Do you have the Kpop Demon Hunters soundtrack stuck in your head? Dive into this teen book list for K-Pop fans!
Recommended for grades 9-12.
Moon Minseok, or Moonster, appears on one of Korea’s most popular variety shows to improve his pop group’s image and pretends to get along with childhood enemy Shin Hyeri, an up-and-coming K-Drama actress with her own scandals, in a romcom.
Recommended for grades 9-12.
Attending a new K-pop workshop hoping to reconnect with her ex-BFF and groupmate, 18-year-old former popstar Sunny Lee instead finds herself haunted by ghostly visions while someone inflicts bodily harm on her competitors, forcing her to confront the demons of her past to survive.
Recommended for grades 8-12.
Running a successful beauty-care sales business at school, Korean-American teen Valerie clashes with newcomer Wes, who is selling a competitor’s K-pop products to raise funds for his musical ambitions.
Recommended for grades 7-10.
A nuanced celebration of body positivity by the author of the Mindy Kim series follows the experiences of a plus-sized teen girl who shatters expectations on a televised competition to become the next big K-pop star.
Recommended for grades 10-12.
Creating an app that can predict a person’s future with 93% accuracy, Ro Deveraux garners the attention of tech investors when it goes viral and is thrust into a fake dating scenario with her ex-best friend who is her projected soul mate.
Recommended for grades 7-9
When seventeen-year-old Eliza Lin’s entirely fictional essay about meeting her perfect boyfriend goes viral at her international school in Beijing, she has to make a deal with the handsome and charming Caz Song to play the part–but when the relationship starts to feel real all her career plans are suddenly threatened.
Recommended for grades 9-12.
High school senior Frank Li takes a risk to go after a girl his parents would never approve of, but his plans will leave him wondering if he ever really understood love–or himself–at all.
This book is in the adult non-fiction collection.
A love letter to and for Asian Americans offers a vivid scrapbook of voices, emotions and memories from an era in which our culture was forged and transformed, and a way to preserve both the headlines and the intimate conversations that have shaped our community into who we are today.
BTS shares personal, behind-the-scenes stories of their journey so far through interviews and more than three years of in-depth coverage by Myeongseok Kang, who has written about K-pop and other Korean pop culture in various media. Presented chronologically in seven chapters from before the debut of BTS to the present, their vivid voices and opinions harmonize to tell a sincere, lively, and deep story. In individual interviews that have been conducted without a camera or makeup, they illuminate their musical journey from multiple angles and discuss its significance.
This blog post was created by librarians from Park City Library with help of information found in NoveList – a database which is free with your library card. NoveList is a comprehensive reading recommendation resource.