• https://www.openletterbooks.org/products/winter-in-sokcho
• https://www.nyrb.com/collections/forthcoming/products/finding-the-raga?variant=32752895950985
• Yoko Kawaguchi, Butterfly's Sisters. The Geisha in Western Culture
• Hwang Jungeun, I'll Go On
• Rachel Cooper, Psychiatry and Philosophy of Science
• Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier, Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think

Available at home/KCL:

• Hasok Chang, Inventing temperature
• Know your chances : understanding health statistics
• Janet Horowitz, Hamlet on the Holodeck
• Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
• Kosuke Koyama (KCL)
• Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
• Owen Hatherley, Militant Modernism (KCL)
• Robin Boyd, The Australian Ugliness (KCL)
• Leïla Slimani, Chanson douce (KCL)
• James Gleick (KCL)
• Michel Leiris, Manhood (KCL)
• Elizabeth Hawes, Fashion is Spinach
• Penguin Classics
• Resources on books on technology
• Jasbir K. Puar, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (KCL)
• Ellen Ullman, Close to the machine: Technophilia and its discontents (KCL)
• Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene
• Susan McClary, Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality (KCL)
• Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
• Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death (KCL)
• Alice Rawsthorn, Yves Saint Laurent. A Biography
• Sandy Black, Amy de la Haye, Joanne Entwistle, Agnes Rocamora, Regina A. Root and Helen Thomas (editors), The Handbook of Fashion Studies (half-read/queue)
• Jonathan A. Anderson and William A. Dyrness, Modern Art and the Life of a Culture: The Religious Impulses of Modernism (KCL)
• Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: 1
• Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
• Marco Catani and Stefano Sandrone, Brain Renaissance, from Vesalius to Modern Neuroscience
• Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
• Zadie Smith, NW
• Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
• Primo Levi, If This Is a Man (KCL)
• Bruno Schulz, Sanatorium Pod Klepsydrą
• Ernst H. Gombrich, The Story of Art
• Giacomo Leopardi, Dialogue Between Fashion and Death

To look for:

• The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories_
• Vladimir Nabokov, Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time
• Emma Donoghue, The Wonder
• Heather Havrilesky, How to Be a Person in the World
• The Story of Hong Gildong
• Charles Spence Gastrophysics. The New Science of Eating
• Ed Young, Wabi Sabi
• Wabi-sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
• Eka Kurniawan, Beauty is a Wound
• Pascal Quignard, The Hatred of Music
• Miljenko Jergović
• Emma Cline, The Girls
• Ellen Pao, Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change
• Bharat Anand, The Content Trap
• look at this list: https://ideas.ted.com/required-reading-the-books-that-students-read-in-28-countries-around-the-world/
• Alison Matthews David, Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present
• Heath Hogg Davis, Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter?
• David Grossman, See Under: Love
• Joi Ito & Jeff Howe, Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future
• Alondra Nelson, The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome
• Leonora Carrington, The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
• Siri Hudstvedt, A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex and the Mind
• Omar El Akkad, American War
• Lizzy Goodman, Meet Me in the Bathroom
• Hari Kunzru, White Tears
• Richard Lloyd Parry, Ghosts of the Tsunami
• Jorge Luis Borges, Fictions
• Ellen Ullman, Life in Code
• Weike Wang, Chemistry
• Patty Yumi Cottrell, Sorry to Disrupt the Peace
• Dave Levitan, Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science
• Ami McKay, The Witches of New York
• Emily Spivack, Worn in New York
• Rebecca Lemov, Database of Dreams. The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity
• Anne Anlin Cheng, The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief
• https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/column/essential-reading-for-japanophiles/
• I don't want to work in fashion but this is quite interesting http://fashionista.com/2016/01/best-fashion-books (ignore Thomas)
• Zuzanna Ginczanka
• Kevin Ruane, Churchill and the Bomb in War and Cold War
• N. Chabani Manganyi, Apartheid and the Making of a Black Psychologist: A Memoir
• Vladimir Mayakovsky, 'Vladimir Mayakovsky' and Other Poems
• Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats
• Alke Gröppel-Wegener, Writing Essays by Pictures: A Workbook
• Ferdinand Mount, English Voices
• Ronald H. Fritze, Egyptomania. A History of Obsession, Fascination, and Fantasy
• Han Kang, The Vegetarian
• Octave Mirbeau, Torture Garden
• Peter Ackroyd, Queer City. Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day
• Franz Nicolay, The Humorless Ladies of Border Control: Touring the Punk Underground from Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar
• Tim Lawrence, Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980-83
• SHIHAB AL-DIN AL-NUWAYRI, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition. A COMPENDIUM OF KNOWLEDGE FROM THE CLASSICAL ISLAMIC WORLD
• Witold Gombrowicz, Kosmos
• Kodwo Eshun, More Brilliant Than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction
• Eva Illouz, Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation
• Philip Larkin, A Girl in Winter
• Alexei Nikitin, Y. T.
• Dian Hanson, Lesbians for Men
• Anne Hollander, Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress
• Boualim Sansal, The German Mujahid
• Monroe Beardsley, Aesthetics
• Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
• Louis-Ferdinand Céline, London Bridge
• E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
• Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
• Steven J. Ross, Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics
• Katherine Hayles, Electronic Literature
• Word and Music Studies: Essays on the Song Cycle and on Defining the Field
• Peter Shapiro, Turn the Beat Around: The Rise and Fall of Disco
• Magda Szabo, The Door
• Kamel Daoud, The Meursault Investigation
• Robert Pogue Harrison, Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition
• Kōbō Abe, The Face of Another
• Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida (half-read)
• Colette, The Collected Stories of Colette (half-read)
• Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales
• Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization