20세기

격동의 20세기는 우리 자신과 사회를 바라보는 방식을 영원히 바꿔놓은 혁명적 사상과 급진적 예술 운동을 탄생시켰습니다. 두 차례의 세계대전과 사회적 격변 속에서 작가들은 실존주의, 의식의 흐름, 그리고 점점 드리워지는 전체주의의 그림자를 획기적인 작품들을 통해 탐구하며 현대 문학을 정의했습니다.

20세기 도서 요약

The Talented Mr. Ripley

저자: Patricia Highsmith • 1955

Sent to retrieve a wealthy heir from Italy, a grifter grows dangerously obsessed with his life.

3.95

100,000+

🧠 Psychological Thriller 🕵️ Crime Noir 🎭 Identity Theft 🃏 Con Artist Protagonist 🔪 Murderous Obsession

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Sent to retrieve a wealthy heir from Italy, a grifter grows dangerously obsessed with his life.

저자: Patricia Highsmith 1955 271 페이지

3.95

100,000+ 개의 평점

🧠 Psychological Thriller 🕵️ Crime Noir 🎭 Identity Theft 🃏 Con Artist Protagonist 🔪 Murderous Obsession

보트 위의 소년들

저자: 대니얼 제임스 브라운 • 2013

Left for dead by his family, Joe Rantz climbed into a boat bound for Hitler's Berlin.

4.39

300,000+

🏅 Olympic History 📉 Depression-Era America 🚣 Crew Racing 🎭 Olympic Propaganda 🐶 Underdog Stories

보트 위의 소년들

Left for dead by his family, Joe Rantz climbed into a boat bound for Hitler's Berlin.

저자: 대니얼 제임스 브라운 2013 416 페이지

4.39

300,000+ 개의 평점

🏅 Olympic History 📉 Depression-Era America 🚣 Crew Racing 🎭 Olympic Propaganda 🐶 Underdog Stories

위저드

저자: 마크 J. 사이퍼 • 1996

Electrified the world, outsmarted by rivals, bankrupted by a giant tower: the Nikola Tesla story.

3.73

6,000+

📝 Inventor Biography ⚡ History Of Electricity ⚔️ War Of Currents 💰 Gilded Age 🎩 Eccentric Inventor

위저드

Electrified the world, outsmarted by rivals, bankrupted by a giant tower: the Nikola Tesla story.

저자: 마크 J. 사이퍼 1996 678 페이지

3.73

6,000+ 개의 평점

📝 Inventor Biography ⚡ History Of Electricity ⚔️ War Of Currents 💰 Gilded Age 🎩 Eccentric Inventor

The Singapore Story

저자: Lee Kuan Yew • 1998

To save his island, he merges with a hostile neighbor and purges his own party.

4.29

3,000+

🌏 Southeast Asia 📜 Decolonization 🏗️ Nation Building 📖 Political Memoir 🛡️ Anti-Communism

The Singapore Story

To save his island, he merges with a hostile neighbor and purges his own party.

저자: Lee Kuan Yew 1998 680 페이지

4.29

3,000+ 개의 평점

🌏 Southeast Asia 📜 Decolonization 🏗️ Nation Building 📖 Political Memoir 🛡️ Anti-Communism

A Happy Death

저자: Albert Camus • 1971

An Algiers clerk murders a wealthy philosopher, convinced a fortune buys the time happiness demands.

3.80

26,000+

🖤 Existential Fiction 🎭 Absurdist Philosophy 💰 Money And Meaning 🔪 Philosophical Murder 🧊 Cool Detachment

A Happy Death

An Algiers clerk murders a wealthy philosopher, convinced a fortune buys the time happiness demands.

저자: Albert Camus 1971 144 페이지

3.80

26,000+ 개의 평점

🖤 Existential Fiction 🎭 Absurdist Philosophy 💰 Money And Meaning 🔪 Philosophical Murder 🧊 Cool Detachment

Cry, the Beloved Country

저자: Alan Paton • 1948

A rural priest arrives in Johannesburg to find his son charged with murdering a white crusader.

3.93

80,000+

🟫 Apartheid Era 🟫 Fathers And Sons 🟫 Tribal Disintegration 🟫 Rural Depopulation 🟫 Murder Trial

Cry, the Beloved Country

A rural priest arrives in Johannesburg to find his son charged with murdering a white crusader.

저자: Alan Paton 1948 316 페이지

3.93

80,000+ 개의 평점

🟫 Apartheid Era 🟫 Fathers And Sons 🟫 Tribal Disintegration 🟫 Rural Depopulation 🟫 Murder Trial

뻐꾸기 둥지 위로 날아간 새

저자: 켄 키지 • 1962

A gambler fakes insanity and discovers the mental ward's head nurse is the true warden.

4.20

700,000+

🏥 Psychiatric Institution 🧠 Unreliable Narrator 🔥 Charismatic Rebel 🫂 Found Family 💔 Tragic Hero

뻐꾸기 둥지 위로 날아간 새

A gambler fakes insanity and discovers the mental ward's head nurse is the true warden.

저자: 켄 키지 1962 325 페이지

4.20

700,000+ 개의 평점

🏥 Psychiatric Institution 🧠 Unreliable Narrator 🔥 Charismatic Rebel 🫂 Found Family 💔 Tragic Hero

The House of Morgan

저자: Ron Chernow • 1990

Before the Federal Reserve, a single private bank rescued Wall Street and answered to no one.

3.96

12,000+

🏛️ Banking History 👑 Financial Dynasties 📈 Wall Street History 🎩 Gilded Age ⚖️ Financial Regulation

The House of Morgan

Before the Federal Reserve, a single private bank rescued Wall Street and answered to no one.

저자: Ron Chernow 1990 812 페이지

3.96

12,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Banking History 👑 Financial Dynasties 📈 Wall Street History 🎩 Gilded Age ⚖️ Financial Regulation

Homo Faber

저자: Max Frisch • 1957

An engineer who trusts only statistics meets a young woman on a ship who will unravel everything.

3.68

31,000+

📚 Mid-Century Modernism 🖤 Post-War Existentialism 🍀 Chance And Fate 🎭 Tragic Irony 🧠 Rationalist Protagonist

Homo Faber

An engineer who trusts only statistics meets a young woman on a ship who will unravel everything.

저자: Max Frisch 1957 214 페이지

3.68

31,000+ 개의 평점

📚 Mid-Century Modernism 🖤 Post-War Existentialism 🍀 Chance And Fate 🎭 Tragic Irony 🧠 Rationalist Protagonist

물의 언약

저자: 에이브러햄 버기스 • 2023

In 1900 Kerala, a twelve-year-old bride discovers her new family is marked by drownings.

4.41

300,000+

🏡 Multi Generational Saga 👰 Child Bride 🩺 Medical Mystery 🤫 Secret Parentage 🌊 Elegiac Saga

물의 언약

In 1900 Kerala, a twelve-year-old bride discovers her new family is marked by drownings.

저자: 에이브러햄 버기스 2023 715 페이지

4.41

300,000+ 개의 평점

🏡 Multi Generational Saga 👰 Child Bride 🩺 Medical Mystery 🤫 Secret Parentage 🌊 Elegiac Saga

진주

저자: 존 스타인벡 • 1947

A poor pearl diver finds a perfect pearl, and the town's greed turns hope into a trap.

3.57

200,000+

🪶 Literary Parable 💰 Corrupting Wealth ⛓️ Colonial Oppression 🎭 Tragic Inevitability 📖 Folkloric Tone

진주

A poor pearl diver finds a perfect pearl, and the town's greed turns hope into a trap.

저자: 존 스타인벡 1947 96 페이지

3.57

200,000+ 개의 평점

🪶 Literary Parable 💰 Corrupting Wealth ⛓️ Colonial Oppression 🎭 Tragic Inevitability 📖 Folkloric Tone

고도를 기다리며

저자: 사뮈엘 베케트 • 1951

Two aging tramps wait beside a leafless tree for a man who never shows.

3.84

200,000+

🎭 Theatre Of The Absurd ⛓️ Master And Servant 🤝 Codependent Pair 🔄 Cyclical Time 💀 Bleak Humor

고도를 기다리며

Two aging tramps wait beside a leafless tree for a man who never shows.

저자: 사뮈엘 베케트 1951 109 페이지

3.84

200,000+ 개의 평점

🎭 Theatre Of The Absurd ⛓️ Master And Servant 🤝 Codependent Pair 🔄 Cyclical Time 💀 Bleak Humor

반쪽짜리 노란 태양

저자: 치마만다 응고지 아디치에 • 2006

In Nigeria's civil war, a professor's household discovers that love and ideas cannot stop the bombs.

4.34

100,000+

🇳🇬 Nigerian Literature 🌍 Postcolonial Fiction 💔 Biafran War 👯 Twin Sisters 🧹 Servant Perspective

반쪽짜리 노란 태양

In Nigeria's civil war, a professor's household discovers that love and ideas cannot stop the bombs.

저자: 치마만다 응고지 아디치에 2006 435 페이지

4.34

100,000+ 개의 평점

🇳🇬 Nigerian Literature 🌍 Postcolonial Fiction 💔 Biafran War 👯 Twin Sisters 🧹 Servant Perspective

New Boy

저자: Tracy Chevalier • 2017

The new Black boy at a 1970s D.C. school catches a girl's eye and a bully's wrath.

3.49

9,000+

🎭 Shakespeare Retelling 🎠 Playground Politics ⚡ Racial Tension 🇺🇸 1970s America 🐍 Jealousy And Betrayal

New Boy

The new Black boy at a 1970s D.C. school catches a girl's eye and a bully's wrath.

저자: Tracy Chevalier 2017 188 페이지

3.49

9,000+ 개의 평점

🎭 Shakespeare Retelling 🎠 Playground Politics ⚡ Racial Tension 🇺🇸 1970s America 🐍 Jealousy And Betrayal

솔라리스

저자: 스타니스와프 렘 • 1961

A psychologist at a remote space station finds his dead wife remade by the alien ocean.

3.98

100,000+

🤔 Philosophical Sci-Fi 📡 Failed Communication 💔 Grief And Memory 🏚️ Isolated Research Station 🌊 Sentient Ocean

솔라리스

A psychologist at a remote space station finds his dead wife remade by the alien ocean.

저자: 스타니스와프 렘 1961 204 페이지

3.98

100,000+ 개의 평점

🤔 Philosophical Sci-Fi 📡 Failed Communication 💔 Grief And Memory 🏚️ Isolated Research Station 🌊 Sentient Ocean

Look Back in Anger

저자: John Osborne • 1956

In a cramped flat, a bitter man's verbal war on the world lands hardest on the wife who loves him.

3.53

13,000+

🎭 Kitchen Sink Drama 👔 Angry Young Men 💔 Volatile Marriage 👑 Class Conflict 🥊 Domestic Warfare

Look Back in Anger

In a cramped flat, a bitter man's verbal war on the world lands hardest on the wife who loves him.

저자: John Osborne 1956 96 페이지

3.53

13,000+ 개의 평점

🎭 Kitchen Sink Drama 👔 Angry Young Men 💔 Volatile Marriage 👑 Class Conflict 🥊 Domestic Warfare

파친코

저자: 이민진 • 2017

Abandoned and pregnant, Sunja weds a minister. In Japan, her family fights a century to belong.

4.34

600,000+

🏠 Multigenerational Saga 🇰🇷 Korean Diaspora 🤫 Secret Parentage 💔 Forbidden Love 🪷 Quiet Resilience

파친코

Abandoned and pregnant, Sunja weds a minister. In Japan, her family fights a century to belong.

저자: 이민진 2017 496 페이지

4.34

600,000+ 개의 평점

🏠 Multigenerational Saga 🇰🇷 Korean Diaspora 🤫 Secret Parentage 💔 Forbidden Love 🪷 Quiet Resilience

The Book of Disquiet

저자: Fernando Pessoa • 1982

A Lisbon clerk fills notebooks with tedium, dreams, and the sense that nothing means anything.

4.39

38,000+

🧩 Fragmentary Novel ✒️ Prose Poetry 💼 Solitary Office Worker 📖 Existential Diary 🌧️ Melancholic Prose

The Book of Disquiet

A Lisbon clerk fills notebooks with tedium, dreams, and the sense that nothing means anything.

저자: Fernando Pessoa 1982 544 페이지

4.39

38,000+ 개의 평점

🧩 Fragmentary Novel ✒️ Prose Poetry 💼 Solitary Office Worker 📖 Existential Diary 🌧️ Melancholic Prose

네 개의 바람

저자: 크리스틴 해나 • 2021

A mother loses her Texas farm to dust and drives west toward California's broken promise.

4.30

1,000,000+

🏜️ Dust Bowl Fiction 🇺🇸 1930s America ✊ Labor Organizing 👩‍👧 Mothers And Daughters 💗 Mother's Sacrifice

네 개의 바람

A mother loses her Texas farm to dust and drives west toward California's broken promise.

저자: 크리스틴 해나 2021 464 페이지

4.30

1,000,000+ 개의 평점

🏜️ Dust Bowl Fiction 🇺🇸 1930s America ✊ Labor Organizing 👩‍👧 Mothers And Daughters 💗 Mother's Sacrifice

영원한 전쟁

저자: 조 홀드먼 • 1974

An interstellar soldier fights a war that ages Earth by decades while he ages mere months.

4.14

100,000+

🕰️ Time Dilation 💖 Love Across Time 🪖 Veteran Alienation ☮️ Anti-War Allegory 🧬 Clone Society

영원한 전쟁

An interstellar soldier fights a war that ages Earth by decades while he ages mere months.

저자: 조 홀드먼 1974 278 페이지

4.14

100,000+ 개의 평점

🕰️ Time Dilation 💖 Love Across Time 🪖 Veteran Alienation ☮️ Anti-War Allegory 🧬 Clone Society

달은 무자비한 밤의 여왕

저자: 로버트 A. 하인라인 • 1966

A lunar penal colony rebels against Earth aided by a sentient computer, risking all for freedom.

4.15

100,000+

🌙 Lunar Colony ✊ Political Revolution 🔬 Hard Science Fiction 🤖 Ai Companion 🏴 Ragtag Rebellion

달은 무자비한 밤의 여왕

A lunar penal colony rebels against Earth aided by a sentient computer, risking all for freedom.

저자: 로버트 A. 하인라인 1966 288 페이지

4.15

100,000+ 개의 평점

🌙 Lunar Colony ✊ Political Revolution 🔬 Hard Science Fiction 🤖 Ai Companion 🏴 Ragtag Rebellion

Endurance

저자: Alfred Lansing • 1959

Ice crushed their ship. For 497 days, 28 men drifted. Escape meant 800 miles in a lifeboat.

4.46

100,000+

🧊 Polar Exploration 🛟 Survival Narratives ⚓ Expedition Leadership 🏔️ Heroic Age Exploration 🌊 Marine Survival

Endurance

Ice crushed their ship. For 497 days, 28 men drifted. Escape meant 800 miles in a lifeboat.

저자: Alfred Lansing 1959 282 페이지

4.46

100,000+ 개의 평점

🧊 Polar Exploration 🛟 Survival Narratives ⚓ Expedition Leadership 🏔️ Heroic Age Exploration 🌊 Marine Survival

The Home and the World

저자: Rabindranath Tagore • 1916

A colonial Bengali wife falls for a nationalist leader; her principled husband refuses to stop her.

3.83

6,000+

🏛️ Colonial Bengal 💔 Love Triangle 🌸 Female Awakening ⚖️ Torn Loyalties 💍 Marriage Under Strain

The Home and the World

A colonial Bengali wife falls for a nationalist leader; her principled husband refuses to stop her.

저자: Rabindranath Tagore 1916 213 페이지

3.83

6,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Colonial Bengal 💔 Love Triangle 🌸 Female Awakening ⚖️ Torn Loyalties 💍 Marriage Under Strain

The Culture of Narcissism

저자: Christopher Lasch • 1978

The self-obsessed aren't full of themselves. They're empty, and the culture keeps them that way.

3.96

4,000+

🧐 Cultural Criticism 🇺🇸 Postwar America 🏚️ Social Atomization 🛒 Consumer Culture 🛋️ Therapeutic Culture

The Culture of Narcissism

The self-obsessed aren't full of themselves. They're empty, and the culture keeps them that way.

저자: Christopher Lasch 1978 249 페이지

3.96

4,000+ 개의 평점

🧐 Cultural Criticism 🇺🇸 Postwar America 🏚️ Social Atomization 🛒 Consumer Culture 🛋️ Therapeutic Culture

내가 너에게 말하지 않은 것들

저자: 셀레스트 응 • 2014

She was the daughter they pinned their hopes on. The lake knew what they never asked.

3.83

600,000+

🧬 Biracial Family 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 😰 Parental Expectations 🖤 Quiet Devastation 🇺🇸 1970s America

내가 너에게 말하지 않은 것들

She was the daughter they pinned their hopes on. The lake knew what they never asked.

저자: 셀레스트 응 2014 297 페이지

3.83

600,000+ 개의 평점

🧬 Biracial Family 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 😰 Parental Expectations 🖤 Quiet Devastation 🇺🇸 1970s America

Postwar

저자: Tony Judt • 2005

Sixty years, one continent, 36 million dead: how Europe rebuilt itself into something unprecedented.

4.38

13,000+

🏗️ Postwar Reconstruction 🧱 East-West Divide 🇪🇺 European Integration 🏥 Welfare State 📈 Economic Miracles

Postwar

Sixty years, one continent, 36 million dead: how Europe rebuilt itself into something unprecedented.

저자: Tony Judt 2005 933 페이지

4.38

13,000+ 개의 평점

🏗️ Postwar Reconstruction 🧱 East-West Divide 🇪🇺 European Integration 🏥 Welfare State 📈 Economic Miracles

Consider Phlebas

저자: Iain M. Banks • 1987

To save a crumbling empire, a shapeshifter must steal a runaway supermind from a dead world.

3.85

100,000+

🦎 Shapeshifter Protagonist 🚀 Mercenary Crew 🛐 Alien Religion 🌍 Doomed Megastructure 🧠 Sentient Starship

Consider Phlebas

To save a crumbling empire, a shapeshifter must steal a runaway supermind from a dead world.

저자: Iain M. Banks 1987 467 페이지

3.85

100,000+ 개의 평점

🦎 Shapeshifter Protagonist 🚀 Mercenary Crew 🛐 Alien Religion 🌍 Doomed Megastructure 🧠 Sentient Starship

위대한 고독

저자: 크리스틴 해나 • 2018

1974 Alaska: a girl discovers the wilderness is less cruel than her father's love.

4.46

1,000,000+

🏔️ Alaskan Wilderness 🖤 Domestic Abuse 🪖 War Trauma 💔 Forbidden Love 🔄 Second Chance Romance

위대한 고독

1974 Alaska: a girl discovers the wilderness is less cruel than her father's love.

저자: 크리스틴 해나 2018 435 페이지

4.46

1,000,000+ 개의 평점

🏔️ Alaskan Wilderness 🖤 Domestic Abuse 🪖 War Trauma 💔 Forbidden Love 🔄 Second Chance Romance

에덴의 동쪽

저자: 존 스타인벡 • 1952

Early 1900s California: a farmer's twin sons inherit a mother's malice and a father's fragile hope.

4.44

600,000+

🏠 Multigenerational Saga ✝️ Biblical Allegory 🏜️ American West ⚔️ Sibling Rivalry 💋 Femme Fatale

에덴의 동쪽

Early 1900s California: a farmer's twin sons inherit a mother's malice and a father's fragile hope.

저자: 존 스타인벡 1952 601 페이지

4.44

600,000+ 개의 평점

🏠 Multigenerational Saga ✝️ Biblical Allegory 🏜️ American West ⚔️ Sibling Rivalry 💋 Femme Fatale

잃어버린 아이의 이야기

저자: 엘레나 페란테 • 2014

Elena and Lila: a friendship that outlasts marriage, infidelity, and every attempt to escape Naples.

4.46

100,000+

🖤 Female Friendship 🌋 Naples 👩‍👧‍👧 Motherhood And Ambition 💔 Infidelity 🏘️ Neighborhood Life

잃어버린 아이의 이야기

Elena and Lila: a friendship that outlasts marriage, infidelity, and every attempt to escape Naples.

저자: 엘레나 페란테 2014 473 페이지

4.46

100,000+ 개의 평점

🖤 Female Friendship 🌋 Naples 👩‍👧‍👧 Motherhood And Ambition 💔 Infidelity 🏘️ Neighborhood Life

예언자

저자: 칼릴 지브란 • 1923

After twelve years of exile, a prophet's ship arrives, and the city gathers for his parting truths.

4.23

300,000+

🕊️ Mystical Poetry 📜 Prose Poem 📖 Wisdom Literature 🧙 Sage And Seeker 🔮 Parting Wisdom

예언자

After twelve years of exile, a prophet's ship arrives, and the city gathers for his parting truths.

저자: 칼릴 지브란 1923 127 페이지

4.23

300,000+ 개의 평점

🕊️ Mystical Poetry 📜 Prose Poem 📖 Wisdom Literature 🧙 Sage And Seeker 🔮 Parting Wisdom

Samarkand

저자: Amin Maalouf • 1988

A manuscript of forbidden Persian verse travels from medieval Samarkand to the decks of the Titanic.

4.24

31,000+

🔄 Dual Timeline 📜 Persian History 📖 Lost Manuscript 💔 Forbidden Love 📚 Knowledge Under Threat

Samarkand

A manuscript of forbidden Persian verse travels from medieval Samarkand to the decks of the Titanic.

저자: Amin Maalouf 1988 304 페이지

4.24

31,000+ 개의 평점

🔄 Dual Timeline 📜 Persian History 📖 Lost Manuscript 💔 Forbidden Love 📚 Knowledge Under Threat

Animal Farm / 1984

저자: George Orwell • 2003

Pigs turn rebellion into dictatorship. A man's secret love becomes the crime that erases him.

4.30

200,000+

🏛️ Political Allegory 🚫 Totalitarian Dystopia 🐖 Corrupted Revolution 👁️ Surveillance State 📢 Propaganda And Control

Animal Farm / 1984

Pigs turn rebellion into dictatorship. A man's secret love becomes the crime that erases him.

저자: George Orwell 2003 400 페이지

4.30

200,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Political Allegory 🚫 Totalitarian Dystopia 🐖 Corrupted Revolution 👁️ Surveillance State 📢 Propaganda And Control

그들이 가지고 다닌 것들

저자: 팀 오브라이언 • 1990

A Vietnam veteran retells his platoon's stories, bending truth to keep the dead alive.

4.15

300,000+

📚 Metafiction 💔 Survivor's Guilt 💀 Gallows Humor 🤝 Comrades In Arms 💌 Unrequited Love

그들이 가지고 다닌 것들

A Vietnam veteran retells his platoon's stories, bending truth to keep the dead alive.

저자: 팀 오브라이언 1990 246 페이지

4.15

300,000+ 개의 평점

📚 Metafiction 💔 Survivor's Guilt 💀 Gallows Humor 🤝 Comrades In Arms 💌 Unrequited Love

Zeno's Conscience

저자: Italo Svevo • 1923

At his analyst's bidding, Zeno records a life of quitting smoking, one cigarette at a time.

3.77

33,000+

🏛️ Modernist Novel 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 😰 Neurotic Protagonist 💔 Marital Infidelity 🪞 Ironic Voice

Zeno's Conscience

At his analyst's bidding, Zeno records a life of quitting smoking, one cigarette at a time.

저자: Italo Svevo 1923 437 페이지

3.77

33,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Modernist Novel 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 😰 Neurotic Protagonist 💔 Marital Infidelity 🪞 Ironic Voice

From Poor Law to Welfare State

저자: Walter I. Trattner • 1974

How America turned helping the poor from an act of justice into a judgment on character.

3.69

318

🏛️ Social Welfare History 🇺🇸 American Social Policy ⚖️ Poverty And Morality 🏥 Institutional Care ⛪ Religious Charity

From Poor Law to Welfare State

How America turned helping the poor from an act of justice into a judgment on character.

저자: Walter I. Trattner 1974 464 페이지

3.69

318 개의 평점

🏛️ Social Welfare History 🇺🇸 American Social Policy ⚖️ Poverty And Morality 🏥 Institutional Care ⛪ Religious Charity

아토믹 시티의 소녀들

저자: 데니스 키어넌 • 2013

The young women of Oak Ridge built the atomic bomb. None of them knew it.

3.73

32,000+

🏭 Manhattan Project 👩‍🔧 Women In Wartime ☢️ Atomic Age 🎙️ Oral History 🏅 Unsung Heroes

아토믹 시티의 소녀들

The young women of Oak Ridge built the atomic bomb. None of them knew it.

저자: 데니스 키어넌 2013 373 페이지

3.73

32,000+ 개의 평점

🏭 Manhattan Project 👩‍🔧 Women In Wartime ☢️ Atomic Age 🎙️ Oral History 🏅 Unsung Heroes

해녀의 섬

저자: 리사 시 • 2019

Two haenyeo divers share a bond deeper than the sea until a massacre tears them apart.

4.32

100,000+

🧜‍♀️ Haenyeo Divers 💔 Broken Friendship 🕯️ Political Massacre 👩‍👩‍👧 Matrifocal Culture 🌱 Generational Healing

해녀의 섬

Two haenyeo divers share a bond deeper than the sea until a massacre tears them apart.

저자: 리사 시 2019 374 페이지

4.32

100,000+ 개의 평점

🧜‍♀️ Haenyeo Divers 💔 Broken Friendship 🕯️ Political Massacre 👩‍👩‍👧 Matrifocal Culture 🌱 Generational Healing

The Sum of All Fears

저자: Tom Clancy • 1991

Terrorists detonate a lost nuke in Denver, aiming to ignite a war between the superpowers.

4.08

67,000+

⚙️ Techno-Thriller ☢️ Nuclear Terrorism 🎭 False Flag Attack 🧠 Analyst Hero 🔍 Lost Nuke

The Sum of All Fears

Terrorists detonate a lost nuke in Denver, aiming to ignite a war between the superpowers.

저자: Tom Clancy 1991 914 페이지

4.08

67,000+ 개의 평점

⚙️ Techno-Thriller ☢️ Nuclear Terrorism 🎭 False Flag Attack 🧠 Analyst Hero 🔍 Lost Nuke

멋진 신세계

저자: 올더스 헉슬리 • 1932

Factory-made humans, a pleasure drug, and one man who wants something real.

3.98

2,000,000+

🧬 Engineered Humanity 🏷️ Caste Society 🧠 Conditioned Society 💊 Pleasure As Control 😏 Satirical Dystopia

멋진 신세계

Factory-made humans, a pleasure drug, and one man who wants something real.

저자: 올더스 헉슬리 1932 288 페이지

3.98

2,000,000+ 개의 평점

🧬 Engineered Humanity 🏷️ Caste Society 🧠 Conditioned Society 💊 Pleasure As Control 😏 Satirical Dystopia

Zorba the Greek

저자: Nikos Kazantzakis • 1946

A Greek intellectual hires a wild miner in Crete and learns what books could never teach.

4.02

59,000+

🏛️ Philosophical Fiction 🏝️ Greek Island Setting 🕺 Free Spirit Mentor ⚖️ Reason Versus Passion 😂 Earthy Humor

Zorba the Greek

A Greek intellectual hires a wild miner in Crete and learns what books could never teach.

저자: Nikos Kazantzakis 1946 335 페이지

4.02

59,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Philosophical Fiction 🏝️ Greek Island Setting 🕺 Free Spirit Mentor ⚖️ Reason Versus Passion 😂 Earthy Humor

From Plassey to Partition

저자: Sekhar Bandyopadhyay • 2004

Imperial greed, local ambition, fractured nationalism: built modern India, broke it at Partition.

4.20

1,000+

🇮🇳 Modern Indian History 🇬🇧 British Empire 💰 Colonial Economies ✊ Nationalist Movements 💔 Partition Of India

From Plassey to Partition

Imperial greed, local ambition, fractured nationalism: built modern India, broke it at Partition.

저자: Sekhar Bandyopadhyay 2004 523 페이지

4.20

1,000+ 개의 평점

🇮🇳 Modern Indian History 🇬🇧 British Empire 💰 Colonial Economies ✊ Nationalist Movements 💔 Partition Of India

Women

저자: Charles Bukowski • 1978

An alcoholic poet, celibate four years, collides with a woman whose chaos equals his own.

3.80

87,000+

🚬 Transgressive Fiction 🍺 Alcoholic Protagonist 💔 Volatile Romance ✍️ Writer Protagonist 😈 Dark Humor

Women

An alcoholic poet, celibate four years, collides with a woman whose chaos equals his own.

저자: Charles Bukowski 1978 291 페이지

3.80

87,000+ 개의 평점

🚬 Transgressive Fiction 🍺 Alcoholic Protagonist 💔 Volatile Romance ✍️ Writer Protagonist 😈 Dark Humor

하우스 오브 이브

저자: 사데카 존슨 • 2023

1940s America: two Black women, two unplanned pregnancies, one impossible choice: child or future.

4.25

100,000+

🫄 Unwed Pregnancy 💔 Coerced Adoption 💑 Interracial Romance 🎭 Class And Colorism 📻 1940s America

하우스 오브 이브

1940s America: two Black women, two unplanned pregnancies, one impossible choice: child or future.

저자: 사데카 존슨 2023 384 페이지

4.25

100,000+ 개의 평점

🫄 Unwed Pregnancy 💔 Coerced Adoption 💑 Interracial Romance 🎭 Class And Colorism 📻 1940s America

캐치-22

저자: 조지프 헬러 • 1961

A bombardier in wartime Italy discovers the finish line moves every time he gets close.

3.99

800,000+

🎭 Absurdist War Fiction 🪖 Military Satire 📋 Bureaucratic Nightmare ✊ Anti-War Protest 😈 Dark Comedy

캐치-22

A bombardier in wartime Italy discovers the finish line moves every time he gets close.

저자: 조지프 헬러 1961 453 페이지

3.99

800,000+ 개의 평점

🎭 Absurdist War Fiction 🪖 Military Satire 📋 Bureaucratic Nightmare ✊ Anti-War Protest 😈 Dark Comedy

Who Goes There?

저자: John W. Campbell Jr. • 1938

Antarctic researchers thaw a shape-shifting alien. Anyone could be the monster.

3.77

12,000+

❄️ Arctic Horror 👽 Classic Sci-Fi Horror 🎭 Hidden Impostor 👀 Trust No One 😰 Paranoid Atmosphere

Who Goes There?

Antarctic researchers thaw a shape-shifting alien. Anyone could be the monster.

저자: John W. Campbell Jr. 1938 161 페이지

3.77

12,000+ 개의 평점

❄️ Arctic Horror 👽 Classic Sci-Fi Horror 🎭 Hidden Impostor 👀 Trust No One 😰 Paranoid Atmosphere

The Diaries of Franz Kafka

저자: Franz Kafka • 2023

Kafka's diaries: the body hatred, the office dread, the nights his fiction tried to escape.

4.28

500+

📖 Literary Diaries 🎨 Creative Struggle 🌙 Dream Journaling ⚫ Existentialist Literature ✍️ Writer's Block

The Diaries of Franz Kafka

Kafka's diaries: the body hatred, the office dread, the nights his fiction tried to escape.

저자: Franz Kafka 2023 704 페이지

4.28

500+ 개의 평점

📖 Literary Diaries 🎨 Creative Struggle 🌙 Dream Journaling ⚫ Existentialist Literature ✍️ Writer's Block

The Sound of Waves

저자: Yukio Mishima • 1954

A poor fisherman's love for a wealthy man's daughter tests a remote Japanese island's traditions.

3.77

24,000+

🐚 Pastoral Romance 💙 Class Divide Romance ⚔️ Rival Suitor ✨ Lyrical Prose 🌊 Gentle Romance

The Sound of Waves

A poor fisherman's love for a wealthy man's daughter tests a remote Japanese island's traditions.

저자: Yukio Mishima 1954 183 페이지

3.77

24,000+ 개의 평점

🐚 Pastoral Romance 💙 Class Divide Romance ⚔️ Rival Suitor ✨ Lyrical Prose 🌊 Gentle Romance

Say Nothing

저자: Patrick Radden Keefe • 2018

The peace deal that asked everyone to forget, and the one murder that couldn't stay buried.

4.47

100,000+

☘️ The Troubles 🇮🇪 Irish Republicanism 🕯️ The Disappeared 💭 Memory And Conflict 🔍 Investigative Journalism

Say Nothing

The peace deal that asked everyone to forget, and the one murder that couldn't stay buried.

저자: Patrick Radden Keefe 2018 441 페이지

4.47

100,000+ 개의 평점

☘️ The Troubles 🇮🇪 Irish Republicanism 🕯️ The Disappeared 💭 Memory And Conflict 🔍 Investigative Journalism

The House of Hunger

저자: Dambudzo Marechera • 1978

He leaves the house that starved him, but the starvation has moved inside him forever.

3.95

1,000+

🌍 Post-Colonial Fiction 🧠 Psychological Breakdown 🪞 Internalized Oppression 👊 Sibling Violence 💔 Lost Love

The House of Hunger

He leaves the house that starved him, but the starvation has moved inside him forever.

저자: Dambudzo Marechera 1978 160 페이지

3.95

1,000+ 개의 평점

🌍 Post-Colonial Fiction 🧠 Psychological Breakdown 🪞 Internalized Oppression 👊 Sibling Violence 💔 Lost Love

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