7 must-read fiction books like Smoko by F.E. Beyer

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Smoko

By: F.E. Beyer

4.69

Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition

One day the postal services will turn a buck by using drones to deliver fake Rolexes to citizen sla…

"Don’t burn your throat with the hot mince, mate,"

-F.E. Beyer, Smoko

"Don’t burn your throat with the hot mince, mate,"

-F.E. Beyer, Smoko

"Those with Diogenes syndrome live in a state of squalor. Diogenes of Sinope, a Greek philosopher, lived in a barrel in ancient Athens and disparaged material possessions. So naming this syndrome after him was a misnomer. You need stuff to have squalor."

-F.E. Beyer, Smoko

"Those with Diogenes syndrome live in a state of squalor. Diogenes of Sinope, a Greek philosopher, lived in a barrel in ancient Athens and disparaged material possessions. So naming this syndrome after him was a misnomer. You need stuff to have squalor."

-F.E. Beyer, Smoko

If you liked the fiction plot in Smoko by F.E. Beyer , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. The White Nile

By: Alan Moorehead

3.56

Format: None pages, Paperback

Relive all the thrills and adventure of Alan Moorehead's classic bestseller The White Nile-- the da… read more

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2. Bangkok Days

By: Lawrence Osborne

3.87

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A PASSIONATE, AFFECTIONATE RECORD OF ADVENTURES AND MISADVENTURES IN THE WORLD'S HOTTEST METROPOLIS… read more

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3. Dubliners

By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more

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4. The Peacock and the Sparrow

By: I.S. Berry

3.81

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • AN NPR BEST B… read more

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"Jimmy dealt in one of two limitless departments within the CIA - money and suspicion."

-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow

"I was free from the tangle of mistakes, promises, and defeats that grips a man's heels, taunts him with flashes of its sinewy strength."

-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow

"Nobody in espionage could justify sympathy. Right and wrong existed on paper, but in reality all that existed were the amorphous masses of in-between."

-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow

"At the end of the road, I've learned, espionage turns into a profession of ghosts. The culmination of actions taken or not taken, ends swallowed by means. A place where, even after you disappear, you…"

-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow

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5. The Lost City of the Monkey God

By: Douglas Preston

3.93

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering jour… read more

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6. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

By: Evelyn Waugh

4.00

Format: 452 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more

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  • fiction
"Here my last love had died."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"No one is ever holy without suffering."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"I had been there before; I knew all about it."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

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7. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

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  • fiction
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

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8. Stay True

By: Hua Hsu

4.03

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for se… read more

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"My parents are great, I said. Unbelievably non-stereotypical."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

"The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

"You were describing people we had not yet met, maybe people we ourselves would become."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

"It was a sign of personal growth, I thought to myself, that I could be friends with someone who liked Pearl Jam this much."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

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9. The Bookseller at the End of the World

By: Ruth Shaw

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny book… read more

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"My mother, more than anyone, knew why I lived such a high-risk life. She gave me the freedom to run."

-Ruth Shaw, The Bookseller at the End of the World

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10. Portrait of a Thief

By: Grace D. Li

3.46

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

Ocean’s Eleven meets The Farewell in Portrait of a Thief, a lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by t… read more

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  • fiction
"We’re children of the diaspora,"

-Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief

"Art could be beauty, but it was also power."

-Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief

"She had never liked anything she did not excel at."

-Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief

"For all that people in power claim to care about looting, it doesn't seem to matter when it's museums doing it."

-Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief

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11. The Moroccan Girl

By: Charles Cumming

3.77

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

THE MOROCCAN GIRL is a standalone thriller from Charles Cumming.Kit Carradine is the successful aut… read more

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12. On Java Road

By: Lawrence Osborne

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A veteran journalist in Hong Kong is caught in a shadowy web of tr… read more

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Cover of Smoko by F.E. Beyer

13. Smoko

By: F.E. Beyer

4.69

Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition

One day the postal services will turn a buck by using drones to deliver fake Rolexes to citizen sla… read more

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  • fiction
"Don’t burn your throat with the hot mince, mate,"

-F.E. Beyer, Smoko

"Those with Diogenes syndrome live in a state of squalor. Diogenes of Sinope, a Greek philosopher, lived in a barrel in ancient Athens and disparaged material possessions. So naming this syndrome afte…"

-F.E. Beyer, Smoko

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