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
If We Were Villains by M.L. RioThese Violent Delights by Micah NemereverThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeBabel by R.F. KuangThe Secret History by Donna Tartt
Queer Dark Academia
56 books — 163 voters

A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria  LeeA Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison SaftStrange Attractors by Ana K. WrennPlain Bad Heroines by Emily M. DanforthThey Never Learn by Layne Fargo
Sapphic Dark Academia
23 books — 15 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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