Sarah Pekkanen’s Recommended Reading List
Photograph of Sarah Pekkanen by Kristina Sherk
Sarah Pekkanen, the author of several co-authored and solo novels, her latest being House of Glass shares her recommended reading list.
Sarah Pekkanen is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of several co-authored and solo novels. Her books are sold in 36 countries, with several optioned for TV and film. Sarah also co-wrote the screenplay for The Wife Between Us for Amblin Entertainment. She serves on the board of directors of International Thriller Writers, and is the founder of a nonprofit that rescues injured and abused street dogs in India. She lives just outside of Washington, D.C.
“Every night when a woman goes to sleep, her memory is erased. When she wakes up, the man beside her - the same man who has shared her bed and life for years - is a stranger.”
“This novella appears in Stephen King’s Full Dark, No Stars. It begins on an ordinary night, when a wife goes out to the garage and discovers a box of horrors tucked beneath her husband’s workbench. He is away on a business trip, but he may be coming home soon. In the short span of time that follows, she must wrestle with competing urges: Uncover the truth about the man she married a quarter-century ago, or continue living in blissful ignorance?”
“Few writers are able to combine page-turning suspense with truly relatable characters, but Liane Moriarty manages to do this in book after book. What Alice Forgot is one of her earlier novels, and the premise is that a head injury forces the protagonist, Alice, to forget the past ten years.”
“This true story also deals with the breakdown of a marriage featuring a seemingly perfect couple - the beautiful actress wife and her charming husband. I read it all in one gulp. Gillies takes an unflinching look at what it feels like to go through a divorce, and her writing is raw and real. It’s like listening to a friend describe her most intimate betrayal.”
“Give me a book about an octopus, and I'll disappear into it - I love to scuba dive and I'm obsessed with these brilliant, sensitive creatures of the sea. If that octopus is a narrator? Even better. I knew half-way through this book that I'd be in tears at the conclusion, the good kind of crying that comes with an emotionally satisfying resolution.”
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