Fortune Telling
Native title: 포춘 텔링 운세와 미래에 관한 다섯 편의 소설
Author: Hee-sun, Kim
Genre: Short Stories
Year: 2025 | Pages: 240 | Origin: KOR | BA Seq Num: 91647
The desire to glimpse the future: five stories about fortune telling.
The first book in the anthology 'Neuseun', 'Fortune Telling', brings together novels about fortune telling by five authors: Kim Hee-sun, Jang Jin-young, Park So-min, Kwon Hye-young, and Kim Sa-sa. Neuseun, a new novel series from 'Imagination', embodies the ambition to blur the gap between everyday life and literature, as well as the boundaries between genres. Within a free literary framework, this curated collection of loose novels offers readers a diverse range of experiences.
Fortune-telling, a compound word of 'fortune' and 'telling', can be interpreted as a divination or fortune-telling, or a prophecy about fortune or the future. This anthology, which offers a glimpse into the five authors' brilliant perspectives on fortune telling, not only explores superstitions like sticking coins to the soles of feet, fortune-telling, and fortune cookies, but also reveals the authors' own perspectives on fortune telling and their own perspectives
The Housemaid's Secret
Native title: 하우스메이드 2 하우스메이드의 비밀
Series: Book 2
Author: McFadden, Freida
Genre: Thriller
Year: 2025 | Pages: 400 | Origin: KOR | BA Seq Num: 91640
Translated
'Never enter the guest room'. Millie, the protagonist of the best-selling book 'Housemaid', is back!
Her criminal record still makes it difficult for her to find a job. Her babysitting job, barely covering her rent, has been cut short by an unexpected incident. Just when she's lost track of how to live, a savior appears. She's hired as a housekeeper in a penthouse in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Manhattan, New York. Douglas, the CEO of Coinstock, lives there and seems like the perfect man. At least, he seems so at first.
His wife, Wendy, never leaves the guest room on the second floor, and Millie is forbidden from entering it. Strange noises emanating from the guest room, dark red stains on the laundry, a bloody handprint on the sink. Feeling suspicious at home, Millie receives a call from a recruiting agency informing her that her job ad hasn't been posted yet due to credit card issues. A chill runs down her spine. How did Douglas know to contact her? It was clear that this couple was hiding something. And Millie is the type of person who can't let something like that pass her by. Absolutely not.
An intense psychological thriller with twists and turns!
Dahji moshae talheun sarang
Native title: 닿지 못해 닳은 사랑
Translated title: Love Worn Out of Reach
Author: Hikorohi
Genre: Romance
Year: 2026 | Pages: 196 | Origin: KOR | BA Seq Num: 91632
Translated
The first novel by the famous Japanese comedian Hikorohi has been published by Bungeishunju.
When we fall in love, we all become fools, repeating behaviors that are difficult to understand from an outsider's perspective. Women who like bad boys, men who like bad girls, those who are too clumsy to express themselves, and those who confess their feelings that are on the verge of bursting.
The characters in the work are ordinary people who are confused about the 'present moment', realize it too late, blame themselves, ultimately feel lonely, and somehow rationalize themselves and their circumstances.
'Love Worn Out of Reach' is a story that serves as a kind of inner confession of their inner selves.
Winner of the 31st Shimase Romance Literature Award
Sarangeul baeuneun sigan
Native title: 사랑을 배우는 시간
Translated title: Learning to Love
Author: Min-gyu, Jeong
Genre: Romance
Year: 2025 | Pages: 118 | Origin: KOR | BA Seq Num: 91654
'Learning to Love' is a sentimental novel about wounds, recovery, and inner human growth. Yoon-ha, a college student who doubts love, and Ji-hoon, a photographer who harbors a past loss. Their meeting was not a fleeting coincidence, but a journey of learning to understand each other.
Through his mother's final letter, Yoon-ha realizes that 'love is a courage a little greater than fear', and Ji-hoon, confronting the shadows of his past, learns that love is not an end in itself, but rather a 'different form of continuity'.
This novel doesn't simply portray love as 'feelings for someone'. Rather, it portrays it as 'a process of self-healing, a strength that enables one to endure life. This book captures the emotional cycle of learning from others, the warmth of that time, in refined prose.
Love is not a feeling that is completed, but a time of learning about oneself through each other
Jiwojin iljuil
Native title: 지워진 일주일
Translated title: Erased Week
Author: Su-jeong, Kim
Genre: Mystery / Romance
Year: 2026 | Pages: 283 | Origin: KOR | BA Seq Num: 91635
A mystery romance unfolds as Yunseul, who has suffered daily abuse from her father since her mother's death, meets Hyun-yi, an intern at a time travel company!
Yunseul strives to save her mother, and Hyun-yi strives to start a new life.
Unexpected pasts are graduly revealed.
Readers will be surprised, cry, and laugh along with the protagonist!
Recommended for all lovers of romance and mystery novels
Gagongbeom
Native title: 가공범
Translated title: Fictitious Crime
Author: Higashino, Keigo
Genre: Crime / Mystery
Year: 2025 | Pages: 528 | Origin: KOR | BA Seq Num: 91652
Translated
Keigo Higashino celebrates his 40th anniversary as an author! With an eye for truth and a step toward sincerity, Tsutomu Godai begins a new series. 'I never thought the day would come when I would write about this subject matter'. - Keigo Higashino.
The bodies of a famous politician and a former actor are found in a burned-out mansion. What happened to these men who lived such glamorous lives? What secrets do they harbor? Detective Godai travels across Japan to unravel the mystery of this seemingly intractable case. His seemingly trivial suspicions, however, build up, ultimately revealing a devastating secret. This work showcases Keigo Higashino's captivating power, even without a genius character or outrageous crime.
Fictitious Crime: Winner of the 2025 Japan Mystery Literature Award. Keigo Higashino, is a leading Japanese author and the author of the unprecedented feat of surpassing 100 million copies sold in Japan
Bimil sogui bimil
Native title: 비밀 속의 비밀 2
Translated title: The Secret of Secrets
Series: Part 2
Author: Brown, Dan
Genre: Thriller / Mystery
Year: 2025 | Pages: 504 | Origin: KOR | BA Seq Num: 91638
Translated
Accompanying celebrated academic, Katherine Solomon, to a lecture she's been invited to give in Prague, Robert Langdon's world spirals out of control when she disappears without trace from their hotel room. Far from home and well out of his comfort zone, Langdon must pit his wits against forces unknown to recover the woman he loves.
But Prague is an old and dangerous city, steeped in folklore and mystery. For over two thousand years, the tides of history have washed back and forth over it, leaving behind echoes of everything that has gone before. Little can Langdon know that he is being stalked by a spectre from that dark past. He must use all of his arcane knowledge to decipher the world around him before he too is consumed by the rings of treachery and deception that have swallowed Katherine.
Against a backdrop of vast castles, towering churches, graveyards buried twelve deep and labyrinthine underground passages, Langdon must navigate a shadow city hiding in plain sight, a city which has successfully kept its secrets for centuries and will not readily deliver them. This is a battlefield unlike any he has previously experienced, one on which he must fight not for his only life, but for the future of humanity itself.
The Secret Of Secrets is Dan Brown's first novel for over eight years and sees the stunning return of Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, this time pitting his wits against a conspiracy which will test even his considerable brainpower and take him to the edge of losing all that he holds dear
Gopseulmeori sonyeo
Native title: 곱슬머리 소녀
Translated title: Curly-haired Girl
Author: Jae-dong, Shin
Genre: Family Saga / Social Novel
Year: 2026 | Pages: 256 | Origin: KOR | BA Seq Num: 91663
The story of a single person's life, one that transcended an era of migration and loss, and how the curly-haired girl came to light
This novel begins with a man's question. Born in Japan and living as a Japanese, his name overlaps with Korean and American times. 'Curly-haired Girl' traces the lives of his grandmother and father, whom he encounters as he searches for his roots, and the lives of immigrants. It then traces back in time to the life of Baek Gwang-seon, a woman who crossed the Pacific Ocean. Her journey from Jemulpo to Honolulu and back to the American continent is a record of immigration, labor, faith, and loss, and a portrait of a generation that was forced to be lumped together as an immigrant generation.
'Curly-haired Girl' illuminates the choices and silences made at the lowest levels of life, not at the center of grand historical narratives, restoring the lives of individuals pushed outside the grand narrative like a garden. It is the unrecorded life of a woman, a day in the life of an immigrant who disappeared without a name. Beyond an individual's family history, it quietly captures the inner lives of those forced to live at the borders of nationality and language. As scattered names connect, the story reaches us today, turning the page
Bimil sogui bimil
Native title: 비밀 속의 비밀 1
Translated title: The Secret of Secrets
Series: Part 1
Author: Brown, Dan
Genre: Thriller / Mystery
Year: 2025 | Pages: 472 | Origin: KOR | BA Seq Num: 91637
Translated
Accompanying celebrated academic, Katherine Solomon, to a lecture she's been invited to give in Prague, Robert Langdon's world spirals out of control when she disappears without trace from their hotel room. Far from home and well out of his comfort zone, Langdon must pit his wits against forces unknown to recover the woman he loves.
But Prague is an old and dangerous city, steeped in folklore and mystery. For over two thousand years, the tides of history have washed back and forth over it, leaving behind echoes of everything that has gone before. Little can Langdon know that he is being stalked by a spectre from that dark past. He must use all of his arcane knowledge to decipher the world around him before he too is consumed by the rings of treachery and deception that have swallowed Katherine.
Against a backdrop of vast castles, towering churches, graveyards buried twelve deep and labyrinthine underground passages, Langdon must navigate a shadow city hiding in plain sight, a city which has successfully kept its secrets for centuries and will not readily deliver them. This is a battlefield unlike any he has previously experienced, one on which he must fight not for his only life, but for the future of humanity itself.
The Secret Of Secrets is Dan Brown's first novel for over eight years and sees the stunning return of Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, this time pitting his wits against a conspiracy which will test even his considerable brainpower and take him to the edge of losing all that he holds dear
Gaseumeuro uneun sae
Native title: 가슴으로 우는 새
Translated title: A Bird Crying with Its Heart
Author: Mun-geun, Jeon
Genre: Family Saga
Year: 2026 | Pages: 338 | Origin: KOR | BA Seq Num: 91664
Silence was a choice for survival, and memory was a resistance to staying alive. Leaving behind the layers of scars, she never gave up, moving forward, step by step!
Misuk, who lived in a rural village near Baekun Mountain, grew up and exchanged marriage promises with her love. Dreaming of a bright future, she was suddenly visited by Dalsu, a former guerrilla fighter, who told her the shocking story of her birth and tragic fate...
Some cries are silent. They are choked in the throat, lost in the lips, and ultimately resonate only within the heart. This novel is the story of those unspoken cries.
The times demanded silence, and silence became a condition of survival. Only those who remained silent survived, and only those who forgot could move on. But everyone knew: forgetting was not the end, but the beginning of a deeper wound. The characters in this novel endured by remaining silent, surviving by persevering, but ultimately, their lives begin to falter again in the face of the weeping that builds within their hearts.
'The Bird That Cries with Its Heart' is not the narrative of an individual, but a record of emotions that have transcended an era. Faces unorganized by history, lives relegated to statistics and chronology, and deaths never fully mourned by anyone. This novel cautiously poses questions atop the rubble: did we truly deserve to cry, or do we still live without it?
