Novels Featuring Pipe Smoking - Post Your Favourites Here

Perhaps not he best for an e-reader but Mr Crabtree is a classic! It's a series of comic strips that teach you the finer points of traditional UK coarse fishing through the young eyes of Peter who goes fishing with Mr Crabtree.
Just to whet your appetite

I too enjoy contemporary SciFi books. But unfortunately I think the newer books do not have much pipe smoking mentions.
I recall reading Stephen Kings The Stand. There was a character that pipe smoked Borkum Riff. The way King described the smell made me crave a smoke.

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton won the booker prize two years ago. It is an outstanding read. Simply put it is a mystery set in the New Zealand goldfields. There is more opium use than pipe smoking but pipe smoking is present.
Not so high brow there was a Sir Walter Raleigh smoking judge in one of John Grishams books. I think it was The Summons.

Stating the obvious: Any Sherlock Holmes novel.

Bill Granger first three November Man books!

Robinson Crusoe comes to mind.

No mention of Tolkien? The blasphemy! 8O

The good companions, J B Priestly. And he was a pipe man who liked a pipe in the bath tub.

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Ralph Manheim's "The Neverending Story" has a pipesmoking bookstore owner.

Excluding LOTR, I would go with a relatively new novel. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell. BBC just put out a TV adaptation as well.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Strange_%26_Mr_Norrell

The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan. He is on the run with just a pouch full that he scooped out of the jar on the mantle piece, the rationed smokes are spread throughout the adventure. (that may not be accurate, its more the memory the story has impressed on me, its been a few years since I read it). I see it got made into a film in 1935, anyone seen that?
Lorna Doone sported some clay pipe action.
I will try and find back the book I read a while ago that has a husband who does not even know how to pack his own pipe, because his wife does it for him perfectly every time ha.
The Count of Monte Cristo has this romantic little excerpt...
There, on a table, surrounded at some distance by a large and luxurious divan, every species of tobacco known,—from the yellow tobacco of Petersburg to the black of Sinai, and so on along the scale from Maryland and Porto-Rico, to Latakia,—was exposed in pots of crackled earthenware of which the Dutch are so fond; beside them, in boxes of fragrant wood, were ranged, according to their size and quality, pueros, regalias, havanas, and manillas; and, in an open cabinet, a collection of German pipes, of chibouques, with their amber mouth-pieces ornamented with coral, and of narghiles, with their long tubes of morocco, awaiting the caprice or the sympathy of the smokers. Albert had himself presided at the arrangement, or, rather, the symmetrical derangement, which, after coffee, the guests at a breakfast of modern days love to contemplate through the vapor that escapes from their mouths, and ascends in long and fanciful wreaths to the ceiling.
I love books and pipes, great thread.

Isaac.

Sax Rohmer wrote two books about a pipe smoking detective of the occult named Paul Harley. The books were Bat-Wings and Fire Tongue. LOL...those would be good names for pipe tobaccos.

Pruss: The Luminaries was easily the best book I read a couple of years ago. With a New Zealand connection (and pipe connection) I have to mention Ruth Park's The Frost and the Fire (also called One-a-pecker, Two-a-pecker). It is also set in the New Zealand goldfields and mentions pipe smoking a few times. Once it is in reference to diggers with so little money they out a pipe stem into a hollowed out potato in order to smoke.

I am getting Two Solitudes on my to get list. I was not even aware of its existence, so thanks for that one, Pruss. I am curious to read anglophones' point of view of that disparity.
Spontaneously, without over thinking it:
- Sherlock Holmes, of course.
- I have tried LOTR both in English and French and just can't get into it...There's just something about Tolkien's writing style that doesn't agree with me.
- The novels featuring Commissaire Maigret by Georges Simenon are favorites of mine.
- Louis Caron, an author from Québec, has pipe smoking very present in his novels. I am not sure if his work is translated in English, though.

The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley-- lots of pipe smoking in that one.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/41077-barker-llewelyn
Obviously inspired by Sherlock Holmes and Watson, this series set in victorian England contains plenty of pipesmoking (our main detective even has a meerschaum carved in his own likeness) and was somewhat of a trigger for me in picking up the pipe.
I'm a binge reader, so keep the suggestions coming folks.

The Maigret series, by Georges Simenon. Great reading and plenty of smoking references. In one of the books, a great scene is described where Maigret, the irrepressible pipe smoking French detective, is observing a young man on a bus trying to light a huge pipe. He thinks to himself (to paraphrase): "Why do the young always go for the oversized and overstated? He needs a smaller, lighter pipe that will sit better in his mouth". A neat observation, probably from the author's own experience. I can recommend these books as they also are great reads on a past world, albeit not that long ago. Good storylines and characterisation make for page turning reading.