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Literary agents who want books like The Secret History

8 agents have named The Secret History as a comparable title on their wishlist, and 6 are open to queries. If you’re pitching something in this lane, these are the agents to know. Always confirm an agent’s submission window before you query.

8 agents6 open to queries
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Chad Luibl
Janklow & Nesbit Associates
Open to queries

The sweet spot Luibl articulates most clearly is fiction that lives between genre and literary: books with a strong emotional core and fast, imaginative plottin

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Danielle Egan-Miller
Browne & Miller Literary Associates
Open to queries

A personal favorite category. She wants stories that carry genuine dread or the uncanny without being purely genre horror — literary novels with witches, the oc

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Eva Oakes
Transatlantic Literary Agency
Open to queries

This is Eva's core territory. They want adult fiction that sits at the intersection of the literary and the commercial — books with a strong, memorable narrativ

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Gracie Freeman Lifschutz
Dystel Goderich & Bourret LLC
Open to queries

She's drawn to feminist psychological thrillers — stories with complicated, morally messy heroines whose interiority drives the tension. The 'feminist' qualifie

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Isabel Kaufman
Fox Literary
Open to queries

She wants dark academia that resists the cozy Oxbridge formula: settings outside Europe or the US, a genuinely disenchanted view of institutional life, and a wi

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Katelyn Dougherty
Paradigm Agency
Open to queries

This is clearly Dougherty's core passion. Their personal reading list is a masterclass in psychologically intense, voice-forward fiction centered on women and q

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Julie Gourinchas
Bell Lomax Moreton Agency
Closed

She wants the genre's razor edge rather than its glossy surface — specifically fiction that interrogates the exploitative and hierarchical machinery of academic

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Victoria Marini
High Line Literary Collective
Closed

She is openly drawn to things that go bump in the night — gothic atmosphere, supernatural horror, and dark speculative fiction with emotional weight. Horror-com

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