If you're looking for a book with a similar atmosphere to The Secret History, look no further than these eight suggestions. There are a few books out there that are trying to be just like it. There are a few books that entertain me in the same way as this one, and I will read anything that can be compared to it. I couldn't wait to experience the angst of being a newly-minted adult! I've never had new-adult problems this interesting or exciting.Īs a book recommendation specialist, I'd say The Secret History is the most frequently requested read-alike. Donna Tartt, on the other hand, made being a conflicted new adult seem sexy and intriguing. In this lush and sinister novel full of drugs and sex and murder and love committed by six people my age or younger who had only recently been liberated from their captivity, I found myself. I was 16 years old when I first read The Secret History, and it had a profound impact on my life and outlook. For those of you keeping track at home, that's now 26 times.) Since its release in 1992, I've read it once a year. How can I waste time reading the same book over and over when there are so many other books I haven't read? It's become My Year of Rereading, but we'll get to that later.) Of the few books I had read multiple times, The Secret History stands out. I had never reread a book until recently. One of the most interesting and unusual approaches to the subject of rivalry.

Rio comes on this list of books like The Secret History.Īctors' lives begin to imitate art when the lead actor in a college production of Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar' is killed off.Ī well-written and gripping homage to the stage, If We Were Villains has been named one of Bustle's Best Thriller Novels of the Year.

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