After careful consideration, and a resolution for this year 2025, I’ve decided to have my own book club, have at least a monthly meeting to read and have a nice conversation with a glass (or two) of wine.
What to expect? You’ll find all types of works of fiction—picture books and romances and fantasies and westerns and young adult novels and good old fiction and mysteries and classics and recent works we believe will be classics in years to come. There will be non-fiction too. I will not impose which book we should read, we will chose together.
The people who cannot come and join us personally, can join the reading by zoom. Or who is not living in Korea anymore and would like to participate.
Experts even scoured sites like Goodreads to see what you love the most. Our guiding principle was to include as many types of books as possible, because a great picture book is just as worthy as Proust. And both deserve to be on our list.
So a list of the best books of all time from every genre is just a starting point. Tell us which ones you love. Tell us what’s missing. Tell us what shouldn’t be on here. And tell us what list you’d like to see next. (The 100 Best Sports Books? The 100 Best Memoirs/Biographies?
A must read and to honor the country we live in I suggest we start with Vegetarian by South Korean writer Han Kang, whose has won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Los escucho…
Paola Almiron
