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Donna Tartt


Born
in Greenwood, Mississippi, The United States
December 23, 1963

Genre
Fiction, Short Stories


Donna Tartt is an American author who has achieved critical and public acclaim for her novels, which have been published in forty languages. In 2003 she received the WH Smith Literary Award for her novel, The Little Friend, which was also nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She won the Pulitzer Prize and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction for her most recent novel, The Goldfinch.

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Average rating: 4.04 · 2,172,832 ratings · 224,650 reviews · 42 distinct works • Similar authors
The Secret History
4.15 avg rating — 1,037,085 ratings — published 1992 — 258 editions
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The Goldfinch
3.96 avg rating — 1,044,297 ratings — published 2013 — 175 editions
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The Little Friend
3.48 avg rating — 82,823 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions
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A Christmas Pageant
3.83 avg rating — 856 ratings — published 1993 — 6 editions
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The Ambush
3.82 avg rating — 500 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions
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The Little Friend / The Sec...
4.05 avg rating — 396 ratings — 2 editions
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4.03 avg rating — 295 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions
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Eine Strumpfbandnatter
3.98 avg rating — 174 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions
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Tam-O'-Shanter
3.77 avg rating — 177 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions
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This Much I Know
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“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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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.”
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“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
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November 2022 Revisit the Shelf Poll

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961) 453 pages, last read Nov. 2013.
 
  39 votes, 26.4%

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (1969) 340 pp., last read Dec. 2018
 
  25 votes, 16.9%

The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1992) 559 pp., last read Oct. 2018
 
  24 votes, 16.2%

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (1956) 159 pp., last read July 2018
 
  19 votes, 12.8%

Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897) 488 pp., last read April 2019
 
  15 votes, 10.1%

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (1875) 245 pages, last read May 2016
 
  14 votes, 9.5%

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll (1871) 228 pages, last read March 2020
 
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