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2024's Campus Novels and Dark Academia for Back-to-School Season
Back-to-school season prompts different emotional reactions, depending on your perspective. Typically, it’s depressing for students, exciting for parents, and pure gloom for educators watching the last moments of their summer vacation tick away.
In the spirit of back-to-school reading, we’ve assembled this collection of new novels set on the school campus: high school, college, extradimensional, what-have-you. Each of the titles here is a 2024 release, either on shelves now or coming soon. You’ll find literary fiction, historical fiction, lighthearted mysteries, and dark academia—lots of dark academia, actually.
Some highlights: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s new novel, Catalina, follows a graduating Harvard senior, raised by her undocumented grandparents, as she navigates internships, secret societies, and one very complicated romance.
On the spookier side of things, author M.L. Rio (If We Were Villains) is back on shelves in September with Graveyard Shift, a gothic-tinged horror novella concerning a group of late-working strangers and one fateful night in the old college cemetery.
For something a little different, check out Elise Bryant’s It’s Elementary, a witty cozy mystery set in and around a California grade school where the principal has just gone missing. PTA dustups! Workplace flirting! Suspicious minivans!
Click on the book cover images for more information about each title, and add anything that looks promising to your Want to Read shelf.
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Which of these books will you pick up for back-to-school-reading vibes? Let us know in the comments below!
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Aug 02, 2024 02:10AM
Telling everyone who will listen to read I Hope This Doesn't Find You by Ann Liang!!! It's the best 2024 release I've read. Highly, highly recommend
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I Hope This Doesn’t Find You has been on my list and was a preorder! Hopefully will be jumping into it soon.
The Teacher was disappointing. I enjoyed This Time It's Real, though. Is I Hope This Doesn't Find You any good? Surprised Babel isn't on here.
Hannah Grace is an underwhelming author for me. I gave Icebreaker and Wildfire one star. I'd skip Daydream then.
Added so many of this list to my wishlist it's unreal
Law wrote: "The Teacher was disappointing. I enjoyed This Time It's Real, though. Is I Hope This Doesn't Find You any good? Surprised Babel isn't on here."Per the introductory text, the list is limited to books published in 2024.
Really Looking forward to A Dark And Drowning Tide 😍😍😍
A lot of good stuff on here now added to my TBR! :)
Jancee wrote: "Law wrote: "The Teacher was disappointing. I enjoyed This Time It's Real, though. Is I Hope This Doesn't Find You any good? Surprised Babel isn't on here."Per the introductory text, the list is l..."
This Book Kills was originally published in 2023.
Anita de Monte Laughs Last and Blood at the Root were both fantastic!!
This list is elite. added at least half of whats here to my TBR!
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Has anyone read "The Teacher" or "Don't let the forest in"? How are they?? Should I read?
Always great to see what is coming out - love that I could add one of these the 2024 Dark Academia book list as well!
Also Rabbits by Hugo Rifkind
Anita de Monte Laughs Last is shrouded in controversy and Come and Get It was disappointing. It had low ratings. Can you recommend me a book to read from this list?
