Yes24, '2021 Book of the Year' Voting Until the 29th of This Month

Voting Underway for 100 Candidate Works

[Asia Economy Reporter Seomideum] Yes24, a bookstore (CEO Kim Seokhwan), is conducting the ‘2021 Book of the Year’ voting, where readers select the most beloved books of the year, until the 29th of this month.

The ‘2021 Book of the Year’ voting is held from the 8th to the 29th of this month through the Yes24 website. Among a total of 100 nominated books, the top 24 titles selected from 3 to 6 books chosen by readers will be named ‘Book of the Year.’ Anyone who is a Yes24 member can participate in the voting, and members who vote will receive a YES24 gift certificate worth 1,000 KRW and a 30-day Book Club pass. The voting results can be checked on the Yes24 website on the 30th of this month.

Meanwhile, the Yes24 ‘Book of the Year’ voting is Yes24’s representative cultural event that started in 2003. To gather and reflect diverse reader opinions from the nomination process, a pre-recommendation system was introduced last year. This year, 20 books that received the most reader recommendations among those published between October 1 of last year and September 30 of this year were included as the final nominees.

Past Yes24 reader-selected ‘Books of the Year’ include ‘The Tree’ in 2003, ‘The Da Vinci Code’ in 2004, ‘Blue Ocean Strategy’ in 2005, ‘The Future of Wealth’ in 2006, ‘The Secret’ in 2007, ‘The Star That Watches Over the Dog Food’ in 2008, ‘1Q84’ in 2009, ‘What Is Justice?’ in 2010, ‘Shut Up Politics’ in 2011, ‘Things That Are Seen Only When You Stop’ in 2012, ‘Jungle Manri’ in 2013, ‘Kang Shinju’s Lesson on Emotions’ in 2014, ‘The Courage to Be Disliked’ in 2015, ‘Seol Minseok’s Annals of the Joseon Dynasty’ in 2016, ‘Kim Ji-young, Born 1982’ in 2017, ‘The History of History’ in 2018, ‘The Reason for Travel’ in 2019, and ‘I Decided to Give Myself Time’ in 2020.

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