The Secret History

The Secret HistoryA READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A contemporary literary classic and "an accomplished psychological thriller absolutely chilling" (Village Voice), from the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Goldfinch. One of The Atlantics Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric

With the feel of a modern classic

There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before- of the intense passion between the foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw

she’s suddenly in a different apartment

But she soon finds out… and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside

With the help of their current read

and agrees to help her check off all the boxes on her lesson plan—from foreplay to more-than-missionary position

this is one of Haruki Murakami’s most acclaimed and beloved novels

from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro

where the candy store’s honey taffy is always sweet

In the eyes of eighteen-year-old Hua Hsu

Zadie Smith’s dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis

the twistiness of political intrigue