IU’s book recommendations
There are lots of books IU has recommended in recent years. I’ve taken time to put the links to the ebooks that you can legally read for free online.
Fredrik Backman - A Man Called Ove
L. Frank Baum - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [Shoes, NOT Red Shoes*]
Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland [Twenty-three]
Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking Glass [Red Queen]
Osamu Dazai - No Longer Human
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Gong Ji Young - Very Light Feather
Kaori Ekuni - Falling Into the Evening
Hwang Sun Won - Rain Shower [The Shower]
Hwang Jeong Eun - 파씨의 입문 Introduction to Paschi/Passy
Hwang Jeong Eun - Savage Alice
Im Sol Ah - 최선의 삶 The Best Life
Jonas Jonasson - The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
Byron Katie - Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
Kim Hye Jin - 딸에 대하여 About my Daughter
Kim Sung Jong - 계엄령의 밤 The Night of Martial Law
Kim Young Ha - 오직 두 사람 Only Two People
Lee Hye Rin - 열정 같은 소리하고 있네 You Call It Passion
Lee Kyung Hye - One Day I Died
Lee Seok Won - 보통의 존재 Common Being
Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Haruki Murakami - Hear the Wind Sing
Guillaume Musso - Will You be There?
Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Ito Ogawa - Have Some Warmth~
Ito Ogawa - The Restaurant of Love Regained
Park Min Gyu - 죽은 왕녀를 위한 파반느 Pavane for a Dead Princess
Mirjam Pressler - Bitter Chocolate
Françoise Sagan - Do You Like Brahms?
Leo Tolstoy - Ivan the Fool [Glasses]
José Mauro de Vasconcelos - My Sweet Orange Tree [Zeze]
Virginia Woolf - Jacob’s Room
Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway [Black Out]
(*Note: IU’s The Red Shoes did use the Hans Christian Anderson fairytale as a motif, but IU didn’t write that song, therefor it was not included above)
Sources: IU’s fancafe, news etc.
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