yu Song-Nyong , Choi Byonghyon ,

Book cover of The Book of Corrections: Reflections on the National Crisis During the Japanese Invasion of Korea, 1592-1598
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation
Loved by 2 people

The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation

By JaHyun Kim Haboush ,

Book cover of The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
One Left
Loved by 2 people

One Left

By Kim Soom , Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton (translator) ,

Book cover of One Left
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
A History of Algeria
Loved by 2 people

A History of Algeria

By James McDougall ,

Book cover of A History of Algeria
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat
Loved by 1 person

The Last Stand of Fox Company

By Tom Clavin , Bob Drury ,

Book cover of The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
The Origins of the Korean War, Volume I: Liberation and the Emergence of Separate Regimes, 1945-1947
Loved by 1 person

The Origins of the Korean War, Volume I

By Bruce Cumings ,

Book cover of The Origins of the Korean War, Volume I: Liberation and the Emergence of Separate Regimes, 1945-1947
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Samurai Invasion: Japan's Korean War 1592 -1598
Loved by 1 person

Samurai Invasion

By Stephen Turnbull , Peter Dennis (illustrator) ,

Book cover of Samurai Invasion: Japan's Korean War 1592 -1598
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
China, Korea & Japan at War, 1592-1598: Eyewitness Accounts
Loved by 1 person

China, Korea & Japan at War, 1592-1598

By J. Marshall Craig ,

Book cover of China, Korea & Japan at War, 1592-1598: Eyewitness Accounts
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
A Team of Their Own: How an International Sisterhood Made Olympic History
Loved by 1 person

A Team of Their Own

By Seth Berkman ,

Book cover of A Team of Their Own: How an International Sisterhood Made Olympic History
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Brokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876-1945
Loved by 1 person

Brokers of Empire

By Jun Uchida ,

Book cover of Brokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876-1945
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
When My Name Was Keoko
Loved by 1 person

When My Name Was Keoko

By Linda Sue Park ,

Book cover of When My Name Was Keoko
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Immovable Object: North Korea's 70 Years at War with American Power
Loved by 1 person

Immovable Object

By A.B. Abrams ,

Book cover of Immovable Object: North Korea's 70 Years at War with American Power
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
A Capitalist in North Korea: My Seven Years in the Hermit Kingdom
Loved by 1 person

A Capitalist in North Korea

By Felix Abt ,

Book cover of A Capitalist in North Korea: My Seven Years in the Hermit Kingdom
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
In North Korea: First Eyewitness Report
Loved by 1 person

In North Korea

By Anna Louise Strong ,

Book cover of In North Korea: First Eyewitness Report
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Managing Instability in Algeria: Elites and Political Change
Loved by 1 person

Managing Instability in Algeria

By Isabelle Werenfels ,

Book cover of Managing Instability in Algeria: Elites and Political Change
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
North Korea Journal
Loved by 1 person

North Korea Journal

By Michael Palin ,

Book cover of North Korea Journal
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Holding the Line: The Naval Air Campaign In Korea
Loved by 1 person

Holding the Line

By Thomas McKelvey Cleaver ,

Book cover of Holding the Line: The Naval Air Campaign In Korea
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
The Beauty of Everyday Things
Loved by 1 person

The Beauty of Everyday Things

By Soetsu Yanagi , Michael Brase (translator) ,

Book cover of The Beauty of Everyday Things
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Who Ate Up All the Shinga?: An Autobiographical Novel
Loved by 1 person

Who Ate Up All the Shinga?

By Park Wan-suh , Young-nan Yu (translator) , Stephen Epstein (translator)

Book cover of Who Ate Up All the Shinga?: An Autobiographical Novel
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Song of Arirang: The Story of a Korean Revolutionary in China
Loved by 1 person

Song of Arirang

By Kim San , Nym Wales ,

Book cover of Song of Arirang: The Story of a Korean Revolutionary in China
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
Korea: The Impossible Country: South Korea's Amazing Rise from the Ashes: The Inside Story of an Economic, Political and Cultural Phenomenon
Loved by 1 person

Korea

By Daniel Tudor ,

Book cover of Korea: The Impossible Country: South Korea's Amazing Rise from the Ashes: The Inside Story of an Economic, Political and Cultural Phenomenon
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...
The War for Korea, 1950-1951
Loved by 1 person

The War for Korea, 1950-1951

By Allan R. Millett ,

Book cover of The War for Korea, 1950-1951
  • Read a chapter
  • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
Loading book...

Loading book loading book...
Loading book...

Copyright © 2026 - Bookdna.com

NLP Powered By Wikifier.org

Shepherd is a participant in the Bookshop.org and Amazon Associate Affiliate Programs. As a participant, we may earn from qualifying purchases made on those sites.

Discover
  • Discover The Best Books
  • Follow Our Development
About
  • Our Story
  • For Authors
  • Media Inquiries
  • Contact Us
  • Become Founding Member
  • Donate
Legal
  • Affiliate Disclosure
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Website Disclosure

Login

Create Account

Continue with Google

or

Forgot Password?
Continue with Google

or