At LitHub she tagged--and ranked--the twenty best campus novels. Number one on the list:
Donna Tartt, The Secret HistoryRead about the other entries on the list.
Surprise, surprise. I mean, look, I know it has its detractors, but from where I’m standing, campus novels don’t get much better than this. Tartt’s debut has everything: snotty classics students, alluring and mysterious professors, convoluted social hierarchies, bad rich kids, good rich kids, murder, Bacchic rites, class warfare, allusions to the ancients, and some of the most intelligent, gorgeous writing going. You just can’t beat it.
The Secret History is on a top ten list of the best Twinkies in fiction, and among Ruth Ware's top six books about boarding schools.
--Marshal Zeringue
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