Sarah Lyall Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Sarah Lyall

It's so good as a psychological study and it focuses on one character…who isn't as fabulous as the other kids…and is trying so hard to fit in and that's part of what I loved about the book, just looking at it from his perspective was a great insight into all these people.

Sarah Lyall

I don't think I'd ever read a legal thriller before, and I remember starting to read it and finding it so gripping, so enthralling, so terrific…I loved it. It has a great courtroom scene, political intrigue, a murder, unexpected conclusion; everything is great.

Sarah Lyall

Wintering does us the great service of reminding us that we are not alone in feeling undone. And although May’s book doesn’t offer a neat, easy ending in which she miraculously feels better, she does offer hope... She finds that hope in the ebb and flow of the seasons.

Sarah Lyall

Reading the transcriptions takes some getting used to... Be patient. Hallett swoops in with a bravura final section that sheds new light on everything you’ve read before and will leave you amazed at her ingenuity. It’s all right there in the code.

Sarah Lyall

The book sometimes moves too slowly, stepping on its revelations with overabundant detail. But it revs up toward the end, and it is brilliantly atmospheric.

Sarah Lyall

What a delight it was to interview the marvelously witty and articulate @BenMacintyre1 about his latest book, AGENT SONYA: MOSCOW'S MOST DARING WARTIME SPY (now available in paperback), for the Freakonomics Radio Book Club. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/frbc-ben-macintyre/ via @freakonomics

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Sarah Lyall

This beautiful, exciting book is also a head-spinning, sometimes confusing trip. It helps to pay attention to the discussion of Hannah’s own mother, a brilliant physicist who became mentally ill... But the novel is at its best when it portrays Hannah’s love for Jack.

Sarah Lyall

The sentences are short and portentous; the plot is lurid; the revelations are bold. Anxiety, and similes, stalk the pages. “Do the others not feel the darkness wafting through the house, snaking into the corners and curling around us like smoke?” Stella asks.

Sarah Lyall

A high-concept mash-up of different genres that transcends its wackadoodle premise with an affecting portrayal of a family careening toward crisis.

Sarah Lyall

A rager of a psychological mystery about toxic men, murderous women and the art of constructing fake realities… a novel as audacious as it is intricately plotted.