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• The Secret History

  Tartt, Donna,

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  ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "an accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (Village Voice), from the Pulitzer Prize–winning…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bunny

  Awad, Mona,

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  The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel from the acclaimed author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl and Rouge "We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Maidens

  Michaelides, Alex, 1977-

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  Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike―particularly by the members of a secret society…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Atlas Six

  Blake, Olivie,

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  The much-acclaimed viral sensation from Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six―now newly revised and edited with additional content―is the first in an explosive dark academia fantasy trilogy that reads like The Secret History meets The Umbrella Academy Each…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ninth House

  Bardugo, Leigh,

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  The smash New York Times bestseller from Leigh Bardugo, a mesmerizing tale of power, privilege, and dark magic set among the Ivy League elite. Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Deadly Education

  a Novel

  Novik, Naomi,

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  The smash New York Times bestseller from Leigh Bardugo, a mesmerizing tale of power, privilege, and dark magic set among the Ivy League elite. Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Discovery of Witches

  Harkness, Deborah E., 1965-

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  Deborah Harkness’s sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches, has brought her into the spotlight and galvanized fans around the world. In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Furies

  Lowe, Katie,

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  This page-turning, harrowing debut is the story of a girl trying to fit in, whose obsessive new friends and desperation to belong leads her to places she’d never imagined…dark, dangerous, and possibly even violent. In 1998, a sixteen-year-old girl…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Babel

  or the Necessity of Violence : An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

  Kuang, R. F. (Rebecca F.),

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  From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Will of the Many

  Islington, James, 1981-

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  At the elite Catenan Academy, a young fugitive uncovers layered mysteries and world-changing secrets in this new fantasy series by internationally bestselling author of The Licanius Trilogy, James Islington. AUDI. VIDE. TACE. The Catenan…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• These Violent Delights

  a Novel

  Nemerever, Micah,

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  The Secret History meets Lie with Me in Micah Nemerever's compulsively readable debut novel—a feverishly taut Hitchcockian story about two college students, each with his own troubled past, whose escalating obsession with one another leads to an act…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• If We Were Villains

  Rio, M. L.,

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  On the day Oliver Marks is released from jail, the man who put him there is waiting at the door. Detective Colborne wants to know the truth, and after ten years, Oliver is finally ready to tell it. A decade ago: Oliver is one of seven young…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Piranesi

  Clarke, Susanna,

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  The instant New York Times bestselling novel from the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic book set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Magicians

  a Novel

  Grossman, Lev

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  In a secret world of forbidden knowledge, power comes at a terrible price...Quentin Coldwater's life is changed forever by an apparently chance encounter: when he turns up for his entrance interview to Princeton he finds his interviewer dead - but a…Read moreRead more of this annotation