The Secret History: A Read with Jenna Pick
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About The Secret History: A Read with Jenna Pick
A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK • 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 author of The Goldfinch. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years 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 leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality. “A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” —The New York Times
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- Audience
- Adult/general
- Commitment
- Standalone or self-contained
- Estimated reading time
- 14.5 hours at about 40 pages per hour
- Length
- Long read
- Best for
- Readers seeking academic rivalry, quest, atmospheric, dark academia
Why readers are finding The Secret History: A Read with Jenna Pick
The Secret History: A Read with Jenna Pick by Donna Tartt, published in 2004, is a 578-page book for readers who prefer to browse by the experience of a story, not only by its sales category. Its strongest discovery signals include Academic Rivalry, Quest, Atmospheric, Dark Academia.
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- Print ISBN
- 978-1-400-03170-2
- Audio ISBN
- 978-0-060-78647-2
- Published
- 2004
- Pages
- 578
