If We Were Villains
M. L. Rio · 2017
A Shakespeare-obsessed conservatory troupe turns on itself after a death, giving you the same claustrophobic friend group and the long moral reckoning that The Secret History makes its engine.
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The Truants
Kate Weinberg · 2019
A campus novel built around a charismatic lecturer, a devoted circle of students and a death, tracing how intellectual infatuation curdles into complicity and grief.
The Lake of Dead Languages
Carol Goodman · 2002
A Latin teacher returning to her old boarding school confronts a pattern of student deaths, with a charismatic teacher at the center of the obsession and guilt.
The Rule of Four
Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason · 2004
Two Princeton students become obsessed with a Renaissance manuscript that may hide a secret, making the archive itself the engine of the plot and of the characters' self-destruction.
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Marisha Pessl · 2006
A brilliant student is drawn into a charismatic teacher's inner circle at an elite school, where intellectual glamour curdles into obsession and murder.
The Club Dumas
Arturo Pérez-Reverte · 1993
A rare-book detective is drawn into a manuscript's secrets and a devilish elite, offering the same blend of scholarship, obsession and menace in a more continental key.
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