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)