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• The Secret History

  Tartt, Donna

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  Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ninth House

  Bardugo, Leigh

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  A story of murder and dark magic set amid the secret societies of Yale University.

• If We Were Villains

  A Novel

  Rio, M. L.

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  "This is a rare and extraordinary novel: a vivid rendering of the closed world of a conservatory education, a tender and harrowing exploration of friendship, and a genuinely breathtaking literary thriller. I can’t recommend this book…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Deadly Education

  a Novel

  Novik, Naomi

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  “A must-read . . . Novik puts a refreshingly dark, adult spin on the magical boarding school. . . . Readers will delight in the push-and-pull of El and Orion’s relationship, the fantastically detailed world, the clever magic system, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bunny

  Awad, Mona, 1978-

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  "A dark, dazzling fairy tale . . . A touching story of true-versus-faux friendship that many women will relate to is at the heart of this novel, but fans of the occult will find plenty to love about the Bunnies' sci-fi-adjacent ritual…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Maidens

  a Novel

  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ghosts of Harvard

  Serritella, Francesca Scottoline

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  A Harvard freshman becomes obsessed with her schizophrenic brother’s suicide. Then she starts hearing voices. - Penguin Random House

• A Lesson in Vengeance

  Lee, Victoria

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  A dark, twisty thriller about a centuries-old, ivy-covered boarding school haunted by its history of witchcraft and two girls dangerously close to digging up the past. - Penguin Random House

• The Starless Sea

  a Novel

  Morgenstern, Erin

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  “Morgenstern’s new fantasy epic is a puzzlebox of a book, full of meta-narratives and small folkloric tales that will delight readers. . . . Morgenstern uses poetic, honey-like prose to tell a story that plays with the very concept of what…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Swallows

  a Novel

  Lutz, Lisa

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  “The latest campus novel teetering between thriller and satire, Lutz’s book throws readers into the drama of a New England prep school, where one inscrutable new teacher brings about ideas that ignite a deadly gender-war.”—Entertainment…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Special Topics in Calamity Physics

  Pessl, Marisha

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  At the center of Special Topics in Calamity Physics is clever, deadpan Blue van Meer, who has a head full of literary, philosophical, scientific, and cinematic knowledge. But she could use some friends. Upon entering the elite St. Gallway…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Have Some Questions for You

  a Novel

  Makkai, Rebecca

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  “Makkai’s triumph of a novel mixes clever storytelling with an exploration of consent, control and memory . . . satisfying and cleverly multi-layered . . . combines the smarts of literary fiction with the thrills of a whodunnit, topped…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Things We Do to Our Friends

  Darwent, Heather,

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  She’s an outsider desperate to belong, but the cost of entry might be her deepest secret in this intoxicating debut about a clique of dangerously ambitious students. - Penguin Random House

• Never Let Me Go

  Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-

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  Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well-tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Plot

  a Novel

  Korelitz, Jean Hanff, 1961-

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  Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he’s teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what’s left of his self-respect; he hasn’t written—let alone…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Shards

  Ellis, Bret Easton

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  A novel of sensational literary and psychological suspense from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged high school friends in a vibrantly fictionalized 1980s Los Angeles as a serial…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Cloisters

  a Novel

  Hays, Katy, 1982-

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  When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she expects to spend her summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead, she finds herself assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Catherine House

  A Novel

  Thomas, Elisabeth

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  “Elisabeth Thomas’s debut novel weaves a thrilling, compact story that builds dread slowly. . . . Thomas incorporates elements of science fiction as she begins to reveal the darkness at work on campus, but not before readers are eased in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• In My Dreams I Hold a Knife

  A Novel

  Winstead, Ashley

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  "Looking for an eerie campus setting? This chilling suspense novel has murder, friendship and defiance when six people return to their college reunion a decade after one of their close friends was murdered." — Parade Magazine

• The Two Doctors Górski

  Fellman, Isaac

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  "This is dark academia at its most oppressive and intense. . .The cruelty and indifference of the academy; the far-reaching damage caused by ego-driven obsession; the refusal of senior faculty members to consider students as anything but…Read moreRead more of this annotation