Books Recommended By Bts Members That Every Army Should Read 2021

 

 

Plot :-   The main character of this classic novel, Emil Sinclair, is a young boy raised in a bourgeois home, amidst what is described as a Scheinwelt, a play on words that means “world of light” as well as “world of illusion”. Emil’s entire existence can be summarized as a struggle between two worlds: the show world of illusion (related to the Hindu concept of maya) and the real world, the world of spiritual truth. In the course of the novel, accompanied and prompted by his mysterious classmate ‘Max Demian’, he detaches from and revolts against the superficial ideals of the world of appearances and eventually awakens into a realization of self. The novel refers to the idea of Gnosticism, particularly the god Abraxas, showing the influence of Carl Jung’s psychology. According to Hesse, the novel is a story of Jungian individuation, the process of opening up to one’s unconsciousness.

Highly Sensitive People In An Insensitive World By Ilse Sand

 

Plot :- Written for highly sensitive people, the book explains the characteristics of being highly sensitive and how to overcome common difficulties, such as low self-esteem and the exhausting effects of socialising. Ilse Sand also encourages you to explore and appreciate the advantages of high sensitivity, including your aptitude for depth, intensity and presence, and suggests activities to calm and inspire.

The Unbearable Lightness Of Being By Milan Kundera

Plot :-  ‘In The Unbearable Lightness of Being’, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. This magnificent novel juxtaposes geographically distant places; brilliant and playful reflections; and a variety of styles to take its place as perhaps the major achievement of one of the world’s truly great writers.

Jojo Moyes Me Before You

Plot :- Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun teashop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick.
What Lou doesn’t know is she’s about to lose her job or that knowing what’s coming is what keeps her sane.
Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he’s going to put a stop to that.
What Will doesn’t know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of colour. And neither of them knows they’re going to change the other for all time.

Martin Gayford’s A Bigger Massage : Conversations With David Hockney

Plot :- The conversations between Hockney and Gayford are punctuated by surprising and revealing observations on other artists―Van Gogh, Vermeer, and Picasso among them―and enlivened by shrewd insights into the contrasting social and physical landscapes of Yorkshire, Hockney’s birthplace, and California. 181 illustrations, 154 in color

Shin Kyung-sook’s Please Look After Mom

Plot :- When sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets and private sorrows begin to reveal themselves, they are forced to wonder: how well did they actually know the woman they called Mom?
Told through the piercing voices and urgent perspectives of a daughter, son, husband, and mother, Please Look After Mom is at once an authentic picture of contemporary life in Korea and a universal story of family love.

Ursula K.Leguin’s Those Who Walk Away From Omelas

 

This story kind of inspiration of BTS song ‘spring day’ and if you notice there is actually Hoardings say ‘omelas’ in the music video.

Plot :- “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” is a short story originally published in the collection The Wind’s Twelve Quarters.
I actually decided to read this short story because a band I listen to, BTS, created a song and music video based on the concept of this story. I loved the prose, and the message really makes you think. I also recommend reading the author’s notes at the end of the story Very insightful.

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 

 

 

 

Plot :- The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed (metamorphosed) into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. The cause of Samsa’s transformation is never revealed, and Kafka himself never gave an explanation. The rest of Kafka’s novella deals with Gregor’s attempts to adjust to his new condition as he deals with being burdensome to his parents and sister, who are repulsed by the horrible, verminous creature Gregor has become.

 Kafka On The Shore by haruki murakami

 

‘Kafka On The Shore’ is referred to one of the song by BTS called butterfly and they also directly mention in the lyrics of song which is amazing. 

Top 21 Quotes From Kafka On The Shore By Haruki Murakami

 

Plot :- Kafka on the Shore follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father’s dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down. Their parallel odysseys are enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerising dramas. Cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghostlike pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since WWII. There is a savage killing, but the identity of both victim and killer is a riddle. Murakami’s novel is at once a classic quest, but it is also a bold exploration of mythic and contemporary taboos, of patricide, of mother-love, of sister-love. Above all it is an entertainment of a very high order.

Norwegian Wood By Haruki Murakami : The Best Quotes About Love, Life And Death

     BTS Jungkook’s Books

Jungkook is the the maknae aka youngest member of BTS and the first member of the group that I first started to like.

Here is the book recommend by jungkook –

The Little Prince By Antoine De Saint-exupery

 

Plot :- After being stranded in a desert after a crash, a pilot comes in contact with a captivating little prince who recounts his journey from planet to planet and his search for what is most important in life.

 

 

I Decided To Live As Me By Kim Soo Hyun

 

 

Plot :- This book tells us what we need to live sincerely as ‘me’. It tells you that you don’t need to feel bad after looking at some rich person’s SNS, that you don’t need to make excuses to yourself, and that you don’t need to be understood by everyone.

       BTS J-hope’s Books

j hope is one of the three rappers of the group. j-hope is known for lot of things but most commonly he is very bright and bubbly personality.

Here is book love by j-hope –

Living, Loving,& Learning By Leo F. Buscaglia

 

Plot :- LIVING, LOVING AND LEARNING is a delightful collection of Dr. Buscaglia’s informative and amusing lectures, which were delivered worldwide between 1970 and 1981. This inspirational treasure is for all those eager to accept the challenge of life and to profit from the wonder of love.

        BTS Suga’s Books 

suga aka min yoongi is the third and final rappers of the group. his rap in DNA on of my favourites. suga is like having this kind of quiet kindness where he might be not tell you that he loves you are he is happy to see you happy or anything but he clearly feel those things and he express how he feel through his action so here the book that love by suga-

Plot :- Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different—and far more satisfying—than he ever imagined. Santiago’s journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, of recognizing opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life’s path, and, most importantly, to follow our dreams.

The Alchemist : Favorite Quotes From This Amazing Book – ladykiatown

       

           BTS Jin’s Books

here is the book recommend by jin –

I’m Glad You Live Like Bonobono By Kim Shin Hoi

 

Plot :-  There are similarities among the people that like Bonobono. They are people who live every day quietly without big dreams, people who prefer comfort to thrills, people who don’t live the life they dreamed of when they were young but do not despair about it, people who know how to give up knowing there are things that can’t get done no matter what, people who know how to listen to other people’s tears and sighs as much as their own, and people who sometimes look lazy without any drive… People who like Bonobono are not especially energetic or bright, but they live on. (source)

 

        BTS Jimin’s Books

Jimin known for having double personality on one hand he is very soft and sweet and then on the other hand he is very like hardcore.

냉정과 열정사이 Rosso (Between Calm and Passion – Rosso)

Plot :- The plot of Between Calm and Passion circles two individuals, Aoi and Junsei, who made a promise to each other when they were 20 years old that on Aoi’s 30th birthday, they would meet again at the Duomo, located in Florence, Italy. ( source )

 

 

But there is a movie adaptation for who can’t read Korean. It’s a Japanese film (2001) called “Calmi Cuori Appassionati”.

 

             BTS V’s Books

V aka kim taehyung is one of the main vocalists of the group and he is always has so close relationship with his group member.

Fan see him with this book at the airport

(picture).

 

The book is about how to talk to people in a way you can attract them, talk fluently, deeply, and thoughtfully.

 

Unfortunately there is only a Korean version of this one.

P.S – RM is a huge reader and his book recommend list is too long and I had to write other members recommendations too Because of this I’m not added all his recommend books in this list. I would surely write a another blog about that.