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Rap Monster Book Recommendation Masterlist 
 
Put together by ​@RM_ARCHIVE​. 
If you may take any information out of this document, please give credit where it’s due. 
 
List is alphabetically organized, and will be updated accordingly (last update: 28/08), each 
line following the order of: name of the book, year published and author. See the end of the 
list for information on the Korean books unavailable in English and other notes. 
 
● 1Q84​ (2009) - Haruki Murakami 
● Almost Transparent Blue​ (1976) - Ryu Murakami 
● Blonote ​(2016) - Tablo 
● Breaking Out of the "Man Box": The Next Generation of Manhood​ (2016) - Tony 
Porter 
● Demian​ (1919) - Hermann Hesse 
● Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?​ (2008) - Michael J. Sandel 
● Kafka on the shore​ (2002) - Haruki Murakami 
● Me Before You​ (2012) - Jojo Moyes 
● Norwegian Wood​ (1987) - Haruki Murakami 
● Snakes and Earrings​ (2003) - Hitomi Kanehara 
● The Catcher in the Rye​ (1951) - J. D. Salinger 
● The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy​ (1979) - Douglas Adams 
● The Metamorphosis​ (1915) - Franz Kafka 
● The Noonday Demon​ (2001) - Andrew Solomon 
● The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas​ (1973) - Ursula K. Le Guin 
● The Stranger​ (1942) - Albert Camus 
● The Unbearable Lightness of Being​ (1984) - Milan Kundera 
● Walden​ (1854) - Henry David Thoreau 
● 당신을 응원하는 누군가 ​(2013) - ​Sun Mihwa​ ​[2] 
● 밤 열한 시​ (2013) - ​Hwang Kyungshin​ ​[3] 
● 사랑하라 한번도 상처받지 않은 것처럼 ​(2008) - ​Ryu Shiva​ ​[4] 
● 우리가 어느 별에서​ (2015) - ​Jeong Hoseung​ ​[5] 
● 지금 알고 있는 걸 르때도 알았다라면​ (1998) - ​Ryu Shiva​ ​[4] 
● 하늘과 바람과 별과 시 ​(2016) - ​Yun Dongju​ ​[1] 
● 한 입 코끼리​ (2015) - ​Hwang Kyungshin​ ​[3] 
 
 
Notes 
 
Books with no English translation: 
 
 
[1] “하늘과 바람과 별과 시” translates to “Sky, wind, star and poem” however, since there is 
a book from the same author called “Sky, wind and stars” that ​has​ been translated into 
English, with his name being romanized as Tongju Yun, I kept the title in Korean to avoid 
confusion. Click on his name on the list above to go to his Wikipedia page in English. You 
can purchase the book in Korean ​here​. 
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[2] “당신을 응원하는 누군가” translates to “Someone who supports you” or “Someone to 
cheer you up” and I kept the title in Korean for the reason listed above. Upon closer 
inspection, I also found out that Sun Mihwa is a ​visual artist and illustrator​, and a really 
talented one, so I highly recommend looking up her name in Korean (선미화) on 
Google/Naver. The book is available for purchase in Korean ​here​ and ​here​. 
 
[3] The issue wasn’t so much because of the title of the books, but because of the author’s 
name. I’ve seen her name being romanized as “Hyeong Kyung Hwang”, which confused me 
and made me wonder if 한 입 코끼리 (LT: Bamboo Elephant) and 밤 열한 시 (LT: Eleven 
o’clock at Night) were written by completely different people. Which I found out with a bit 
more research, weren’t. You can purchase Eleven o’clock at Night in Korean ​here​ and 
Bamboo Elephant ​here​ and ​here​. 
 
[4] Similar case to Hwang Kyungshin and Yun Dongju, everywhere but his English Wikipedia 
page listed his name as “Ryu Shiwa” instead of “Ryu Shiva”. However, there was a bigger 
problem: the title of his 1998 book in English translates to something like “If I knew then what 
I know now” which made people on /r/bangtan mistakenly think Namjoon recommended a 
book by Kimberly Kirberger with the same name. Ryu’s 2008 novel “사랑하라 한번도 
상처받지 않은 것처럼” translates to “Love Like You’ve Never Been Hurt”, available for 
purchase ​here​ and “If I Knew then what I Know now” ​here​. 
 
[5] Yet another case of difference in romanization. The author himself has stated that he 
prefers “Jeong Hoseung” as opposed to the “Chung Hosung” that I’ve seen circulating 
online, so that’ll be the one exception to the rule of going by the Wikipedia romanization. 
Click on his name on the list above to go to his Wikipedia page in English. You can purchase 
우리가 어느 별에서 (LT: On which Star We are) in Korean ​here​. 
 
Other: 
 
There is evidence in photobooks from HYYH pt. 1 era and WINGS era that Namjoon reads 
the works of Rimbaud and Nietzsche, but there is no way for us to know which specific 
books he has or hasn’t read. There is also a ​2015 tweet​ Namjoon has supposedly made 
recommending “Nimm's bitte nicht persönlich” (meaning “Please don’t take it personally” in 
German and the Korean title being “너는 나에게 상처를 줄 수 없다” translating to “You can’t 
hurt me”) by German author Bärbel Wardetzki. If I get a confirmation that it was indeed 
Namjoon who made that tweet, I’ll add the book to the list. 
 
If it’s to your interest, I have also compiled almost all of #RMusic recommendations into a 
Spotify playlist (+200 songs). You can listen to it right ​here​. Any other questions, contact us 
through DM on Twitter. 
 
 
Happy reading! :-) 
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