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Dark academia at its finest, The Secret History by Donna Tartt is a mesmerising and deeply unsettling tale of privilege, obsession, and moral decay. If you’ve ever fantasised about joining an elite, secretive group of intellectuals on a picturesque college campus, consider this a chilling warning wrapped in lush prose and philosophical musings. Tartt’s debut
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If Wuthering Heights were a person, it wouldn’t be your charming best friend or a steady confidant. It would be the moody, tempestuous figure standing on the moors during a thunderstorm, glaring into the distance and daring you to approach. Emily Brontë’s only novel is a wild, gothic masterpiece, a story of passion, vengeance, and
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Ah, Emma. If Jane Austen’s novels were a group of friends at a party, Emma would be the self-assured, slightly meddlesome one who insists on matchmaking everyone in the room, only to realize halfway through that maybe she doesn’t know best after all. It’s a witty, charming, and surprisingly modern exploration of self-awareness, relationships, and
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If you’ve ever dreamed of inheriting a billionaire’s fortune out of nowhere, Jennifer Lynn Barnes’ The Inheritance Games is your perfect fantasy—except it’s filled with puzzles, secrets, and plenty of family drama that might make you think twice about those billions. This YA mystery is Knives Out meets Gossip Girl, with a splash of Escape
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Nancy Goldstone’s The Rival Queens is a juicy, drama-packed tale of political ambition, betrayal, and family dysfunction that will leave you wondering how on earth two people with the same royal bloodline could hate each other this much. It’s a wild ride through 16th-century France, chronicling the deadly feud between Catherine de’ Medici, the iron-willed
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