Episode · The Book Review · 2026-04-10
Books mentioned on Patrick Radden Keefe on the Mystery at the Center of ‘London Falling’
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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London Falling
London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe is a true-crime narrative and investigative work by the acclaimed New Yorker reporter.
Discussed“His new book, London Falling, is out now.”
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Far From the Tree
Far From the Tree is a comprehensive nonfiction book by Andrew Solomon that explores how parents navigate raising children who are profoundly different from them in identity, ability, or background.
Discussed“Um I've never read Andrew Solomon's Far from the Tree. It's quite a tome. it. It's incredible book. It's supposed to be it's supposed to be a great book, classic piece of non-fiction.”
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The Emperor's Children
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud is a sharp social novel that chronicles the lives of three ambitious young cousins navigating career, romance, and intellectual pretension in pre-9/11 New York City.
Recommended“The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud which is a novel I read when it came out and I revisit every few years.”
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Out of Sheer Rage
Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer is a biographical and critical study exploring the author's frustrating attempts to write a book about D.
Recommended“And when I was halfway through Eileen gave me out of sheer rage by Geoff Dyer. Which is a great book that I'd recommend to anybody”
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Middlemarch
Middlemarch by George Eliot is widely regarded as a masterwork of Victorian literature, brilliantly capturing the complex social fabric, political undercurrents, and psychological depths of provincial English life.
Discussed“It's Middlemarch, which I'd never read.”
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In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is a pioneering true-crime masterpiece that details the brutal 1959 murders of a Kansas family and the subsequent capture, trial, and execution of the killers.
Recommended“In Cold Blood is a book I go back to quite a bit.”
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The Power Broker
The Power Broker by Robert A.
Discussed“I did read The Power Broker cover to cover when I was young when I actually was in college”
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Presumed Innocent
Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow is widely regarded as a classic legal thriller that explores the intense fallout within a prosecutor's office after a prominent attorney is accused of murdering his colleague.
Recommended“I really love Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow's first novel. Wow. Incredible book.”
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The Secret History
The Secret History by Donna Tartt is a gripping psychological thriller that follows a tightly knit group of classics students at an elite Vermont college who become morally corrupted after committing murder.
Recommended“I love uh The Secret History by Donna Tartt. And And funnily my It's one of the best.”
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The Last Samurai
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt is a critically acclaimed and inventive novel that follows a single mother raising a precocious young boy in Tokyo as he becomes obsessed with Akira Kurosawa's film.
Recommended“The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt. A really good reader.”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“He is also the author of several best-selling non-fiction books including Say Nothing.”
“Uh Patrick, thank you so much for joining The Book Review to talk about your new book, London Falling.”