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The Times' 20 best modern novels
9. 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt will forever struggle to top this, her first novel and a mini-sensation in itself. It tells the tale of six intellectual, but socially isolated classics students and the destructive consequences of a murder within the group that marks the biggest lesson of their lives.
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