Reviews

The Circle has gotten many positive reviews and has been noticed by many publications. Read more about each review by clicking on the publication title.

•  The NewYork Review by Margaret Atwood:

"'Don’t make a spectacle of yourself,' kids used to be told; but in the world of the Circle, people must make spectacles of themselves: to refuse to do so is selfish, or, as Bailey leads Mae to declaim, PRIVACY IS THEFT."

• The New York Times by Ellen Ullman: 

"The novel has the flavor of a comic book: light, entertaining, undemanding."

• Los Angeles Book Review by Susannah Luthi:

"Its subject — big data collection, surveillance, transparency — is in the ether and on our collective mind these days."

• Boston Globe by Jane Ciabattari:

"When I finished reading Dave Eggers’s chilling and caustic novel, “The Circle,” I felt like disconnecting from all my online devices and retreating for a while into an unplugged world. I gather that’s what he had in mind."