Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books

For the Reader Who Already Reads Every Day and Wants to Think About Why From Hwang Bo-reum, author of the international bestseller Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, comes a quiet and generous collection of essays about what it means to live a life shaped by reading. Not a how-to. Not a reading list. Something rarer — a book that asks the questions most readers feel but rarely put into words: Why do we read? What do we take from it? What does it give us back? Hwang Bo-reum answers through her own experience, weaving in book recommendations naturally, the way a friend might mention a title mid-conversation rather than presenting a curated list. Warm, philosophical, and entirely unhurried. The kind of book that makes you want to clear your afternoon and sit with it. Details Author: Hwang Bo-reum Translated by Shanna Tan Hardback, published February 2026 Publisher: Bloomsbury Perfect For The reader who loved Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop and wants more of that world A beautiful gift for the book lover who has everything — except this Anyone who has ever wondered what reading is actually doing to them (in the best possible way)