Besides the complete works of Sigmund Freud and Umberto Eco, Open Books has published more than 200 other works by Korean and foreign scholars in such diverse fields as philosophy, sociology, history, psychology, anthropology, political economy, linguistics, cultural studies, art criticism, education, etc.

The catalogue includes several works by Ernst Bloch (1885-1977) translated from the German, including The Principle of Hope (in 2004), Atheism in Christianity (in 2009). and His 1961 essay Natural Law and Human Dignity (2011).

Among the other major essays and reference books published in translation by Open Books are Man and His Symbol by Carl Gustav Jung (1996), Power: A New Social Analysis and The Scientific Outlook by Bertrand Russell (2003 and 2011), Dictionary of Classical Mythology by Pierre Grimal (2004), Socrates to Sartre and Beyond by Samuel Enoch Stumpf (2004), The Short History of German Literature by Heinz Schlaffer (2004), The Language of Psycho-Analysis by Jean Laplanche (2005), When Titans Clashed by David Glantz (2007), Other Inquisitions by Jorge Luis Borges (2008) and Unto This Last by John Ruskin (2009). In early 2011, Open Books also published the two first volumes of a series of illustrated essays on European philosophers, as well as three books on Dostoyevsky, among which the 1931 biography by E.H. Carr.

The nonfiction list also features other biographies among which that of C.G. Jung by Deirdre Bair and Gaston Gallimard by Pierre Assouline as well as works by Korean professors on German literature, notably with essays on Goethe, Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka.

Open Books also published the 1,000-page Modern Korean History As Seen Through Treaties in 2010, a collective work by 4 Korean historians.

2013 was a breakthrough year for Open Books in nonfiction, with best-selling titles like The Price of Inequality by Joseph Stiglitz and Plutocrats by Chrystia Freeland. Various important titles by Naomi Klein, Andrew Solomon, Timothy Snyder, Frank Dikötter, Eula Biss, Jordan Ellenberg, Dick Swaab, Eugenia Cheng and many others followed.
 
 
The Open Books family strives to be a very active player in the Korean publishing industry. In 2008, it published a 350-page Editorial Manual not only for its own editors to use, but also for other publishers to refer. It is sold at a very low price to promote access for anyone interested. The Open Books Editorial Manual covers most aspects of book publishing, quite extensively relating to licensing, translating, editing, printing, binding, digital publishing and much more. The Editorial Manual has been revised and expanded each year since then.

Other publishing-related titles in translation include Pierre Assouline's authoritative biography of Gaston Gallimard (2005), Stet: An Editor's Life by Diana Athill (2006), Structure of the Visual Book by Keith Smith (2004), Casanova Was a Book Lover by John Maxwell Hamilton (2005, with a new edition in 2012), as well as several essays on translation by a.o. Lawrence Venuti (The Scandals of Translation) and Umberto Eco. The translation of What Editors Do by Peter Ginna will be published in 2020.

The art publishing branch Mimesis published translations of Penguin 75: Designers, Authors, Commentary (the Good, the Bad...) in 2012 and Art of McSweeney's in 2014.
 
 
Open Books has a soft spot for cinema. Not only has it published several collections of essays on cinema by Korean and foreign authors since 1994, but its catalogue also features several classic novels which earned a second life -and success- as adaptations for the big screen, including Kazantzakis' Zorba the Greek adapted as Alexis Zorba (directed by Mihalis Kakogiannis, 1964), Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago (David Lean, 1965), Eco's The Name of the Rose (Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1986), Forster's Howard's End (James Ivory, 1992) Süskind's Perfume (Tom Tykwer, 2006) and, most recently, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré (Tomas Alfredson, 2011), 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup (Steve McQueen, 2013), and Brooklyn by Colm Tóbín (John Crowley, 2015).

In 2005, Open Books completed its edition of The History of World Cinema initially published by the Oxford University Press.

In 2009, it released the book Jibhaengja as a tie-in with the eponymous Korean movie directed by Jin Ho Choi.
 
 
Open Books has been publishing a selection of Korean and foreign cartoons, comics and graphic novels since 1999, starting with Reiser and including works by Korean cartoonist Kim Jin Tae (Hotel California) and Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown (I Never Liked You and Little Man). Currently, foreign cartoons and graphic novels are published under its imprint Mimesis, such as Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli, Blankets by Craig Thompson, and many other works by young European comic authors like Bastien Vivès, Manuele Fior and Brecht Evens to name only a few. Take a look at our Mimesis graphic novel list on the Mimesis page.

Open Books' cartoon collection also includes Snowcat books telling the stories of the eponymous little cat, a popular character created by Korean cartoonist Kwon Yoon-Joo. The Snowcat series, which started as a web cartoon, has been published in book form by Open Books since 2005. The Snowcat collection includes Snowcat in New York (2007), Snowcat Plays Alone (2009) and Eraser (2009).
 
 
Since the early 1990s, Open Books has been publishing health and oriental medicine books by Korean and Japanese authors. Over 30 health-related titles have been published to date.

As of 2007, Open Books started to publish new editions of books about Korean traditional herbal medicine and acupuncture, which were well received by Korean readers. Stomach and Liver Diseases in Korea, written by the well-known Korean professor Hyun Cheol-Soo, was published in 2010.