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
The Academy
The Strength of the Few (Hierarchy, #2)
Katabasis
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
Babel
On Wings of Blood (Bloodwing Academy, #1)
The Bond That Burns (Bloodwing Academy, #2)
The Maidens
Alchemy of Secrets (Alchemy of Secrets, #1)
Blood Over Bright Haven
Nightshade (Sorrowsong University, #1)
The Raven Scholar (Eternal Path Trilogy, #1)
Society of Lies
The It Girl
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
Gravespell by James TrevinoAnatomy of a Betrayal by Grace D. Li
2027 Dark Academia
2 books — 3 voters

A Study in Drowning by Ava ReidHell Bent by Leigh BardugoMurder Your Employer by Rupert HolmesInk Blood Sister Scribe by Emma TörzsBlood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang
2023 Dark Academia Releases
95 books — 41 voters
Pretty Little Liars by Sara ShepardA CLUE LEFT HANGING by C.K. PhillipsThe Perfectionists by Sara ShepardDangerous Girls by Abigail HaasGet Even by Gretchen McNeil
Cliques & Crime
81 books — 67 voters

The Secret History by Donna TarttIf We Were Villains by M.L. RioKing Street Run by V.R. LingCatherine House by Elisabeth    ThomasBlack Chalk by Christopher J. Yates
Dark academia vibes
43 books — 27 voters
Hidden Huntress by Danielle L. JensenThe Stars Never Rise by Rachel VincentA Matter of Time by Lisa M. BassoOlari by Mila N. SankaleThe Fourth Generation by Chris von Halle
Top Tier Romantasy
6 books — 6 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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