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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. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality, they slip…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ninth House

  Bardugo, Leigh,

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  Alex arrives in New Haven tasked, by her mysterious benefactors, with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. But their occult activities are revealed to be more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Vicious

  Schwab, Victoria,

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  A masterful tale of ambition, jealousy, desire, and superpowers. A gritty comic-book-style world in vivid prose. A world where gaining superpowers doesn't automatically lead to heroism, and a time when allegiances are called into question.

• If We Were Villains

  Rio, M. L.,

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  Oliver Marks has just served ten years in jail - for a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the man who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bunny

  Awad, Mona,

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  Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.

• These Violent Delights

  a Novel

  Nemerever, Micah,

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  The Secret History meets Call Me by Your Name 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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Dark Vanessa

  a Novel

  Russell, Kate Elizabeth,

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  Exploring the psychological dynamics of the relationship between a precocious yet naïve teenage girl and her magnetic and manipulative teacher, a brilliant, all-consuming read that marks the explosive debut of an extraordinary new writer.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Catherine House

  a Novel

  Thomas, Elisabeth (Novelist),

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  A story about a dangerously curious young undergraduate whose rebelliousness leads her to discover a shocking secret, involving an exclusive circle of students, and the dark truth beneath her school’s promise of prestige.

• Black Chalk

  Yates, Christopher J.,

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  It was only ever meant to be a game played by six best friends in their first year at Oxford University; a game of consequences, silly forfeits, and childish dares. But then the game changed: The stakes grew higher and the dares more…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dead Poets Society

  Kleinbaum, N.H.

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  The Dead Poets Society--a secret club where, free from the constraints and expectations of school and parents, they let their passions run wild. Be sure to check out the movie adaptation.

• Never Let Me Go

  Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-

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  An unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human. Available in other formats.

• The Picture of Dorian Gray

  Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900

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  The story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Available in other formats.