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The Secret History
You know there was a murder on page one. The novel spends 500 pages explaining why.
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The Story
Richard Papen transfers to Hampden College and falls in with a small group of classics students led by the charismatic Julian Morrow. You learn of a murder on page one. The rest of the novel explains why it happened. Donna Tartt's debut. 559 pages.


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The Secret History
3 Seduced
4 Suspicious
5 Horrifying
4 Crumbling
5 Inevitable

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Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we secretly believe it will save us.


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Tartt began writing the novel as a student at Bennington College. It took her ten years to finish. She has published only three novels in thirty years.
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The book defined the dark academia aesthetic decades before the term existed. Its influence is visible across BookTok and literary fiction today.


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