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 Ex Hex by Erin SterlingThe Kiss Curse by Erin SterlingDon't Kiss and Spell by Camilla IsleyA Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon by Sarah HawleyThe Wedding Witch by Erin Sterling
Reads for Spooky Season & Fall Vibes
129 books — 86 voters
Vampire Academy by Richelle MeadPrincess Academy by Shannon HaleStar Trek by Diane CareyLast Chance Academy by Alex LidellSuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki
[Blank] Academy
130 books — 11 voters

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
People Like Us by Dana  MeleTruly, Devious by Maureen JohnsonPrep School Confidential by Kara TaylorPrivate by Kate BrianSeton Girls by Charlene  Thomas
Boarding School Mysteries
134 books — 87 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
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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I still feel ghosts around me: the ghosts of the five Dalloway girls who defied the boxes and coffins the world tried to put them in. The ghosts of other women who attended or worked at this school, but whose legacies were forgotten instead of deified. The ghosts of every girl who came here and felt history beneath her feet. But I'm not haunted anymore. Maybe I never was. ...more
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