Donna Tartt
Born
in Greenwood, Mississippi, The United States
December 23, 1963
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The Goldfinch
176 editions
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published
2013
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The Secret History
252 editions
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published
1992
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The Little Friend
134 editions
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published
2002
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A Christmas Pageant
4 editions
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published
1993
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The Little Friend / The Secret History
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Het Land van de Papaver
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3 editions
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published
1993
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Eine Strumpfbandnatter
3 editions
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published
1995
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Tam-O'-Shanter
3 editions
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published
1993
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De Schotse baret en andere verhalen
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Team Spirit: Memories of Being a Freshman Cheerleader for the Basketball Team
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“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
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Which book should be our non-legal Group Read for June 2014?
![The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz](https://cdn.statically.io/img/images.gr-assets.com/books/1391409748s/297673.jpg)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd, a New Jersey romantic who dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the fukú — the ancient curse that has haunted the Oscar's family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic accidents, and, above all, ill-starred love. Oscar, still dreaming of his first kiss, is only its most recent victim - until the fateful summer that he decides to be its last.
With dazzling energy and insight, Junot Díaz immerses us in the uproarious lives of our hero Oscar, his runaway sister Lola, and their ferocious beauty-queen mother Belicia, and in the epic journey from Santo Domingo to Washington Heights to New Jersey's Bergenline and back again. Rendered with uncommon warmth and humor, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao presents an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and the endless human capacity to persevere - and to risk it all - in the name of love.
A true literary triumph, this novel confirms Junot Díaz as one of the best and most exciting writers of our time.
![Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse](https://cdn.statically.io/img/images.gr-assets.com/books/1394861337s/52036.jpg)
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
In the novel, Siddhartha, a young man, leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh. He conceives a son, but bored and sickened by lust and greed, moves on again. Near despair, Siddhartha comes to a river where he hears a unique sound. This sound signals the true beginning of his life -- the beginning of suffering, rejection, peace, and, finally, wisdom
![The Race Underground Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway by Doug Most](https://cdn.statically.io/img/images.gr-assets.com/books/1378521664s/17934384.jpg)
The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway
Doug Most
In the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and New York grew more congested, the streets became clogged with plodding, horse-drawn carts. When the great blizzard of 1888 crippled the entire northeast, a solution had to be found. Two brothers from one of the nation's great families—Henry Melville Whitney of Boston and William Collins Whitney of New York—pursued the dream of his city digging America's first subway, and the great race was on. The competition between Boston and New York played out in an era not unlike our own, one of economic upheaval, life-changing innovations, class warfare, bitter political tensions, and the question of America’s place in the world.The Race Underground is peopled with the famous, like Boss Tweed, Grover Cleveland and Thomas Edison, and the not-so-famous, from brilliant engineers to the countless "sandhogs" who shoveled, hoisted and blasted their way into the earth’s crust, sometimes losing their lives in the construction of the tunnels. Doug Most chronicles the science of the subway, looks at the centuries of fears people overcame about traveling underground and tells a story as exciting as any ever ripped from the pages of U.S. history. The Race Underground is a great American saga of two rival American cities, their rich, powerful and sometimes corrupt interests, and an invention that changed the lives of millions
![The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt](https://cdn.statically.io/img/images.gr-assets.com/books/1378710146s/17333223.jpg)
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and determined to avoid being taken in by the city as an orphan, Theo scrambles between nights in friends’ apartments and on the city streets. He becomes entranced by the one thing that reminds him of his mother, a small, mysteriously captivating painting that soon draws Theo into the art underworld.
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