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

Storm Breaker (Storm Breaker, #1)
Honey
Death's Daughter (Children of the Old Ones, #1)
Strange Familiars (Seamere College, #1)
Night Objects
Solace House
The Arcane Arts
Veil of Ash (The Veil Saga, #1)
The Vivisectors
Flame of Fortunes (The Firestone Academy #5)
Deathbringer (Deathbringer, #1)
The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton
An Arcane Study of Stars
Honor & Heresy
Boring Asian Female
Alchemised
Katabasis
Babel
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
The Strength of the Few (Hierarchy, #2)
The Academy (The Academy #1)
Blood Over Bright Haven
The Maidens
On Wings of Blood (Bloodwing Academy, #1)
The Bond That Burns (Bloodwing Academy, #2)
Nightshade (Sorrowsong University, #1)
The Wings That Bind (Bloodwing Academy, #3)
The Raven Scholar (Eternal Path Trilogy, #1)
Alchemy of Secrets (Alchemy of Secrets, #1)
Vale of Dreams (Fey Academy for Spies, #2)
Redeemers by Edward  McBrideThe Ghost Women by Jennifer   MurphyThe Traveling Man by Michael P. KingBlack Shadow Detective Agency by Count S. A. OlsonThe Queen's Envoy by Lord David Prosser
thrillers dark-academia
22 books — 12 voters
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
60 books — 168 voters

If We Were Villains by M.L. RioThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeVicious by V.E. SchwabNinth House by Leigh BardugoThe Likeness by Tana French
Secret History-esque books
56 books — 63 voters

The Secret History by Donna TarttIf We Were Villains by M.L. RioNinth House by Leigh BardugoThe Atlas Six by Olivie BlakeVicious by V.E. Schwab
Dark Academia: Musts and Maybes
85 books — 148 voters

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

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