Academia


Wicked Onyx (The Veritas Legacy, #1)
Half City (Harker Academy, #1)
Queen of Faces (Queen of Faces, #1)
Love and Other Brain Experiments
Sibylline
Margin of Error
The Fox Hunt
Masquerade of Mirrors (Halls of Glass #1)
Soren (Saint Valley #1)
A Vow in Vengeance (Immortal Desires, #1)
We Who Have No Gods (The Acheron Order, #1)
The Book of Blood and Roses (The Callisto Chronicles)
Discipline
A War of Wyverns (A Language of Dragons, #2)
Fundamentals of Being a Good Girl
The Wings That Bind (Bloodwing Academy #3)
On Wings of Blood (Bloodwing Academy, #1)
The Academy (The Academy Series #1)
Katabasis
The Bond That Burns (Bloodwing Academy, #2)
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
Babel
An Academic Affair
Nightshade (Sorrowsong University, #1)
Blood Over Bright Haven
The Maidens
Half City (Harker Academy, #1)
Avalon Tower (Fey Academy for Spies, #1)
The Raven Scholar (Eternal Path Trilogy, #1)
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensA Room with a View by E.M. ForsterThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Cambridge University
238 books — 62 voters
The Secret History by Donna TarttIf We Were Villains by M.L. RioNinth House by Leigh BardugoThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeA Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
Popsugar 2021 #5 - A Dark Academia Book
140 books — 392 voters

The Ghost Women by Jennifer   MurphyTherapy for Ghosts by Eric PraschanGrit and Ghosts by Robin FosterThe Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women by Marie O'ReganThe Ghost Reader by Elena D. Hristova
Dark Academia Mystery Books
12 books — 14 voters
The Secret History by Donna TarttIf We Were Villains by M.L. RioBlack Chalk by Christopher J. YatesThe Maidens by Alex MichaelidesNinth House by Leigh Bardugo
University Mysteries
51 books — 30 voters

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather FawcettThe Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love by India HoltonThe Spellshop by Sarah Beth DurstThe Atlas of Elsewhere by L.J. RibarEmily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
Light Academia Fantasy Books
25 books — 29 voters
Blood of Elves by Andrzej SapkowskiDarkstocking by Tom KlehmThe Penitent by A. Keith CarreiroThe Last Wish by Andrzej SapkowskiThe Penitent by A. Keith Carreiro
Dark Fantasy Reads (Not Mainstream)
27 books — 3 voters

The Secret History
Babel
If We Were Villains
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
The Love Hypothesis
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
Katabasis
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
Nocticadia
Blood Over Bright Haven
Love, Theoretically
The Maidens
A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

Jane Smiley
The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body isn't below the mind and the spirit; from the point of view it's between them. if you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can't get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the senses frees you from abstraction and opens the way to transcendence. ...more
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David Lodge
As is perhaps obvious, Morris Zapp had no great esteem for his fellow-labourers in the vineyards of literature. They seemed to him vague, fickle, irresponsible creatures, who wallowed in relativism like hippopotami in mud, with their nostrils barely protruding into the air of common-sense. They happily tolerated the existence of opinions contrary to their own — they even, for God’s sake, sometimes changed their minds. Their pathetic attempts at profundity were qualified out of existence and larg ...more
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