14 Best fiction books like The Sorcerer of Pyongyang by Marcel Theroux

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The Sorcerer of Pyongyang

By: Marcel Theroux

3.78

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

Ten-year-old Jun-su is a bright and obedient boy whose only desire is to be a credit to his family,…

If you liked the fiction plot in The Sorcerer of Pyongyang by Marcel Theroux , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Upstairs Room

By: Kate Murray-Browne

4.44

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Eleanor, Richard and their two young daughters recently stretched themselves to the limit to buy th… read more

Similar categories in Kate Murray-Browne's The Upstairs Room book and Marcel Theroux's The Sorcerer of Pyongyang

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. Let the Old Dreams Die

By: John Ajvide Lindqvist , Ebba Segerberg

4.00

Format: 162 pages, Hardcover

A classic short story collection from the writer called Sweden's Stephen King that continues the br… read more

Similar categories in John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Old Dreams Die book and Marcel Theroux's The Sorcerer of Pyongyang

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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3. The Silk Tree

By: Julian Stockwin

4.44

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Forced to flee Rome from the barbaric rampages of the Ostrogoths, merchant Nicander meets an unlike… read more

Similar categories in Julian Stockwin's The Silk Tree book and Marcel Theroux's The Sorcerer of Pyongyang

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

4. A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power

By: Paul Fischer

4.41

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"The 1978 abductions of the South Korean actress Choi-Eun-hee and her ex-husband, the director Shin… read more

Similar categories in Paul Fischer's A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power book and Marcel Theroux's The Sorcerer of Pyongyang

5. Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom

By: Lucia Jang , Susan McClelland

5.00

Format: 646 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary memoir by a North Korean woman who defied the government to keep her family alive.… read more

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6. On

By: Adam Roberts

3.84

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Tighe lives on the wall. It towers above his village and falls away below it. It is vast and unforg… read more

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7. The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

By: Shubnum Khan

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Rebecca meets The House of Spirits in this sweeping, … read more

Similar categories in Shubnum Khan's The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years book and Marcel Theroux's The Sorcerer of Pyongyang

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"It walked to many places in the world and swam through many seas. It moved among men and watched how they lived and how they fought. Men were the same everywhere—power-hungry creatures always engaged…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

"The end always returns to the beginning; the circle always seeks to be whole, and so when the end comes for Meena Begum, she is remembering the river and the way it runs through the village like a pe…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

"There are things that never see light again. They scream and bang at their fate, hoping they will be discovered. A forgotten letter beneath a file, an ivory button in a couch, a handprint against a w…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

"She tries to lie still, but she's forgotten how. On the farm everything had been still. The silence was a complete thing. She could touch it with her fingers, taste it with her mouth, and sit in it l…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

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8. Radical Love

By: Neil Blackmore

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to England, 1809. London is a violent, intolerant city, exhausted by years of war, beset by… read more

Similar categories in Neil Blackmore's Radical Love book and Marcel Theroux's The Sorcerer of Pyongyang

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. This Plague of Souls

By: Mike McCormack

3.09

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

The follow-up to Booker-listed literary sensation Solar Bones is a terse metaphysical thriller, nam… read more

Similar categories in Mike McCormack's This Plague of Souls book and Marcel Theroux's The Sorcerer of Pyongyang

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. In Ascension

By: Martin MacInnes

3.79

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more

Similar categories in Martin MacInnes's In Ascension book and Marcel Theroux's The Sorcerer of Pyongyang

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

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11. The Fake

By: Zoe Whittall

3.44

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A con artist can make you feel like the luckiest person on earth just to be in their presence. But … read more

Similar categories in Zoe Whittall's The Fake book and Marcel Theroux's The Sorcerer of Pyongyang

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"There are worse things than telling a lie."

-Zoe Whittall, The Fake

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12. Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv

By: Andrey Kurkov

3.57

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A hugely entertaining romp through the beautiful city of Lviv, by the author of Death and the Pengu… read more

Similar categories in Andrey Kurkov's Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv book and Marcel Theroux's The Sorcerer of Pyongyang

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. Kitchen of Witch Hat, vol. 3

By: Hiromi Satō

4.14

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Ya sea para desayunar, comer o cenar, ya sea para disfrutar en casa o de excursión, preparar apetit… read more

Similar categories in Hiromi Satō's Kitchen of Witch Hat, vol. 3 book and Marcel Theroux's The Sorcerer of Pyongyang

  • fantasy
Cover of A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon

14. A Magical Girl Retires

By: Park Seolyeon

3.63

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful… read more

Similar categories in Park Seolyeon's A Magical Girl Retires book and Marcel Theroux's The Sorcerer of Pyongyang

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The person I loved and respected the most in the world called me a genius; therefore, I was a genius."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

"If I could become a magical girl at twenty-nine, then surely it was never too late to become a watchmaker."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

"Grandfather, I just love watches. When I look at them, I just... It's like they're a whole universe. The universe itself. Even the smallest watch."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

"She had a point. I mean, when did my own girlhood begin and end, exactly? I couldn't quite circle a lasso around it, but I knew, at least, when it had ended. Three years ago, when Grandfather died."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

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15. The Sister: The Extraordinary Story of Kim Yo Jong, The Most Powerful Woman in North Korea

By: Sung-Yoon Lee

3.52

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The onset of Covid-19 has coincided with the dramatic rise of a young woman called Kim Yo Jong in N… read more

Similar categories in Sung-Yoon Lee's The Sister: The Extraordinary Story of Kim Yo Jong, The Most Powerful Woman in North Korea book and Marcel Theroux's The Sorcerer of Pyongyang

  • asia
  • audiobook
Cover of The Sorcerer of Pyongyang by Marcel Theroux

16. The Sorcerer of Pyongyang

By: Marcel Theroux

3.78

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

Ten-year-old Jun-su is a bright and obedient boy whose only desire is to be a credit to his family,… read more

Similar categories in Marcel Theroux's The Sorcerer of Pyongyang book and Marcel Theroux's The Sorcerer of Pyongyang

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • asia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Circumference of the World by Lavie Tidhar

17. The Circumference of the World

By: Lavie Tidhar

3.43

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Caught between realities, a mathematician, a book dealer, and a mobster desperately seek a notoriou… read more

Similar categories in Lavie Tidhar's The Circumference of the World book and Marcel Theroux's The Sorcerer of Pyongyang

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Ask A North Korean: Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the World's Most Secretive Nation by Daniel Tudor

18. Ask A North Korean: Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the World's Most Secretive Nation

By: Daniel Tudor

3.81

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Understanding North Korean Through the Eyes of Defectors.The weekly column Ask a North Korean, publ… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Tudor's Ask A North Korean: Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the World's Most Secretive Nation book and Marcel Theroux's The Sorcerer of Pyongyang

  • asia
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Sagebrush Empire: How a Remote Utah County Became the Battlefront of American Public Lands by Jonathan P. Thompson

19. Sagebrush Empire: How a Remote Utah County Became the Battlefront of American Public Lands

By: Jonathan P. Thompson

4.32

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

San Juan County, Utah, contains some of the most spectacular landscapes in the world, rich in natur… read more

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20. The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre

By: Cho yeeun

3.51

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

At New Seoul Park, Korea’s greatest theme park, an enigmatic man tempts visitors with a mysterious … read more

Similar categories in Cho yeeun's The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre book and Marcel Theroux's The Sorcerer of Pyongyang

  • asia
  • literary fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I couldn't help but feel empty inside as I thought about all the moments of my life fading away like that. What was I, after all, if all the memories that made me up were gone?"

-Cho yeeun, The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre

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21. Skull Water

By: Heinz Insu Fenkl

3.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Set in South Korea in the 1950s and 1970s, a haunting inter-generational coming-of-age novel about … read more

Similar categories in Heinz Insu Fenkl's Skull Water book and Marcel Theroux's The Sorcerer of Pyongyang

  • historical
  • asia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook

8 Best adult books like The Sorcerer of Pyongyang by Marcel Theroux

Transform Your Habits

The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

Shubnum Khan

3.87

Transform Your Habits

In Ascension

Martin MacInnes

3.79

Transform Your Habits

The Fake

Zoe Whittall

3.44

Transform Your Habits

A Magical Girl Retires

Park Seolyeon

3.63

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21 Top fiction books like The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan

Transform Your Habits

The Warm Hands of Ghosts

Katherine Arden

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The Familiar

Leigh Bardugo

3.84

Transform Your Habits

The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

Shubnum Khan

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Diavola

Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

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