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donna tartt’s reading list

In an interview, Tartt lists her favorite authors and the names of a few works. I have listed the most popular works from each author and the specific ones she recommended as well.

Homer

The Iliad

The Odyssey

Greek Poets and Tragedians

Argonautica

Antigone

Prometheus Bound

The Oresteia

Medea

Oedipus Rex

The Bacchae

The Frogs

Dante

Inferno

Purgatorio

Paradiso

Shakespeare

“I went back and read Macbeth and Hamlet during the pandemic”

Macbeth

Hamlet

Dickens

“Dickens was a part of my familial landscape, the air I breathed.”

A Tale of Two Cities

Great Expectations

Nabokov

Pale Fire

Lolita

Proust

In Search of Lost Time

Swann’s Way

Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment

The Brothers Karamazov

Yeats

The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

Borges

Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth

Ethan Frome

Evelyn Waugh

Brideshead Revisited

Helena

Salinger

Catcher in the Rye

Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Dalloway

Orlando

Edward St. Aubyn

The Patrick Melrose Novels

Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore

Norwegian Wood

Olga Tokarczuk

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Don DeLillo

White Noise

Underworld

W.G. Sebald

Austerlitz

The Rings of Saturn

Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking

The White Album

Other Specific Books

Memoirs d’Outre-Tome by Chateaubriand

Jigsaw by Sybille Bedford

All for Nothing by Walter Kempowski

A Balcony in the Forest by Julien Gracq

Bunny when he took a leisurely walk in the woods and saw all of his friends suspiciously gathered around collecting ferns:

I lied. Put your clothes back on. I’m going to explain why i love The Secret History and how it also criticizes me.

what's with dark academia books all having an asshole named richard

ᴡᴇ ᴛʜʀɪᴠᴇ ɪɴ ᴅᴀʀᴋɴᴇꜱꜱ ᴀɴᴅ ʟɪᴛᴇʀᴀᴛᴜʀᴇ

the five homoerotic love languages:

- intimate stabbing

- outright obsession

- confused pining

- "no one knows me like you do"

- lifelong promises that always sound suspiciously like wedding vows

just finished a few seconds ago...

anyone else finish the secret history and just feel completely numb???

does rereading the secret history count as classics revision because i have an exam tomorrow but all i can remember is that tiryns kind of looks like a limp dick

Francis doesn’t get enough credit for being the only somewhat sane one in that group

I wanna transfer my period cramps to Henry

make him suffer more

I have the words 'cubitum eamus' in my phone case and everytime I see a cute guy I hold it so he technically could read it and then I think if it was the one he would get the reference and talk to you.

hello winterbunny nation

og image can be found on irasutoya

Henry winter would not listen to Lana del ray! Richard Papen however….

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 🖤

Henry would hate on the word ‘y’all’ even though he’s Midwestern.

Why is tsh literally just

Judy: uhm I think those guys are sociopaths with no moral compass and are close to being a cult you should probably stay away from them

Richard: omg tweed sign me up

me, I fear...

Like, I know the entire point of tsh is not to romanticise the characters in the way Richard does, and not to do everything for the aesthetic but... tweed and classics :(

which ship in tsh is this?

richard my idiot son i love him so much

bunny

But tell me I’m wrong…

Young Yves Saint Laurent is legit Henry Winter if he made his own brand.

i love how the secret history already has a relatively small fandom and then there's a massive divide between people saying "fuck henry winter" and the people who want to fuck henry winter

Happy Chuu Day '25!

neurotypicals will be like "you can't self diagnose" and then diagnose everyone they dislike as a narcissist

btw guys managing your symptoms also means apologizing for things you didn't mean to do. sometimes you do things because of your disorders that you genuinely didn't mean to do, but if it hurt someone you still have to take accountability and make up for the hurt you caused

uhh???

the terms narcissist, sociopath and psychopath do not mean "bad person". unlearn that.