The Secret History
At a small New England college, a clique of classics students is drawn into a crime that slowly unravels them. The reader knows the ending from page one and cannot look away.
Curated list · 6 books
Plot-driven books with real depth beneath the momentum.
For when you want to be swept along but still want something to think about on the other side.
At a small New England college, a clique of classics students is drawn into a crime that slowly unravels them. The reader knows the ending from page one and cannot look away.
A lone astronaut wakes with no memory aboard a spacecraft and slowly realizes he is humanity's last hope.
A young bride arrives at the great house Manderley and finds it still ruled by the memory of her husband's first wife.
The rise of Thomas Cromwell, a blacksmith's son, through the dangerous court of Henry VIII, told in intimate, present-tense prose.
Four unlikely friends in a comfortable retirement village meet weekly to investigate cold cases, until a real murder lands on their doorstep.
In 1327, a Franciscan friar and his young novice investigate a string of deaths in a secretive Italian abbey with a labyrinthine library.