Dark Academia

Dark Academia as a literary genre is a subgenre of the Campus Novel/Academic Novel with Gothic influences, and death always appears in the stories, in some form or another. As an aesthetic, it revolves around learning, the pursuit of knowledge for knowledge's sake, and usually a general interest in the arts, literature, and humanities. ...more

An Arcane Inheritance
Fallen Gods (Fallen Gods, #1)
An Archive of Romance
The Library of Fates
The Last Vampire
Kingdom of Today (Book of Arden #2)
The Art of Deception
The Strength of the Few (Hierarchy, #2)
Seven Deadly Thorns
The Burning Library
The Bookshop Below
The Sacred Space Between
Eternal Ruin (Immortal Dark, #2)
With Friends Like These
The Devil in Oxford (Ruby Vaughn, #3)
Alchemised
Katabasis
The Academy
The Strength of the Few (Hierarchy, #2)
Babel
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
On Wings of Blood (Bloodwing Academy, #1)
The Maidens
The Bond That Burns (Bloodwing Academy, #2)
Alchemy of Secrets (Alchemy of Secrets, #1)
Blood Over Bright Haven
Nightshade (Sorrowsong University, #1)
The It Girl
The Raven Scholar (Eternal Path Trilogy, #1)
Society of Lies
The Secret History by Donna TarttIf We Were Villains by M.L. RioThe Maidens by Alex MichaelidesBlack Chalk by Christopher J. YatesNinth House by Leigh Bardugo
University Mysteries
51 books — 27 voters

Small Admissions by Amy PoeppelAdmission by Julie BuxbaumWe Regret to Inform You by Ariel KaplanAdmission by Jean Hanff Korelitz500 Words or Less by Juleah del Rosario
College Admissions in Fiction
28 books — 5 voters
The Will of the Many by James  IslingtonBabel by R.F. KuangEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather FawcettThe Scholar and the Last Faerie Door by H.G. ParryThe Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
Fantasy Academia
54 books — 69 voters

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally CarterPeople Like Us by Dana  MeleDon't Judge a Girl by Her Cover by Ally CarterCross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally CarterOnly the Good Spy Young by Ally Carter
Covers with School Uniforms
246 books — 33 voters

The Secret History
If We Were Villains
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
Babel
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
Vicious (Villains, #1)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Maidens
Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)
These Violent Delights
A Lesson in Vengeance
A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
Katabasis

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