18 best thriller novels that will jolt you out of your reading slump
The defining novel of the dark academia subculture, The Secret History follows Richard Papen, a working-class student who leaves California to attend Hampden College in Vermont and joins a group of elite classics students, Henry, Francis, Charles, Camilla and Bunny, whose bourgeois ennui and intellectual obsession ultimately lead them to commit unimaginable crimes. Donna Tartt’s debut novel was an inverted detective story, where the crime and its perpetrators were revealed in the very beginning, which let the novel explore why and how it happened, resulting in a memorable psychological thriller about class, morality, adolescence and guilt.
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
