Aquariums of Pyongyang

by Kang Chol-Hwan & Pierre Rigoulot

A memoir of the North Korean prison system starting at the age of seven: when an individual commits a political crime his entire family shares the price.

Our most recommended books

Speak, Memory
by Vladimir Nabokov
Mukiwa
by Peter Godwin
U and I
by Nicholson Baker
Sakhalin Island
by Anton Chekhov
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
by Cathy Park Hong
Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System
by Sonya Huber

Support Five Books

Five Books interviews are expensive to produce, please support us by donating a small amount.

About

We ask experts to recommend the five best books in their subject and explain their selection in an interview.

This site has an archive of more than one thousand seven hundred interviews, or eight thousand book recommendations. We publish at least two new interviews per week.

Five Books participates in the Amazon Associate program and earns money from qualifying purchases.

Get our newsletter

Nonfiction Books » Best Biographies » The Best Memoirs and Autobiographies

Aquariums of Pyongyang

by Kang Chol-Hwan & Pierre Rigoulot

Our most recommended books

Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

Mukiwa by Peter Godwin

U and I by Nicholson Baker

Sakhalin Island by Anton Chekhov

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System by Sonya Huber

About

Speak, Memory
by Vladimir Nabokov

Mukiwa
by Peter Godwin

U and I
by Nicholson Baker

Sakhalin Island
by Anton Chekhov

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
by Cathy Park Hong

Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System
by Sonya Huber