Donna Tartt books in order
Donna Louise Tartt, better known as Donna Tartt, is an American multiple award-winning author of literary fiction.
She is best known for writing The Goldfinch (2013), which was awarded the Carnegie Medal, as well as the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Born in Greenwood, Mississippi, she briefly attended University of Mississippi before transferring to Bennington College, Vermont where she earned her B.A. in 1986.
Passionate about writing from the time she was five, when she wrote her first poem, Donna was encouraged by writers Willie Morris and Barry Hannah while in Mississippi.
By the time she transferred to Bennington, she befriended budding writers Bret Easton Ellis, Jonathan Lethem, and Jill Eisenstadt, and began working on her first novel, The Secret History (1992).
Her books have been published in forty languages, selling multiple copies across the globe.
Genre: Literary Fiction
United States
Non Series
- The Secret History (1992)
- The Little Friend (2002)
- The Goldfinch (2013)
Omnibus Books
- The Secret History / The Little Friend (2009)
Detailed book overview
Non Series
Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.
First Release: 1992
ISBN: 978-1400031702
Publisher: Alfred A Knopf
The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents’ yard.
Twelve years later Robin’s murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. So it is that Robin’s sister Harriet—unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson--sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her town’s rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her family’s history of loss.
First Release: 2002
ISBN: 978-1400031696
Publisher: Vintage
Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend.
Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by a longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into a wealthy and insular art community.
As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love — and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.
Director: John Crowley
Cast: Oakes Fegley, Ansel Elgort, Nicole Kidman, Jeffrey Wright, Luke Wilson, Sarah Paulson, Willa Fitzgerald
First Release: 2013
ISBN: 978-0316055444
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Omnibus Books
Two books in one:
The Secret History
Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.
The Little Friend
The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents’ yard.
Twelve years later Robin’s murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. So it is that Robin’s sister Harriet—unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson--sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her town’s rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her family’s history of loss.
First Release: 2009
ISBN: 978-1408802922
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing