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Margarita Montimore

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Born

in Ukraine

December 22

Website

https://montimore.com

Genre

Fiction, Book Club Fiction, Upmarket Fiction

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Margaret Atwood, Lionel Shriver, Oscar Wilde, Brit Marling/Zal Batmang ...more

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June 2016

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Margarita Montimore is the author of The Dollhouse Academy, Asleep from Day, Acts of Violet, and Oona Out of Order, a USA Today bestseller and Good Morning America Book Club pick.

After receiving a BFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College, Margarita worked for over a decade in publishing and social media before focusing on the writing dream full-time. Born in Soviet Ukraine and raised in Brooklyn, she currently lives in New Jersey with her husband and dog.

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Average rating: 3.81 · 114,916 ratings · 15,943 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Oona Out of Order 3.86 avg rating — 100,212 ratings — published 2020 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Acts of Violet 3.49 avg rating — 10,154 ratings — published 2022 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dollhouse Academy 3.51 avg rating — 4,311 ratings — published 2025 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Asleep From Day 3.65 avg rating — 334 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“All good things end, always. The trick is to enjoy them while they last.”
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“There would be bad days, there always would. But she'd collect these good days, each one illuminated, and string them together until they glowed brightly in her memory like Christmas lights in a mirrored room.”
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“Time heals all. But what if time itself is the disease?”
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““I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know.” – Tove Jansson

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Mystery

The Maid by Nita Prose

Acts of Violet by Margarita Montimore

A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them by Neil Bradbury

46 votes 37.4%

Romance

The Darkening (The Darkening, #1) by Sunya Mara

The Darkening by Sunya Mara

Fake It Till You Bake It by Jamie Wesley

The Ex Hex (The Ex Hex, #1) by Erin Sterling

The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling

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Science Fiction

The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan

A Rip Through Time (A Rip Through Time, #1) by Kelley Armstrong

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