Donna Tartt

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The Goldfinch

by Donna Tartt

4/5

Fiction & Literature

The Secret History

by Donna Tartt

4/5

Fiction & Literature

The Goldfinch

by Donna Tartt

4/5

Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives a terrorist bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the aftermath, he clings to a small, priceless painting — Carel Fabritius's "The Goldfinch." As he grows up, the painting becomes both his burden and his salvation, pulling him into the criminal underworld of art.

Fiction & Literature

The Secret History

by Donna Tartt

4/5

A group of eccentric classics students at an elite Vermont college become so obsessed with Greek ideals of beauty and perfection that they cross a terrible moral boundary. A reverse murder mystery that reveals the killing on page one, then unravels the why.

Fiction & Literature