What is Yeonmi Park's highest-rated book?

"In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park, Maryanne Vollers" is Yeonmi Park's highest-rated book on LuvemBooks, with a reader rating of 4.8/5.

How many Yeonmi Park books are reviewed on LuvemBooks?

We have reviewed 1 book by Yeonmi Park.

What genres does Yeonmi Park write?

Yeonmi Park's books span genres including Politics & Society, Biography & Memoir.

Yeonmi Park - Author Profile

Yeonmi Park

American

1993 - Present

Yeonmi Park is an American conservative activist and author. Born in North Korea, she defected from the country and was described by The Washington Post as "one of the most famous North Korean defectors in the world".

On LuvemBooks, we've reviewed In Order to Live.

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In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park, Maryanne Vollers

4.8/5

In Order to Live is a memoir of extraordinary endurance — Yeonmi Park's first-person account of surviving North Korea's brutal deprivations, fleeing across the border, and reconstructing a self in freedom, written with co-author Maryanne Vollers and published in paperback by Penguin Books in a 2016 reprint edition.

Reviewed Mar 25, 2026

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