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Yeon Somin · 2023 · South Korea · literary fiction
★ 3.65 Goodreads · 8,619 ratings

Burned out by her job as a television writer, Jungmin, thirty, has barely left her Seoul apartment in a year when she wanders into a small pottery studio and signs up for lessons.

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12 books for readers of The Healing Season of Pottery

Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

Hwang Bo-reum · 2022 · South Korea 98% match ★ 3.94 Hardcover · 284 ratings
shares: workplace, healing fiction, Korean, work · easy read, warm

Burned out by her high-flying career, Yeongju opens a small bookshop in a residential Seoul neighbourhood and slowly gathers a barista, a knitting regular, a lonely teenager and others who need somewhere to be.

The Second Chance Convenience Store

Kim Ho-yeon · 2021 · South Korea 98% match ★ 3.89 Goodreads · 25,435 ratings
shares: workplace, healing fiction, Korean, work · easy read, warm

When a homeless man returns the purse she lost at Seoul Station, Mrs Yeom, a retired teacher who owns a struggling convenience store, offers him the night shift, though he remembers almost nothing about himself.

What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

Michiko Aoyama · 2020 · Japan 96% match ★ 4.01 Goodreads · 144,592 ratings
shares: workplace, healing fiction, cosy, work · easy read, warm

Five Tokyo residents stuck at turning points in their work and lives find their way, one by one, to a community-centre library, where the librarian, Sayuri Komachi, hands each of them an unexpected book and a small felted gift.

We'll Prescribe You a Cat

Syou Ishida · 2023 · Japan 96% match ★ 3.74 Goodreads · 71,455 ratings
shares: workplace, healing fiction, mental health, mental illness · easy read, intimate

In a Kyoto building that isn't on any map, the Nakagyo Kokoro Clinic for the Soul sees only the patients who manage to find it, and its doctor sends each of them home with a prescription: a cat.

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

Satoshi Yagisawa · 2010 · Japan 96% match ★ 3.63 Goodreads · 224,739 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Morisaki Bookshop
shares: healing fiction, cosy, urban · easy read, warm

When her boyfriend tells her he is marrying someone else, Takako quits her job and moves into the dusty room above her uncle Satoru's secondhand bookshop in Tokyo's Jimbocho book district, a place she has never cared about.

Marigold Mind Laundry

Jungeun Yun · 2023 · South Korea 96% match ★ 3.33 Goodreads · 8,706 ratings
shares: healing fiction, Korean, cosy · easy read, earnest

Jieun, born with powers she couldn't control, has lived many lives searching for the family she lost, and now opens a laundromat in a village of marigolds where people can wash the stains of painful memories from their hearts.

The Great Passage

Shion Miura · 2011 · Japan 95% match ★ 3.81 Goodreads · 12,041 ratings
shares: workplace, healing fiction, work · warm, clear-cut

Mitsuya Majime, an awkward young publishing employee with a gift for words, is recruited to the dictionary department to help compile The Great Passage, a new dictionary its editors expect to take years.

The Forest of Wool and Steel

Natsu Miyashita · 2015 · Japan 95% match ★ 3.74 Goodreads · 4,875 ratings
shares: workplace, healing fiction, work · unhurried, earnest

Tomura, a quiet boy from a mountain village in Hokkaido, hears a piano tuner at work in his school gym and decides to become one, apprenticing himself to a small piano shop.

The Easy Life in Kamusari

Shion Miura · 2009 · Japan 94% match ★ 3.93 Goodreads · 6,994 ratings
shares: workplace, healing fiction, work · easy read, clear-cut

Fresh out of high school with no plans, Yuki Hirano is packed off by his teacher and his mother to a forestry training scheme in Kamusari, a remote mountain village with no phone signal where life runs on the seasons and the trees.

Strange Weather in Tokyo

Hiromi Kawakami · 2001 · Japan 94% match ★ 3.66 Goodreads · 57,259 ratings
shares: healing fiction, cosy, urban · easy read, intimate

A woman develops a tender relationship with her former high school teacher over sake and seasonal food.

The Dallergut Dream Department Store

Miye Lee · 2020 · South Korea 93% match ★ 3.63 Goodreads · 46,861 ratings
shares: workplace, healing fiction, Korean, work · easy read, earnest

Penny lands her dream job at the Dallergut Dream Department Store, five floors of dreams made by celebrated dream-makers and sold to sleepers, who pay with the feelings they wake up with.

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

Cho Nam-joo · 2016 · South Korea 93% match ★ 3.63 Goodreads
shares: mental health, Korean · easy read, plain prose

A thirty-three-year-old Seoul woman begins speaking in the voices of other women, and her psychiatrist's report on her life lays out the sexism she has met at every stage.