The Secret History by Donna Tartt is a "dark academia" novel following Richard Papen, a working-class student who joins an elite, eccentric clique of five Classics students at a Vermont college, led by professor Julian Morrow. After the group murders an innocent farmer and later one of their own (Bunny) to cover it up, their lives spiral into guilt, paranoia, and psychological decay. Book Genre: Contemporary, Fiction, Mystery
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