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• The Secret History

  Tartt, Donna

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  Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when…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 Ancient Nine

  Smith, Ian K., 1969-

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  The Ancient Nine is both a coming of age novel and a swiftly plotted story that lets readers into the ultimate of closed worlds with all of its dark historical secrets and unyielding power.

• Ninth House

  Bardugo, Leigh,

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  Galaxy "Alex" Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Catherine House

  a Novel

  Thomas, Elisabeth (Novelist),

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  Catherine House is a school of higher learning like no other. Hidden deep in the woods of rural Pennsylvania, this crucible of reformist liberal arts study with its experimental curriculum, wildly selective admissions policy, and formidable…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Discovery of Witches

  Harkness, Deborah, 1965-

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  When Diana Bishop, witch and Yale historian, discovers an enchanted historical manuscript, she attracts the attention of a 1500-year-old vampire named Matthew Clairmont. Together they discover long-held secrets of the manuscript, fight evil, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Discovery of Witches, Series 1

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  The book series inspired this a TV series!

• If We Were Villains

  Rio, M. L.

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  As one of seven young actors studying Shakespeare at an elite arts college, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress. But when the casting changes, and the secondary characters usurp the stars, the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  Rowling, J. K.

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  Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry.

• The Magicians

  a Novel

  Grossman, Lev

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  Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A high school math genius, he's secretly fascinated with a series of children's fantasy novels set in a magical land called Fillory, and real life is disappointing by comparison. When Quentin is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Magicians. Season One

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  Based on Lev Grossman's New York Times best seller, this centers on Quentin, a brilliant grad student chosen to attend Brakebills University for Magical Pedagogy, a secret upstate New York university specializing in magic. He and his twenty…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Daughter of Chaos

  Brennan, Sarah Rees,

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  With her powers growing daily, Sabrina Spellman must find her way among the witches and warlocks at the Academy of Unseen Arts, and determine if her new classmates are friends or foes.

• The Crucible

  Aguirre-Sacasa, Roberto,

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  On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, young sorceress Sabrina Spellman finds herself at a crossroads, forced to choose between an unearthly destiny and her own mortal boyfriend, Harvey. But Madam Satan, a deadly foe from her family's past, has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Historian

  a Novel

  Kostova, Elizabeth

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  Breathtakingly suspenseful and beautifully written, The Historian is the story of a young woman plunged into a labyrinth where the secrets of her family's past connect to an inconceivable evil: the dark fifteenth-century reign of Vlad the Impaler…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

  Clarke, Susanna

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  Susanna Clarke's brilliant first novel is an utterly compelling epic tale of nineteenth-century England and the two magicians who, first as teacher and pupil and then as rivals, emerge to change its history

• 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

• Bunny

  Awad, Mona

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  Samantha joins a mysterious clique called The Bunnies at New England's Warren College. This novel is bizarre, magical, and will keep you guessing what will happen next.

• Every Heart a Doorway

  McGuire, Seanan

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  Children have always disappeared from Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

  Riggs, Ransom

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  A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children , an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Lesson in Vengeance

  Lee, Victoria, 1989-

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  Felicity Morrow returns to the Dalloway School after her girlfriend's tragic death, only to meet Ellis Haley--a new student and a teenage literary prodigy--who enlists Felicity's help in researching the school's bloody, occult history for her new…Read moreRead more of this annotation