October 5–11, 2026
Love that consumes. Ambition that devours. Revenge that won’t let go. Five novels driven by characters who can’t stop — even when they know they should.
by Han Kang
Han Kang builds an obsession out of whiteness itself — sixty-five fragments that circle a sister's death, a war-torn city, silence — until absence becomes the only thing luminous enough to see.
A bestselling novelist murdered in his locked home — and the detective who realizes the real crime was years in the making, a resentment so methodical it rewrites what vengeance means. Higashino's masterpiece proves that the deadliest obsessions are the ones that wear the patient face of friendship.
A student arrives at a cursed classroom where his attraction to a mysterious girl only deepens the spell — Ayatsuji transforms adolescent obsession into genuine horror, each pulled thread unraveling something darker.
A woman who swore off her gift for communicating with beasts is pulled back into a world of conspiracy and power — Uehashi traces how one investigation becomes an obsession that threatens everything Elin built to protect.
by Yan Geling
A woman receives anonymous emails that know too much — and can't stop reading them, even as they unravel everything she's built. Yan Geling's thriller maps obsession onto the immigrant experience, where the desire to know who's watching becomes more urgent than protecting what you've hidden.