Academia


An Academic Affair
Seven Deadly Thorns
The Burning Library
Lightbreakers
With Friends Like These
The Botanist's Assistant
The Devil in Oxford (Ruby Vaughn, #3)
I'll Make a Spectacle of You
A Rather Vengeful Accord
Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror
Alchemy of Secrets (Alchemy of Secrets, #1)
The Everlasting
Girl Dinner
King Sorrow
The Book of Autumn
Bound
The Academy
The Strength of the Few (Hierarchy, #2)
Katabasis
Babel
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
On Wings of Blood (Bloodwing Academy, #1)
Blood Over Bright Haven
The Bond That Burns (Bloodwing Academy, #2)
An Academic Affair
The Maidens
Clash of Claws (Shifter Guardians Academy, #1)
Nightshade (Sorrowsong University, #1)
The Raven Scholar (Eternal Path Trilogy, #1)
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
A Study in Drowning by Ava ReidGothikana by RuNyxArcana Academy by Elise KovaBabel by R.F. KuangEnigma by RuNyx
Dark academia (as of 2025)
23 books — 8 voters
Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. SayersIn the Last Analysis by Amanda CrossAn Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain PearsThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Godwulf Manuscript by Robert B. Parker
Academic Mysteries
152 books — 39 voters

Blood of Elves by Andrzej SapkowskiDarkstocking by Tom KlehmThe Last Wish by Andrzej SapkowskiThe Book of Gothel by Mary McMyneSlewfoot by Brom
Dark Fantasy Reads (Not Mainstream)
23 books — 2 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 — 391 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)
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
Katabasis
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
Love, Theoretically
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
The Maidens
Blood Over Bright Haven

Chris Hedges
It is one of the great ironies of corporate control that the corporate state needs the abilities of intellectuals to maintain power, yet outside of this role it refuses to permit intellectuals to think or function independently.
Chris Hedges, The Death of the Liberal Class

Stephen  King
Oh, maybe a little treasure for the more rabid Incunks, the collectors and the academics who maintained their positions in large part by examining the literary equivalent of navel-lint in each other's abstruse journals; ambitious, overeducated goofs who had lost touch with what books and reading were actually about and could be content to go on spinning straw into footnoted fool's gold for decades on end. ...more
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