The Secret History

Details

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Author

Donna Tartt

Year

1992

Genre

Literary thriller, dark academia

Primary setting

Elite Vermont college campus

Best read in

Drafty café near a college, preferably with too many scarves

Mood level

Elegant, chilly, inevitable

Page count

≈560

My take

For when you want to feel superior to terrible people and then slowly realize you might have gone to school with all of them.